meals you can make without cooking of any kind

[DNSDisney]

This thread is inspired by all the cooking in room threads that turn into debates. Lets get creative and come up with no bake meals for families to enjoy.

Grilled Chicken salad- purchase the pre made salads. Buy the ready to serve chicken (which by the way is good and comes in many seasonings) Mix and serve. Add your favorite dressing


BBQ- They make ready to serve BBQ now just add some buns or bread and your favorite side of chips and a pickle


Taco's- ready to serve Taco ground beef with your favorite toppings.

Anyone else have any ideas? Well Lets get creative !

 

[BethR]

What a good idea for a thread DNSDisney! Thank you for your positive spin.

 

[DNSDisney]

Thank you BethR but I can't exactly take the credit. Someone meantioned it on another thread and I just decide to bring it to a thread of it's own . So maybe someone that wouldn't look on that thread could/would contribute.

There are soooo many very creative minds on this board I know we can come up with a good list of meals to satisfy almost anyones taste.

 

[disnygoof]

We camped at FW when I was growing up and going to WDW. A few things we made without cooking (for when we went to the pools) were:

*The pre-made seafood salads (crabmeat salads), then we'd put it on sub buns and have chips.
*Cold chicken fajitta wraps - use that pre made chicken, buy tortillas, add any topping you like (veggies, cheese) and voila, a fun "wrap"
*Taco Salad (okay, we cooked for this one, but if you didn't want to cook, all you need to do is go to a Wendy's and buy some Chili (99 cent menu) and add it to your salad.) Yummy!

OK, going to raid the fridge now - I'm hugry!

Peace, love and Goofy...

Christiana

 

[tink2dw]

What about pre-packaged items that just need hot water.

Hot Chocolate-packets
Hot Apple Cider-packets

Cup a Soup
Cup a Noodles -add a purchased chicken breast ot leg?

 

[DNSDisney]

Great ideas ---keep them comin!


Tink- your hot water idea got me thinking....
How about those boil in a bag meals?(also min rice comes in boil in a bag) they area already precooked the boil is usually just to heat them up . why not fill the sink up with hot water/ or use your coffee makers hot water to warm these babies up. I bet in 15 mins or so they would be warm enough to eat.

 

[kdudley3]

Here's a little list:

Deli turkey
Deli ham
Deli salami
Lettuce
Tomatoes
Onion
Ranch dressing
Italian dressing
Bag of mixed vegetables
Rotini salad from deli
French bread
Cheese

With all of this you can make:

Sub sandwiches
Mixed vegatable pasta salad
Cobb salad
Mixed vegetables dipped in ranch

How's that sound?

 

[BethR]

Sounds GREAT, kdudley3!!!

Keep those ideas coming...

 

[frannn]

Wouldn't the cost of the fridge rental eat away at whatever you'd be saving? I wouldn't think a cooler would be sufficient to keep all this stuff frozen or cold enough to stay good for long. Although, I have heard the fridge is free is you require it for medical reasons. So, if DD had that pink antibiotic that Drs like to prescribe, and it needed to be refrigerated, they would not charge the rental? Just wondering- with three DDs we go through a lot of that pink stuff, etc!

 

[TRAPPED-PARENT]

We also camp at Ft. Wilderness and I don't do any "cooking". The day before we leave home I will make the following salads and divide them up in washed (one cup) butter containers so that as they are emptied I can throw them away and make more room in the cooler. (I label the top of each, of course)

Chicken Salad (for sandwiches)
Crab Salad (for sandwiches)
Orange Jello Salad
Fruit Salad
Pasta Salad
Potato Salad

Additional cooler items:

Mayo, mustard, butter
Individual drinks including OJ, Capri Suns (some frozen)
1-Qt containers of milk (frozen)
Water (some frozen)
Beer

Other food items I store in large Rubbermaid tubs include chips, snack crackers, granola bars, Pringles, Combos, licorice, suckers, gum, cereal, bread, sandwich buns, peanut butter, jam, coffee.

Appliances we use: Toaster & coffee maker.

Most evenings we will eat out and will get counter service if we are at the parks. Other than that, my family is happy with our "vacation food" (I try not to serve it at home in the weeks leading up to the trip) and it takes care of breakfast, most lunches and park/pool snacks. Usually one trip to the grocery store mid-trip to replenish drinks, snacks, break and milk and THAT'S IT.

The only thing I would caution is that you have to be careful to ALWAYS have plenty of ice in the cooler.

I've done this for years for all of our trips ... both when the kids were small (5-6) and as teens (17-18) ... and it has worked well.

[When flying, I'll visit a store and purchase a cooler and items from deli, etc. -- saves lots of $$ and you have food with you when you are ready to eat, rather than having to wait in lines at restaurants.]

 

[travelitis]

There have been several threads about this, and I always like reading them. They can get a little heated when people start talking about taking a microwave or Crock Pot, but that's your own business. I've done it (not at Disney), but it really increases the possibilities.

