Weekend Retreat food Ideas

Next weekend I am going to a Weekend Retreat in the Bay Area (YAY!) They only serve one meal, a brunch on Saturday morning. There are restaurants near the hotel, but I don't want to spend another $100.00 on food. The hotel room does have a mini fridge and microwave so I am planning on taking some food for dinner on Friday & Saturday night. Do you all have any suggestions on what to take? I don't want anything overly messy or that takes a ton of time. I was going to take some snack foods (granola bars, fruit, etc) as well as bagels & cream cheese. What else should I take?

For some strange reason those microwavable Mac & cheese and a few beef hotdogs comes to mind. It would be a hearty hot meal but also be inexpensive and easy to make. You could get a few of those small ketchup, mustard, and relish condiments from a mcdonalds.
Have fun

You can buy those meals in a cup (not very yummy but ok... or Campbells soup that goes right into the microwave... tomato or chicken noodle. I got a Marie Calendars pasta dinner in the prepackaged aisle that had pasta, sauce, etc and came with a little disposable tray to cook the pasta in. Easy in the microwave and fairly tasty... although probably loaded with sodium. Have a great time.

We did a weekend retreat last fall and brought bagels/fruit/chili(my friend cooked the meat ahead of time and threw the ingredients into a crock pot to heat up)/chicken salad. We ate well!

You can make a quiche ahead of time and heat it up (as long as you put it in a microwaveable dish). Or any baked casserole type dish and a salad. Good Luck and hope that helps.

does the frig have an icebox? if so you can make some breakfast burritos and just wrap them in wax paper and put them in the icebox. then when you are ready to eat them just microwave them and bam! instant meal! I can give my own personal recipe for them if you want?

I used to go to anime and video game conventions, and usually packed my own food for the whole trip (aside from maybe ordering a pizza or going to Denny's with friends), because I didn't want to pay the hotel restaurant prices.

Things I brought:
- fruit cups
- bagels
- tuna salad/cracker kits

Oh, I know there was more, I just don't remember what.

it so many things to pick
just go shopping and pick out
things that you going to LIKE and eat!!

have major fun at the crop

I am thinking like Andrea - when I go to things like that the ladies often order a pizza or Chinese.

Any frozen dinner you like.

My son takes hamburger patties that we made on the grill to work (I make extras for that purpose) and hamburger bun and condiments on the side.

Then he heats up the pattie and he has a fresh homemade hamburger in minutes. That works really well for him at work and they are good grilled burgers, not fast food.

You could take a loaf of bread and sandwich stuff and others may want to chip in to help reimburse your cost and eat with you instead of going out.

If it were me, I'd probably go with the big juicy burger off my grill at home.

Simple suggestions:

fruit
bagels
single serving cereals
pint of milk
tuna salad (made ahead)
WW, Marie Calandar meals
Cup of soups
cans of condensed soups
salads/dressing
bread/lunchmeats

Individual bags of chips, pretzels,popcorn, granola bars, zone bars, trail mix etc..

And nothing saying you cant take a small cooler filled with cold stuff and refill with ice from the machine either. Then you could take more made-ahead stuff.

Have fun!

Alot of the Ladies I scrap with are on special diets.They have a cooler that they bring with their special foods.

Thanks ladies!!!

It's funny! The minute I read everything you wrote, I started banging my head thinking how silly it was of my not to think of that!!!

I like the Hamburger idea! I was going to make my hubby some meals ahead of time as well so he will eat good food and not fast food so I can do burgers! Also taking my own cooler is genius!

And I wonder why I don't have the million dollar inventions sitting at my fingertips!

Tell hubby to nuke the hamburger for a matter of seconds if he wants it the way it was grilled (rare, medium, etc). If you nuke the grilled burger too long its gets overdone! I check every 10 seconds to see if it is hot.

she need some lock n lock