No Cook Meal Suggestions?

Salads, pb sandwiches, veggies and hummus, fruit with cottage cheese/yogurt, nuts. Take a small blender for smoothies. Shrimp cocktail. Rotisserie chicken sandwiches.

You've got some great suggestions above. If you have a coffee pot or a microwave to heat water you can buy instant oatmeal. Also fruit, yogurt for breakfast. Some grocery stores sell hard boiled eggs, which are a good breakfast or snack. Also, if they have it, smoked salmon and whole grain crackers. (Make sure to buy ziplock baggies!)

Will you have access to a knife and cutting board to chop vegetables? If not, pack your own --this is when a Swiss Army Knife comes in handy-- in your checked luggage. I'm trying to think of a couple of recipes where you won't need to buy a ton of jars and bottles of condiments, etc. but you will need to buy a couple of things for the below--lemon juice, olives. Maybe bring your own salt & pepper. Instead of buying mustard for the deviled eggs, maybe bring your own ground mustard. Also, paprika and cumin and garlic powder or cinnamon for the below recipes. And a can opener!

Avocado Deviled eggs: I'd use lime so you don't have to buy both lemon and lime if you also want to try one of the below tuna or bean salad recipes.
https://gethealthyu.com/recipe/avocado-deviled-eggs/

If you can chop vegetables, you can have tuna, salmon or bean salad with whole grain crackers or sandwich thins. These recipes both call for different kinds of olives--I'd use the same olive for both recipes.

Tuna salad (I'd sub mashed avocado for the mayo so you don't have to buy a jar of mayo--plus, healthy fats!)
http://www.eatingwell.com/recipe/251518/mexican-tuna-salad/

Bean salad--this recipe strands you with a small bottle of olive oil, so maybe choose the smallest you can. You can also add tuna to this and buy tuna in olive oil. Drain off the olive oil to use in your vinaigrette.
https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/escarole-salad-with-white-beans-and-lime-vinaigrette

Microwave popcorn--https://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/how-to-pop-popcorn-the-microwave-paper-bag-method/

Jerky
String cheese
Apples or other fresh fruit
Raw veggies (many grocery stores sell cut prepared carrots, celery etc)
Individual tuna or chicken pouches

Deli take out. Hot food in many supermarket delis, or cold cuts like turkey breast.

Oh, if you have or can get a collapsible (usually silicon) strainer, that would be easy to pack and you can use for rinsing any veggies/fruit you get.

Some groceries have eggs already hard boiled and peeled in a package. You might look for those if you eat hb eggs.

You can make pasta in a microwave, so you might ask if they provide them in the rooms. In my old 500 W microwave, I heat up a cup of water for 4 minutes in a Pyrex measuring cup, then add 2oz dry pasta. Cook for 4 minutes for wheat, 3 minutes for non- wheat. Stir and cook for another 4 or 3 minutes. Stir and taste to see if it needs a couple more minutes. Drain and you're done. Bring something to help drain unless you are more dextrous than I am. I even have a lid for that which fits on the Pyrex cup.

Times would be adjusted for higher power microwaves. Sometimes non-wheat pastas do better if rinsed with water after cooking. Wheat pastas do pretty well if you heat up for a few minutes and then let sit for a few minutes, at least if they are durum wheat. Be careful not to let them sit very long or they become an inedible mush.

Any source of hot water would allow you to use a variety of meal cups. I like McDougall's and Nile Spice myself.

StayFocused01023 wrote: »

Such great suggestions and ideas!!! Thanks everyone!
I wouldn’t have thought of packing a can opener until I needed it!😝

You can often buy the pop top cans or foil packets of tuna and salmon, but you never know! If its a robust grocery store you could buy a can opener too!