Studio Villa meals (yes, again)

[taaren]

Breakfast for me
toasted bagel-with cream cheese and jam
bowl of cereal / milk
hot oatmeal-pkg type-just add hot water
scrambled egg-(microwave) and toast
toaster waffles /syrup
cup coffee/ juice
fruit cup
Lunch :
Tuna salad and raw veggies and dip
Chicken salad and raw veggies and dip
pretzels, chips or crackers to nibble on
lemonade,or milk
yogurt
Dinner:
Baked potato
melted cheese on top or can chilli on top
tossed salad
or
sub sandwich ( deli meat)
hot soup / crackers
or
Lipton pasta side dish (microwaveable)
with can tuna or chicken added.
or can of tomato and meat sauce added-omit the seasoning pouch in the side dish
if doing this one and just use the plain noodles.
milk/water/juice
things that I've found travel well
Pringle chips
small cereal boxes
small pk jam and peanut butter and honey
pop-corn microwaveable
hot cereal pouches
hot-chocolate pouches
cup a soup or Campbell's Chunky soup
crackers
potatoes
can meats
can pasta--Beefaroni,etc
small can fruit--jello puddings
peanuts/soya nuts and raisins
Uncle Bens rice bags with the seasonings included
Lipton's Pasta side dishes

This list is amazing! Thank you! This will be our first time in a studio, and we'll only be there for a long weekend, but definitely will use some of these ideas to maximize pool time while staying at the resort and not breaking the bank! Probably going to be eating lunch poolside some of your dinner ideas then eat dinner off-resort.
We knew how to do breakfast with no stove but I've been puzzling over lunch and dinner for a bit now.
And thanks to the OP for bringing this topic up again. Had been thinking I needed to do a search for studio cooking ....

 

[Sandy321]

In addition, you may consider going with a grocery service. we've used wegoshop - they use publix, I was able to view the weekly ad, make selections - and I had a number I called and asked about what they had at the deli - so in addition to sandwiches, the packages of Dole premix Salad greens, they have pre cooked chicken, (Tyson sells it in bags - so you can have Cesar Chicken Salad) You can get pre cooked shrimp - you can get some great salads - and meats (even a rotisserie chicken - you can make a few meals with one chicken, get some taco shells and have chicken tacos, meat for the salad,

 

[candielips]

The problem with the studio is the small size of the freezer section. So unless you have a cooler of some sort that you can store frozen food in for short periods of time, you are pretty much limited to non-frozen foods.

You could request a blender from Housekeeping and make smoothies for breakfast, but they have some good smoothies at Goods to Go.

Can you really request a blender from housekeeping?

I have smoothies for breakfast every morning but I am very particular about what goes into them. And I never really like a smoothie made anywhere else.

 

[taaren]

The problem with the studio is the small size of the freezer section. So unless you have a cooler of some sort that you can store frozen food in for short periods of time, you are pretty much limited to non-frozen foods.
You could request a blender from Housekeeping and make smoothies for breakfast, but they have some good smoothies at Goods to Go.

Okay, how small/cold is it? There's a crazy awesome ice cream pie creamery in Honolulu; I want to take some back to enjoy at our studio at Aulani for dessert. Can I fit a couple of slices on a small plate in the freezer and will they last in there a day or two?

 

[wls23]

Yes. You can request a blender. We do this on all of our trips

 

[BirdsOfPreyDave]

Okay, how small/cold is it? There's a crazy awesome ice cream pie creamery in Honolulu; I want to take some back to enjoy at our studio at Aulani for dessert. Can I fit a couple of slices on a small plate in the freezer and will they last in there a day or two?

The freezer is about the size of two loaves of bread side-by-side. You can make it as cold as you want. In fact, I frequently have an issue with studio refrigerators that I set them too cold and freeze my Brita pitcher on the bottom shelf. (I can never leave well enough alone, and always play around with the temperature dial. It's one of those little flaws I recognize in myself, yet can't seem to change.)

 

[taaren]

The freezer is about the size of two loaves of bread side-by-side. You can make it as cold as you want. In fact, I frequently have an issue with studio refrigerators that I set them too cold and freeze my Brita pitcher on the bottom shelf. (I can never leave well enough alone, and always play around with the temperature dial. It's one of those little flaws I recognize in myself, yet can't seem to change.)

Awesome. That's at least 4 slices of ice cream pie we can take with us!

 

[buzz5985]

Fruit/veggies/Salad are all really easy.
Your problem is the protein and preparing that.

Cold:
Tunafish sandwiches are a hit with the kids
PB & J are cool for them too.
Deli meats are easy.

Hot:
Soup is very doable in a microwave.
Beans and hotdogs can be made.
Some people like microwaved eggs.
Microwaved bacon can be made too.

... I can't think of anything other than those that can be made without a hotplate/skillet or crocpot.

This next trip I bought a small covered Presto Skillet and am testing real recipes. It won't take up much room in the luggage once I detach the legs. With it we'll be able to make tacos/ fajitas/ chilli, spaghetti sauce, onions & peppers, stir-fry veggies with chicken and a few more things. Might be worth looking into.

