[Closed] Hotel room meal concoctions

Asda, home section, microwave for £30.
Hide it under a big bag.

It is possible to [s]heat[/s] warm up ready meals by filling the sink with water from the kettle. It takes a while though!

Currently sat on my own awaiting a pizza cause I can never come up with anything interesting for the in room stuff.

+1 buy a little microwave for twenty quid, stick it in a holdall during the day.

slightly different to you guys but i always keep a supply of supernoodles , spork and a stainless mug in my bag for food emergencies .

IE last week in turkmenistan i was presented with a microwaved frozen pizza on a plate sitting in the water from defrosting .......at the hotel restaurant.

Back to the room and deploy the noodles.

Couscous salad with feta

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One of these for £12 and a wee pot. Packs away neatly into its own plastic case.

And because I'm lazy and unsociable (and like to sit and eat while watching TV in my pants)

Your pants have a TV? Whatever next.

i foresee a fire alarm in johnners future.

TV in my pants

Deliveroo?

Probably half the deliveroo orders we do are delivered to hotels. Why have a pot noodle when you can have fillet steak in your pants?

Pasta boiled in the kettle FTW - I've seen quite a few people attempt it over the years!

Do they have an iron in the cupboard? That's basically a grill right there, so you should be able to do a steak in a few minutes. If you can keep the kettle on with a heavy book, you should be able to boil up some new potatoes easily enough.

Add salad and butter: WIN!

slightly different to you guys but i always keep a supply of supernoodles , spork and a stainless mug in my bag for food emergencies .

Small microwave not a terrible idea though, I wonder who makes the smallest/lightest?!

Is that a pork [s]sword[/s] fillet?

Small induction hob from Ikea?

you could do a whole roast dinner with this!

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Hide a slow cooker in the wardrobe?

portable battery powered microwave, launching in the US in 2017 apparently!

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have fillet steak in your pants?

It's all about dat meat in yo pants.

Exactly how much time and effort are you prepared to invest in this? 🙂
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy/features/move-over-nigella-george-egg-cooks-and-cracks-jokes-a6751956.html

He worked out how to poach eggs and sea bass in the kettle, sizzle pancakes on the upturned iron and puff up Naan breads in the trouser press. “Once,” he says proudly. “I made moules marinière in a kettle in the Leicester Grand.”

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I've been through this a few years ago as I commuted and spent 4 nights a week in a B&B.

If you have a supermarket locally then you can obviously nail the cooked meat counter which will give you a good base to start with. Roast chicken, sausages, gammon joint, potato wedges etc. There are quite a few flavoured packets of couscous you can buy which make a good side dish, and they just require boiling water to be added.

It's a bit wrong, but you can obviously also use instant mashed potato. I once created a sausage and mash dinner using just the kettle. Heat the frankfurters by pouring the water out and replacing with boiling water. Instant mashed potato and then bisto gravy. Not a huge amount of nutrients but can be quite a satisfying meal!

Maybe do what bikepackers do?

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Cheers,

APF

Buy a good thermos food flask. Combined with a kettle you can cook lots of things in it. Takes a while right enough, but even small potatoes can be cooked in a thermos with added boiling water and time. Pasta, grains, legumes etc can be cooked this way.

"Look what we found" meals are boil in the bag. Soak them in boiling water from the kettle for 10 mins. You will need to do a couple of changes. Eat with couscous which only needs 5 min soaking in boiling water. Ainsley Harriott does some nice flavoured couscous.

How about Room Service ? Or is that a horribly old fashioned concept ? If I have to travel on my own for work I also eat in my room, but somebody always brings it for me....

How about Room Service ? Or is that a horribly old fashioned concept ?

Eat with couscous which only needs 5 min soaking in boiling water. Ainsley Harriott does some nice flavoured couscous.

Couscous packet, tupperware container. Add some cooked chicken, prawns, chorizo, something like that

Or there's some posh packets of grains nowadays - bulgar wheat, lentils, quinoa, etc... strictly they are microwave packs but can be boil in the bagged to heat them through.

DON'T try and do a tin of tomato soup in the kettle though. i did as a student and suffered tomato soup flavoured tea and coffee for a whole term. in hindsight I should have left it in the tin and heated the whole thing up.

How about Room Service ? Or is that a horribly old fashioned concept ? If I have to travel on my own for work I also eat in my room, but somebody always brings it for me....

I should have left it in the tin and heated the whole thing up.

AND OPENED IT WHILST HEATING

I've yet to stay in a Travelodge that offers room service!

you can also do filled 'fresh' pasta (ravioli, tortellini types) in a tupperware (other brands available) with a good sealing lid. Just fill up with boiling water and leave for about twice as long as the cooking instructions to allow for the drop in temperature (obv choose the ones that normally cook in 1-2 mins, choosing one that cooks in 10 and then expecting it to be done by leaving it in tepid water for 20 mins is just stupid)

Military ration packs heated up in the kettle (use the iron to hold down the switch and keep the kettle boiling for 5 mins). I used to find lots of unused rations in the local woods, but the squaddies seem to be a bit tidier these days 🙁

Ahh know the feeling stuck on the 43rd floor of a hotel in darkest China in a lightning storm eating some Hula Hoops I found in my bag, my work mates thinking I am living it up.

