Dried Foods for Holiday on Tight Budget

Runningbackwards_2

Wonder if you lovely folks can help?

We have managed to scrape together the money for a weeks skiing holiday. We will be in an apartment with cooking facilities (though awaiting confirmation as to if it has an oven or just a microwave and hob). As the price of eating out will be silly, and food in the local mini market will be highly inflated, we are going to take as much food with as we can - bearing baggage allowances in mind!

Obviously liquids and fresh foods will need to be bought there, so what can you suggest? We had managed to put dried pasta, cous cows, rice and instant mash and porridge on a list then rather ran out of ideas:idea:

Grateful for any suggestions!

Thanks :beer:

NKLK

Cup o soups?

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The value brand pot noodles are around 10p each and light to carry or the packet value noodles are around 11p each and can be jazzed up quite well with sweetcorn / veg etc

They do value savoury rice as well , not tried it yet

Part baked rolls would be good if you do have an oven or pitta breads

Cup a soup is a good idea as its very warming too

7p value batter mix for toad in the hole? ( If you have an oven or simply make some pancakes on the stove?? )

Have fun :j:j

TravellingAbuela

Packets of Mug Shots (pasta or noodles you make in a mug with boiling water) would be good. Much cheaper than the major supermarkets in B & M - 39p I think and they are quite tasty.

debtdalek

Sachet mix for tuna and pasta bake.

Dried soups like chicken noodle - top tip - make them up in the morning and they are much nicer as they have a long time to absorb and then just buy a french stick to have with it.

Use the batter mix for making pancakes as the local crepes will give you an appetite for them.

Breakfast cereal/pasta/rice if you have the room/weight allowance. Put it in freezer bags in your ski boots!! Can you tell we've done this before?

Once you're there, stick with easy stuff like spag bol and chilli or curry as they're easy to do on two rings.

If you've got an oven or microwave then baked potatoes are cheap and filling.

Tea bags/hot chocolate powder

Take stuff for lunchtime too as it is so expensive on the slopes. Things like Mars bars or snickers are good for energy. Much cheaper to buy them at home in packs of 4 or 5 at the supermarket than in resort where they are very expensive and not made to the same recipe.

Middy

Take herbs and spices with you. Get one of those weekly tablet dispensers - get ones that have a separate container for each 'day' or if its all in one long strip, make sure that each 'day' sides go to the top of the box - otherwise you will get everything mixed.

Go to any Weatherspoons pub and help yourself to the to the sachets of salt/pepper,ketchup, mayo etc in the huge bowls they display them in. My friend does this a couple of weeks before her s/c holiday.

Joan49

I used to use dried soya mince when i was backpacking, the main supermarkets used to have it. You can make reasonable chilli con carne and pasta sauces with it if you use plenty of tinned tomatoes, stock cubes, herbs and spices. You can get dried desert mixes like instant whip and custard which can be used with fresh fruit. Where are you going skiing? Sometimes your lift pass has free bus travel and you may be able to go further down the valley to a cheaper supermarket.

sukysue

bars of chocolate! You will need the calories like Scot of the antartic lol.Dried milk and or dried sachets of cappuchinos/coffee you get my (SNOW) drift I'm sure. LOL have a lovely time as green with envy oh yes and take some vesta beef curries they are really nice honestly.

Gigervamp

At the moment, Tescos are selling instant Carnation rice pudding on BOGOF. Think it was about 85p a pack.

Asda do various dried vegetarian mixes such as falafel and nut roast.

burnham1

i've done this before when we got a really cheap self catering holiday but money was tight and we took rice, pasta and then a coulpe of packs of the dried meat free chilli and bolognase mixes, mix with water and then pasta or rice, this helped us for 4 days and we ate out for 3 days so saved us loads, and great ideas about coffee, tea bags, dried milk powder and sachet sauces and herbs....have a great time....

Runningbackwards_2

Thanks so much for all the great ideas - nice to know that other people have done it and survived. We thought long and hard before committing to going - we have an all inclusive package with travel, accommodation, lift passes and ski carriage - knowing we had a ski bag (we have the gear so don't need to hire/buy anything) we could squeeze some food into (in boots is a great idea) meant it was possible.

Both veggies so dried veggie minces etc "tarted" up with fresh/tinned veg from resorts etc don't sound bad, likewise baled potatoes etc. Pancakes and instant deserts also sounding very good. Likewise advice re lots of chocolate :-). I always take a supply of PG Tips and Twinning's Earl Grey anyway!

We have allowed for a couple of meals out depending on just how expensive it is to buy food locally - from what we can tell prices locally are pretty much the same wherever you manage to shop. We are going to La Plagne in France - so if anyone has any knowledge of the area any advice would be much appreciated.

Counting the days until we go!

Any more food ideas very welcome.