What meals can you make in a hotel room with only a kettle?

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DH staying in a travelodge or premierinn on summink next week.

He needs ideas other than pot noodle.

Apparently there's a tescos nearby.

What would you eat? For 10 days!

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When we went to Disneyland Paris we heated our gluwein in the hotel kettle... stained it a bit red though.

The trouser press offers good all-round warmth I'm sure he could get a hog roast going in there.

I only had a kettle in uni. My fave recipe:

Fine noodles; put in bowl and pour over boiling water. Drain. Add fresh chopped tomato, flat leaf parsley, ext. virgin olive oil and a bit of salt. Really quite nice.

You could also do cous cous in a similar way (I'd add sweetcorn).

Boiling eggs in the kettle?

I lived in a crappy hotel for 3 months a few years ago on a posting to another office when I was too lowly to qualify for a decent hotel. I could have gone out and expensed it but after a while you get sick of eating on your own in Bella Pasta and want to slump in front of the telly with your dinner on your lap when at home.

I spent the three months perfecting a pasta dish. You need to have a kettle, tupperware & lid. You need to buy fresh pasta, a jar of pesto, some ready-roasted chicken breasts and some spring onions.

You boil the kettle, pop the fresh pasta in the tub and cover with the boiling water and leave for a few minutes (they only need warming, so you don't need it to be ON the boil). I strongly advise against cooking anything other than an egg in a hotel kettle, as they're generally riddled with limescale. Unwelcome crunchy bits in your dinner is very distressing.

Whilst they're warming, shred the chicken breast and chop the spring onions, then stir through the pasta with some pesto (pasta should be warm enough to take the edge off the pesto) and eat. I actually grew to kind of love it.

Oh, I forgot to mention, you have to drain the pasta using the lid of the tub ...

Think the choices could be endless with one of these

He could do cheese toasties in the corby trouser press

oh that's nice coolascucumber.

another thread in the round up????

boil-in-the-bag kippers

Greggs do porrage with golden syrup that you make with boiling water same as pot noodles was 99p each.

Where is the travelodge? Is it near any of us? Perhaps we could feed him in exchange for DIY jobs (no, not that sort of DIY job!)

PMSL at a hog roast in the trouser press.

Travelodges have hair dryers - I think if he bought a ready-meal rice dish from tesco and spread it thinly on the plate with a splash of boiling water (to stop it drying out) he could warm it up nicely with sustained application of a hairdryer.

he could do a 3 course meal in his kettle:
Soup
Tinned mince
Rice pudding.

Hairdryered poppadoms on the side.

Travelodges often have food.
www.travelodge.co.uk/bar_cafe/

flavoured couscous with tinned spicy mackerel and a prepared salad. Really tasty and filling

Where on earth is he? Travelodges aren't usually located anywhere where it isn't safe for a fully grown man to walk the streets to the chippy at 7.30 pm!

Blu, I can't say for risk of offending. Not a direction I was hoping this thread to go.

Anyway, he's home for the weekend so lots of good cooking and then back to the hotel on Sunday for the 2nd week.

Trip to the late night supermarket to pick up a ready cooked chicken from the rotisserie counter. With salad/potato salad.

My father in law once boiled mussels in a hotel kettle. Tasted great but the whole floor stank like fish :) If you have a slow cooker you could lend it to him and he could bung any kind of meat in it in the morning with maybe a tin of condensed mushroom soup and by the evening he'll have a meal! Will even cook jacket potatoes if you wrap them in foil first - yum!

He could do a lovely Full English. Straightened bacon, ironed toast, kettle egg, sausage in the cig lighter, hairdryer beans.

He's read the thread and says you can all feel free to drop by some food parcels if you want.

all you need

M&s ready meals, those involving noodles/rice and fish work best, can be steam cooked over a hotel room kettle.... Takes abt half an hour... Wedge the switch down with a bit of folded tissue.... Love the idea of using an upturned iron,, hadnt thought of that,, the possibilities are endless!!

Do you have a coffee peculator at home? You can heat tinned casseroles/stews in it, beans etc, poached eggs or fish, We did it when we were in America.
this may help
cooking bacon with an iron

Won Hung Lo Chicken Dinner
Lemon pepper chicken with rosemary rice and steamed vegetables,

Place cut broccoli, or asparagus in the filter basket of the coffee maker. Run water through the coffee maker several time to achieve desired tenderness. The softer the vegetable or the more al?dente the vegetable is served the easier the workload. Asparagus or broccoli is usually 2 runs through, 3 max. Remove, salt lightly and place in plastic bag or tupperware to keep warm.

For the rice, place instant rice in the coffee pot, and rosemary in the filter. Run the appropriate amount of water, per the instructions through the coffee maker and then add the rice to the coffee pot. Leave the burner on until the rice has thoroughly cooked and absorbed most of the water. Remove, and place in another plastic bag or tupperware to keep warm

Melt butter on a piece of tin foil using the coffee stand as a cook top. Once melted, remove and pour into cup. Put two or three thin slices of chicken breast in coffee maker (like one breast sliced evenly into three thin pieces. Add enough water to cover the chicken into the coffee maker. Turn on maker and cook about 15 minutes, allowing water to fully run through and boil the chicken. While the chicken cooks, mix lemon pepper seasoning with melted butter and 3-4 ounces of milk. Drain water and add milk, butter seasoning mix, allow to heat for about a minute.

Is he convinced yet?

i wrote a long thread and lost it… so in brief some ideas:

Accesible microwaves: services, some community halls and churches, local homelessness services may offer access, also hot meals, food banks, community fridges, olio and too good to go apps. No shame in this - you need to save money where you can. I promise a range of families will access such services. You may also meet staff, volunteers, other homes less people that can advise.

YMCAs may be sympathetic or cheap enough to warrant a short membership.

I would consider asking in local cafes etc.

Tinned pulses , couscous, noodles with the kettle. Could keep the cooked rotisserie chicken or whatever for your son and the rest of you eat pulses which are often on offer with food banks. Much cheaper to buy noodles etc from Chinese / Indian grocery shops - you can get plain and add soy etc , or flavoured ones are 5 for a pound.

Good luck !