If you bring food on vacation to be eaten in the room, what do you pack and bring?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In our day-to-day lives, my family eats pretty healthfully and we eat out only occasionally, but on vacation, we splurge (money and calories). Hotel breakfast at a nice resort (I'm not talking about the powdered eggs and stale donuts in the Hampton Inn lobby) feels so indulgent and really makes me feel like I'm on vacation! My kids are adventurous eaters and we all enjoy going out for local cuisine for lunches and dinners. We aren't wealthy. We budget and save for our vacations including meals out.

PP here adding that we're a busy, on-the-go family in daily life so on vacation we're happy to take a more leisurely pace rather than rush out to "start the day."

+1 I totally get that people are different but part of our goal in traveling is to smell the roses and hop off the grind a bit. Choking down yogurt and granola in the room at 7am so that we save time and can “start the day” is exactly the opposite of the pace we choose. The lovely breakfast IS part of the day for us. Not every single day. But yes, if I’m in Amsterdam and they are known for pancakes or stroopwafels, no I am not having a clif bar in the room.

You disgust me

Congrats??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In our day-to-day lives, my family eats pretty healthfully and we eat out only occasionally, but on vacation, we splurge (money and calories). Hotel breakfast at a nice resort (I'm not talking about the powdered eggs and stale donuts in the Hampton Inn lobby) feels so indulgent and really makes me feel like I'm on vacation! My kids are adventurous eaters and we all enjoy going out for local cuisine for lunches and dinners. We aren't wealthy. We budget and save for our vacations including meals out.

PP here adding that we're a busy, on-the-go family in daily life so on vacation we're happy to take a more leisurely pace rather than rush out to "start the day."

+1 I totally get that people are different but part of our goal in traveling is to smell the roses and hop off the grind a bit. Choking down yogurt and granola in the room at 7am so that we save time and can “start the day” is exactly the opposite of the pace we choose. The lovely breakfast IS part of the day for us. Not every single day. But yes, if I’m in Amsterdam and they are known for pancakes or stroopwafels, no I am not having a clif bar in the room.

-100. We prefer a leisurely start to the day on vacation that doesn't require leaving our apartment as a family. We tend to have someone pop out for coffee and croissants or other pastries for people to eat when they feel like it, and have a larger sit down lunch and dinner.

Besides, in what universe is a stroopwafel a "lovely breakfast"?

I use food in the room as a backup plan. When we travel we are often in a very different time zone than usual and my teenage boys get hungry outside of meals. having some snacks around just makes sense and keeps things more leisurely. If someone wakes up at the crack of dawn hungry, they can have a granola bar and make themselves tea while they wait for a croissant at a civilized hour.

I’m so confused. We are both on the same side! You have fresh pastries, I have fresh stroopwafels, it’s essentially the same concept just you’re eating it in the room while family members are getting showered vs. I’m eating it warm in the cafe with an espresso. You’re still eating local food for lunch and dinner. We are more alike than different. And I am not here to judge what anyone else does on vacation because it obviously doesn’t impact me in the least so why should I care? I was responding to a PP to essentially post in solidarity that no, not everyone is bringing a suitcase of tuna pouches and k cups. But apparently I “disgust” someone (not you I don’t think).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I understand bringing a few snacks, especially when traveling with kids, but smelly foods like tuna fish and boiled eggs in a standard size hotel room??

No one really brings this stuff. Boiled eggs and tuna in a hotel room??🤢🤢.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In our day-to-day lives, my family eats pretty healthfully and we eat out only occasionally, but on vacation, we splurge (money and calories). Hotel breakfast at a nice resort (I'm not talking about the powdered eggs and stale donuts in the Hampton Inn lobby) feels so indulgent and really makes me feel like I'm on vacation! My kids are adventurous eaters and we all enjoy going out for local cuisine for lunches and dinners. We aren't wealthy. We budget and save for our vacations including meals out.

PP here adding that we're a busy, on-the-go family in daily life so on vacation we're happy to take a more leisurely pace rather than rush out to "start the day."

+1 I totally get that people are different but part of our goal in traveling is to smell the roses and hop off the grind a bit. Choking down yogurt and granola in the room at 7am so that we save time and can “start the day” is exactly the opposite of the pace we choose. The lovely breakfast IS part of the day for us. Not every single day. But yes, if I’m in Amsterdam and they are known for pancakes or stroopwafels, no I am not having a clif bar in the room.

