Food to take on holiday

officeguru

Hi All

My children have paid for us to go to the Seychelles for our Ruby Wedding... They have paid for the hotel, flights etc and all we have to pay for is the food.. :j:j They never paid for that as I have an auto-immune disease and I have to be so careful what I eat...

Anyway, it is a beautiful hotel etc etc and we are really looking forward to going so I emailed the hotel to see what sort of menus they have etc etc and they got back that it would be 40 euros each for breakfast per day... and 100 euros each to go half board.. The reason the food is so expensive is because everything is imported.. but we are there for 10 days so it would cost us just short of £2,000 for food...Neither can you buy any food as there are no shops or village etc....

I found out that you are allowed to take food in your suitcase as long as it isn't meat or dairy.. I've already thought of breakfast bars and biscuits but if anyone has any other ideas, it would be appreciated... I know that the room has a coffee machine and a kettle so it would have to be foods that only need mixed with hot water... such as instant potato... Neither obviously, can it be heavy due to flight restrictions.

Any ideas would be much appreciated...

Thanks in advance

deedee71

Wow I hope you really enjoy your holiday, your children are a credit to you.

Brevita breakfast bars are lovely and come in different flavours. Mug shots (3 for £1 at poundland/poundworld) are just made with hot water - they are quite nice but not sure of their nutritional value though!

I wonder if you put in an email what the problem is, if they will let you pay for just your husband to eat - and double check about the €40 and €100 per day each thing because that just doesn't sound right to me!

Bongedone

I would ask the question in the Old Style board also. Lots of food experts

officeguru

deedee71 wrote: »

Wow I hope you really enjoy your holiday, your children are a credit to you.

Brevita breakfast bars are lovely and come in different flavours. Mug shots (3 for £1 at poundland/poundworld) are just made with hot water - they are quite nice but not sure of their nutritional value though!

I wonder if you put in an email what the problem is, if they will let you pay for just your husband to eat - and double check about the €40 and €100 per day each thing because that just doesn't sound right to me!

I got the travel agent to double check and the cost of the food is correct.. so this is why I thought I would see what I could take.. I am not going until October but I thought I would try and see what I could take with me..

Thanks for your input... and I'll pop into poundland and try the Mug shots.. :T

Bongedone wrote: »

I would ask the question in the Old Style board also. Lots of food experts

Thanks, I'll copy the post into the Old Style..

officeguru

Hi All, I originally posted this on the holiday section and it was suggested to post it here as there might be more people who can make suggestions:

My children have paid for us to go to the Seychelles (Oct) for our Ruby Wedding... :j:j:j:j They have paid for the hotel, flights etc and all we have to pay for is the food.. They never paid for that as I have an auto-immune disease and I have to be so careful what I eat...

Anyway, it is a beautiful hotel etc etc and we are really looking forward to going so I emailed the hotel to see what sort of menus they have etc etc and they got back that it would be 40 euros each for breakfast per day... and 100 euros each to go half board..:eek: The reason the food is so expensive is because everything is imported.. but we are there for 10 days so it would cost us just short of £2,000 for food...Neither can you buy any food as there are no shops or village etc.... (I asked the travel agent to check these prices and it is correct)

I found out that you are allowed to take food in your suitcase as long as it isn't meat or dairy.. I've already thought of breakfast bars and biscuits but if anyone has any other ideas, it would be appreciated... I know that the room has a coffee machine and a kettle so it would have to be foods that only need mixed with hot water... such as instant potato... Neither obviously, can it be heavy due to flight restrictions.

Any ideas would be much appreciated...

Thanks in advance

Another poster suggested Mug Shots so I am going to try them at the weekend....

Own_My_Own

I would advise you to have a look at TripAdviser. I can't post a link as I am on my phone. The must be cheaper places to eat on the island. You are not telling me the waiters can afford those prices for food. Check to see if there are any bars etc near your hotel. There may even be another hotel that you can book tables at that is cheaper. You really don't want to be living on pot noodles on such a lovely holiday.

krlyr

http://www.travelweekly.co.uk/Articles/2009/06/11/31142/indian-ocean-the-seychelles-on-a-budget.html
Slightly old article but claims restaurants aren't too expensive (could be worth taking the tip about using rupees if that's still the currency used)

