Airbnb alone - food suggestions

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I'm spending 2 nights alone in an airbnb to visit the Hay Festival soon. My plans are to be at the Festival from mid afternoon onwards, which leaves me to have whatever I'd like in the airbnb for breakfast and lunch, and then possible a snack for when I arrive back in the evenings. What would your ideal foods be if you could pick anything? I'm seeing if I can get any inspiration or suggestions of foods I haven't thought of. Thank you

Sourdough toast, topped with avocado, scrambled eggs, wild mushrooms and rocket.
Quinoa and Kim Chi
Greek yoghurt and Berries

French toast with berries (I use this recipe beatthebudget.com/recipe/cinnamon-french-toast-with-mixed-berries/)
Coconut pancakes with mango slices

Pan-fried sea bass with pea and potato salad
Pepper-crusted venison steak with dauphinois potatoes

Breakfast
Smoked salmon, cream cheese, cucumber, avocado open sandwich.
Belgian waffles warmed in the toaster, with pre prepared fruit, eg pineapple/mango.
Ready made egg mayonnaise with naice ham, open sandwich.

Lunch
Ready cooked salmon fillet with prepared salads.
Chicken Caesar salad.
Smoked mackerel fillets with Waldorf salad and a green salad.
Gaspacho followed by selection of Spanish charcuterie.

Snacks
Cheeses, crackers.
Left overs from meals
Fruit

There is no cooking involved for the meals, little preparation or washing up, and if you plan what to buy for salads, very few leftovers.

Have a great time!

Some brilliant ideas here, and a lot of the foods are things I love. Thank you.

@Forgottenmyphone I particularly love your suggestions. If you're free you are welcome to come along and cook for me 🤣

There's a pub in hay that does excellent food, I'll locate the name and post it.

Do you really want to spend two days you are at the new place cooking breakfast and lunch?
Recently traveled with toddler age children and having half ready food was a life saver.

Day 0 evening: tortellini

Day 1:
Breakfast of grilled chesse sandwiches brought wrapped with me.
Lunch/dinner: that ready made chilled meatballs (kept on frozen pad) and instant noodles.

Day 2:
Breakfast: instant oats or cereals.
Lunch/dinner: canned tuna, chopped tomatoes can and microwave rice with leftover wine.

Dippy egg and soldiers but with lovely Burford brown eggs and sourdough

Are your meals usually constrained by other people’s tastes? My go-to for situations like these is always “something I like but DH doesn’t”. So… spicy, blue cheese, seafood, pasta sauce made with melted cream cheese and whatever’s in fridge, loads of balsamic vinegar on everything. (Obviously not all at once!)

When I book an Airbnb I check the cooking arrangements and then do some sort of menu plan. I say this having just come back from the Hebrides where I went from a fully equipped kitchen one week to a 'Pod' with just a microwave and hot plate!

I do this on the rare occasion I'm cooking for myself.

Breakfast would be poached egg and avocado on toast, maybe with smoked salmon too.
The evening snack would be cured meats, cheeses, sun dried tomatoes, pickled onions.
Lunch would be something more substantial to stop me getting hungry and buying overpriced festival food that you have to queue ages for. So probably pasta of some description or a pizza with lots of nice toppings.

Unfortunately not free, but I’d love to go to the Hay festivals someday! In my absence, you could use these recipes:
https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/pan-fried-sea-bass-with-pea-and-potato-salad.html

https://www.hellofresh.co.uk/recipes/peppered-venison-steak-and-dauphinoise-potatoes-61839f5591c49a57b65a34b3

I'd buy things that can be eaten for breakfast and lunch so eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms, nice bread, crusty rolls or sourdough.

Smoked salmon, pate, fresh fruit.

If I was on holiday alone the absolute last thing I'd want to be doing was cooking and clearing up. I'd buy some pastries for breakfast and for lunch I'd go to a pub or cafe, whatever was nearby and well rated.

Hay Festival (is it Hay or How the Light Gets in you're going to?) has a huge food tent with loads of providers offering food from around the world. It's not cheap, but at least you're not trying to slice a crusty sourdough loaf with a blunt knife supplied by the Air BnB. Hay has loads of pubs, restaurants and food outlets. There's a food court in the castle entrance area most years.

They'll be crazy busy if you're there over the weekend but during the week it'll be quieter. There was a very good deli in the main street last year (presume it's still trading). Really excellent pub (Three Horseshoes at Groessford) if you have a car/ fancy a short drive to get away from the crowds. Not cheap but very very good. We've had good food at the The Three Tuns in Hay itself for the last couple of years and would recommend. It's slightly out of the way and tends to be ever so slightly quieter than some of the others. Decent fish and chips from the chip shop near the Three Tuns.

My menu would be bircher muesli with yoghurt and berries (strawberry season!) or a bacon butty made with good bacon.

Lunch, if I was taking something to eat at the festival, would be pasta salad with hot smoked salmon (pasta, creme-fraiche/mayo, peas, seasoning) on a bed of watercress with chunks of salmon through it. You can substitute the pasta with Jersey Royals.

Day two I might make a good salad and add a slice of quiche or a pasty from the deli. Buy an almond croissant or chunk of cake at one of the places in the festival offering cake and coffee mid-afternoon.

Dinner: if I had evening tickets for a festival event I'd probably eat in the food tent. If not, and if I needed some peace and quiet, I might head out of town to Glasbury or Groessford to escape the madness. Or buy fish and chips and take them down to the riverside to eat them on one of the benches: take the steps down by the bridge to Hereford and you'll find a lovely riverside walkway which is shaded in the heat. You can walk along there to the town 'beach' at the Warren near the festival end of town, though last year the Wye was so polluted that no one was going in the water...

(Yes, I've been going to Hay for years and hope to be there next week)

Thank you everyone. It's the Hay Festival. I've never been despite wanting to go for years. I separated with my parter and spur of the moment booked tickets (he wouldn't have come with me to something like that). I'm a single parent so a couple of nights in airbnb, eating the foods I enjoy (though as simple as possible is good), then having a stroll around the festival and eating there late afternoon/evening every day sounds absolutely perfect for me. I have booked a click and collect for the way there and have started adding suggestions from here (but keeping it simple like pre-cooked salmon, ready made salad, etc).

I'd either be going out to places my ex didn't like or ordering Deliveroo again foods my ex wouldn't order

Deliveroo? In Hay? Do you have any idea...?

🤣🤣🤣

Finding places/foods he disliked would be very easy! He is the fussiest person I've ever met, which was so disappointing as I love trying different foods

I would figure it out on the evening whatever I fancied that was feasible then. Could be crisps & tofu or bagel & peanut butter. Quick & simple for sure.

Croissants / pain au chocolate
Yogurt
Fruit
Tea/coffee/milk
New potatoes (the ones with herb butter you microwave )
Salad
Cooked salmon fillet
Mayonnaise
Crusty bread
Brie
Tomatoes
Olives
Bottle white wine
Bottle sparkling water
Box of luxury chocolates and/or Gu lemon cheesecake

⬆️ breakfast plus tea/supper for two days

If you have budget the food tent at the festival is pretty good!