What to eat during hotel stay

[LoopyLucyLou10]

Not aibu just posting for traffic.

Our kitchen had a leak and the entire kitchen needs to be ripped out and replaced. Landlord has put us in a hotel for 4 days so the workmen can replace the kitchen including all units and flooring.

The only problem we have is that the hotels restaurant is closed due to covid, they aren't even operating room service. No cooking facilities whatsoever. My daughter has food allergies: all dairy, potato, tomato, kiwi, peanuts, MSG, oranges, shellfish, peaches, aubergine, peppers and cocoa. I have no idea what to feed her with absolutely no cooking facilities. Takeaways aren't an option due to the long list of ingredients and she can't have and the MSG.

Any ideas what to do for food while we are stuck in a hotel for a few days? No family nearby so no way to have meals with them. We won't have a fridge or any cooking facilities. Staying at home isn't an option either, we have to be out of the property whilst the work takes place.

Thank you in advance!

Could you take a toastie maker and have hot toasties?

Mr lee s noodke pots are vegan etc

www.mrleesnoodles.com/

With Covid, most hotels are not charging cancellation fees. SO I'd be contacting your landlord and asking him to please cancel and book somewhere else, preferably an Air BnB. It would be a good idea to offer him one or two suggestions on places at similar cost etc that you've found to make it more doable.

If that really can't happen, can a friend help out? I'd be totally willing to provide one or more meals to a friend in this situation.

M&S lunch section will be your friend - sandwiches, salads, cold meats, crackers etc. 4 days with no hot meal wont kill her.

I think the naked noodle range are ok and the aldi version. We had 2 weeks in a hotel in a similar situation and it was very picnic based stuff from the supermarket every other day. Fruit, salad tubs with cold meats, rolls, croissants, porridge pots, cereal as we borrowed a basic crockery set from reception.

Sandwiches. Its 4 days, you'll be fine.

A lot of landlord bashing, but does he/she know there is an issue with food for the child?

Maybe they think the hotel is a good solution.

Thank you for all the responses!

We are going tomorrow, its all very last minute because the kitchen floor isn't safe from water damage and we live in a flat so we can't be in there at all. The hotel was all that was available last minute.

I think daily trips to get sandwiches will be our best bet and fresh fruit/vegetables etc. Thank you for all the ideas everyone I really appreciate it!

Contact the hotel and explain the situation. They might be able to put a toaster/microwave/fridge in the room. Otherwise ask your landlord to drop some things off.

Can your daughter have cup a soups or any instant noodles ( not necessarily pot noodles? I presume there will be a kettle in the room or of not, you could pack one (and maybe a toaster or sandwich toaster).

Otherwise what shops are nearby? You might have to resort to cold food for a few days, sandwiches, salads, fruit. Could you make and take with you some biscuits/cake suitable for your DD? Cook jacket potatoes at home and eat them cold. They will be ok at room temp same/ next day. You can add canned beans or chickpeas to salad.

If you have a microwave, you could make meals and take the first days chilled and the second days take frozen so it thaws and keeps. After that, salad, veg, potatoes - you get the idea.

I once had to stay in a hotel when our electricity went off and was staying off for 3 days. No allergies to cope with thank goodness. The weather was very cold and I got round the lack of fridge by hanging food outside in carrier bags dangling from the window handle.

It won't hurt to have cold food or food that can be made with hot water for a few days.

I'd just buy enough each day or more of things that'll keep.

Cocktail sausages
Ham
Sliced cooked cold chicken
Any veg she will eat cucumber/ carrots etc
Crackers
Rice crackers
Fruit
Biscuits
Loaf of bread & peanut butter/jam
Crisps
Cold pasta/other ready made cold things
Popcorn

Cup a soup
Pot noodles
Porridge

Snack bars

Don't think about 'meals' just think about 'food'

I think your landlord should take you & collect you or pay for a taxi.

Are you having any input into the new kitchen? Any changes that would make it work better for you? If I was your landlord I'd ask you, but he might not think to, do speak up if there is.

It's annoying having to move out fir 4 days, but at least it's being fixed/replaced properly and not just a fix up/bridge job! Nice new kitchen 😁

Cooked meats and salad stuff bread rolls ...sachets of cooked rice and pasta tinned tuna and other fish - and give her warm drinks

Get the landlord to sort out takeaway/food deliveries. Hope works go to plan so you are back home asap

sandwiches with no dairy will be limiting if you're buying the sandwiches - OK if you're buying ingredients.

I have no microwave at work, but find that just putting boiling water into instant porridge and letting it sit for a bit works well; I never have milk anyway.

Some pot noodles OK - if only require microwaving for a short time, not a problem if you let them sit in boiling water.

Does the hotel have a minibar in the room that you can use to keep food chilled? It's cold enough outside that soy milk/margarine etc would be fine on a windowsill or balcony.

It should be ok for 4 days. Cereal and fruit for breakfast, sandwiches or bread and powdered soup for lunch with more fruit and homemade biscuits/cake without any allergens. Then green salad, couscous and cold chicken and other meats from the deli section for dinner. You can cook eggs in a kettle too.

Do you have a sandwich toaster you could take with you? You can cook all kinds of things in a sandwich toaster - omelettes, cakes. You can even use it to cook bacon or thinly sliced meat/fish the hotel might not be too impressed.

If there's a supermarket near the hotel, they might sell cool boxes, or more likely cool bags, then buy some bags of ice or frozen peas, then your food will stay cooler, if you want to keep things like ham, chicken slices, cooked sausages, hummus.

Are supermarkets still selling hot roast chickens?
Packets of couscous - just add boiling wAter.
Apparently you can cook eggs, heat pasties arc in a sandwich toaster

Slow cooker.

Can she eat fish and chips and vegan pizza? There's nothing on her allergy list to suggest she can't. Might they be takeaways you could get for a couple of nights? So not ideal but if you are able to get to a supermarket, some sell cooked, hot chicken which you could have with salad and bread.

Can you speak to your landlord and ask him to put you up in a Airbnb? It'll probably be cheaper than the hotel and you'll have a kitchen

Not all landlords will have ins to cover this. If all last minute and a lot of hotels closed he might not of had many options. Ask at hotel if there is a fridge you can have access to as when travelling with my dd on meds which needed a fridge most are happy to store bits.
4 days no hot meal is not ideal but not life threatening. Just think of getting calories in for the 4 days in any format you can. Be it cereal, cold meats etc.

Cold food for a few days will be fine.

My OH goes away regularly for a week at a time with work, off again staying in a hotel. He picks up cold food from Tesco.
It's not ideal, but you won't starve.

I'd be picking up deli bits for dinners, salads, couscous, prepared pasta pots, coleslaw that sort of thing. You can get those already cooked dolmio pots, I'd think they should heat OK if stood in a bowl of boiling water if you really want a warm thing.