Travel meals

[Anonymous]

We'll have access to a refrigerator and microwave for one week. Yes there's food locally, but it's so over priced. We can grocery shop. Access to the usual foods/pantry items. Yes we will eat some of our meals out, but we're not the "typical" DCUM adults. Not high browed. Don't need 5 star restaurants for every meal lol.

[Anonymous]

What's the question?

[Anonymous]

Meal suggestions? Accessories we could bring like microwavable noodle cooker?

[Anonymous]

We do this sometimes. The key is too keep it simple and not need a deep pantry. We do:

—Pasta night with garlic bread (jarred sauce).
—Smoked chicken from a good truck, baked potatoes and salad.
—if beach trip, I go to the docks and buy fresh fish from the fisherman. We have sashimi some nights, ceviche others
—black bean Quesadillas are easy and low ingredient.
—grilled cheese and tomato soup

[Anonymous]

Going to be hard to cook with just a microwave.

[Anonymous]

I'd struggle a bit not having a stove top because so many of our easy meals require a skillet. Like the PP's suggestions for quesadillas. Could you bring a hot plate?

We'd do some "charcuterie" meals for sure -- a few kinds of cheese, nice crackers, maybe some fresh bread from a local bakery, olives, pepperoni and salami, a few different jams and spreads. That's super easy for lunch or dinner, especially when kids are getting kind of grumpy and don't want to sit down for a regular meal -- you just put it out and let people graze until they are full.

I'd also plan on sandwiches. I might make some meatballs and sauce ahead of time and bring them and stick them in the fridge -- then you can pull them out to throw on top of noodles (I guess, yes, you'd need a noodle cooker for that if you didn't bring a hot plate and pot), or you could warm some hoagie rolls and put the meatballs on those for another easy meal. But also just regular cold cuts. Maybe make some bacon ahead of time to bring and you can make BLTs? I think your main challenge will be doing proteins without a stove, so I'd focus on those in terms of what you bring with you.

[Anonymous]

I really like the Rao's frozen meals - I bake them in the oven, but know there are microwave directions on the boxes too. You can google ideas.

[Anonymous]

With just a fridge and a microwave, you're kind of limited to sandwiches and leftover restaurant meals.

We would hit the grocery store to get basic breakfast and lunch items: cereals, milk, big tub of potato salad, bread, boiled eggs, deli meat, cheese, peanut butter and jelly, and fruits. Quick breakfast. Pack lunch. Eat dinner out. Rinse and repeat.

[Anonymous]

Definitely take a hot plate. Microwave cooking is disgusting.

[Anonymous]

So easy, no-cook stuff for breakfast and lunch. Cereal and milk, fruit, yogurt and granola. PBJ. Deli meats and sliced cheeses, chips. Plan to go out for real food for dinners.

[Anonymous]

Amy’s frozen meals or whatver brand you find tolerable.

Tuna salad and salads with canned protein such as tuna, salmon, pre cooked hardboiled eggs, (can also use a microwave egg cooker) etc

Microwave hot dogs in bun wrapped in a paper towel, microwave baked beans too and serve with sauerkraut

Nachos in microwave—microwave refried beans and then microwave a slice of cheese on your chips and add toppings. Same basic pronciple for making bean and cheese burritos.

I agree about eating a rotisserie chicken meal.

If driving i suppose you could bring frozen homemade meals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Definitely take a hot plate. Microwave cooking is disgusting.

+1. Or bring a George Forman grill. I would make overnight oats for breakfast. Definitely pack some spices ahead of time so you can liven up whatever you end up making.

[Anonymous]

Is this a hotel room?? Consider the stench of you do eggs or tuna.

[Anonymous]

What about microwaveable meals like Eat Clean Bro or Factor 75?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We do this sometimes. The key is too keep it simple and not need a deep pantry. We do:

—Pasta night with garlic bread (jarred sauce).
—Smoked chicken from a good truck, baked potatoes and salad.
—if beach trip, I go to the docks and buy fresh fish from the fisherman. We have sashimi some nights, ceviche others
—black bean Quesadillas are easy and low ingredient.
—grilled cheese and tomato soup

You're prepping sashimi and ceviche in a hotel room?