Taking food from a hotel breakfast buffet- cheeky??

Would many people use the kettle to wash their underwear? It seems a bit of an unlikely outlier.

I mean I brought travel wash with me on a recent 2 week holiday as cabin luggage only and washed my pants the sink.

I am a fatty (well overweight at least) I just don’t like breakfast. I find that if I have breakfast I graze all day but if I wait till I’m hungry then I can eat and stop.

I don’t care. 😂 If it’s been used for washing underwear I’m not using it no matter what. Or people cooking rice in it. I don’t care if I’m being unreasonable or not. 😂😂

There is no way in hell I would use the kettle in a hotel room.

Being American and all, my experience with electric kettles is limited, but wouldn't boiling water disinfect it each time it's boiled?

I stopped using the kettle when I heard of people who wash their underwear in it. 😂

I will never be persuaded to use one again.

I'm sorry but I'm chuckling here at the teeny tiny petite folk who don't eat like fatties, the folk who dont eat before 10 but book a bed and breakfast and folk with medical conditions meaning their partners guzzle prosecco in strange hotels.

Then we've folk who can't find cheese and ham and someone else absolutely horrified at the thought of using a hotel kettle🤣

This thread is totally Mumsnetty bonkers and I love it. I can see why it's made Tattle.

Often the breakfast is included. My DC love the buffet option and would be most grumpy if I dragged them to a lovely Spanish café to have a single croissant and a drink.
I guess each to their own. I am happy to grab a croissant and a yoghurt to eat later and I'll happily defend my position if confronted by the staff !

@parkrun500club exactly it's not a big deal, but it seems plenty on here do exactly that with making full packed lunches

There is no way in hell I would use the kettle in a hotel room. 🤢😅

We often just get a room, especially in the U.K. where there's always a kettle and more often than not now a coffee machine and fridge. Often call into a shop on the way to pick up some yogurt, fruit, nuts and proper milk.
Out of town chain hotels are usually not in the middle of nowhere without at least a convenience store tolerably near.

You pays your money and you takes your choice, just don't take the piss.

Of course it does. Have you never catered for people, you allocate x for x amount of people. If everyone then is a pig and takes enough for lunch too then that's significantly much more food. Very, very basic maths! 🙄

A lot of Travelodge, premier inn etc are located outside of town centres and there is little choice. You do realize that uneaten stuff gets chucked? Letting paying guests have the excess is hardly something to get your knickers in a twist about is it?

Also not true because many hotels allow people to come in from outside and have breakfast. My local premier inn does, for example. They'll have no idea whether someone might come in from outside.

Obviously it's different for a B&B with three rooms where they cook to order. Although I imagine most B&Bs wouldn't object to you taking an apple or pastry with you to eat later.

This. You can usually book on a room only basis.

Absolutely. 100% correct

Indeed. And not influenced by sanctimonious MNers who like to post crap on here but behave completely differently in real life.

This argument makes no sense.

I have a bowl of yogurt and granola and some french toast for breakfast. And then I take an apple with me for later on (or a pastry).

Someone else has a bowl of cornflakes, a pastry, a full cooked breakfast and two slices of toast.

Who has consumed more food?

That's because scandis are sensible and civilised

I don't eat a massive amount at breakfast so I don't think it's remotely unreasonable for me to take a pastry or a piece of fruit for the day. I probably only eat about 50% of the average person having a big cooked breakfast so why shouldn't I get my money's worth?

A couple of weeks ago we were staying in a hotel for our son's graduation - he is staying in the same city for a postgrad course so he stayed in his house. I took a pastry from the breakfast buffet for him on our last morning.

I am sure the hotels don't care unless you go around making full blown sandwiches for later!

Am at a norwegian hotel and yes I can see big boxes provided for takeaways.

On come on. If you just ate that you'd look like Vic Beckham🤔

@WotsYourExcuse

saying 'no offence' doesn't make it non offensive. It's just means you already know it is offensive.

I eat low low carb. I don't count calories. I admit my diet is very restrictive but this is what I eat most days in spring/summer

coffee

greek yogurt with a few berries

Dinner: salad (rocket, radish, cucumber, green pepper, silver skin pickled onions, few small tomatoes, olive oil dressing, some cubed cheese on top) & a handful of nuts.

(I'm vegetarian)

A colleague did it in Spain once, just an orange. The staff went mad! I think it’s unfair to take food for later (imo) because there’s food put out for breakfast, not for you to just help yourself to whatever for later. The cost would be astronomical if everyone did that unless it’s encouraged as it appears to be in Scandi countries according to this.

It’s interesting isn’t it? I think it’s a hangover from childhood where you were always allowed fruit but had to ask for other food. Could be just my mother 😂

It’s what a pp wrote, she brought her tuppaware to the hotel breakfast to fill up. This is what I will say from now on. 😂