Snacks for road trips

TastyReuben said:
She’s normally the tightest of wads, but vacation brain is powerful in her, and as soon as we get to vacation place, it must be vacation food.

I don’t mind terribly, as I’d rather eat out every meal anyway.
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Yes I know from what you've posted she's a bit frugal. It's reasonable to want to eat out on vacation, my point is to put a seed in her brain to scale down the amount of road food that's going to rot and be tossed. Geeze I'm glad I'm in control of all things food here lol.
 
JAS_OH1 said:
my point is to put a seed in her brain to scale down the amount of road food that's going to rot and be tossed.
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We’ve been down that road many times. I’m sure I’ve posted on it here before. Nope. There’s something in her that makes her think “We need this! We need that! We need this and that and that and this!” when it comes to road trips.

The funny thing is…she’s still operating under “No eating in the new car!” rules, so it’s going to be entertaining seeing that work itself out.
 
I swear, MrsT has her own Siri built in - she just said, “We’ve got to start thinking about what food we’re packing when we drive to Pennsylvania.” 😯

I said, “Let’s start with the sandwiches…chicken? Turkey? Ham? Bologna?”

“Ummmm…no sandwiches this time around, I think.”

<Wait, could we be getting off easy?!>

“I think I want…charcuterie! So that’ll be salami and pepperoni and ham and two kinds of cheese and crackers and some mustard and nuts and pickles and olives and and celery and carrots and dip and apples and…”

🤦‍♂️

“…and the usual stuff, of course, like Twizzlers and Munchos and peanut butter crackers and peanut butter M&M’s and trail mix and pretzels and Pringles, and…”

🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️

“…and we’ll need half-and-half and a case of water and both decaf and regular teabags and cookies and…”

🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️
 
karadekoolaid said:
Odd that. When we go on a road trip, it's usually just water. When we're hungry, or need a break, we pull into a roadside cafe and eat something there.
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Rarely works over here.

You pack what you want and need, then add a 25L container extra of water... And to be safe, you usually lack for a picnic taking everything except the BBQ which i can guarantee will be provided. Just take kitchen utensils and a washing up bowl with you.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Rarely works over here.

You pack what you want and need, then add a 25L container extra of water... And to be safe, you usually lack for a picnic taking everything except the BBQ which i can guarantee will be provided. Just take kitchen utensils and a washing up bowl with you.
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Is fuel for the BBQs supplied on the picnic site, then?
 
Morning Glory said:
Is fuel for the BBQs supplied on the picnic site, then?
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Yes
They are either bottled gas or increasingly electric. The gas ones will have a pilot light so they might automatically.

All you have to do is to press a button and it turns on automatically and off again sometime later

BBQing is very much part of the culture here.
The same sites often have water as well (rain water in a tank).
 
My life on the road selling gear to gold miners and engineers involved driving to the west coast and back up to 3 times a week. ( 500 km round trip)
Always 1 stop in kumara for a leak
And maybe 1 stop on way home. No food ever eaten except between clients.
Today we still don't eat in the car. Wife knows my patterns. I drive my son Christchurch to invercargill when he had a drive in a junior drivers harness racing race.. 6 hrs there. 30 mins in invercargill then.home another 6hrs.
I was born to drive.
When I retired I drove trucks Christchurch to Auckland. 5 hrs to.picton 4hr ferry ride 8hrs to Auckland
Meal on.the ferry.

Russ
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Yes
They are either bottled gas or increasingly electric. The gas ones will have a pilot light so they might automatically.

All you have to do is to press a button and it turns on automatically and off again sometime later

BBQing is very much part of the culture here.
The same sites often have water as well (rain water in a tank).
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Gas or electric wouldn't count as the real thing around here
 
badjak said:
Gas or electric wouldn't count as the real thing around here
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Around here charcoal is too dangerous.

Even in the UK, when we lived in the south, charcoal BBQs were often the cause of heath fires including several which nearly took out the village we lived in and one that got to within 25m of our house. Another got to within 10m because the underground peat was on fire from miles away and travelled those miles underground undetected until it surfaced near to our home.

Naked flames that can not be controlled (by turning a knob) are banned in all national parks (as are dogs).
 
For road trips that we've taken in the years gone by, I take what's needed for maybe two day, tops.
Loads of bottled water though.
Normally, I'll start us out with just one pre-made meal for our first hotel/motel stop, just a few snack-y items for a quick bite while driving, and maybe enough sandwich makings for acoupla days.
I too enjoy going out to eat at local joints, depending on where.
 
Well, the laying in of supplies has started - Twizzlers and beef jerky, bought.
 
TastyReuben said:
We’re fine with the hotel and we usually get some kind of kitchenette, so it’s a little bigger …but she won’t eat the food we pack once we get there - she wants local food from there, so the grapes sit in the fridge getting softer and softer, and the dip gets slimier and slimier, and the celery gets browner and browner…
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My wife will bring any fruit we have on holiday with us - a couple of apples or a banana that's turning brown and so on. They will get to travel to other countries to be thrown away just before we fly home.
 
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