Dont-Need-No-Cooking Food Ideas
Panda_Poptarts
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Hi folks!
I've got 48 hours before I fly out for 2 weeks in Virginia. My housing comes with 14 meals from the campus cafeteria per week, but that leaves me likely needing at least one meal and potentially snacks. I'll have a refrigerator, but no cooking apparatus.
What are your favorite foods in these categories:
- No refrigeration needed / No cooking needed
- Refrigeration needed / No cooking needed
Thanks in advance!
I've got 48 hours before I fly out for 2 weeks in Virginia. My housing comes with 14 meals from the campus cafeteria per week, but that leaves me likely needing at least one meal and potentially snacks. I'll have a refrigerator, but no cooking apparatus.
What are your favorite foods in these categories:
- No refrigeration needed / No cooking needed
- Refrigeration needed / No cooking needed
Thanks in advance!
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Look under any of the traveling threads. If you have a small George Foreman grill, I think it was @Kirkor said that you can turn it upside down and use it to cook bacon and eggs, if that's allowed. Otherwise, there are about a dozen traveling threads from the last year that already include some AWESOME suggestions.1
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I think you can buy hard boiled eggs in packages at the grocery store.
Nuts.
Quest bars.
Pepperoni sticks, cheese sticks, deli meat.
Beef jerky
Buy mixed greens and a bottle of dressing.
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Here are a few sites and info I saved:
http://www.ruled.me/traveling-on-keto/
http://www.ruled.me/keto-and-fast-food-on-the-go/
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10108988/advice-needed-i-am-a-little-worried#latest
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10107354/fast-food-ordering-in#latest
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10114644/Going_on_vacation_for_a_week,_YES!_Any_LCHF/Keto advice?
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10114093/Planning_Request_-_Outdoors_Food_Requests_-_Cross_Posting_to_LCHF_&_Keto
Hope some of these help. @baconslave - maybe we can start a stockpile of links for these, too??1 -
Panda_Poptarts wrote: »Hi folks!
I've got 48 hours before I fly out for 2 weeks in Virginia. My housing comes with 14 meals from the campus cafeteria per week, but that leaves me likely needing at least one meal and potentially snacks. I'll have a refrigerator, but no cooking apparatus.
What are your favorite foods in these categories:
- No refrigeration needed / No cooking needed - Almonds, walnuts or pine nuts (all great to add into salads), beef jerky, protein bars (Quest, Oh Yeah One, or Kirkland brands are good)
- Refrigeration needed / No cooking needed - Pepperoni, deli meats, cheese, salad greens and various dressings
And I'll add to your list and suggest take out options:
1) Subway will make any sub into a bowl for a sub salad
2) Jimmy johns unwiches
3) Lettuce wrapped burger (Red Robins does them as well as In n out and many others)
4) Some grocery stores offer a salad bar that's pretty cheap, my Fred Meyers has one and I'm able to choose as much protein and veggies as I want. I think the most expensive salad I've made came to 9 bucks.
If you have access to a microwave that will add to your options for sure.
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Panda_Poptarts wrote: »Hi folks!
I've got 48 hours before I fly out for 2 weeks in Virginia. My housing comes with 14 meals from the campus cafeteria per week, but that leaves me likely needing at least one meal and potentially snacks. I'll have a refrigerator, but no cooking apparatus.
What are your favorite foods in these categories:
- No refrigeration needed / No cooking needed - Almonds, walnuts or pine nuts (all great to add into salads), beef jerky, protein bars (Quest, Oh Yeah One, or Kirkland brands are good)
- Refrigeration needed / No cooking needed - Pepperoni, deli meats, cheese, salad greens and various dressings
And I'll add to your list and suggest take out options:
1) Subway will make any sub into a bowl for a sub salad
2) Jimmy johns unwiches
3) Lettuce wrapped burger (Red Robins does them as well as In n out and many others)
4) Some grocery stores offer a salad bar that's pretty cheap, my Fred Meyers has one and I'm able to choose as much protein and veggies as I want. I think the most expensive salad I've made came to 9 bucks.
If you have access to a microwave that will add to your options for sure.
This is awesome - thanks! We get campus dining so I'm thinking there should be lots of options. I just need to supplement.0 -
Thanks for the help, guys! I am so worried about staying on plan during this trip, and having the inability to weigh myself for 2 weeks.2
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samanthaluangphixay wrote: »I think you can buy hard boiled eggs in packages at the grocery store.