I bought a small 14 inch electric fry pan for our last trip. We stayed at the Marriott Lakeshore Reserve in a studio. We cooked bacon and eggs, french toast. Lunch grilled cheese and soups. Dinners - taco, fahitas, stir fry. I had brought my own spice packets for the taco's and fahitas.

This fry pan would very easily fit in a suitcase - without the lid - that is glass. Found I really didn't need the lid.

Janis

 

[snwwht]

Okay, how small/cold is it? There's a crazy awesome ice cream pie creamery in Honolulu; I want to take some back to enjoy at our studio at Aulani for dessert. Can I fit a couple of slices on a small plate in the freezer and will they last in there a day or two?

Do Tell Please!Where is this creamery?

 

[arthur06]

We bought a very small skillet a few years back from The Home Depot...

http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-100676081/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053

Its under $15 and it is very small, only 6.5 inches. We also have a microwavable bacon tray that we take with. We can cook pretty much any breakfast items with these two items.

It also works nice for lunch/dinner items. We used it for hot grilled cheese with ham as well.

 

[wishicouldgomoreofte]

Breakfast for me

toasted bagel-with cream cheese and jam
bowl of cereal / milk
hot oatmeal-pkg type-just add hot water
scrambled egg-(microwave) and toast
toaster waffles /syrup

cup coffee/ juice

fruit cup


Lunch :

Tuna salad and raw veggies and dip
Chicken salad and raw veggies and dip


pretzels, chips or crackers to nibble on

lemonade,or milk
yogurt

Dinner:

Baked potato
melted cheese on top

or

can chilli on top
tossed salad

or

sub sandwich ( deli meat)
hot soup / crackers

or
Lipton pasta side dish (microwaveable)
with can tuna or chicken added.
or can of tomato and meat sauce added-omit the seasoning pouch in the side dish
if doing this one and just use the plain noodles.

milk/water/juice

things that I've found travel well
Pringle chips
small cereal boxes
small pk jam and peanut butter and honey
pop-corn microwaveable
hot cereal pouches
hot-chocolate pouches
cup a soup or Campbell's Chunky soup
crackers
potatoes
can meats
can pasta--Beefaroni,etc
small can fruit--jello puddings
peanuts/soya nuts and raisins
Uncle Bens rice bags with the seasonings included
Lipton's Pasta side dishes


How To cook Pasta In A Microwave

here is a link

http://www.ehow.com/how_5020839_cook-pasta-microwave.html

Thanks, bababear. Your post seems the most realistic so far for studio cooking.
The studio, however, only comes with 4 paper plates, and 4 paper bowls.
No 2 quart glass dish to cook pasta in, or anything else.

 

[wishicouldgomoreofte]

For me it's not so much the taste of the eggs from the microwave, but the smell that bothers me. Then again, eggs typically hate me :/

To cook pasta some folk have special pasta cookers. I simply recycle some of the Healthy Choice Fresh Mixers containers I used to buy for work. Just refill with my own pasta (the small shells from walmart work best, but Angel Hair might work well too), fill to the line with water and microwave on high for 6 minutes. The 'colander' is built into the top: just hold and flip. Image from their website so you know what I'm talking about:

Good idea, twinklebug. Recycling the healthy choice container sounds great.

 

[LindaBabe]

Originally Posted by bababear_50
Breakfast for me

toasted bagel-with cream cheese and jam
bowl of cereal / milk
hot oatmeal-pkg type-just add hot water
scrambled egg-(microwave) and toast
toaster waffles /syrup

cup coffee/ juice

fruit cup


Lunch :

Tuna salad and raw veggies and dip
Chicken salad and raw veggies and dip


pretzels, chips or crackers to nibble on

lemonade,or milk
yogurt

Dinner:

Baked potato
melted cheese on top

or

can chilli on top
tossed salad

or

sub sandwich ( deli meat)
hot soup / crackers

or
Lipton pasta side dish (microwaveable)
with can tuna or chicken added.
or can of tomato and meat sauce added-omit the seasoning pouch in the side dish
if doing this one and just use the plain noodles.

milk/water/juice

things that I've found travel well
Pringle chips
small cereal boxes
small pk jam and peanut butter and honey
pop-corn microwaveable
hot cereal pouches
hot-chocolate pouches
cup a soup or Campbell's Chunky soup
crackers
potatoes
can meats
can pasta--Beefaroni,etc
small can fruit--jello puddings
peanuts/soya nuts and raisins
Uncle Bens rice bags with the seasonings included
Lipton's Pasta side dishes

I think this is the list i'll go with - I'll get one of the healthy choice dishes, just to have the container. Hard to justify the $25 service fee from WeGOShop just for a rotisserie chicken and veggie tray, but it may have to be done. Or maybe I'll just freeze some chicken and pack cut veggies in my soft side cooler in the suitcase. With SW, I get two.

Thank you ALL for your contributions!