To ask what food to eat when you stay at a hotel?

[Tigofigo]

We're staying in a hotel for 3 nights next week, and I don't want to eat every meal in a restaurant or cafe.

Can I have your ideas for meals that we can eat on the hoof (lunch or dinner) without having to heat or prepare it please? The sort of thing you could buy in a supermarket. Obviously there's pre packaged sandwiches but would be good to have a few options. Thanks

The cooked counter at the supermarket is great if you get in early enough or cold cooked meats. Salad boxes in the fridges.

You could get a prepared salad and a quiche or pie or something, either eat it as a picnic or in your room
Fish and chips eaten in the open air

I would order room service, or bring back a takeaway.

But if it has to be something to eat in the room bought from a supermarket, Pot Noodles would probably do assuming that your room has a kettle. Or a range of picnic foods such as pork pies, quiche, sausage rolls, scotch eggs, cherry tomatoes, crisps etc. Maybe just quiche, with a pre prepared supermarket salad bowl. Hot chicken from the rotisserie with a pre prepared salad. Cheese and crackers, with celery and grapes.

Ready made tortilla or quiche. Carrot sticks and dips. Samosas, falafel, scotch eggs. Deli things like stuffed peppers or olives. Cheese and crackers. Nice prepared fruit like mango or berries. Yoghurt. Strongly recommend taking a knife, fork and spoon as gives you a ton more options! Porridge pots.

Antipasti stuff. Bread. Cheese.

I get room service or deliveroo to the hotel or take in sushi or a "picnic" or some other takeaway. Really depends more on time and whether the trip is business or pleasure).

What about prepared sushi bowls? I always feel a bit weird eating in a hotel room especially if you have to eat on the ned as there's no where to sit (maybe there is though). Might be worth considering staying in an AirBnB apartment next time with cooking facilities next time, we find they work out really well if we want to avoid paying to eat every meal out.

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When the kids were younger we would do wrapped croissants, pain au chocolate and small cartons of fruit juice for breakfast. Also fresh fruit, individual wrapped cheese and hot chocolate sachets for snacks.

@Gowithme

What about prepared sushi bowls? I always feel a bit weird eating in a hotel room especially if you have to eat on the ned as there's no where to sit (maybe there is though). Might be worth considering staying in an AirBnB apartment next time with cooking facilities next time, we find they work out really well if we want to avoid paying to eat every meal out.

Yes we usually self cater but nothing available (and we really could do with a break from cooking and washing up too).

Thanks some good ideas here. Don't think there's a fridge annoyingly, but we'll manage

Deli style bits? We usually just get Deliveroo to the hotel though.

The hotel is fairly remote so not sure they will have delivery options unfortunately. Also I seem to spend almost as much on delivery as I do on a meal out!

www.john-west.co.uk/products/range/on-the-go/

I've always found these to be very handy and they are tasty.

Wraps - cheese and chorizo or chicken bites (like cold nuggets) with a salad bag. Dc also like tuna and sweetcorn, just make sure the tins have ring pulls