Multi Day Trip Meals
06-09-2013, 08:50 AM
#11
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I bring a soft sided cooler bag. I pack precooked chicken breasts, flank steak strips, boiled eggs and assorted other food items for a trip.
Here are some emergency procedures for on the road, food preparation and storage. No microwave no problem. Bring several large zip lock bags, put your item that needs to be heated in a sealed zip lock then put that into another zip lock and seal it. Now take your bags with the food it them and put it into your empty plastic bag lined, in room ice bucket, heat two to three cups of water in your in room coffee maker, poor into the ice bucket and put the lid on. In 10 minutes or so you'll have a very nicely heated steamy hot food item. No coffee maker, which is rare, use hot tap water, it works almost as well. (NOTE this is for precooked items only, it will heat them but it won't cook them.)
I've never been in a hotel that didn't have an ice maker. I have been in lots of hotels that don't have in room refrigerators though. Simple solution again with the large zip locks simply refresh your ice when you get in and when you leave. Your soft sided travel cooler bag will keep your items nice and cold with a gallon or so of ice in zip lock in it.
It's kind of a PITA but I do cross fit and eat paleo. It is darn near impossible to eat healthy on the road so this is a lifestyle choice that I made several years ago. And it works great. Not to mention I've saved untold thousands of dollars over the years not buying over priced unhealthy hotel/returaunt food. About the only meal you can count on for a healthy low carb meal on the road is breakfast. And that is the only meal that I will occasionally buy. Do the math on what you are spending on the road on lousy restaurant food and the hassle becomes less onerous that added in with the obvious health benefits and the ability to eat even when you don't feel like going out or after/pre business hours when the restaurants are closed and it makes perfect sense,After having been on the road as an airline pilot for going on twenty years this is the method that works best for me.
Of course if you are flying international you are not going to be able to bring fresh food items with you on the road so that's a whole other ball of wax.
I'll starve before I'll ever eat another bite of junky fast food. Subway is actually one of the few fast food joints where you can get a healthy meal and that is not a "Jarrod "sandwich, get a spinach salad with a couple of chicken breast some veggies and oil and vinegar dressing.
Here are some emergency procedures for on the road, food preparation and storage. No microwave no problem. Bring several large zip lock bags, put your item that needs to be heated in a sealed zip lock then put that into another zip lock and seal it. Now take your bags with the food it them and put it into your empty plastic bag lined, in room ice bucket, heat two to three cups of water in your in room coffee maker, poor into the ice bucket and put the lid on. In 10 minutes or so you'll have a very nicely heated steamy hot food item. No coffee maker, which is rare, use hot tap water, it works almost as well. (NOTE this is for precooked items only, it will heat them but it won't cook them.)
I've never been in a hotel that didn't have an ice maker. I have been in lots of hotels that don't have in room refrigerators though. Simple solution again with the large zip locks simply refresh your ice when you get in and when you leave. Your soft sided travel cooler bag will keep your items nice and cold with a gallon or so of ice in zip lock in it.
It's kind of a PITA but I do cross fit and eat paleo. It is darn near impossible to eat healthy on the road so this is a lifestyle choice that I made several years ago. And it works great. Not to mention I've saved untold thousands of dollars over the years not buying over priced unhealthy hotel/returaunt food. About the only meal you can count on for a healthy low carb meal on the road is breakfast. And that is the only meal that I will occasionally buy. Do the math on what you are spending on the road on lousy restaurant food and the hassle becomes less onerous that added in with the obvious health benefits and the ability to eat even when you don't feel like going out or after/pre business hours when the restaurants are closed and it makes perfect sense,After having been on the road as an airline pilot for going on twenty years this is the method that works best for me.
Of course if you are flying international you are not going to be able to bring fresh food items with you on the road so that's a whole other ball of wax.
I'll starve before I'll ever eat another bite of junky fast food. Subway is actually one of the few fast food joints where you can get a healthy meal and that is not a "Jarrod "sandwich, get a spinach salad with a couple of chicken breast some veggies and oil and vinegar dressing.
06-09-2013, 10:33 AM
#12
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Joined APC: Feb 2012
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WOW, AirHoss....THAT'S preparation and dedication! 
I never traveled anywhere (especially overseas) without my electric kettle. Cost about $20 and boils water within a couple of minutes. Comes in very handy for not only oatmeal and other instant foods, but great for in-room coffee (which one usually doesn't get at an international hotel). While it's not all that small, it is light and you can store what you'll be heating up inside of it.
I also never went anywhere without a supply of cheerios.....can be eaten dry if no milk is available and is healthy.
I never traveled anywhere (especially overseas) without my electric kettle. Cost about $20 and boils water within a couple of minutes. Comes in very handy for not only oatmeal and other instant foods, but great for in-room coffee (which one usually doesn't get at an international hotel). While it's not all that small, it is light and you can store what you'll be heating up inside of it.
I also never went anywhere without a supply of cheerios.....can be eaten dry if no milk is available and is healthy.
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