Picnic - no fridge

[Hibernatalie]

Hello everyone
I will need to make a picnic on Wednesday late afternoon to eat on Thursday lunchtime.
On Wednesday night we're staying in a hotel with no fridge. What would you have in the picnic? 2 adults 2 kids.

Thanks!

Most things will keep in a cool bag for a day, or you could phone ahead to see if you can store a bag in the hotel fridge overnight.

Cherry tomatoes
Quiche
Pasta salad
Boiled eggs
Couscous salad
Crudites and hummus.

As long as you stay away from fish, seafood and meat, 24 hours in a cool bag shouldn’t be a problem. Leaves too - they might wilt.

I’d take a cool box or bag with ice, and then anything I’d usually have minus things that go off very quickly, or some hotels will let you use the fridge - I have two/three times. Otherwise could you just buy it the next day?

Don't get meat or fish and you should be fine with stuff in a cool box. I would do pitta breads, hummus, couscous or pasta salad, carrot sticks, cherry tomatoes, fruit, babybel cheeses

I'd go to a supermarket on Thursday and buy stuff. If the hotel is warm and there's definitely no fridge, the food isn't going to stay nice.

You can get everything you need. dips, chopped veg, meats, cheese, mini sausage rolls etc

Invest in an electric cool box

Like this

Buy/make stuff on Tuesday and freeze it? Take it in a cool box/bag.

A decent sized esky, bags of ice and replace and refresh the ice daily.

Sandwiches, use good bread and butter, ham, cheese, pickles etc.

Hard boiled eggs.

Small chopping board, sharp knife, container of vinaigrette, small mayo. Shop for fruit etc in the morning.

Things like sausage rolls and quiche can go in the cool box frozen.

Honestly, that sounds like a terrible idea. Like eating yesterday's packed lunch. I would just buy some hot take away food on the Thursday.

I made lunches on Friday for Saturday and Sunday the other weekend, camping Friday and Saturday night. Weather in the 20s. Rammed Sunday's lunch into a kayak which capsized with lunch on board. It was all fine. Cheese rolls with chutney or mayo and spring onions. Peanut butter and jam rolls. Cereal bars. Could do fruit easily. Someone whipped out a bar of nice chocolate. There's shelf stable pots of dessert out there. Packets of nuts more filling less space than crisps. I should be blogging this stuff.

Spanish tortilla works pretty well too.

Hot dogs. Take a food flask. In the morning boil kettle, fill food flask, put hot dogs in. They will cook and be perfect for lunch time. Pack buns, ketchup, crisps, fruit, some sort of cake perhaps. Or dried fruits, or those fruit pots you can get.

No where to get it from where we're going!

Thanks all - some good ideas!
Love the hot dog idea and we've got a big thermos flask.

I’d just make whatever, it’s only 1 night and it’s not hot weather.

Bread rolls
Little individual butters/Nutella/jam
Multipack of crisps
Satsumas
Cartons of apple juice

Anything else will seem manky after a night in the hotel.