Who said anything about choking down yogurt at 7 am. We sleep late and eat leisurely. Our last vacation on Marthas Vineyard we sat out and ate on the inn balcony over looking the water...enjoying our favorite bagels from home and fruit when we were ready. No wait for a table, food, a check.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In our day-to-day lives, my family eats pretty healthfully and we eat out only occasionally, but on vacation, we splurge (money and calories). Hotel breakfast at a nice resort (I'm not talking about the powdered eggs and stale donuts in the Hampton Inn lobby) feels so indulgent and really makes me feel like I'm on vacation! My kids are adventurous eaters and we all enjoy going out for local cuisine for lunches and dinners. We aren't wealthy. We budget and save for our vacations including meals out.

PP here adding that we're a busy, on-the-go family in daily life so on vacation we're happy to take a more leisurely pace rather than rush out to "start the day."

+1 I totally get that people are different but part of our goal in traveling is to smell the roses and hop off the grind a bit. Choking down yogurt and granola in the room at 7am so that we save time and can “start the day” is exactly the opposite of the pace we choose. The lovely breakfast IS part of the day for us. Not every single day. But yes, if I’m in Amsterdam and they are known for pancakes or stroopwafels, no I am not having a clif bar in the room.

"Choking down yogurt and granola"

Why does having it in the room make it "choking it down"? If we are sharing a hotel room there's one bathroom, so some of us eat and watch tv or chat while someone else is in the shower, then we switch. And yes then we have more time to visit the area we are in. Don't dramatize having snacks or breakfast in a hotel room just because you don't do it, it's really not that big of a deal. Do it how you want, and let other people do it how they want. No extra drama needed.

I said choking it down for two reasons. One is that I personally have a texture aversion to yogurt, so I’ll own that. The second reason was just to indicate that it was being eaten with speed at an early hour by an early rising person who thinks that being out the door early and active and on the go is the best/superior way to travel. It wasn’t with judgement, although I can see how some might take it that way. That’s not how I like to travel at all. I think there are some people who think their way is the only good way. I think there are multiple good ways, but I resent the implication that eating a relaxing, potentially indulgent breakfast on VACATION is bad or whatever. Fine if you never want to relax or indulge ever, but that’s a “you” choice/preference, not a universal truth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand bringing a few snacks, especially when traveling with kids, but smelly foods like tuna fish and boiled eggs in a standard size hotel room??

No one really brings this stuff. Boiled eggs and tuna in a hotel room??🤢🤢.

I do tuna! It’s more of an on the go type thing than eating it dutifully in a hotel room but we’ve done that in a pinch too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand bringing a few snacks, especially when traveling with kids, but smelly foods like tuna fish and boiled eggs in a standard size hotel room??

No one really brings this stuff. Boiled eggs and tuna in a hotel room??🤢🤢.

These are the no carb people. My sister travels with avocados and eggs all the time.

[Anonymous]

I almost always do a hotel that includes breakfast- even if its just a Hampton Inn . We can usually find something to eat and some of them are actually pretty great.

I pack protein shakes for my DH, my BUILT bars, one-handed snacks for my kid, fruit, uncrustables, mixed nuts. Thats usually snacks or in a pinch, lunch.

If we go to the beach, I go grocery shopping when we get there. We only eat out 1 dinner and 1 lunch- if that. Food at the beach tastes better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In our day-to-day lives, my family eats pretty healthfully and we eat out only occasionally, but on vacation, we splurge (money and calories). Hotel breakfast at a nice resort (I'm not talking about the powdered eggs and stale donuts in the Hampton Inn lobby) feels so indulgent and really makes me feel like I'm on vacation! My kids are adventurous eaters and we all enjoy going out for local cuisine for lunches and dinners. We aren't wealthy. We budget and save for our vacations including meals out.

PP here adding that we're a busy, on-the-go family in daily life so on vacation we're happy to take a more leisurely pace rather than rush out to "start the day."

+1 I totally get that people are different but part of our goal in traveling is to smell the roses and hop off the grind a bit. Choking down yogurt and granola in the room at 7am so that we save time and can “start the day” is exactly the opposite of the pace we choose. The lovely breakfast IS part of the day for us. Not every single day. But yes, if I’m in Amsterdam and they are known for pancakes or stroopwafels, no I am not having a clif bar in the room.

Who said anything about choking down yogurt at 7 am. We sleep late and eat leisurely. Our last vacation on Marthas Vineyard we sat out and ate on the inn balcony over looking the water...enjoying our favorite bagels from home and fruit when we were ready. No wait for a table, food, a check.

Gross

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I almost always do a hotel that includes breakfast- even if its just a Hampton Inn . We can usually find something to eat and some of them are actually pretty great.