Eating out can be relatively cheap - advise clients to steer clear of the restaurants in the top hotels (though the food is fantastic if they're looking for a special night) and head for local places or the restaurants of the smaller hotels.
Here you'll find great Creole cooking and pay from about £10 to £25 a head for a meal. A local Seybrew beer costs about £1.60. Paying in the local Seychellois rupees tends to work out cheaper than paying in euros.

http://www.seychellesfamilyvarley.com/?p=124
is a blog about food/shopping in the Seychelles

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowTopic-g293738-i9311-k5290627-Customs_Bringing_food_into_Seychelles-Seychelles.html
a very similar question to your own and some more recent answers, e.g. March last year

I would take snack stuff, things you like (hence the jam and tea for us). We had no problems buying bread, cheese, eggs, streaky bacon, peanut butter, the odd slice of cake.



We had no problem finding reasonably priced places to eat, sprinkled with the odd high end meal every few days.

officeguru

Own_My_Own wrote: »

I would advise you to have a look at TripAdviser. I can't post a link as I am on my phone. The must be cheaper places to eat on the island. You are not telling me the waiters can afford those prices for food. Check to see if there are any bars etc near your hotel. There may even be another hotel that you can book tables at that is cheaper. You really don't want to be living on pot noodles on such a lovely holiday.

No, there is nothing.. It's a special island that has hardly been touched in hundreds of years.. Apart from the hotel, there is nothing apart from absolute heaven and solitude... He'll be able to go scuba diving of course... The nearest place you can eat is a boat ride away and don't ask what that costs...

I would be quite happy to eat something that we took with us so that the formal dining wouldn't be too expensive.. Maybe half & half.

I've already checked with Trip Advisor and most of them warned about the high cost of eating... and that there is no-where to buy any other food.. I don't want to complain to the kids about the cost of the food as I know that they paid thousands of pounds for the holiday...

officeguru

krlyr wrote: »

http://www.travelweekly.co.uk/Articles/2009/06/11/31142/indian-ocean-the-seychelles-on-a-budget.html
Slightly old article but claims restaurants aren't too expensive (could be worth taking the tip about using rupees if that's still the currency used)

Hi, Thanks for your input but I've done all that and, as it is an exclusive island, which is absolutely beautiful, and virtually untouched, there aren't any other restaurants to go to.. It is called 'Silhouette' Island...

Fruball

I honestly don't think you are going to manage 10 days with no proper food

I know it is shockingly expensive but could you pay the 100 every other day and eat stuff brought from home in between? If they have a buffet style breakfast, lunch, dinner, you could stash a few bits inc bread roll, fresh fruit etc for the next day.

It would be a shame to spoil a once in a life time holiday because of eating rubbish and I suspect you won't feel very good after a few days eating pot noodles and mug shots...

The only ideas I can come up with in addition to what you already mentioned are various dried fruits, dried tomato, beef jerky, peperami don't need refridgerating and neither does laughing cow cheese, take a small marmite and tortilla wraps which have a longish date on them...

If you can take veg, a few carrots and a cucumber would keep in a hotel room for a few days without a fridge and you could slice them very finely in the wraps with laughing cow cheese for a bit of fresh food. And most fruit in supermarkets is under ripe so you could take enough to last 4/5 days although you might need to cut down on clothes/shoes to take...

officeguru

Fruball wrote: »

I honestly don't think you are going to manage 10 days with no proper food

I know it is shockingly expensive but could you pay the 100 every other day and eat stuff brought from home in between? If they have a buffet style breakfast, lunch, dinner, you could stash a few bits inc bread roll, fresh fruit etc for the next day.

It would be a shame to spoil a once in a life time holiday because of eating rubbish and I suspect you won't feel very good after a few days eating pot noodles and mug shots...

The only ideas I can come up with in addition to what you already mentioned are various dried fruits, dried tomato, beef jerky, peperami don't need refridgerating and neither does laughing cow cheese, take a small marmite and tortilla wraps which have a longish date on them...

If you can take veg, a few carrots and a cucumber would keep in a hotel room for a few days without a fridge and you could slice them very finely in the wraps with laughing cow cheese for a bit of fresh food. And most fruit in supermarkets is under ripe so you could take enough to last 4/5 days although you might need to cut down on clothes/shoes to take...

Thanks very much for this... I thought if we ate in their restaurants every second date which would be £100 each so that would be roughly £1000, which we could manage..

I also read in trip advisor that someone tried to sneak food out of their breakfast buffet and they were stopped..

Maybe my bh will be able to spear something while he's out scuba diving... :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: