Bringing food on trip

amother

Wed, Jan 17 2024, 7:34 pm

We are traveling to an area with limited kosher food. Do any seasoned travelers have tips on foods that would work and how to bring food and warm up? It will be for 5 people for 5 days.

amother

Whitesmoke

Wed, Jan 17 2024, 7:39 pm

We make sure that the hotel would provide a microwave & refrigerator & we get double wrapped meals and a local takeout.
We also take along deli, bread, peanut butter, cereal, milk, yougurt,noodle soup, sometimes hard boiled eggs, depending on how far we're traveling.
Sandwich maker, cheese & ketchup to make grilled cheese in. You can also make scrambled eggs in a sandwich maker.
If you can take a betty crocker, you can take frozen pre breaded schnitzel.
Then we take along: plastic tablecloth, trash bags, cups, plates, cutlery, knives.

amother

DarkMagenta

Wed, Jan 17 2024, 7:42 pm

amother Whitesmoke wrote:

We make sure that the hotel would provide a microwave & we get double wrapped meals and a local takeout.
We also take along deli, bread, peanut butter, cereal, milk, yougurt,noodle soup, sometimes hard boiled eggs, depending on how far we're traveling.
Sandwich maker, cheese & ketchup to make grilled cheese in. You can also make scrambled eggs in a sandwich maker.
If you can take a betty crocker, you can take frozen pre breaded schnitzel.
Then we take along: plastic tablecloth, trash bags, cups, plates, cutlery, knives.

We do small pitas with cheese and pizza sauce in the sandwich maker.

amother

Whitewash

Wed, Jan 17 2024, 7:43 pm

What facilities will you have to store and heat food?

Ellie7

Wed, Jan 17 2024, 8:01 pm

I take frozen meatballs in sauce and pasta (already boiled). This heats up really well in the microwave.

ra_mom

Wed, Jan 17 2024, 8:18 pm

amother OP wrote:

We are traveling to an area with limited kosher food. Do any seasoned travelers have tips on foods that would work and how to bring food and warm up? It will be for 5 people for 5 days.

We've done it in hotel rooms with only a small refrigerator (plug in george foreman & sandwich maker). And also in a suite with a kitchenette (bought milchig and fleishig frying pan that we threw out afterwards). Both are great options.

We often do cereal, precooked hard eggs, string cheese, instant oatmeal, bagels cream cheese and lox for breakfasts (or grilled cheese).

Baguette sandwiches of tuna, salami, pastrami, turkey, Greek salad for lunches.

And bring marinated proteins frozen in individual portion ziploc bags like marinated chicken breasts, seasoned and shaped burgers, baby chicken, sandwich steak, hot dogs, etc.

We also successfully froze a ready London broil that we semi warmed and sliced over a salad served with ready pasta for that first night when everybody is tired.

Depending on how we travel, sometimes we take precooked pasta and potato salad. Side dishes of instant 5 min rice, mashed potatoes, bulgar (lots of breads and buns).

Cut up fresh salads. Also some salads made with many canned ingredients (corn, chickpea).

(We bring mini olive oil, salt, knife, napkins, paper goods.)

Soup cups, kind bars, beef sticks, chocolate for snacking.

When we were only able to bring sealed US stamped meats we brought KJ thin frozen shnitzel, meal mart frozen burgers and turkey burgers, hot dogs/sausages...

What sort of accommodations do you have?

amother

Junglegreen

Wed, Jan 17 2024, 8:52 pm

We take disposable grill and frozen chicken cutlets and have a nice park grill.
Sometimes we bring can opener peeler knifes cy dairy products. We do a big shopping trip and buy everything there. (Potatoes rice eggs spices cans ect… and cook in bekelach.

amother

Whitewash

Wed, Jan 17 2024, 8:57 pm

amother Junglegreen wrote:

What are bekelach?

amother

Thu, Jan 18 2024, 9:38 am

Thank you to all who replied. We will be sleeping in different hotels each night since we are traveling throughout the state, and will have to keep the food with us throughout the day. We will have a microwave and burner with us.

amother

Whitesmoke

Thu, Jan 18 2024, 9:43 am

amother Whitewash wrote:

What are bekelach?

Foil pans