Food to take on holiday

officeguru

Deleted_User wrote: »

Without knowing what you can and can't eat might I suggest that instead of lugging all sorts of instant food over you might simply visit local supermarkets and shops which are full of fresh fruit,vegetables,fish and meat.

Alternatively try local restarants, bars and cafes where food will be served at a fraction of what these resort hotels might charge you.

Away from the 5-star hotels life goes on as normal and local people certainly don't eat food that's imported.
Perhaps you might name the hotel and people who have stayed there will have suggestions for you.

Going all the way to the Seychelles and eating food you bought in Poundland back home is one of the bizarrest suggestions I've read on here in a long time.

Hi Tom

There isn't any alternatives.. I am going to silhouette island and the only buildings belong to the Hilton... It's not that I am not prepared to eat in their restaurants, it's the fact that I can't afford to eat all my meals there... so I am just looking at ways that I could reduce the cost a little.. I've also checked up on Trip Advisor etc and where food/drink is mentioned, it is seriously expensive.. a can of coke costs £4...

FairyPrincessk

Actually, the American version of squash--kool-aid--comes in powder form. Its pretty vile stuff, I'd rather have water. A bit like Tang but comes in more flavours. But then, I don't like squash either.

I too would probably end up picking cheese out of an Iron. Or setting off a smoke alarm as I tried to multi-task! Not really sure why I'm so fascinated by this, as a kid I always wished we had enough money to eat out instead of our little hotel picnics. However, when I was a teenager I did a bit of hostel/back packing and my favourite meal was a tuna sandwich eaten in spain--fresh bread, tin of tuna a a cucumber sliced with my swiss army. I guess my frugal upbringing worked in the end:D

officeguru

deedee71 wrote: »

The lady has an auto immune disease and is reluctant to eat in a fancy hotel - I doubt unwashed fruit from a market stall is more appealing.

How do you suggest she cooks the local fish and meat????

Better surely to go prepared than starve for 10 days.

ETA:- I wouldn't presume to ask the OP's medical condition, but I would guess hygiene is the issue. Anything dodgy could have very serious effects...?

Sorry deedee,

I missed your post... I had copied it to the Old Style Saving board and I was having a good laugh... There are some brilliant suggestions and it has fair cheered me up... If you have a look there's a brilliant suggestion with an iron !!! :rotfl::rotfl:

And, yes, I do have to be extremely careful with what I eat... I can get ill for months if I am not careful...

Thanks again :beer:

Archergirl

It's a wonderful gift from your children just a shame it wasn't looked into further as it's going to cost you a lot of money.
If you can eat cereal bars they are filling, also cup of soups, can you take porridge? if you have porridge for breakfast then cup of soup for lunch and an eveing meal perhaps?
It's difficult as you don't want to spend a wonderful holiday worried about food.

Olive_Oyl

FairyPrincessk wrote: »

I've become fascinated by this topic. I know I'm sad:)



Have also seen some people making cheese toasties with an iron, so perhaps if you're allowed to bring cheese back after your free taxi ride you could do those to dip in some soup. It looks like it is best to use a bit of foil to keep the iron clean for the next person.

Or you could use Aldi toastie bags :j

honeythewitch

I wonder if you could find out who supplies the hotel restaurant and see if they could sell you some basics when they deliver?

officeguru

Archergirl wrote: »

It's a wonderful gift from your children just a shame it wasn't looked into further as it's going to cost you a lot of money.
If you can eat cereal bars they are filling, also cup of soups, can you take porridge? if you have porridge for breakfast then cup of soup for lunch and an eveing meal perhaps?
It's difficult as you don't want to spend a wonderful holiday worried about food.

Thank you very much for your reply.. It is a wonderful gift and thanks to a lot of suggestions, we'll manage fine... We used to take the kids camping for years and it was amazing what you can do... It's actually turned into a challenge now....

We don't go for a while so there is plenty of time to plan... and there might be other foods that are suitable being created as we speak as they will have to find other easy meals that don't involve horse, donkey or the like...:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

peachyprice

Honestly, I would look to change the destination to somewhere you can actually afford to eat and enjoy the holiday. Scraping by on dry/longlife food sounds dire.

lindseykim13

Not exactly healthy but
crisps
nuts
corned beef (not sure thats meat! lol)
bread for lots of jam sarnies
sarnie fillings in the jars
dried fruits
big bag of pasta (if you can take or get hold of a pan with a lid you could use the boiled kettle water to fill the pan and keep the lid on-would cook eventually.
you could freeze the bread and get it out at the last minute and it should keep for a day or 2 longer than normal.
Could you take a toaster?
You could make those toasted sarnies then with those bags you can pop in the toaster.
Pop tarts.
Tinned peas/sweetcorn/carrots-they could be warmed with the kettle.

I would pay for extra baggage if need be so i could take a pan or 2 and the toaster. Don't forget plates/bowls and cuttlery.

midnightraven3

instead of taking cous cous and mixing things before you go, what about this

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Search/Default.aspx?searchBox=ainsley+harriot+cous+cous&newSort=true&search.x=0&search.y=0&search=Search

my daughter takes these to work with her
she covers in boiling water, covers with cling film (and waits, i dont know how long sorry)
fluffs up with a fork, nice hot or cold
and they are offer just now