BEGIN DISCLAIMER (don't read if previous suggestion doesn't incense you to anger) My big, double barrel blowdryer pulls more amps than a Crock Pot or microwave per my construction electrition FIL. Don't forget the housekeepers use vaccuums, and to meet code for public safety, the electrical can most certainly handle microwaves, Crock Pots, or toasters, because they have to design it to handle much more than they think they should need. Overkill, overkill - keeps us safe. That's the end of the disclaimer, and I have no desire to start another debate about the issue. If you're offended by the idea, that's your right, but let's keep to the topic without arguing. END DISCLAIMER Whew! Can you tell I've read way too many threads where people went nuts over this?

About the frig/cooler in the room - as long as you put fresh ice in your cooler daily (big cooler) it will keep the food just fine. BTDT with milk even. At the Dolphin you can take the key for the stocked frig, move the stuff out of your way instead of paying $20 for them to do it, and you have a frig. Then you neatly put it all back in place prior departure. It takes 5 min. max. I've read where people said housekeeping made them a frig by putting a clean liner in the trash can and filling it with ice, and that worked. When I worked for a chain restaurant, we had to do that with milk cartons per the health dept., because our frig wasn't cold enough.

My input (sans micro or Crock Pot):
Chicken or tuna salad - get the canned meat, mayo and relish. It also works with Underwood deviled ham.

Coffee makers put out hot enough water for Cup o Noodles and probably would work for Ragu Express and the individual mac and cheese packets. That's good if you have only 1 or 2 people looking for food, but I can't imagine feeding all 5 of us this.

tomato and mayo sandwiches
PB &honey on tortillas
plenty of fresh fruit
baby carrots with ranch dressing for dip
individual applesauce, puddings, and fruit
cereal
bagels
sausage balls (Bisquick recipe)

Considering my family of 5 spent over $50 for a meal at 50's PT Cafe, even if we'd paid $10 that day for a frig, we would've saved a lot by doing sandwiches in our room.

This whole issue is one reason we have an off site timeshare. We stay on site for 1 or 2 nts only.

 

[DNSDisney]

Great job guys keep them coming!!

How about instead of all those sodas/colas/cokes, make some great sun tea, or instant teas . They come in so many different flavors now. Instant Kool-aid would work to as would crystal lite.

 

[tripben]

I always bring my small electric frying pan and a couple boxes of chinese takeout. We get the flavor of going out to eat and it only takes a few miutes to heat up. The pan is non stick and easy to clean.

Any type of pasta takeout is good for this and all you hav to do is slip the container in a large zip lock bag and throw it in the cooler. No tupperware to clean or take home.

If you drive instead of fly you can even make your purchases before you get into the $$$$ zone of Orlando.

Sam

 

[crazelion]

Chicken Saland in a packet, Tuna Saland in a packet both do not have to be in the fridge.

Spam

Bread

Prigles

Fruit ( apples, oranges, bannas)

This the food I take on road trips with me because I to lazy to cook.

 

[Deb & Bill]

I thought this thread was about meals without cooking. So you won't smell up the room or be concerned about a fire.

 

[perdidobay]

How about sandwiches made with pita bread. Cut the pitas in half, open and place either precooked chicken stips or deli lunchmeats inside, top with ranch dressing( the HV Ranch individual cups work well when traveling). Top with a little bagged salad mix if desired. You could also make these with tortillas, rolled up.

 

[DNSDisney]

That is what this thread is suppose to be about. Please contribute any ideas for those sorts of meals you might have. This may be a solution to all the cooking in room debates on this board. Or at least you are giving people a middle ground to work with. My thought has always been "if you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem" (you meaning people in general not you directly). So lets hear those great no cook meal ideas!!

 

[jsmla]

When WDW went up to $10/day we bought an electric cooler at Sam's. You can plug it in either the car or a regular wall socket. We paid $70 and got our money back on the first trip.

In it we put:
yogurt express (frozen)
cream cheese
fruit (grapes, apples)
milk
juice boxes (frozen)
chicken salad
grilled chicken
taco beef
prepared spirelli pasta
raw veggies
pimento cheese
several vacuum packs of deli meats
cheese
salad greens/tomatoes, etc
mayo & salad dressing.

We use these to prepare breakfasts (yogurt, bagels w/cream cheese, cereal & milk, fruit.) and lunch or supper (chicken salad po-boys, tacos, taco salads, sandwiches, chef salads, and pasta salads. I also buy all sorts of different breads, rolls, etc. to make the sandwiches different each time. If you freeze things like yogurt, deli meat and juice boxes they will stay frozen for quite a while in our cooler.

 

[hopetoseedisney]

Just wanted to give this a bump since I saw several threads on food suggestions. I'm going to use these ideas when we go on our first wdw trip next month.

 

[tink2dw]

For breakfast
Cereal bars - they have them in kids favorite cereals and
For Mom and Dad - Kellog's Special K with dryed strawberrys or blueberrys.

Lunch
Jerky-beef-turkey
nuts
seeds
dryed fruits
granola bars
fruit leather