Dinner ideas for pod with no cooking facilities

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My partner and I are having a special weekend away this weekend. It’s one of those mini pods with a hot tub in the middle of nowhere by a lake. We’ve been keeping an eye on the weather and it looks like it’s going to be perfect; chilly but clear skies and no rain so we’re going ahead with it.

It has not cooling facilities; just a mini fridge and a coffee maker. Hit me with ideas for a lovely dinner.

At the moment we’re just thinking charcuterie; nice meats and cheese and wine. But if anyone can think of anything a bit fancier which will travel well in a cool box in the car?

If it were my dh, he would be taking a camping stove.

If it were me, I'd be heading out to the local pub.

What was your plan when you booked it ?

To do meat, cheese, veggie sticks and bread with some really nice wine. Because we wanted a chore and cooking free night.

So I was just asking if anyone had any other cold food ideas.

And we’re definitely not wasting the night in a pub. It’s a beautiful pod in the middle of nowhere beside a lake, with no one else around and a hot tub. There’s also hardly any light pollution so we might have a good chance at seeing the stars while we spend the night hot tubbing and drinking wine in totally peace and quiet (it’s a bubble free hot tub; just warm water and heated by logs so no noise from that either).

I’d get a takeaway

I’d take a bbq! Or I’d go to the pub for an early dinner.

Cheese wine and charcuterie are all salty so make sure you have a great sweet treat for dessert after too! Balance

I think your plan sounds lovely. I’d definitely add some good pate, maybe a prawn/crayfish cocktail or smoked salmon.

Depending how far you’re travelling and when, could you take some nice soup in a flask as a starter?

If it has a fridge and coffee maker, that means it has electricity so I'd bung my microwave in the car and take fancy gastropub ready meals. It's coldish at night now so you may want something warm.
In reality, like your DH, I'd take my camping stuff.

I was in a similar situation this summer away with a friend.
I made a salad type dish from one of those mixed grain pouches, a tin of mixed beans. And then I added chopped up tomato, onion and avocado. I think we also had some rocket, but I hadn’t planned to make this it was a bit impromptu from bits we had. It was delicious and I’d definitely do it again.
You can add whatever you like, chicken breast, cheese etc. if you have space in a cooler.

I also added red pepper, chilli flakes and salad dressing.

I would take a camping stove, a microwave is unlikely to work as places like this tend to have camping fridges etc as the electric wouldn’t cope with a standard one.

If its a wood fired hot tub it will take around 4-5 hours to heat, so I’m assuming its serviced and the owners will have it lit and ready for you to just maintain? If not its unlikely to be warm enough to use otherwise.