Hotel living: eating on the cheap

[Bossk128]

Apart from loading up massively on included breakfasts (which has it's own pitfalls!) has anybody good ideas about how to eat cheaply and healthily when staying midweek in hotels?

I have no fridge and usually 'cooking' isn't allowed. I'm thinking of trying to combine fresh veg with a sneaky electric rice cooker I've yet to buy.

Any good ideas when there is no per diem!?!?

 

[shine]

Big breakfast, lunch with salad and fruit for dinner is my usual attempt when trying to live cheap and relatively healthy away from home.

 

[Dunks]

Ignore.

 

[aspirins]

I have no fridge and usually 'cooking' isn't allowed. I'm thinking of trying to combine fresh veg with a sneaky electric rice cooker I've yet to buy.

If you're going to carry a rice cooker around to hotels, why not just go with a microwave?

 

[A2Z]

Haha I know exactly what you mean, I travel around the UK and Europe for my job and am always trying to find a way to eat cheap but still healthy while having no kitchen to cook food.

So much easier when staying in a decent hotel with a minibar in it, can use it as a fridge and just stock up from supermarket.

If there's not I normally just end up having a BIG breakfast, literally stuffing myself and grabbing a piece of fruit and a yoghurt or something to have with my lunch. Can sometimes make a sandwich at breakfast too for lunch. Unfortunately around Europe they serve continental breakfasts (unless in a 4 star etc) where a croissant and a few pieces of cheese just dont cut it

 

[zipp0r]

why not just go with a microwave?

i say take one of these http://www.google.co.uk/products/ca...X&ei=_0i_TdH-GoSY8QPb1InbBQ&ved=0CJABEPMCMAM#

or a breville/toasty maker

 

[aspirins]

Kampa Roast Master - Portable Oven and Hob

 

[HypnoToad]

just put some brekkie bread rolls in your pocket!

 

[Cybermyk]

Can you cook where you're working?

 

[Psymonkee]

Haha I know exactly what you mean, I travel around the UK and Europe for my job and am always trying to find a way to eat cheap but still healthy while having no kitchen to cook food.

So much easier when staying in a decent hotel with a minibar in it, can use it as a fridge and just stock up from supermarket.

If there's not I normally just end up having a BIG breakfast, literally stuffing myself and grabbing a piece of fruit and a yoghurt or something to have with my lunch. Can sometimes make a sandwich at breakfast too for lunch. Unfortunately around Europe they serve continental breakfasts (unless in a 4 star etc) where a croissant and a few pieces of cheese just dont cut it

Ziplock bags and sneak lots of extra Buy what you can't take

 

[Mr Joshua]

Will one of those halogen ovens be much bigger than a rice cooker?

Mind you the smell of a roast cooking might raise some eyebrows!

 

[Van Hellseek]

Buy a sandwich and a drink?

 

[Lashout_UK]

Cup-a-soup. Buttered bread. DONE.

 

[Xelene]

Can't you just expense meals?

 

[Van Hellseek]

What kind of job pays for hotels for employees, but doesn't pay them enough wages to be able to afford to buy some hot food each night?

 

[Jokester]

What kind of job pays for hotels for employees, but doesn't pay them enough wages to be able to afford to buy some hot food each night?

He's not said works paying, but if they are he might just get a meal allowance that he wants to pocket instead.

 

[shine]

Or he's self employed and it all comes out of his pocket. There are many reasons for wanting to live cheaply while away from home.

 

[Hamish]

You can't expense dinner?

My preference would be to use the kettle as much as possible.
e.g. you could make noodles and stick some pre-cooked sausage (pepperami or mattesons) in there, a bit of sauce (bbq, reggae) and maybe some salad on the side. easy! All you need is a small saucepan.

 

[POB]

You can make buy fresh pasta ravioli etc in the supermarket and cook in the kettle.

 

[lolwithtim]

Readymade sandwiches from the supermarkets? That way you don't have to make anything >_>.