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During travel, what can I prepare beforehand as meal, which can be eaten without access to fire or microwave? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by nigelinux@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm going from Hong Kong to Iceland next month. I've read that everything there, including food, are quite expensive. So my wife and I have been researching on how to prepare meal or snack that we can eat during the day instead of going to restaurant.

However, given we will travel by day tours, I don't think fire or microwave will be readily available during the tours. We can only prepare the meal the day before or in the morning and bring with us in the tours.

We've read that peanut butter/honey with bread, dried fruit and nuts are some good options. Overnight oatmeal may be great but I'm not sure we can keep them cool enough throughout the day and if not, whether this will cause food spoilage.

Are there any other recommendations to have more variety? Thank you!

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[–] TheyHaveNoName 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My go to travel meals are:

Bread with cheese (and almost whatever else you might put in there). Wrap it in foil and it will be ready to eat whenever.

Cold pasta with cheese - or even normal pasta with tomato sauce cold is great. My Italian friends eat this for lunch regularly.

Cold pizza slices are great - I normally make simple pizza using baguettes and tomato sauce (passata) with cheese. One baguette is enough to make pizza for my family of 4.

Pasta salad - pasta cooked and cooked and then salad of your choice - even cold cuts of meat to well in here and it’s economical to make a huge amount and put it in the fridge

Actually thinking about it, I eat a lot of lunches made from cold leftovers and I think they taste brilliant without having to heat them up. Obviously things like soup, or ramen noodles and other hot liquid meals don’t taste good at all cold.

[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Obviously things like soup, or ramen noodles and other hot liquid meals don’t taste good at all cold.

You don't have to have them cold - just get a flask!
There are many good affordable flasks on the market today, OP might even have one already, but they might need more than one.
In the flask you can not only put things like soup or even pasta with sauce, but also just boiled water which you can later pour in to a pot noodle and have a fresh one of those! Or a hot cup of something (tea, coffee, cocoa), made with the water in the flask, or in their own flask! The options are endless.
If they have access to a microwave/hob in the morning they could even pre cook some hot dogs or other protein (meat or plant based) that would fit in, dump it in along with a preheated tin of sweetcorn or peas and maybe even tinned potatoes, some seasoning (a tab of butter/margarine like hotels serve would do wonders), then keep it warm in there for the rest of the day.

Another alternative if they really want hot food would be one of those thermal bags, but in my experience they don't do as good a job at keeping things hot (warm maybe, but nothing more).

[–] nigelinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I've never eaten cold pasta or pizza slice but they sound cool. Thanks!