Leaving soon! ~*~ I need some food ideas for a studio!

[shari2shop]

I am getting so excited about our first trip home!!!! We leave in less than a week!!!!

We are staying in a OKW studio.
It will the myself plus DH, DS (7) and DD (5).
We will be doing a park each day that we are there. (No just resort days).

I want to take advantage of the refrigerator and the microwave. I think it will save us lot of time in the mornings by having breakfast in the room. I would also like to have a few snacks in case we eat an early dinner at a park and want a little snack in the room before we go to bed. We will be driving down so I will have a cooler to bring stuff in.


Here are a few of the things that I have thought of so far:

Breakfast ideas:
muffins
pop tarts
Maybe cereal?? (and buy milk once we get there?)


Snack ideas:
microwave popcorn
PB & J and bread for sandwhiches
Fruit (apples and oranges)

There has to be more things than that!!!!

Any suggestions???

Thanks

Shari (who can't wait until next Friday!!!!)

 

[Luckymommyx2]

Our last trip we took the tuna lunch kits with the crackers and everything included. We just took granola bars or Nutrigrain bars for quick snacks. We did have a container of orange Tang to mix with our bottled water in the mornings. Having a microwave helps if you want to get any breakfast tv dinners or microwavable breakfast sandwiches. We took individual cereals down last time and got a carton of milk which worked out well. The popcorn is a good idea for a snack. It depends how much you think you'll be in the room to eat. Are you planning on breakfast alone or breakfast and another meal every day in your room?

 

[mrsswat]

We found the individual cereals already packaged in plastic bowls - just peel back the top, pour in the milk, and you're good to go. I don't remember what brand they were, picked up a variety pack at Sam's club. You can take lots of juice boxes, just remember to re-stock the fridge each day. Kids can go thru an awful lot of those boxes. For the microwave, you can always pick up those soups to go if you are "food" snack eaters, or the micro beefaroni variety. We also found grapes to be good for the car and room. Good luck!!

 

[shari2shop]

We will not be in the room much. Basically just to sleep!

So, we will just be doing easy breakfasts and a few snacks incase we arrive back at the room and the snack-attacks hit.

 

[ColoradoBelle1]

For more variety and a more substantial breakfast, how about taking eggs and bacon and the microwave 'dishes' that allows you to cook em in the microwave? Also, the frozen waffles/pancakes that you just put in the toaster. Altho the freezer portion of the small fridge is small...lots of those 'frozen' type foods can be left in the fridge part for your stay (just freeze them solid, put em in your cooler and then transfer to the fridge part)
Same with milk....just freeze it and pack it in your cooler and it will be perfect by the time you get there. If I were driving, I'd rather buy my food at home and then forget about having to grocery shop on vacation!
Have fun!

 

[dyingtodisney]

When we stay in a studio we always bring Easy Mac for the kids and Chef Boyardee ravioli. Vienna Sausages. Not the healthiest but when we eat out at the World I make sure they eat "real food" and get fruits/veggies in.
Snacks:
Beef jerky,fruit snacks, granola bars, peanut butter crackers, yogurt raisins. Trail mix.

 

[dis-happy]

How about wraps? A package of tortillas, a bag of lettuce, a package of the pre-cooked, pre-seasoned chicken strips you keep in the fridge, some shredded cheese if you like, a quick zap in the microwave (add the lettuce afterwards) and you are set.

Another must for us: packaged fruit cups. They don't even have to be refrigerated.

 

[shari2shop]

How about wraps? A package of tortillas, a bag of lettuce, a package of the pre-cooked, pre-seasoned chicken strips you keep in the fridge, some shredded cheese if you like, a quick zap in the microwave (add the lettuce afterwards) and you are set.
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I LOVE the wraps idea!!! I think we will do those instead of the PB & J sandwhiches.

I have also added the fruit cups, easy mac and some of the frozen breakfast tings to my list.

I do have a question about the frozen milk. I have never froze milk before. Can you do this with 2% milk? Does it taste the same after it thaws?

Thanks!

Shari

 

[LIFERBABE]

I freeze milk all the time at home. Just let it thaw completely out and then shake it up real good and it is fine.

We will be in a studio in June and these are great ideas!

We drive, so I take my Mickey Waffle Maker and I also pre-cook taco meat, freeze and take with us to make soft taco's and quesadilla's.
We eat out alot, but last time we stayed for 2 weeks.

 

[dyingtodisney]

Okay Liferbabe- I know you have LOTS of MM Waffle Maker ideas besides that! HAHA. By the way still haven't gotten mine yet

 

[donaldbuzz&minnie]

Other people's ideas here are much more creative than mine, but I do know the bagels from Costco (off 417 on Orange Blossom Trail) are really good, cheap and filling - for breakfast or a meal. (The "everything" bagels would be good, for example, as a base for the tuna salad.)

Also, our newspaper had an article about how to make microwave popcorn that changed my life. You take regular popcorn, a regular brown paper lunch sack, pour about 1/3 c of popcorn in the sack, close it up tight and nuke the whole shabang for about 2 minutes or just until most of the kernels have popped. (Don't wait until the last secord or the popcorn will burn.) That's it. Then melt real butter, sprinkle on real salt and you have real popcorn - much better than chemically-microwave popcorn.

 

[VMS]

Dondaldbuzz&minnie -- I like the homemade microwave popcorn idea. How do you close the brown bag securely in the microwave?

 

[magicmouse2]

You could make ommelette in the microwave. Bacon and sausage. Corn dogs are our favorite snack. Baked potato, hot dogs, noodle bowls.

 

[FreeTime]

If you have time I would suggest the bacon or sausauge, toast, and eggs in the morning. They seem to keep you going longer. Sandwich fixins', freeze water and juice boxes for the parks.

 

[castleri]

Jello or pudding packs for when someone has a sweet tooth craving.

 

[donaldbuzz&minnie]

Dondaldbuzz&minnie -- I like the homemade microwave popcorn idea. How do you close the brown bag securely in the microwave?

Hi VMS -
I just fold the top over about 3 times and then fold the corners down. No disasters yet! (I bought the bags at Costco - approx 1 million for $10) and they are a bit bigger and studier than the ones from the grocery store, but I've used those too with no problem.)

 

[SueOKW]

no beer? that's critical!

ok ok! actually I still think you may need the pb&j - that hits a lot of cravings - protein and all that. How about little cartons of OJ?

I like the wrap idea too - and many of the others.

Enjoy your trip!!

 

[WithDisneySpirit]

I agree with SueOKW!!! You should consider bringing the PB&J along anyway! One of my sons would not have survived growing up without it and it is even quicker than the great wraps idea for when you are really tired We took along a yummy homemade pimiento cheese recipe that the adults loved too! My mom made it and we ate it with flatbread crackers and celery, yum