What do you cook for quick meals?

[smacky1]

I was wondering what everyone cooks for quick meals when staying in a room with a full kitchen. I am doing my grocery list now for my vacation and would love some ideas on what to make. We have a two year old so eating out everynight would be a nightmare for us!!!

 

[spiceycat]

what do you cook at home?

same thing!

for a 2 year old - whatever he will eat....

 

[ScooterL]

Pasta! Just get some pasta and a jar of sauce. We like eating omelets for dinner, too - those are also pretty quick and easy. Salads are also quick -get the salad in bags, and you can get some pre-cooked grilled chicken strips (like Tyson's) to put on top. Quesadillas are good, too. If you can get a "bake-your-own" pizza at the grocery store that's tasty - or there's always frozen pizza.

You have a full kitchen, so just about anything you can do at home you can do at a DVC resort! We like baking chocolate chip cookies or brownies - for the cookies we've made them from scratch or have gotten the refrigerated pre-made Nestle cookie dough, and that's pretty good - nothing like warm chocolate chip cookies right out of the oven. With brownies we use a mix, just have to remember to buy eggs and oil to mix them up with.

Laura

 

[pbharris4]

Slow cook a Rump Roast. Make baked potatoes with it and have a salad. Save the leftover roast beef for cold roast beef sandwiches the next day!

 

[utahkennedys]

How about b'fast for dinner? Pancakes and sausage are always a hit w/ my 4 year old dd, with orange slices.

 

[lulu71]

Slow cook a Rump Roast. Make baked potatoes with it and have a salad. Save the leftover roast beef for cold roast beef sandwiches the next day!

Slight OT but we had the hardest time trying to find a rump roast at the grocery store in Orlando last year. We asked the butcher and he had no idea what a rump roast was! Do people in central FL not eat this?

 

[susan1]

hi
very off topic. i admire all of you. do you truly cook and bake on holiday? me. i.m off to the nearest fast food diner. i walk enough at disney to stay healthy

 

[Cruelladeville]

I agree with you, Susan1, if I want a fast meal I will head to the closest restaurant! The closest I get to a home cooked meal is a pre-made pizza, although the microwave also gets a good work-out!

 

[Antonia]

I love a rump roast! Yummy! And absolutely easy to fix.

 

[FreeTime]

I second the pasta.
Sub sandwiches where everyone can add their own fixins'.
Giodano's stuffed pizza one night and the next night have it with salad.
Fried and chicken nuggets for the kids.
Cereal and pastries for breakfast.

We usually eat out and cook in about 50/50. We don't eat out much at home and after a few days go weary of it.

 

[dianeschlicht]

We usually prepare one large dinner with all the fixings like a ham or roast. Then we use the leftovers for sandwiches for quick suppers or lunches the rest of the trip. We also have been known to do lasagne quite a few times. I buy one of those disposable foil pans, and when the lasagne is gone, the pan gets thrown out. We often do baked potato bar too. Have chopped up fresh veggies, onions, etc available along with shredded cheese, and let everyone make their own microwave baked potato with toppings. We usually bake the potatos in the oven the night before, so they just heat and prepare when they want. That is a great one if you have active teens running around. They can fix their own whenever they like! We also do quite a bit of pasta and salads.

 

[Beachclubmama]

Hi,
Meatloaf is always a hit for us. We bake cookies as well along with bluberry muffins.(We use a mix)
Another quick meal that works out well is a chicken breast cut up over a salad. Anything that needs to cook for awhile I usally cook it the night before.

 

[Eyore4Ever149]

quick stuff we do on vaction with a kitchen- deli sandwiches, fruit and go out for dessert. Tuna melts. Chicken salad, egg salad sandwiches, grilled cheese and tomato, cucumber sandwich, basically lunch stuff for dinner

 

[Kirby]

I would think anything that you already cook at home that is easy. Tacos, spaghetti, chili dogs, they all come to mind first. How about mac and cheese? Most kids love that. Mine could make a meal off of it.

 

[Ksp]

Some of our staple meals include chili dogs, mac/cheese, eggs/bacon; our last visit I tried out jello--very nice treat in the hot weather.
We brought down a slow-cooker on our last long visit; made bbq beef that time.
When we're in a full kitchen, I do usually bake some type of treat--brownies or cookies.

 

[momofprincess]

Slow cook a Rump Roast. Make baked potatoes with it and have a salad. Save the leftover roast beef for cold roast beef sandwiches the next day!

I know...what about bringing down the crockpot? (Probably not possible for those who fly, but if you're driving...) Just load it up in the morning before you head out the door, or even the night before. And then plug it in. Man, I wish I'd thought of that last time we drove.

 

[pbharris4]

I rarely (very rarely) cook on vacation, but we will start to do a little bit more. (Well..my husband will ..I cook all year and I am not going to do it on my vacation..I'll supervise) We were at WDW for 10 days and did the DP this year and it was just way too much food, Plus I always felt like I HAD to go out because it was already paid for. It would have been nice to stay one night. With that said...I plan on the rump roast, chicken artichoke pasta, homemade southern tea, pierogies and chicken ceasar salad. For breakfast one day (and you could do this in a studio, too) Sauage, egg & cheese sandwich (consists of 2 Light Multi Grain Thomas Eng. Muffins toasted, with egg patty bought at WalMart, a slice of cheese and Turkey Sauage Patty-I forget who makes them, but they nuke in 60 sec...it is really good and heathier for you too!

 

[RunningthruDisney]

We mainly cook breakfast. Eggs, pancakes, bacon.

Then a meal where we are around 2-3, and a light meal sandwiches, chicken nuggets, mac and cheese, salad or cereal if we are in the room, around 7, if we are hungry.

The protein at breakfast keeps us going.

We are traveling with 2 year old twins in January. So this might change our routine. But we really are not big eaters.

 

[scootert]

We usually just do fruit & cereal for breakfast, but some dinner options that require minimal cooking would be: Rotisserie chicken (leftovers in salad); salad in a bag; frozen pizza (fire oven Freschetta is great); yogurt & fruit for snacks...

 

[jima53]

For us it is our normal saturday night steaks, some good burgers on a grill, and cowboy speghetti. Already planning on having a good breakfast each morning at the buffet at FW. Back for lunch will be sandwichs and chips.


Jim