Ideas for food to take on holiday

lexilex

I don't post on this board very often, but I do read reguarly and thought you may be the best people to ask for help.

I have a holiday booked for July. The holiday was booked a while ago, and now I am out of work. Desperately hoping something will come up before we go, but if not I am trying to get a list together of things we could take with us to make the holiday a little cheaper.

We are staying B&B so we plan on filling up at breakfast time and eating in our room at lunch time, and just having a small dinner out.

The problem is, as we are staying B&B we do not have any cooking facilities, only a mini fridge and kettle so we are limited on what we can take. The other issue is we only have 15kg luggage each plus 5kg hand luggage.

Normally this is something I wouldn't consider, I love Turkish food and want to try everything, but needs must. Apparently this is a really commerical town, and there is no such thing as eating where the locals eat as there are no locals, they just commute to the town to work. Also, I have been told by others that this is quite a pricey resort, and supermarkets are expensive.

One idea that somebody suggested to me was eating picnic lunches.
Here is my list so far, any other ideas would be great:
Frankfurters
Couscous
Tuna
Instant mash (it's not right is it )
Noodles
Pasta Snack Pots
Tinned Meat
Cream Crackers, Pittas and Wraps (if I can pack them carefully so they won't get squashed)

Anybody got any other suggestions?

whiteguineapig

if you can manage to get to a supermarket you should be ok, we can never afford to eat out on holiday and still enjoy ourselves, the oh usually does some research before we go (in rome there was a supermarket in the main station) , we buy fruit, bread, yoghurts etc ,
we usually lose weight with all the walking as well as healthy eating!

lexilex

whiteguineapig wrote: »

if you can manage to get to a supermarket you should be ok, we can never afford to eat out on holiday and still enjoy ourselves, the oh usually does some research before we go (in rome there was a supermarket in the main station) , we buy fruit, bread, yoghurts etc ,
we usually lose weight with all the walking as well as healthy eating!

Sorry, I should have added, apparently the local supermarkets are really expensive. This is what I have been told from others who reguarly holiday there.

I will edit my post.

grizzly1911

If it is just lunch I am sure some bread and cheese would be affordable locally together with some fruit.

Something we have used before now is those "Crispen Rolls" - like mini baguettes, they are pre toasted/halved and packed like biscuits - topped with soft cheese - that stuff in toothpaste type tubes. Doesn't weigh much.

Carolyntia

How about some cuppa soups....and don't forget tea bags and decent coffee......and maybe some packets of dried fruit

elsien

Cereal bars - you can get some reasonable brands in the pound shops and they don't take up too much room. If it's just lunch though, then the instant mash etc does seem a bit much - as others have said, there's got be be bread and fruit at fairly reasonable prices somewhere. Perhaps the people who say it's pricey are looking at the imported baked beans etc rather than locally produced stuff?

Are you able take some bread from the breakfast buffet (if there is one) to eat at lunchtime or is that a step too far?

Gina_22

Plastic boxes... you can buy those cheap plastic boxes for food.. that's what we use anyway..

babyshoes

Depending on what there is for breakfast you may be able to take out a roll with some cheese or cold meat or something...

Also, eggs can be boiled in a kettle to make egg sarnies.

If you can find a market, fresh fruit may be cheap.

happy35

while you are in Turkey look out for Dia, Bim or Sok they are the equivalent of Lidl in the UK

which resort are you in? i find Turkey quite cheap for food but tuna and sweetcorn are very expensive compared to the UK.

i always take some ham, cheddar, a tin of Pek (sons favourite) and will be taking a couple of tins of tuna and sweetcorn this year

lexilex

happy35 wrote: »

while you are in Turkey look out for Dia, Bim or Sok they are the equivalent of Lidl in the UK

which resort are you in? i find Turkey quite cheap for food but tuna and sweetcorn are very expensive compared to the UK.

i always take some ham, cheddar, a tin of Pek (sons favourite) and will be taking a couple of tins of tuna and sweetcorn this year

Oludeniz.

I have been to Turkey before, but the last time was 2008 and we have never really bought food as we normally eat out so I have no idea of prices but I am told they have increased a bit since my last visit.

MaggieBaking

Space will be an issue with your luggage so everything you think of think "is there a smaller version of this?"

Eg - pot noodles wont be as cheap or as convenient as cup-a-soups.

You're going to want some flavour and some bulk so perhaps you could have cup-a-soups with some ryvitas or crackers - I've seen this is how they have soup in America and might save your bread going stale etc.

I think it's important that you take stuff so you can enjoy your holiday to the max. There's no point in going and being unhappy and rather you were well-fed and at home!

If it were me off the top of my head I'd pack:

Coffee, Sugar & take 2x small 500ml squash bottles.

Cup-a-soups, Crackers. Some comforting biscuits - like bourbons for example. Fruit Loaf with a long shelf live. You could try making a fruit cake? Maybe some Slimfast shakes in case you get really hungry?! If you like you can take some dried fruit/nuts/seeds which some people snack on?

I'd buy milk, and pieces of fruit to store in the mini-bar. And some wine. And maybe some processed snack foods - the Turkish equivelent of sausage-rolls or something to fill you up.

Don't forget if you're going to want to buy and prepare food at home you're going to need a lot of sterilised water to wash fruit etc. I'm not sure what you need for that, but I think you can buy sterilising tablets?

I'd eat a big breakfast, as you're planning. For lunch - a cup-a-soup w/crackers and a piece of fruit. For a snack a cup of coffee and a biscuit.

In the evening I'd have a glass of wine (or two) before I went out and had a nice dinner. Making sure that with dinner I had a lot of carbs like a big portion of bread or rice along with a big dish of vegetables. That way you could get one main between the two of you perhaps?

How long are you going for?