Nuts.
Quest bars.
Pepperoni sticks, cheese sticks, deli meat.
Beef jerky
Buy mixed greens and a bottle of dressing.
Quest bars! Good one! I'm taking several sugar free chocolate bars and a dozen single-serve protein shake packets. I hadn't considered salad stuff either. Silly me. I'm so stressed over this I'm not thinking through all these details.1 -
Panda_Poptarts wrote: »samanthaluangphixay wrote: »I think you can buy hard boiled eggs in packages at the grocery store.
Nuts.
Quest bars.
Pepperoni sticks, cheese sticks, deli meat.
Beef jerky
Buy mixed greens and a bottle of dressing.
Quest bars! Good one! I'm taking several sugar free chocolate bars and a dozen single-serve protein shake packets. I hadn't considered salad stuff either. Silly me. I'm so stressed over this I'm not thinking through all these details.
Can't remember if you specifically are going for keto, or just low-carb, but be warned that Quest bars will kick you out of keto. No one seems to have a real answer for why they spike blood sugar, but their net carb count is a joke at best, and dangerous to diabetics at worst.2 -
Cheese sticks (don't need refrigeration), pork rinds, salami, any kinds of nuts or seeds. a Jar of any kind of nut or seed butter (many don't need to be refrigerated but it depends upon how much or little preservatives they contain).1
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Gallowmere1984 wrote: »Panda_Poptarts wrote: »samanthaluangphixay wrote: »I think you can buy hard boiled eggs in packages at the grocery store.
Nuts.
Quest bars.
Pepperoni sticks, cheese sticks, deli meat.
Beef jerky
Buy mixed greens and a bottle of dressing.
Quest bars! Good one! I'm taking several sugar free chocolate bars and a dozen single-serve protein shake packets. I hadn't considered salad stuff either. Silly me. I'm so stressed over this I'm not thinking through all these details.
Can't remember if you specifically are going for keto, or just low-carb, but be warned that Quest bars will kick you out of keto. No one seems to have a real answer for why they spike blood sugar, but their net carb count is a joke at best, and dangerous to diabetics at worst.
They actually don't spike my blood sugar more than eating any standard food. But I also don't have too many issues with artificial sweeteners.0 -
Panda_Poptarts wrote: »Gallowmere1984 wrote: »Panda_Poptarts wrote: »samanthaluangphixay wrote: »I think you can buy hard boiled eggs in packages at the grocery store.
Nuts.
Quest bars.
Pepperoni sticks, cheese sticks, deli meat.
Beef jerky
Buy mixed greens and a bottle of dressing.
Quest bars! Good one! I'm taking several sugar free chocolate bars and a dozen single-serve protein shake packets. I hadn't considered salad stuff either. Silly me. I'm so stressed over this I'm not thinking through all these details.
Can't remember if you specifically are going for keto, or just low-carb, but be warned that Quest bars will kick you out of keto. No one seems to have a real answer for why they spike blood sugar, but their net carb count is a joke at best, and dangerous to diabetics at worst.
They actually don't spike my blood sugar more than eating any standard food. But I also don't have too many issues with artificial sweeteners.
I wish I were so fortunate. The things are delicious, and I love their simplicity and portability, but yeah, they jack mine up. Granted, I am not diabetic, but I really wish they could pinpoint what in there is doing it. The most pointed at culprit is the "fiber" they use (isomalto-oligosaccharides), as those have been shown to be more soluble than originally thought. However, others have reported that it only happens when they eat the ones with sucralose.2 -
One of my go-to snacks is high fat (11%) yogurt with almond butter. If I accidentally undereat at supper, having this as a bedtime snack keeps me full until breakfast.2
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In the same store space you find all the fancy cheeses, you can usually find these salami wrapped cheese sticks that are delicious and have a great macro ratio. Fiori is the brand or something like that.1
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karebear5891 wrote: »In the same store space you find all the fancy cheeses, you can usually find these salami wrapped cheese sticks that are delicious and have a great macro ratio. Fiori is the brand or something like that.
Volpi is the brand that does this that I am most familiar with, but I believe you are talking about Fiorucci. I could never justify it, personally. When I can get 32 cheese sticks and enough salami to wrap all of them for like $12, and they want that much for like ten of them, screw that noise.
