Looking for ideas on meals to make at home and take with you. Like to spend as little time cooking as necessary while on vacation. Thought of taco meat, bbq beef for sandwiches...Any other ideas? Will have to be able to travel in a cooler for a day and a half. Thanks.
Pasta dishes heat up great in microwave, stews of all sorts, stirs frys cut and ready to go, foil meals with all the ingredients pre prepped. Start making extra now and freeze it, pull out, allow to thaw in your cooler and reheat it.
You can boil a bunch of eggs and get them peeled and bagged as they are a great addition to meats for sandwiches, such as left over or canned chicken, tuna or plain old egg salad. Pre cook bacon and it heats in seconds in the microwave.
You can get the ingredients ready and bagged, then put the bags and plastic containers, like those clear plastic shoe boxes to keep things nice and dry and then you can still see what you are looking for.
Marinate, bag and freeze steaks and chicken. I like my own seasoned hamburger patties. Season, form, separate patties with wax paper and freeze in a zip lock type container. Spaghetti Sauce.
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I always make some BBQ to take with us as the kids love what they call "sloppy dogs" -- hot dogs and BBQ on a hot dog bun. When I make it, I put it in a zip top bag (double it) and freeze it FLAT in the freezer at home so when I put it in the camper freezer it doesn't take up a lot of room. Would work in a cooler that way, too.
I usually do a brisket before leaving, slice it, pkg the slices into meal size, with some of the broth off the roast. Very versatile.
I also fix mini meatloaves...one that will feed the two of us and freeze them.
Then I do chicken...either a whole chicken, cooked, deboned, pkgs meal size, or chicken breasts, same thing..great for creamed chicken or chicken salad or chicken alfredo, etc.
Finally, I precook 2 or 3 ppgs of bacon and freeze them...don't like to do a lot of cooking for breakfast. Take the bacon grease in a zip lock if you like to use it for seasoning.
I don't have a lot of luck cooking vegie beef soup in the crock pot, it just doesn't come out good enough for me.. so I fix a big pot of soup and freeze about half of it in a large ziplock bag and freeze it.. and the first night out, we have homemade soup and cornbread.
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Thanks. Keep the ideas coming. I wondered about grilled chicken for salads. If I grill it and cut it up here, will it freeze ok? Wondered if it would be dry when we went to use it.
I pre-cook pasta at home to save water, and slide it into ziplock baggies. On the trip it can be heated up in pre-made spaghetti sauce, or dropped into a casserole.
For the spaghetti sauce, if it's for one or two days from now, I'll make it up and just store it in a plastic container. For longer storage, allow to cool, place in quart-sized freezer bags, flatten, and freeze. Thaw, heat, serve.
DH likes pork chops or roasts in the crock pot, so I'll cut up the veggies, season them, brown the meat, and bag it all. Double-bagging helps keep the onions at bay. Put a liner in the crock pot, drop in the contents of your bag, and walk away!
We do tostadas on almost every trip. Not so much make-ahead, but more "assemble on the spot". A can of refried beans, open and heat. Toast up some tostada shells in the oven, and bring along pre-shredded lettuce and cheese with a jar of salsa and some sour cream and you're set!
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