Travel Food Help Please

beedeedee

Hi All,
We've just booked ourselves on a B&B coach tour of Europe and would like to take some stuff with us, to eat on the way going out and on the return journey and also so that we are not tied to eating a meal at the hotel every night. Thinking to take crackers, crispbread and noodles as a start -what else can you lovely lot suggest we take? I doubt very much there will be fridges in the hotel rooms...but planning to stuff ourselves at breakfast and graze on fruit with possibly a light lunch if there's anywhere reasonable.

good_advice

Hiya, on my last coach trip to Holland I took...
Big bottle of water, ritz crackers, bag of apples, boiled sweets.
Travel kettle and sachets of individual coffee. You can get some with powdered milk in. Cup a soup.

I took my Travel DVD player and dvds too! for the evening after my bath. Often you have to pay to watch the tv in bedrooms.

PlutoinCapricorn

Well, taking a stash of food for a short break is one thing but a long tour is something else. I would take some hard rations for emergencies and buy most things locally.

For short breaks, I always take such things as tea bags, Oats So Simple in individual packets, rye crispbread; one of those nets of tiny wrapped cheeses; bananas, apples, nuts, individually wrapped cake bars, chocolate... paper plates and plastic cutlery.

beedeedee

Thanks - that's a good start! Cup-a-soups now on list and the individually wrapped cake bars....and the Oats-so Simple.
Yes, we will try and buy locally if we can, but need some hard rations as basics.

Lilyplonk

P-l-e-a-s-e don't try to take chocolate bars/biscuits - they're a definite no-no on coach tours - melt like crazy . Brittle types of biscuits are also not a very good idea - but hard biscuits travel quite well - ginger nuts etc. Keep an eye open for Supermarkets for quick day-to-day purchases. I'm sure you'll find some kind of Lidl/Aldi-style places.

How about packs of couscous and some locknlock style containers? Easy to make and allow to stand for 5mins while you're showering - cool down while you're at brekkie - then into the container and into your bag .

Don't forget a couple of plastic spoons and forks - but make sure you don't chuck them away each day when getting rid of your rubbish at the end of the day.

RAS

A couple of packs of 3 minute noodles are relatively light and compact. Just "cook" by covering with boiling water. If you them make a cuppasoup up with less than the recommended amount of water and add it to the drained cooked noodles, it makes a decent emergency meal. I prefer mushroom or chicken and mushroom flavours.

Good ideas for stuff to buy in transit and make up. Take a squeezy lemon from Lidl.

Drain a tin of cooked beans or lentils. Add some oil from a can of fish and squeeze in some lemon juice. Add the tinned fish. You can also add chopped tomato or other salad veggies.

Take camping mugs and plates or bowls, a mini chopping board (99p stores) and a legal knife plus light weight cutlery.

iris

We also take dried fruit and nuts to snack on.

beedeedee

Thankyou so much for those great suggestions. Love the idea of taking a squeezy lemon to add to beans and tinned fish as well.....
We are seasoned campers and I would love nothing better than to whip out my mini camping stove - but it ain't gonna happen on this type of holiday.....!
We do have the mini immersion heaters which are ideal for boiling water and various lightweight containers, so I reckon we can cobble together at least a few meals and snacks to see us through.

THIRZAH

We take fruit cake -cut up and wrapped in cling film as it's not too sweet but filling.Aldi do packets of oatcakes-each box contains about five little packets of oatcakes . They keep well and are good with cheese.I also take some instant coffee in a small jam jar.

A small knife is useful.Also some plastic mugs so you can buy large bottles of water which are cheaper than individual ones. I put in a few of those klippit bag fasteners too . Things like crisps often come in big packets on the continent so it is useful to be able to seal the bags up again.

zippychick

ive merged this with our travel food thread

Self catering from your hotel room may help & healthy-ish meals made using a kettle

Let us know how you get on

Zip