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freemotion
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OK, I neglected my journal for a bit, but even I was getting bored. I do get into ruts with my eating sometimes.
We attended a conference for three days, and had to live in a hotel and eat very different foods....somewhat. So here is what we did for the three days (dh and I.)
As soon as we checked into our room, we scoped out what was available to us....a mini fridge with a tiny freezer (past experience told me that the freezer likely wouldn't work, and it didn't) and a microwave. Plates and mugs could be borrowed from the breakfast bar. Glasses in the room.
So off we went to the local grocery store. Later, we found a Walmart with a grocery section, I like these better when traveling. We would've saved at least $10 or more if we'd found the Walmart first. We spent about $65 total on food for the entire trip. Could've done it for less, but when possible, I like to really load up on the fresh foods when traveling, since the immune system is lowered by the stress.
So we bought:
2 pks ww flour tortillas
2 8 oz cheddar cheese
2 tomatoes on the vine
1 lb baby carrots, organic
1 lb local green beans
1/2 lb sugar snap peas
1 qt strawberries
2 apples
2 bananas
1.5-2 lbs cherries
1.5-2 lbs grapes
3/4 lb deli ham
1/4 lb sandwich pepperoni
1/2 gallon milk
2 gallons spring water
1 bag tortilla chips
4 cans boiled peanuts
6 eggs
1 small jar green olives
I also scrounged mustard packets and plasticware from the deli area. I brought tea bags and stevia packets with me from home, along with some paper plates and a variety of plastic baggies and a small fabric cooler bag.
For breakfast each day, dh got up in time to go to the breakfast bar and get an omelet. I putter around, and it is mobbed by the time I get around to it, so I used a mug and heated up a couple of pieces of the pepperoni, then removed them and put in two eggs and nuked them for a minute and a bit more. The pepperoni greased the mug. I made a burrito with those and some cheese. Had some hot chocolate and later some tea.
For lunch, we packed wrap sandwiches with the deli meats, cheese, tomato slices and mustard on the tortillas. We packed baggies of veggies and olives and baggies of fruit, and bottled water. We made ice packs with ziploc freezer bags and ice from the hotel machine. We picnicked in the shade of the trees lining the parking lot for two of the days, and on the third day, we tailgated with some friends and contributed some of our food.
For supper, we had more veggies and fruit and made nachos with the tortillas and the cheese. I also had some boiled peanuts (UGH! I used to like them, but I could taste the chemical preservatives! Interestingly, by the third can, I could no longer taste the chemical taste, even though it was the third day, and not all in a row.) One night, dh got a six inch subway sandwich, as he felt like something different. Oh, and I got a biscuit with butter from the breakfast bar one day....we were in the south, I had to have boiled peanuts AND A BISCUIT! I think it is the law there!
We had enough fruit and veggies to pack plenty to bring to the airport for the long trip home. In the airport, dh got another six inch subway sandwich, and I got a personal pepperoni pizza....ew, never again will I get one from subway! It gave new meaning to the word, "Pasty!" I threw most of what was supposed to pass for crust away.
I treated myself to one bag of peanut m&m's in the airport. DH had a beer and watched Tiger Woods in a pub while I read my paperback novel.
We arrived home feeling good about our self-control and frugalness on this trip. What we spent on food for three days we could easily have spent on one evening meal in a restaurant.
All I left behind was some eggs and some milk.
We attended a conference for three days, and had to live in a hotel and eat very different foods....somewhat. So here is what we did for the three days (dh and I.)
As soon as we checked into our room, we scoped out what was available to us....a mini fridge with a tiny freezer (past experience told me that the freezer likely wouldn't work, and it didn't) and a microwave. Plates and mugs could be borrowed from the breakfast bar. Glasses in the room.
So off we went to the local grocery store. Later, we found a Walmart with a grocery section, I like these better when traveling. We would've saved at least $10 or more if we'd found the Walmart first. We spent about $65 total on food for the entire trip. Could've done it for less, but when possible, I like to really load up on the fresh foods when traveling, since the immune system is lowered by the stress.
So we bought:
2 pks ww flour tortillas
2 8 oz cheddar cheese
2 tomatoes on the vine
1 lb baby carrots, organic
1 lb local green beans
1/2 lb sugar snap peas
1 qt strawberries
2 apples
2 bananas
1.5-2 lbs cherries
1.5-2 lbs grapes
3/4 lb deli ham
1/4 lb sandwich pepperoni
1/2 gallon milk
2 gallons spring water
1 bag tortilla chips
4 cans boiled peanuts
6 eggs
1 small jar green olives
I also scrounged mustard packets and plasticware from the deli area. I brought tea bags and stevia packets with me from home, along with some paper plates and a variety of plastic baggies and a small fabric cooler bag.
For breakfast each day, dh got up in time to go to the breakfast bar and get an omelet. I putter around, and it is mobbed by the time I get around to it, so I used a mug and heated up a couple of pieces of the pepperoni, then removed them and put in two eggs and nuked them for a minute and a bit more. The pepperoni greased the mug. I made a burrito with those and some cheese. Had some hot chocolate and later some tea.
For lunch, we packed wrap sandwiches with the deli meats, cheese, tomato slices and mustard on the tortillas. We packed baggies of veggies and olives and baggies of fruit, and bottled water. We made ice packs with ziploc freezer bags and ice from the hotel machine. We picnicked in the shade of the trees lining the parking lot for two of the days, and on the third day, we tailgated with some friends and contributed some of our food.
For supper, we had more veggies and fruit and made nachos with the tortillas and the cheese. I also had some boiled peanuts (UGH! I used to like them, but I could taste the chemical preservatives! Interestingly, by the third can, I could no longer taste the chemical taste, even though it was the third day, and not all in a row.) One night, dh got a six inch subway sandwich, as he felt like something different. Oh, and I got a biscuit with butter from the breakfast bar one day....we were in the south, I had to have boiled peanuts AND A BISCUIT! I think it is the law there!
We had enough fruit and veggies to pack plenty to bring to the airport for the long trip home. In the airport, dh got another six inch subway sandwich, and I got a personal pepperoni pizza....ew, never again will I get one from subway! It gave new meaning to the word, "Pasty!" I threw most of what was supposed to pass for crust away.
I treated myself to one bag of peanut m&m's in the airport. DH had a beer and watched Tiger Woods in a pub while I read my paperback novel.
We arrived home feeling good about our self-control and frugalness on this trip. What we spent on food for three days we could easily have spent on one evening meal in a restaurant.
All I left behind was some eggs and some milk.