Meals ideas for 1 year old during loooong wedding weekend - help!

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We’re off to a family wedding this coming weekend, travelling on Thursday evening and back on Sunday and staying in a hotel, and I’m just at a bit of a loss as to what to take for my 14 month old’s lunches & dinner as she’ll need to have a few of them in our hotel room due to timings. They don’t have a minibar fridge to keep anything like yoghurts, cheese etc in, and I’d only have the kettle to warm stuff up with. At home/nursery, she would usually have family meals, i.e. something hot or ‘made’ so any and (almost!) every idea would be most welcome! Excluding anything with eggs as she’s allergic.

I’d take pouches but she’s just not keen on them and will have a spoon or two at most.

Take a cool box and freezer blocks, plus some ziplock bags (to get ice put in) and you'll be able to keep cheese, ham, yogurt cool. If you take a food flask, you can buy fresh filled pasta, put it in the flask (pre warm the flask so it is hot through) and pour on boiling water, put lid on and leave for 5 minutes. You can do the same with fine egg noodles, or those straight to wok noodles just need to warm through

Trying ringing the hotel to see if they will keep some things in a fridge for you?

Cheese will be fine out of the fridge - especially things like babybel or individual wrapped portions.
I wouldn't risk ham in a cool bag for several days though.

I would try getting her to eat when you do when food is available and just taking snack food for other times. It wouldn't be in keeping with her routine, but it's only for a weekend.

Ice block and cool bag is a great idea and using a little thermos pot is so useful. I'd bring one preprepared hot meal in the thermos for the first day so that's one meal done. Otherwise, prepare things like pastries before you go and keep them in a box. What mummy makes has some good courgette pinwheels which keep for a couple of days. I've also made their savoury flapjacks. So I'd try and take some snacky bits like this to keep your LO going.

Thanks for the suggestions, super helpful! I’m definitely taking a cool bag with me and will beg, borrow and steal some ice while I’m there, and the food flask is a fab idea for the first day too? but I think I’ll also have to accept she’ll probably eat what my husband describes as a “picky tea” for much of the time!

You can get a plug in cooler

A cool bag will not work to maintain a low temperature over several days. It needs to be a properly insulated cool box. We use the Coleman Xtreme for camping, for example. But, I'd also look into the electric coolboxes.

I would then pre-cook meals, portion them into freezer bags and then heat on demand by submersing in boiling water.

Any shops nearby or what does hotel do for food? There might be a dish you could share with her??