Hotel living: eating on the cheap

[Dr.EM]

Supermarket sandwiches arn't very healthy generally, many available fillings have more saturated fat and salt than a McDonalds burger!

Kettle pasta is an interesting one, should work, ideally need some way to heat up the sauce for them too. Sure something can be figured out, perhaps some kind of water bath.

 

[franco_22]

Can of Tuna £0.70
Sliced Tomatoes £1.00 for a whole bag ?
Bag of Salad for £1 in any supermarket
Olive oil
White Wine Vinegar

Just do that , you don't need a fridge or cooker or kettle or anything and it's a great healthy meal with no fat and no carbs.


Alternatively, if you feeling fancy you can buy a can of black eyed beans or a can of boiled baby potatoes, or if you have a kettle you can also boil a couple of eggs and mix it with everything else. You can probably buy those small fancy vinegar/olive oil bottles you can just carry in your bag.

 

[Adam]

When I travel for work I am given a rather generous allowance for breakfast/lunch/dinner. While it would be great to pocket this allowance, I wouldn't be able to without supplying receipts. I imagine most companies are the same, they will need the receipts for accounting purposes.

 

[Bossk128]

All good ideas. Kettle cooking is also high on my list. I confess I've never seen a rice cooker in the flesh, so not sure of its size. Advantage to me over a micro is that it doesn't make as much smell, rice is pretty innocuous. I'm also not sure exactly what I'd cook in a micro. I have no cupboards one pot meals would be best.

TBH the most obvious one is bread roll and a pot noodle every night, but hardly the most stimulating of foods! I walk past shops on the way from work, so buying one meals worth of veg is feasible each day. Today I stocked up on breakfast, cereal and cooked, double toast, then got a cheap jacket potato for lunch. Off the wagon already for tea with meal in a pub


Anyway, it's because I'm not away on business, I'm working away. Still paying mortgage/bills at home so thought I'd try and save money living bachelor life again!

 

[Energize]

How will they know you're cooking if you are using a tiny hotplate anyway? I use my lab hotplate which has a magnetic stirrer which is great for soup etc.

 

[Vampire]

I used to know someone who would cook hot dog sausages in hotel kettles. Just fill the kettle with water, tip in tin of hot dog sausages, boil kettle. Enjoy piping hot hot dogs.

Then when you realise you can't use the kettle for tea/coffee again.

 

[Van Hellseek]

I used to know someone who would cook hot dog sausages in hotel kettles. Just fill the kettle with water, tip in tin of hot dog sausages, boil kettle. Enjoy piping hot hot dogs.

Awesome

Then when you realise you can't use the kettle for tea/coffee again.

Of course you can! Hot dog flavoured coffee f.t.w

 

[Bossk128]

OK, so far cous cous bulghur wheat etc is looking good, as is 'fresh' pasta. Pour on boiling water (in tupperware?), wait 2 minutes, add fresh veg, eat.

Also, I'll take a couple of sauces to vary stuff even more!

 

[Bossk128]

Ooh, ooh, boil in the bag in the kettle?

I mean sous-vide ofc.

 

[Viper²]

I used to know someone who would cook hot dog sausages in hotel kettles. Just fill the kettle with water, tip in tin of hot dog sausages, boil kettle. Enjoy piping hot hot dogs.

Then when you realise you can't use the kettle for tea/coffee again.

Hot hot dogs are always better than lame, normal hot dogs.

 

[Van Hellseek]

Ooh, ooh, boil in the bag in the kettle?

But boil in the bag stuff usually means boil for like 20 minutes. Whereas kettles just boil until boiling point.

2-3000 watts used constantly... Hope the hotel doesn't pick up on how much electricity you'll be using

I used to work in a hotel, and this kind of thing caused rooms to trip the switches and make staff suspicious.

 

[POB]

With a pie tin and an iron you can make fried eggs also.