What food and drink would you take for a two night self catering honeymoon?

[Aberdgiibeh]

We’re going somewhere very secluded and although there is a pub not too far away we kind of want to hide away and make the most of being on our own! I do also want a break from cooking though!

There’s a pizza oven, fire pit with bbq grill and usual kitchen cooking facilities. At the moment my plan is:
Stuff for a cooked breakfast
Stuff for a continental breakfast
Deli bits and nice bread for lunches
pizza for one night
Maybe a Charlie bighams or cook type ready meal for the other night
Some chocolates/nuts/fruit to snack on
Wedding cake

Any other or better ideas?

Cooked breakfast - sod the continental, it’s your honeymoon (unless you really love that!). To be honest I’d take the fanciest, most gluttonous ready meals you can find

Your plan sounds good.
Don't forget drinks, wine, coffee, tea, milk etc.
Will tge wedding cake cover dessert?

3 bottles of champagne and a bag of Doritos

To be honest I’d take the fanciest, most gluttonous ready meals you can find

So would I. I wouldn't want to be spending my honeymoon cooking and washing up.

I would probably go to a large M and S food hall and spend £££ on some really lovely ready meals and deli bits and lots of wine

If I could manage it and get it there cold enough, I'd buy myself a seafood platter, as lux as I could afford, so maybe a whole lobster, some langoustines or big prawns, maybe a dressed crab or a little pot of shrimp, either pre-cooked to have with aoali and buttered brown bread or I'd stick on the BBQ (I know you said no cooking but this wouldn't be much harder than putting a ready meal in). DH would probably request we make it surf and turf by adding a steak. Can have with oven chips and salad.

I'd also be quite tempted to try the pizza oven, so maybe some really top notch mozzarella and deli meats (can double up with your lunch) to put on ready made but high quality pizza bases?

For breakfast I personally love a really good continental so I'd stick with that (perhaps with some of those bake in the oven pain au Chocolat or cinnamon rolls for the second day as bakery pastries will be stale by day 2), but if you want cooked I'd do smoked salmon on a bagel or muffin, perhaps poached eggs and some hollandaise. Don't forget the really good coffee or tea (I'd be checking the accommodation coffee options carefully and have been known to bring my own cafetiere with) and the fresh orange! And the champagne of course!

That’s my reservation with the cooked breakfast, it’s always a bit of a greasy clean up!

I do love an almond croissant so happy to have continental too.

I forgot to say the accommodation provides fancy tea and coffee as well as a bottle of champagne and a pre mixed cocktail each. But I do need to remember milk!

If you take a bottle of Bailey's you won't need milk for ☕

I would probably go for:

Unearthed olives, feta, really good cured meats. Crosta + mollica pizza bases (or round here you can get frozen Brick pizzas from the farm shops which are just delicious) + my favourite pizza toppings. Some sort of zero effort but delicious pudding, so maybe really good ice cream?

Then whatever the nicest ready meal I could lay my hands on for the other night - so something from Cook possibly or the local farm shop or M and S. And an easy pudding so maybe Tobler one + double cream (makes the best fondue) plus bananas and strawberries to dip into it.

Breakfast, depends how faffy you can be bothered with. I would probably do bacon and/or sausage sandwiches one day and the frozen croissants you can get the next, or go out and get some decent viennoiserie if there is anywhere that will sell it. Or, and it's a bit healthy so may be too dull, but whenever I go and see my grandmother she makes an amazing fruit salad with really posh fruits that I would never buy at home, gets the poshest Greek yogurt, and then gets really good granola made with loads of nuts and not much sugar and then adds more nuts. It's absolutely delicious and too faffy to be doing on a regular basis if you aren't retired (in my mind anyway!).

How about one of those whole prepped Chinese peking ducks from the supermarket? Comes with pancakes and sauce, roasts in the foil tin, so the only 'cooking' is chopping some fresh cucumber and spring onions. Feast 😋

I would probably go for things that require minimal clean up, so I would ditch the cooked breakfast and go for a continental. You can get fancy breakfast hampers. Deli meats for lunch. Steak and fancy chips requires minimal clean up and with a nice bottle of red and a bottle of champagne it would feel quite special.

