Hotel room breakfast/snacks... no fridge.

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We're away visiting various family members over half term, family are all older/elderly and not in a position to have us stay with them. So we've got 5 nights in 2 different locations and I'm trying to save money where I can by not buying breakfast out where possible. We'll grab cheap lunches and have a proper dinner each night.

Kids are 8 & 4, DH and I don't really eat breakfast. But what can I take with us to have for breakfast in the hotel? I've got a cool box that plugs in, but it's not fridge cold, so even milk isn't going to stay fresh for long.

The DC's usually have bagels/crumpets/toast so none of those will be possible. I thought of those individually packed brioche swirls, not the healthiest and certainly won't fill them up!

Don't be limited to "just breakfast" foods, instant noodles, instant soup in a cup, hard boiled eggs, babybel cheeses, waffles, madeleines, individual cartons of fruit juice, pains au chocolat etc etc will all be useful for filling breakfasts.

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I was in a hotel once when someone used a toaster. Set smoke alarms off lol. Good idea re milk. Wrap a wet flannel around it too or keep in cold water in sink. Pastries a good idea too.

@MrsMoastyToasty yes, Asda do a lovely breakfast, unfortunately there isn't one nearby.

We can get to a shop every day, so we won't starve or go short of fresh milk. Just trying to take what I can to save us some time after a 5 hour drive.

Be careful with smoke alarms if you take a toaster! Would take brioche, croissants and jam/nutella, fruit, porridge pots, baby bel cheese. Cereal bars or belvita biscuits.

Porridge pots and fruit pots are helpful here. Packets of supermarket brioche et etc. you can buy those little sachets of milk on line for extra hot drinks.

Some smaller supermarkets have a hot food counter and do a takeaway mix and match breakfast. Plus takeaway coffee if you like proper coffee.

Full fat milk in a cool box, particularly an electric one wont go off in the time it will take you to use it. Most things we keep in fridges dont realy need to be kept in a fridge

Croissants/pain au chocolat type pastries
Porridge pots
Cereal bars
Jam/marmite/marmalade sandwiches
Cereal with long life milk
Fruit

@Fire9636 that is genius 👏. Why have I never thought of this?????

Take your own bread and use the toaster in the hotel dining room.

Errr no, don’t do that. You need to usually check in for breakfast and give your room number to make sure it’s part of your package and or paid for.

We took a sandwich toaster with us when we had to stay at a travelodge for 2 weeks. Can cook bacon and eggs on it as well as warming stuff up in a little pan.

Take disposable plates and cutlery too so no need for washing up either

I doubt they'd be allowed to do that.

Years ago when travelodge were doing cheap rooms, people were taking toasters and microwaves away with them.
Ideal hotel breakfast foods are pastries, porridge pots, fruit, pots of rice pudding (or pack a tin opener), cartons of UHT milk and cereal. Or send one person out whilst the others are showering for bacon rolls!

Genius!

Get some porridge oats of your choice or even gluten free. Pour into a blender and blitz to a finer texture. Next add milk powder or coconut milk powder if dairy is an issue. Add some soft brown sugar and blitz to blend. Take different toppings such as dried fruit, fresh fruit and even cocoa powder to ring the changes. Add boiling water at let sit for a couple of minutes.

Ratios per portion: 40 grams oats, 10 grams milk powder and 10 grams sugar. Store in airtight bag, jar or plastic box. 120 ml of boiling water per portion shall a mug is about right.

I make this for my son who climbs mountains for fun and every gram in his rucksack has to be worth it and filling.

Milk will stay fresh for days if you stand it in a bowl/sink of water with a wet tea towel draped over it with the ends dipped in the water. Evaporation keeps it cool - it’s an old camping trick!

Bread & cheese, then yogurt and a piece of fruit. Choose uht yogurts and they don’t need a fridge, and cheese will be fine. If you ask the hotel they might even freeze a freezer pack for you which would help the cool box along.

Peanut butter/marmite/jam/banana sandwiches. You can make porridge pots yourself by mixing rolled oats with milk powder (like Marvel), then you just have to add boiling water, mix, and leave it for a few minutes. You can always use milk powder for coffee or tea. It’s not as good as milk, I’m not going to lie, but it does the job perfectly well if you reconstitute it with water. Individually wrapped pains au chocolate. Hot chocolate you just need to add boiling water to.

Hot cross buns make a lovely breakfast, even without being toasted and proper butter is fine at room temperature, if you pop it in a plastic tub.

Good quality porridge oat bars, like Stoats are nice crumbled over yoghurt, with some raspberries or blueberries or something if you want more fruit.

Forgive me if it's a silly question, but where are you staying that breakfast isn't included?!

Premier inn for 1 night, then a Village hotel the next 3 nights, but none of them have breakfast included, you have to pay extra. The premier inn we do usually pay for but the restaurant is being refurbished and they are only offering a cold breakfast box thing anyway.

The village we've stayed at before and we didn't think breakfast was all that, and fairly expensive for 4 of us x 3 mornings.

Most hotels have a room
only rate with breakfast extra, don’t they?