I pack protein shakes for my DH, my BUILT bars, one-handed snacks for my kid, fruit, uncrustables, mixed nuts. Thats usually snacks or in a pinch, lunch.

If we go to the beach, I go grocery shopping when we get there. We only eat out 1 dinner and 1 lunch- if that. Food at the beach tastes better.

Are you ghetto?

[Anonymous]

Guys ignore the hangry troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I almost always do a hotel that includes breakfast- even if its just a Hampton Inn . We can usually find something to eat and some of them are actually pretty great.

I pack protein shakes for my DH, my BUILT bars, one-handed snacks for my kid, fruit, uncrustables, mixed nuts. Thats usually snacks or in a pinch, lunch.

If we go to the beach, I go grocery shopping when we get there. We only eat out 1 dinner and 1 lunch- if that. Food at the beach tastes better.

Are you ghetto?

I was making a reference to an earlier post about Hampton Inn having gross powdered donuts. But you keep being your fabulous self.

My grandparents effectively raised me at their beach house in NC and they hardly ever went out to eat. I got fabulous meals from my grandmother who could make anything take delicious. Sandwiches- tuna salad, chicken salad, turkey or ham. Good bread she made at home. Steak, crabs, salmon, burgers, charcoal grilled chicken thighs with corn/broccoli/asparagus and salad and dessert. Effectively 3 course meals every night. So I have a lot of emotional attachment to eating delicious, homemade food at the beach. Sitting outside on a screened in porch with the sun setting and the waves crashing and the wind blowing salty air.

If that makes me ghetto, then absolutely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I almost always do a hotel that includes breakfast- even if its just a Hampton Inn . We can usually find something to eat and some of them are actually pretty great.

I pack protein shakes for my DH, my BUILT bars, one-handed snacks for my kid, fruit, uncrustables, mixed nuts. Thats usually snacks or in a pinch, lunch.

If we go to the beach, I go grocery shopping when we get there. We only eat out 1 dinner and 1 lunch- if that. Food at the beach tastes better.

Are you ghetto?

Wut

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In our day-to-day lives, my family eats pretty healthfully and we eat out only occasionally, but on vacation, we splurge (money and calories). Hotel breakfast at a nice resort (I'm not talking about the powdered eggs and stale donuts in the Hampton Inn lobby) feels so indulgent and really makes me feel like I'm on vacation! My kids are adventurous eaters and we all enjoy going out for local cuisine for lunches and dinners. We aren't wealthy. We budget and save for our vacations including meals out.

PP here adding that we're a busy, on-the-go family in daily life so on vacation we're happy to take a more leisurely pace rather than rush out to "start the day."

+1 I totally get that people are different but part of our goal in traveling is to smell the roses and hop off the grind a bit. Choking down yogurt and granola in the room at 7am so that we save time and can “start the day” is exactly the opposite of the pace we choose. The lovely breakfast IS part of the day for us. Not every single day. But yes, if I’m in Amsterdam and they are known for pancakes or stroopwafels, no I am not having a clif bar in the room.

"Choking down yogurt and granola"

Why does having it in the room make it "choking it down"? If we are sharing a hotel room there's one bathroom, so some of us eat and watch tv or chat while someone else is in the shower, then we switch. And yes then we have more time to visit the area we are in. Don't dramatize having snacks or breakfast in a hotel room just because you don't do it, it's really not that big of a deal. Do it how you want, and let other people do it how they want. No extra drama needed.

I said choking it down for two reasons. One is that I personally have a texture aversion to yogurt, so I’ll own that. The second reason was just to indicate that it was being eaten with speed at an early hour by an early rising person who thinks that being out the door early and active and on the go is the best/superior way to travel. It wasn’t with judgement, although I can see how some might take it that way. That’s not how I like to travel at all. I think there are some people who think their way is the only good way. I think there are multiple good ways, but I resent the implication that eating a relaxing, potentially indulgent breakfast on VACATION is bad or whatever. Fine if you never want to relax or indulge ever, but that’s a “you” choice/preference, not a universal truth.

+1 I would travel with this PP and none of the PPs who think going out for a leisurely, hot breakfast (that somebody else cooks and cleans up!) is "wasting the day" on VACATION. Eating yogurt in shifts in the hotel room doesn't appeal to me, and isn't enjoying the local fare part of the fun of vacation?

[Anonymous]

This thread is priceless. It’s up there with the SAHM vs WOHM, breastfeeding vs formula fed and separate money/accounts vs joint accounts/money.