Food to take on self catering holiday

[MikeStand]

I'm going on a self catering holiday over Easter and trying to think of meals for 4 to take. I can pick some bits up at supermarket there but don't want to spend good friday in supermarket. Also DH's car has small boot so we are limited re space.

We take;

Burgers
Bread and bread buns
Pot noodles
cereal multi packs
salad
ham
cheese
alcohol
soft drinks
fried breakfast stuffs
tinned spaghetti
condiments
crisps
tea
coffee
Pies
oven chips

Most other stuff we buy at the local shops. My mum usually organises the food and she does a meal plan and buys what she thinks will expensive on holiday before we go. Plus the first days meals so that your not traisping around the supermarket on the first day of your holiday.

baked beans, tuna, sweetcorn, teabags, coffee, pepper
washing liquitabs, teatowel/cloth.

• all things either small to pack or that you don't want to go buying big packs of when you're away.

are you going in the UK? If so have you thought about doing an internet shop to be delivered to your self catering accomdation just after you arrive?

We did this last year when we stayed in a caravan near Great Yarmouth and made it SO much easier.

Take a bag of pasta, rice. Tin of tuna. olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic, soy sauce, some herbs (dried basil), avacado, onions, tin of tomato, museli/other cereal, tea and coffee, garlic crusher. You can buy, eggs milk, fruit, veg and a little meat and you have breakfast and 3 dinners there.
Egg fried rice - cook rice, leave to cool, beat eggs, make flat omlette, remove from pan, slice. Chop onion and garlic, saute in olive oil. Toss in rice and egg and soy sauce and a little more oil. Season to taste.
Cook pasta, drain. Saute some garlic in olive oil till the flavour is just released from heat, add pasta with avacado, tuna and some fresh or dried basil - yummy.
Pasta with tinned tomato, garlic, tuna, onion and avacado on top.
Simple, quick and easy to prepare and delicious.
I would suggest taking your favourite knife if you have one. Knives provided (if you are not going camping of course) are always blunt

We never take anything on self catering holiday! With 4Dcs the car is usually so full there definitely would not be any space for food as well. I actually never crossed my mind to take food with us (other than a picnic style meal for on the road).

I often make a bolognese sauce and a casserole to take away. They don't use up too much space in the car and save cooking for a couple of evenings.

We take breakfast for the first morning. We eat out on the evening we arrive. Then I go (alone!) to do a big shop for basics. We pick up other fresh bits from local shops. Life is too short to pack food for a holiday.

Actually, I think going to the shops once there helps getting acquainted with the new surroundings (unless you go there often and already know where everyting is).

But I emphasise that you need to do it alone. Finding your way round an unknown supermarket with excited DC who would rather be anywhere else is not fun. As we discovered this year when DH decided that everyone would come and 'help' me shop

Beans, bread, chesese and butter and red wine.

Also make a cottage pie, put in freezer then ready to eat on first night.

I organised a shopping delivery to our holiday cottage last year and thought I was so clever. We took nothing, not even a tea bag, as I told DP "the shopping will be delivered between 3 and 4 o'clock."

By 4.30 when nothing had arrived and the children were starving I went to phone Tesco and realised I had no phone signal. Left cottage and drove around trying to get a signal. On top of a hill I finally got a voicemail message to tell me their driver was ill and so they wouldn't be sending my shopping after all.

Dp had to drive a 2 hour round trip from Lakes to Barrow-in-Furness to pick it up himself as they refused to send it in a taxi "because of health and safety". He finally returned to me and two weeping children at 7.30.

MORAL: Whatever else you choose to do, pack a long life loaf of bread and two tins of baked beans.

Please do lots - or at least SOME - shopping in the local shop.

Many of the tales here explain exactly why the shop in my Mums' village closed down now that so many cottages are let to holiday people.

Would have done this if I hadn't picked a lovely shopless hamlet.

Thanks - I looked into supermarket delivery but too remote. I will shop local but don't want to spend the whole holiday thinking if we have anything to eat and getting to back of beyond and missing key ingredient.

Normally eat most meals out on holiday but have booked blow out michelin restaurant for last night so feel the need to economise somewhere.

Last holiday my DH turfed out milk and fruit I had packed to fit in case of wine and gin. Priorities!

We stayed in a caravan in the lakes for a week last year and took:

Tea
Cofeee
sugar
beans
tuna
mayo
bread
cereal
pasta
pasta sauce
rice
jar curry sauce
biscuits/cakes

more emergency meals than anyhting but we were glad of them when it was pouring dowm and we couldnt be bothered to go to the shop

I always like to take the basics - pretty much notamummyyet's list - but like to spruce it up with something local to make us feel like we are on holiday (even though we can only afford holidays in the UK!)

When we were down in Cornwall on our last family self catering holiday we got some Cornish Yarg which was enjoyed by all :) we also treated ourself to a seafood restaurant one day - it was so fresh!!

Would always go for self catering - especially as DD likes to wake up at silly times (5am-6am) demanding the strangest foods (Mummy I want pasta in spicy tomato sauce is one of her classics)!! :)

Although you understandebly don't want to spend part of your holiday at a supermarket why not just buy a bit of something each day for tea - together -as a family- depending on what you fancy. I would always take some wine, baked beans and bread, one box of cereal, milk, bag of pasta, jar of pesto. That deals with emergencies but I like the fun of all deciding what we fancy that day. Avoid the supermarket, shop locally. Maybe even look at the internet before you go so you know where there are any farm shops or food places in the nearest village.

I'd add to that list:

sponges
washing up liquid
antibac spray
tea towels
cheese grater
peeler
sharp knife
scissors
loo roll
kitchen roll
hand soap
chopping board
oil

More things that you don't want to buy a whole pack of, but will probably need, and things that are often dirty/ annoyingly substandard in self catering places

My butcher vacumn packs meat for me. It means it keeps that bit longer. I throw it in a cool box for the journey.

Thank you I went on that holiday nearly two years ago! I had forgotten about it.

I second those who say to shop locally as much as possible.

I think they probably resolved the issue now, seeing as it was over a decade ago...

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