I would also look at getting a smores kit or chocolate dipping kit. You can make your own but for ease, the internet has many options. Take a big blanket if the place doesn’t have one, get the fire pit going and have strawberries covered in melted chocolate with champagne.

For me? Smoked salmon, cream cream and bagels plus a lemon and capers for breakfasts, bread, cured meats, antipasti, hummus etc for lunch, but I’d go out for dinner, cleaning up a pizza oven or bbq is messy and I dislike even posh ready meals (the Charlie Bingham meals are really not nice and they are the best out there, not good)

Some great ideas thank you!

We are eating out on our wedding day and will eat lunch out on the way home but really want to make the most of hiding away for the couple of days so don’t really want to go out for dinner for those two nights. But do want it to be as easy as possible!

there is a website called dishpatch that deliver various fancy restaurant meals with all the components already prepped and cooked and then you just stick the bits in the oven and put it together on a plate… it’s quite fun and would feel special!

I definitely wouldn't want to be frying a cooked breakfast on my honeymoon!

I'd take the best Greek yoghurt, honey, walnuts, fresh figs plus some posh pastries and maybe some melon.

For one dinner, I'd just do lovely things to pick at - good olives, feta, those jarred peppers, good bread, posh crisps, more melon, grapes, jarred Greek gigantes beans etc

For the other, I'd buy pizza dough and nice toppings - artichokes and black olives for me, with a rocket salad

Nice things to pick at after dinner- salted pistachios, chocolates etc

I'd get part-cooked baguettes, good butter, deli-style meats and cheeses, some dips and snacks for lunches.

Lots of fresh fruit, yoghurt, nuts and seeds for breakfast. I'd probably take eggs, milk and flour and make American pancakes as well.

Dinners I'd make a one-pot stew or casserole. Chicken or beef, passata, red wine, garlic & herbs, stock cubes, loads of potatoes and fresh veg. All in the pan, low heat, simmer all day. Eat with a couple of the baguettes!

Lots of champagne or prosecco, with strawberries. Baileys or similar for after dinner, with ice-cream if there's a freezer. DH would bring his favourite beer.

Remus I think you’re my food twin! I’ve already told dh to be that if he wants a cooked breakfast he can cook it 😆

My dp would be very pleased with bagels, smoked salmon (urghhhh!) and cream cheese as an alternative to a cooked breakfast, I think.

I would approach this by planning on a meal by meal basis and then formulate the shopping list. So:

Day 1: arrive first evening = champagne, mezze or tapas then pizza in the pizza oven and a nice bottle
of red wine
Day 2: breakfast/brunch smoked salmon on bagels with poached eggs. Dinner gin and tonics/cocktails with mixed nuts. For main get a ‘Cook’ meal eg lamb shanks with mash and green veg mix. Nice bottle of red (see the pattern 🙂)

etc etc

Can you get an ocado order or similar? They do frozen croissants etc from m&s. Or bagels/smoked salmon for breakfast. Pizza dough - the river cottage magic dough is easy or I think its Mollica that do pizza bases. Then loads of nibbles/dips that can be split over lunch and starters. We have a fish shop locally that make gorgeous fish cakes/fish pies. I'd take them and let them defrost on the way. Then some really fancy chocolate/wine

After I got married we did exactly that on my minimoon. So many nice fancy bits, the posh ready meals, some lovely drinks and treaty snacky bits. It was bliss!

Gosh I’m starving now, what wonderful food suggestions! I’ve nothing to add, but have a fabulous time OP! 💕

I'd do an order from Cote at Home. Basically really good ready meals. They do a posh breakfast box too. It's wonderful!

This all sounds rather bizarre. Who wants to eat things "to pick at" for dinner in real life? Most of the suggestions are stuff we eat day to day (but not things to "pick at" for dinner).

Get the pub to deliver food for you or if you can't then get an Ocado delivery sent to you with ready meals. It's not exotic but you need to eat properly.

Lots of people like to have a cheese/charcuterie/deli board to pick at. I do.

It's low effort to assemble with minimum washing up. Washed down with wine of choice it is a lovely way to eat on occasion.