Food for Travelodge stay

[Anushka]

Hi, we are staying four nights in a basic Travelodge. I don't want to eat out all the time and wondered if anyone had any suggestions of food we might be able to eat (breakfast, lunch or dinners).

We get sick of sandwiches, cereal bars, pot noodles and cup a soups - any other ideas.

We'll only have access to a cool box and kettle. We will eat out sometimes and can replenish stocks from supermarkets.

a posh deli picnic one night!

Scotch pancakes and jam?

A cooked chicken, or cold meat, bag of salad and baguettes.

Pancakes, small pots of jam/marmalade for breakfast.

Picnic type stuff from chilled cabinet... sausage rolls, mini savoury egg etc

Take a walk round the supermarket, I bet you will find stuff that you wouldnt normally think of.

those help yourself salad boxes from the supermarket. That's a bit like the deli idea! Guess who craves that sort of food but has a DH with IBS and children with unappreciative palates as yet!

Hot chicken from a supermarket or sausage etc. Morrisons do fab ones.

Fish and chips as you watch the windscreen wipers swish back and forth

Supermarket cafe? Morrisins is the best I hear.

Croissants for breakfast. Most dinner stuff would need refridgerating. Could do bread,cheese,ham,pasta salad,cherry toms one night and just pop out to get it. Don't forget to take some cutlery, crockery and washing up liquid

UHT or real milk and actual cereal!

You're all brilliant - now you mention it Morrisons do a hot food counter will all sorts on it - great our trip isn't looking so gloomy.

good point Stealthpolarbear x

Cous cous packs like the Ainsley Harriot flavoured ones, along with some sausages/chicken from hot deli counter?

I always take paper plates and plastic cutlery.

I'd search for local Sainsbury's Tescos, Ikea etc. which have a cafe. Ikea in particular is a total bargain.
A local petrol station or similar may well sell milk (or at a motorway their might be M and S or Waitrose), for breakfast.

We've only ever done 2 night stays. The first night I've taken a cool box with salad stuff, cold pizza and frittata. And then we've eaten out the next day using Tesco vouchers or the like.

There was a thread on moneysavingexpert.com lately where someone said they took their slow cooker and a toaster! I don't think I'd have the bottle, for fear of setting off fire alarms or something! Perhaps a sandwich toaster might work...

Yes, the breakfasts are good value, we are 2 adults + 3 kids and pay £15 or so for us all. We avoid if it's only the continental type though, as that doesn't seem such a bargain for a few croissants.

Satrling - I did think about a toaster but thought about the fire alarms! Great tips. We're not on rock bottom budget just begrudge spending loads of money and it not being very good - just thought about finding a pub which does cheap carverys they normally work out good value. Thanks x

Dh stays in travelodge a lot bought value toaster £5 no one bats an eyelid alarm never gone off. If you use tesco voucher how about pizza express bella Italia or whatever there is where you are going. My fave would be cheese and biscuits and pâté .

Instand porridge -just add boiling water

Hot cooked chicken, coleslaw and crusty bread.
And paper plates obviously.

or even instant

If you said where you were going sure someone could tell you cheap pubs eat all you can buffets etc

I usually take a toaster, for toast and also to heat croissants over. I think the fire alarms are heat, rather than smoke, activated, so that steam from the shower doesn't set them off (although, just to be on the safe side, I also watch the toast/croissants like a hawk!)

Could you take a camping stove? We have a small methylated sprit powered one (trangia), which can be used to fry eggs/bacon, heat baked beans, cook those dried pasta sachets...

The hot food counter at Tesco/Sainsbury; the fruit - grapes, strawberries etc.

We keep the milk and yoghourt on the window sill -shades of student life.

We take plates, cutlery, plastic glasses and the really important bottle opener and corkscrew.

A chilled glass of whatever with hot chicken wings and a ready made salad in a plastic bowl with dressing included makes things seem much better. And chips from a local chippy...

Pretend it 's Glyndebourne at Travelodge ?...