Food shopping for weekend break - help!

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This is a pathetic request really, but I'm ill, so bear with me

We've got a long weekend at a holiday cottage coming up. Usually I like making a few things in advance to take with us so we don't have to spend too much time cooking. But I'm ill (just flu), have lost my sense of taste and just cannot get my head around planning food for this weekend.

We're not near any shops so I've booked an online shop to arrive on the first evening, and have given myself permission to stop worrying about the cost and put some nice easy food in the basket.

But I'm totally stuck. Obviously I've got the basics, but am totally uninspired when it comes to lunches/suppers. We are 2 adults and 4 children and aren't particularly fussy. Normally I would enjoy the treat of choosing nice food but my brain is not working properly, so please, foodie MNers, suggest what I should put in my basket. I need two lunches (snacky stuff like soup/cheese/etc) and two easy to cook meat or fish main meals. Thank you.

I'd do fajitas for one dinner and pizza, garlic bread and salad for the other. Nice and simple. Nice breads and lots of tapas type bits for lunches. What about breakfasts?

Scones, jam and clotted cream is also essential.

Salad and quiche for 1 lunch. Hummus, pitta, olives, carrot sticks for the other. Nice cheeses and crackers, grapes. Also a couple of bars really good chocolate. Dinners something like salmon en croute /beef Wellington that you just whack in the oven with new pots and something green. For the other night maybe filled pasta with a fresh sauce served with garlic bread and salad.....I would buy ready made pannacotta for after the pastry dish and either a tart or ice cream for the pasta.

Any good

Thanks so much happyhorse and Wishihadabs. Some great suggestions - just what I was after. Liking the scones and chocolate suggestions too (not to be eaten together obviously...) Pannacotta sounds good - not something I've bought before. And would you get a ready-to-cook salmon en croute/beef wellington?

For breakfasts - eggs, bacon, crumpets, salted butter, nice orange juice.

Lunches - 1) soup (from cartons), crusty bread, cold meats or pâté, tomatoes.
2) pork pies/scotch eggs, nice cheeses, salad

Supper - 1) roast chicken, baked potatoes, coleslaw 2) pizza/garlic breads/salads. Puddings - ready made apple pie with good ice-cream. Shop bought cheesecake/gateau.

Treats - luxury chocolate, muffins, mixed fruit & nuts ...... - can I come too?

We've just come back from a weekend away with my family and used 'cook' ready meals for the three evenings. They are truly delicious and you just bung them in the oven and away you go. They deliver in the uk and the food was excellent. It is quite expensive, but if you're feeling poorly, well worth it in my opinion! Www.cookfood.net

Thanks NQP and teacher. This is so helpful. Have noted breakfast ideas. Off to look at 'cook'.

teacher123 I really like 'cook' and could just about justify it (just this once) for this weekend - but they won't deliver in time
Still, thanks for the tip - fingers crossed I can find an excuse to use them one day

Oh what a shame! And you don't live near any of the shops? Maybe next time then :-) the puddings are AMAZING!

Ready to cook absolutely it's a holiday right?

It's a break so have fun and let the kids eat some junk.

So one day have pizzas and garlic bread followed by ice cream.

Get some pastries and coffee for breakfast.

Take a sliced loaf and a tin or two of beans if you want a cooked breakfast.

Get one of those rotisserie chickens and a bag of pre prepped salad for a lunch.

Most supermarkets do an Indian or Chinese take away meal in bag - that's another evening meal.

A selection of dips and crisps/snacks for munching in the evening.

Are you traveling by car? Some tinned food is actually quite good, I like tinned steamed puddings and tinned rice pudding. If you don't eat them bring them back.