If you take food on holiday what do you take?

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I have a friend who always takes PEK and corned beef to make sandwiches. I mocked her, then was so happy when we went away and after being by the pool all day we could have a little sandwich on the balcony before going out.

DP and I are going away in November and for some reason TUI has given us about 10 suitcases each. I’m used to trying to cram everything into an under seat bag. But this time I’ve got checked baggage, carry on luggage, and a personal item. Don’t know what to do with it all! So I’m going to check a suitcase and take snacks.

If you do this, what do you take?

If you don’t and you think it’s ridiculous that’s fine but of no interest at all.

We don’t normally take food but if going abroad then probably teabags as they seem to be on existent in other countries. On aircraft we just take a meal deal. If I am on a walking holiday I take granola bars, nuts, fruit and cheese.

What’s PEK? Can you take meat to other countries?

I remember decades ago on my first holiday abroad alone and my friends and I had a cooler box packed with Irish (superquinn) sausages, rashers, pudding, lyons tea bags etc. I had forgotten actually we could do that way back then and it was the 90's.

Never brought my own stuff abroad but thinking logically as an Irish person I would pack a brennans fresh white sliced pan and my fave instant coffee but that is kinda it. I am fairly easy going with food but abroad you cannot get brennans bread and genuinely it is like a delicacy!

I don’t take food on holiday but I absolutely ADORE pek & Branston pickle sandwiches on white bread!

Pringles, tub of sweets. 1 in hand luggage and 1 in the case for either in room or the flight home.

Tinned meat sounds disgusting - my 96 year grandmother even called them ration food.

Can’t you just buy nice snacks on holiday? I love trying new food in holiday. Always new flavours and brands to try.

I grew up in the northwest. I grew up in a lower middle class house and lived on findus crispy pancakes for tea in the 80s. I have never heard of PEK.

I’m not sure I’ve had it since the PEK holiday sandwiches but I’m seriously tempted to go and buy it and a loaf of white bread to have for tea tonight.

Right but you’re not me so why do you need to tell me what you’d like? I’m not taking you on holiday.

Mad how ‘non-tinned’ ham eaters are familiar with Spam then.

But thanks for your contribution. Good to know a stranger is a non-tinned ham eater when the question was about what food to take on holiday.

Because you said you couldn’t believe an adult had never heard of it.

No. I am going to defy border control.

Sugar was also rationed.

I can and will. Are you unable to read?

You need to be at most upper working class to have been told about it.

Yorkshire tea bags. I never leave the country without them.

Apart from that, I take nothing because I love a leisurely trip around a foreign supermarket. Eating local food is a big part of my holiday. I usually bring bags of stuff back to the UK from the wonderful Mercadona, however.

We always self cater on holiday. We take enough to get us through the first evening/breakfast so usually a long life grain pouch (Merchant Gourmet type) plus some tinned fish, maybe some breakfast bars or similar. We take tea bags, decaf (real) coffee and squash.

Then we buy local.

We have been on sailing holidays where it's difficult to get certain provisions, especially fresh food. I've taken all sorts of stuff in my suitcase on those occasions!

You really don't want to know.
Makes spam look organic.

I don’t believe you’ve never heard of it. I think you just wanted to post your insults so that the strangers of Mumsnet would appreciate your non-working class credentials. Duly noted.

Tea bags, instant coffee and ground coffee for us, and a jar or two of local honey when we're visiting friends in Spain because they like it better than the honey they can buy at home.

I like eating the local food at restaurants but I’ve never got the attraction of spending time on holiday shopping. Definitely teabags though.

If abroad it would just be teabags and possibly some gluten free bread snd biscuits. If in.this country- nowt

It depends where I am going. I am vegan and some places are excellent for vegans and others not. So I usually take a couple of pouches of Merchant Gourmet lentils in tomato sauce, three bean chilli etc....just to make sure I have some protein.

I can assure you I was brought up very working class in a northern town. We lived on mince and dumplings, as far as I remember, and a lot of biscuits.

If I'm going abroad and travelling around, I don't take anything (although I used to take snacks for dd when she was a toddler).

If I'm staying in one place for a couple of weeks or longer and am self catering, then I take teabags as I have never come across ones I like when I'm abroad.
I sometimes take cereals if I know they will be a lot more expensive than the UK. Also peanut butter for sandwiches and a bottle of brown sauce. Sometimes dark chocolate, golden syrup and dried fruit if I think I might do some baking.

I'm another poster who has never heard of PEK and I think my fondness for brown sauce shows I'm not a food snob. 🤣

I have been veggie since primary school so don't go down the meat aisles in a supermarket. I've heard of SPAM and would consider that a very well known brand. I guess that PEK is a familiar brand to people who like tinned meat but doesn't mean anything to people who don't eat tinned meat so don't look at those shelves. I've never seen or heard of an advert for it so there's no reason why I would be aware of it.

Actually, the recipes are very similar and both 90% pork.

Nutritionally likely very similar to decent quality sausages.