On the go meals

[Guest guest]

Our family is getting ready to take a fairly long trip to see our extended

family. I know that, from experience, eating along the way isn't very

vegetarian friendly OR very wallet friendly. So, we are looking for some easy

meal ideas that we don't have to cook and can just throw together without

removing a lot of our needed nutrients. We will be taking a cooler and have

some room for other foods as well. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

[Guest guest]

Bean salads work well, very nutritious. Also, sandwiches can be assembled

easily from cooler ingredients. If you want to take the sandwiches made, peanut

butter and jam/jelly or some version of that travels pretty well. We also like

to take fresh fruit on car trips, and usually i make a batch of the nut meringue

cookies that i posted here (almond, hazelnut, pistachio or pecan). Sometimes we

also purchase the Odwalla protein drinks. Another nice choice are mixed nuts,

Trader joes makes some nice ones honey roasted.

[Guest guest]

I am sure that there will be a lot of ideas that others will come up with for

you but I had this one. And, you may not like this idea at all but we did this

years ago a few times and it did work.

 

Ok....first, years ago, years ago I read about this way of cooking in a book I

have. I think that Dian Thomas (she wrote a book called " Roughing It

Easy " .....she used to be on the Gary Collins Show a lot with great camping

ideas....has written about doing this. One thing she talked about was

" manifold " cooking....where you can cook foods that have been double or triple

wrapped in heavy duty foil on the manifold of a car and remembering that made me

think of this idea.

 

What if you took some cans of vegetarian refried beans.....cheese in your

cooler (if you eat cheese), picante sauce, and tortillas......you could take the

beans, spread them on the tortillas, add the cheese, wrap them in the foil and

put them on the manifold of the car......gee, I guess cars still have manifolds

in them?.....and it would probably not take very many miles and you would have

hot burritos. Or you could wrap up Morning Star Farms vegetarian patties or

other vegetarian " hot dogs " , heating them on the manifold, just taking buns and

condiments with you.

 

I did a Google search and did find several sites....I searched " cooking on the

manifold " . Here is the one site I thought was interesting:

 

http://www.wisebread.com/cooking-great-meals-with-your-car-engine-the-heat-is-on

 

You didn't say how long of a time you have to prepare for the trip but maybe

this would help. This is a totally off the wall idea but I hope it helps you

in some way.

 

Nancy C.

East Texas

[Guest guest]

I have a huge list of bagged lunch ideas that I have collected over the years.

Many of them are great for road trips. Send me a message offlist if you would

like a copy.

 

robin