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Food ideas for late night train journey

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Eggybreadwithnuts · 04/08/2025 18:36

So need some ideas for this...
Getting a late night train to London soon, getting DH from work on route to train station. We get into London mega late and need to get to hotel which is an hour away so need to eat on train.

I will be at home all day so what can I prep, take to eat on train for us both? Really dont want stodgy sandwiches or sausage rolls! I can make hot food and wrap in foil to retain heat but just dont know what to do

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AdaColeman · 04/08/2025 21:24

Hoi-sin crispy duck wraps with lettuce & cucumber.

Pastrami or roast beef in olive flatbread.

Take extras like grapes, cucumber chunks, radishes, peeled hard boiled quails eggs, slices of melon wrapped in Parma ham, for some added interest.

If you're making something like chicken Caesar salad or a garden salad with ham, couscous or pasta salad, pack into foil containers with foil lids, as they can just be discarded and you won't have empty Tupperware to contend with.

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 04/08/2025 21:39

Gosh, I thought I had a fairly sensitive sense of smell, but the only times I’ve ever been aware of someone eating on a train was a tuna sandwich and (separate occasion) fish and chips.

DiscoBob · 04/08/2025 21:43

Muffalata I think it's called. A big Italian round loaf semi hollowed out with layers of roasted veggies, cheeses, ham, salami, olives, green stuff, whatever you like really. Put the layers in and put something heavy on top of the bread 'lid'. Refrigerate for as long as possible before you leave and cut into wedges.

bostonchamps · 04/08/2025 22:25

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 04/08/2025 21:39

Gosh, I thought I had a fairly sensitive sense of smell, but the only times I’ve ever been aware of someone eating on a train was a tuna sandwich and (separate occasion) fish and chips.

Clearly you're not part of the 98% of Mumsnetters who are dangerously allergic to any kind of odour molecule, be that food/perfume/laundry products/home fragrance (heaven forbid, home fragrance?

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 04/08/2025 22:47

bostonchamps · 04/08/2025 22:25

Clearly you're not part of the 98% of Mumsnetters who are dangerously allergic to any kind of odour molecule, be that food/perfume/laundry products/home fragrance (heaven forbid, home fragrance?

Grin
Trotula · 12/08/2025 22:19

AmIHumanOrAmIAYeti · 04/08/2025 18:56

I do wish they would separate people on trains according to the smell of the food they are eating.

This really reminded me of a recent thread where the OPs husband hadn’t booked the right train seats for a train picnic on her birthday trip away and there was a huge pile on about people eating food on trains. I wasted so much time on it!!

I don’t mind food on trains but constantly jigging your leg up and down on a train journey gives me the rage and I have to move seats 😬

Sorry OP not much use to you, but your picnic idea sounds good!

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