What do you take from home for Self catering abroad

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I'm ready to make a list of must brings from home for a self catering week in Portugal next month.

Not clothes and the like but decanted washing up liquid or handy must haves so we don't have to buy them while there.

I have never taken anything. We just go to the supermarket when we get there, not that we eat at home much, just breakfast usually and we get snacks and drinks.
Be careful when taking food as a lot of countries will not allow you to take in meat or dairy. Also what would happen if your case went missing for a few days with meat, butter etc. in it, it would be horrendous when you opened it !

They're in a plastic tub with an icepack. Been doing it for years. Oh and they're frozen to begin with.

Tea bags,mug.Nothing else! You are going to Portugal,they do have shops there!

We always take a box of muesli or granola (has to be nut free - often difficult to find), tea bags and ground coffee. We like what we like, and can’t be bothered with finding something in the supermarket.

Also, in my “kitchen boxes” there are tiny salt and pepper, sandwich bags, bag clips, small bottle of spray olive oil, herbs, coffee machine filters, sugar, laundry leaves, dishwasher tablets and first aid bits and pieces.

I usually also take a wine cooler pack and sometimes a small cool bag for days out. I don’t bother with ice packs - if it’s hot we just freeze bottles full of water/drinks bottles.

I’ve never stayed anywhere that doesn’t have washing up liquid, cloths or tea towels.

Just Barry's tea. I enjoy shopping in a foreign supermarket, part of the holiday for me.

Nothing. Buy it there and enjoy the different foods and cheaper prices

Great coffee, tea, and a decent chef's knife (the ones at self catering places are always rubbish). Of course, the latter is only possible if you're checking luggage.

Coffee/tea/sugar sachets. I collect them through the year from hotels and usually have enough to last a fortnight. Tea towel and decanted w/u liquid. Large mugs that I’m happy to leave behind (we have way too many mugs at home) as I can’t stand those tiddly little cups you get.

They will have all that, I’ve never been anywhere where they haven’t. Surely you’ll use more than 3 tabs whilst you’re there? Washing up liquid is under £1. If you need some more buy it and leave for the next person surely?!

We go to a small village on Corfu, self-catering, and we take nothing! Just buy it there.

Check reviews on tripadvisor, because other guests might have photos or reviews showing what cutlery/mugs/knives are already supplied.

I also check where the nearest aldi/lidl/local market is from the accomodation.

-My oxo peeler. I hate, regular, flimsy ones but love my oxo peeler
-Take some bags for life if planning to go shopping there, rather than buying bags
-Mini squash. Buying a random squash brand abroad can taste very different, plus I don't want a whole bottle for a weeks holiday.

Possibly a tin opener, if you are likely to want to open a tin. The tin openers provided are often rubbish.

Small cooler bag for days out. You don’t need ice blocks, freeze water bottles.

Plug in nightlight; going for a wee in the middle of the night can be a challenge if it’s really dark.

Safety; a small battery operated carbon monoxide detector can save your life.

Other stuff can be purchased locally if needed.

Tea bags
Ice cube bags
sharp knife
washing pods
i have taken a tin of beans before.

Tea bags, coffee bags and decaff for DH. A few bags for life, and a couple of plastic bags ( for wet costumes) . A bottle opener. I usually buy mugs when I get there, nice to have as a souvenir - got some lovely ones in Portugal! A pen and a tiny notebook. Some emergency biscuits in case we arrive too late for dinner.

Washing-up liquid (Poundland sell small Fairy liquids), cloth for the kitchen, washing-up brush, hand towel for the kitchen, 2 tea-towels, pegs, travel wash (for laundry - washing out undies/swimwear if you have no access to a washing machine), a cleaning spray for kitchen area, bin bags and if you have a washing machine then take laundry pods (they are expensive abroad).

I take some dishwasher and washing machine tablets, microfiber cloth/sponge. Tea bags, a couple of seasonings e.g. fajita and peri peri, blue curaçao (for my cocktails!). Clothes pegs and washing line. Some good kitchen knives (wrap them in tea towels to go in the case).

Teabags and Firesticks (as many as you need lol)

Another one for pegs (as well as dishwasher tablets and laundry pods)
A couple of tea towels
Some plastic clippy boxes for food once we're there (can be packed with clothes etc. in suitcase)
Bags for life for carrying shopping when there (and dirty laundry)
Rubber gloves (another one with skin issues).

To those saying eating a tuna bake sounds depressing, I get it, but finding food that DD can eat is always a challenge (not that she'd eat tuna bake) - it's why we're self catering in the first place. We went abroad last summer, and her number one concern was food, and it was difficult at times. But we want her to see the world, so self catering it is.

Tea bags and a day or so worth of snacks. Enough to get me past the first breakfast in case there are delays/can’t find anything close to where I’m staying

A couple of good kitchen knives if you'll be doing any food prep.
S.C. places never have good ones.
In hold luggage of course.

Nothing. Not even when staying in self catering in the UK too.

There are amazing things called Shops!

Just teabags.

In Portugal the supermarkets, Intermarche in particular, are really good and have everything you can think of and more! Do agree with basics like tea bags though!

We almost always self cater whether it's 3 nights or a couple of months. If flying, very little, tea bags, coffee. If driving, whatever we fancy, food wise mainly sauces to liven up basic ingredients. Washing powder that I know DH isn't allergic to. Firestick.
I have a tick list to ensure I take what I need for the holiday.
Last holiday ate both lunch and evenings out but took a couple of pots of instant porridge for early breakfast before excursions then picked up a croissant on the way out.

Tea bags, dishwasher tabs and washing detergent sheets. I also take my muesli.