whats your supermarket shop ideas?

[eelieza]

I am travelling 460 miles later this week by train, directly to my destination. So I cant stop anywhere. Ill need meal and snack ideas for the day to make in advance. Id rather make whatever it is myself.

Shopping at Tesco. budget is £40 at most to reach the minimum basket charge. That may or may not be excessive?

TIA

How long (in hours) are you travelling? I’d make one or more than one sandwiches at home, with a bottled drink and a couple of snacks, maybe a station coffee if I fancied it. I think the whole lot would come in under £10 and that would be some posh sarnies! Am I missing something?

£40 on just you for a train journey?

fifteen hours.

i would hit the supermarket the day before and buy ready made sandwich, mini pork pies a couple of scotch eggs, crisps a yogurt or some fresh fruit and a couple of bottled drinks would come to around a tenner and be plenty to keep you going

I would have done the night train and then only done dinner and then got breakfast at my destination but those tickets are sold out

Same as issey - sandwiches (i’d go for smoked salmon and cream cheese maybe, or a deli filler type), some chopped up veg, crisps / snacks x2, two/three cans of drink, bottle of water from home… in any event I don’t think it’d take £40 if you can get to a shop. Otherwise something like an Ubereats order from a supermarket would likely still be under £40, even with their higher prices.

I'd go to m and s at the station.

What meals is this covering? Breakfast, lunch and tea? Or will you be having breakfast before you go?
It all depends what sort of things you eat and what is easy to eat on a train (for the love of God do not take anything with tuna because it will stink the train up).
I would basically take 'picnic' food. Sausage rolls, salad bits in a tub, fruit in a tub, mini quiches etc. Make some sandwiches or wraps (whatever you like in sandwiches). If you like cold pasta salad something like that.
Just whatever you would have in a picnic really.

Just saw you want to make it yourself. When we do a long haul drive to France (18 hours) I do:

Breakfast - Sausage sandwiches
Lunch - pasta salad
Dinner - charcuterie - salami/chorizo etc, cheese and baguette
Loads of snacks to keep the kids quiet - wrapped brioche, trail mix, mini packs of biscuits

lunch and dinner with snacks in-between but it wouldn't hurt to have a second breakfast

So 3 meals plus snack. No refrigeration, which rules out meat and fish.

presume you’re also going to need cling film or foil to wrap your food in?

and it has to be food which’ll last in the fridge/freezer while you’re away?

think I would get a pizza which I could precook and slice. Pre prepared fresh fruit and salad, baby toms, drinks, small bottle or 2 screw top red wine, vegetable crisps or salted nuts to go with wine, flapjack and snack cheese.

Granola and yoghurt
Cold rice salad, ham and coleslaw
Spicy chicken wraps and crisp

Snacks
Plums
Chocolates
Pretzels

Do you have a food flask? If not see if you can include one to get you to £40 min spend. Then you could do a hot meal for lunch and sandwich/baguette/pita thing for dinner. For lunch make a really nice soup or pasta with a spicy tomato and bacon sauce. Most things would be ok in an insulated cool bag with a couple of bottles of frozen water bottles for the evening. Depends what you like really. Cheese and crackers with grapes, celery, a little pot of chutney, or olives, crudités. Or a favourite filled baguette. Plenty of fruit, a packet of crisps, flapjacks are pretty travel proof.

Flask of coffee or tea or fruit/ herbal tea depending on your preference.
Water bottle
Breakfast: pain au chocolate
Elevensis: cookie/ biscuit and banana
Lunch: cold pizza, salad, fruit.
Mid afternoon: cheese and biscuits and a drink
Evening: sandwiches, crisps, grapes, maybe a slice of cake to finish off?
Regular drinks throughout journey. And if your not having to work on the train then a good book, or audio book to help pass the time!

Water
Orange juice
A Flaskof tea and soup
A couple of veggie sandwiches/wraps
Crisps/cake/biscuits/fruit
As long as you have enough to drink you'll survive
Where are you travelling to out of interest ?

Overnight oats for breakfast
a ready made salad and a nice crusty roll for lunch, with a yogurt and ready chopped pot of fruit
chocolate bar and an apple for mid afternoon munchies
dinner: pasta salad or sandwich & “picnic nibbles” (cocktail sausages, scotch egg, some crudités), or sushi (may be unpopular with your fellow travellers)
that’s not going to come anywhere near £40 so you’ll have to add a bottle of Prosecco and some nuts.
also take a big bottle of water and don’t forget cutlery!