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Gallowmere1984 wrote: »karebear5891 wrote: »In the same store space you find all the fancy cheeses, you can usually find these salami wrapped cheese sticks that are delicious and have a great macro ratio. Fiori is the brand or something like that.
Volpi is the brand that does this that I am most familiar with, but I believe you are talking about Fiorucci. I could never justify it, personally. When I can get 32 cheese sticks and enough salami to wrap all of them for like $12, and they want that much for like ten of them, screw that noise.
That's my kind of shopping
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Gallowmere1984 wrote: »Panda_Poptarts wrote: »Gallowmere1984 wrote: »Panda_Poptarts wrote: »samanthaluangphixay wrote: »I think you can buy hard boiled eggs in packages at the grocery store.
Nuts.
Quest bars.
Pepperoni sticks, cheese sticks, deli meat.
Beef jerky
Buy mixed greens and a bottle of dressing.
Quest bars! Good one! I'm taking several sugar free chocolate bars and a dozen single-serve protein shake packets. I hadn't considered salad stuff either. Silly me. I'm so stressed over this I'm not thinking through all these details.
Can't remember if you specifically are going for keto, or just low-carb, but be warned that Quest bars will kick you out of keto. No one seems to have a real answer for why they spike blood sugar, but their net carb count is a joke at best, and dangerous to diabetics at worst.
They actually don't spike my blood sugar more than eating any standard food. But I also don't have too many issues with artificial sweeteners.
I wish I were so fortunate. The things are delicious, and I love their simplicity and portability, but yeah, they jack mine up. Granted, I am not diabetic, but I really wish they could pinpoint what in there is doing it. The most pointed at culprit is the "fiber" they use (isomalto-oligosaccharides), as those have been shown to be more soluble than originally thought. However, others have reported that it only happens when they eat the ones with sucralose.
@Gallowmere1984 - I would definitely agree on the sucralose being the likely culprit. I had 1/4 of one with sucralose - cue the headaches, insulin spike, and insane cravings. I ate an entire bar that was stevia and xylitol, I think, and I had none of the above. Still didn't care for the taste, but it might be worth a glance. I can sometimes use liquid sucralose, but any powder formulations and I are so not friends.0 -
Gallowmere1984 wrote: »karebear5891 wrote: »In the same store space you find all the fancy cheeses, you can usually find these salami wrapped cheese sticks that are delicious and have a great macro ratio. Fiori is the brand or something like that.
Volpi is the brand that does this that I am most familiar with, but I believe you are talking about Fiorucci. I could never justify it, personally. When I can get 32 cheese sticks and enough salami to wrap all of them for like $12, and they want that much for like ten of them, screw that noise.
But when I'm feeling indulgent or in a mad rush, I do occasionally grab one of these... Plus, cheesesticks are usually mozzarella. The pre-bought ones are generally smoked provolone, and have a slightly different taste. And, as I mentioned in another thread, on occasion, I can trick my body into feeling "indulged" by a product like this. But I'm like you in that most times, I'll buy a pound of super thin salami and some thick "slices" of provolone from the deli or cheese sticks, and just make my own...0 -
Gallowmere1984 wrote: »karebear5891 wrote: »In the same store space you find all the fancy cheeses, you can usually find these salami wrapped cheese sticks that are delicious and have a great macro ratio. Fiori is the brand or something like that.
Volpi is the brand that does this that I am most familiar with, but I believe you are talking about Fiorucci. I could never justify it, personally. When I can get 32 cheese sticks and enough salami to wrap all of them for like $12, and they want that much for like ten of them, screw that noise.
Yeah, fiorucci, that's it. But they only charge $7 in my store for a package of them, and it's usually about $6 for a 24 pack of cheese sticks and another $6 for salami. While, yeah, you probably get a little more bang for your buck, it's not that bad for the convenience where I am.
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I haven't been able to read all the replies so maybe someone already mentioned this. I have found that with this WOE I don't need to eat all the time. I would try to eat a huge breakfast with three eggs some bacon maybe a sausage then just don't eat until evening. If you get very hungry eat a handful of almonds to take the edge off.3
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Once you are there , take Uber or LYFT and buy several avocados - portable, yummy and great for our WOE. GL1
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