How to cook in a hotel room?

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Looking for ways to save money on food to cut costs of the trip, we will be spending a week in a hotel room that has a microwave and mini-fridge. We will also be bringing a small crockpot and an electric burner and a small skillet, maybe a george foreman grill too. We already plan on making a roast one night.
 
You can definitely have cereal for morning breakfast-quick, easy & inexpensive.

Lunch, you can always have sandwiches. Not sure if you can buy groceries where you will be staying. If you can, that will cut your cost because you don't have to pre-buy & you don't have to carry all the food from home. Lots of inexpensive items, like peanut butter. If you make a roast, save some for next day lunch and add some lettuce as a sandwich. Make paninis with ham & cheese, lettuce & tomatos. Many combinations of paninis. Or just plane paninis with cheese. That's like four lunch days already.

Dinner: Eggs are very easy to make-any way you like and it can be combined with bread for a light dinner. Use your skillet to cook the eggs. Sautee some veggies and have a vegetarian dinner with some restaurant bought rice (you can buy just plane white rice at any chinese restaurant that is very inexpensive).

Whatever you do, DON'T forget to bring salt, sugar, soy sauce, any herbs that you're thinking of cooking with. Or of course you can buy those at the destination. But if you plan on bringing these, just pack them in small containers, they are very light anyways. Be carefull of any liquid-just store in container & put in zip-lock bags for added security.

Good Luck.
 
you got everything you need. I'd get a loaf of bread for some sanwiches for sure. if you on a trip you don't want to mess around much. keep it simple.

mountian, is right!!! if you start acting like a hiibilly in there you'll get kicked out. who in the other rooms wants to smell your slow cooker roast for hours.
sanwiches, ramen noodles, cereal, box of dounuts, fresh fruit/veg. cook stuff at home, freeze it and use the micro.
If you want a roast go out to eat. you can save on the other meals.
 
Only use the microwave please.

But cooking in the rooms you are running a chance of getting yourself kicked out. When you cook in motels you are putting them in violation of fire code.

Bring hot dogs, tuna fish, bread, ramen, cup of noodles etc... Cook in the micro and use the coffee pot to heat up water to make your noodles.

Or make up the roast a head of time, and reheat it or if it s true roast beef rather than a pot rosat you can eat it cold in sandwiches. If it is post roast it doesn't matter if you heat it up.
 
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