I once created a sausage and mash dinner using just the kettle

Heat the frankfurters by pouring the water out and replacing with boiling water. Instant mashed potato and then bisto gravy

Id argue that those two statements are not related in the slightest.

There is a line and you crossed it. a bit like when my mate made spam curry for his turn on cooking at the staff house.

There's many folk on here who do this new fangled bike-packing thing. It used to be called cycle touring, but that's not fashionable any more. They cook gourmet meals in a ditch, using stuff they have carried there in a variety of strange shaped bags, hung all over a bike (never use panniers, that's just wrong). Imagine what you could create, in a nice warm room with a sturdy table and running water and a car boot full of ingredients and utensils.

[quote=trail_rat ]i foresee a fire alarm in johnners future.

and lots of rolly eyes 🙄 🙄 🙄 from the fire service when they turn up.

Had a guy in travel lodge cooking a meal on a meths stove, he couldn't see what he was doing wrong.

I once created a sausage and mash dinner using just the kettle

Heat the frankfurters by pouring the water out and replacing with boiling water. Instant mashed potato and then bisto gravy

Id argue that those two statements are not related in the slightest.

😆

Bacon in the trouser press, eggs in the kettle, a mushroom on each light bulb, voila!

Alternatively you could heat beans individually using a cigarette lighter

Microwave pasta pouches (Dolmio I think) is essentially cooked pasta that just need warming up. Empty the pouch into boiling water and leave for a couple of minutes, you'd be good to go. Could probably do the same with rice pouches.

Are you paying for the room yourself or getting it expensed? Wouldn't dinner be included if it's the latter?

If not, and I was in that room for a few days, then i'd have a stove

If it had to be cold, then it would have to include either or both of pork pies or scotch eggs, maybe a sausage roll or 2 on the side

So, if you order a deliveroo to your Premier Inn, do you have to go down to reception to collect it? or are they allowed in to go to your door?

I've occasionally had pizza to the door, but usually it's reception.

Yeah, it's expensed - I pay and then claim back with VAT reciepts.
It's going to be takeaway tonight from the Indian over the road, but generally I'm trying to be healthy(ish) as I've got a fair bit of excess weight to get rid of, so restaurant meals twice a week isn't going to help!

The joys of trying to get hotels in the Midlands (nearish Birmingham Airport) within budget (£90/night) mean that I normally end up in a basic travelodge - tonights delight is Tamworth Central!
So, luxury of iron or hairdryer, nevermind room service!

Never used Deliveroo before, I'll have to have a look in to it. Do they give you a VAT reciept so I can claim it back? - same question for the likes of Just Eat type sites?

Other than that, I like the idea of ready cooked pasta in a tupperware. And I'm strangely drawn to the tin of hot dogs and replacing the water with boiling water even though I have to pretend I don't know what's in the hot dogs to be able to eat them 😯

Deliveroo failed me already:
"Sorry, we don't currently service B79 7PB. Please enter your email address and we'll notify you once we do." 🙁

takeaway tonight from the Indian over the road, but generally I'm trying to be healthy(ish)

Sorted then.

Tandoori chicken
Veg bhaji/other veg dish
Dhal

(not necessarily all in one meal!)

Lots of healthy options at most Indians. Doesn't have to be a face stuffing fat fest.

And there are other services like Deliveroo.

One of the portable induction hobs (from Lakeland, for example) might work for heating things up. You could use a small pressure cooker to make fresh vegetable/lentil/chicken soup.

I've heard that putting a latex glove over the fire alarm can prevent 'false alarms', but it might not be worth the risk if there's a genuine risk of fire - and don't forget to remove it before you vacate the room!

I've often used a Trangia stove with a gas conversion kit in the passenger footwell of my van to heat up stews etc. You could heat food outside or in your car, then pop it into a pre-warmed food flask to enjoy in your room. Similarly, if the place you're working at has a microwave you could use that to heat up a meal before you leave work, and take it back to the Travelodge in a food flask.

I do this a lot.

Hot dogs (pack of 4 thin ones) fit straight in kettle (you have to give it a goo wash afterwards to get rid of the smell/fat). Pack some mustard in the car!

Boiled eggs in the kettle go well in a salad

I do wraps a lot (with some salad and cooked meat or cheese)

Plenty other stuff can be cooked in bags (e.g. oven roasting bags) in the kettle.

db (Premier Inn Resident most weeknights for the last 7 years)

I'll tell you one thing this thread has taught me.

Never use the in room facilities at a hotel to make yourself a hot drink.

I've heard too many stories of people peeing/pooing in hotel kettles to make me consider cooking in them.

Small microwave is a great idea.

Is there a corby trouser press? You could make a baguette toastie or cook bacon? 😀

Lol 🙂

This all sounds grim! Whenever I'm away for work it pretty much always eat out even if it is for weeks at times. I do agree that the 'formality' of this can become tiresome and one does need to be careful about what to eat. For those nights I couldn't be bothered with a restaurant a grilled chicken tikka wrap with loads of salad from the takeaway was just perfect. Pretty healthy, quick and very tasty.
Once when I finished very late I reverted to (posh) pot noodle and other cold stuff in the hotel room and it just made me sad...

I guess 'back in the day' folk working away would often stay at digs where evening meal was included - could see the appeal of that actually. Some decent home cooking.