You will be sick of restaurants and the time you'll waste if you eat out all three meals. If you have to get kids to school and go to work also that week, you'll be hard pressed to find time to do it- eat out 21 times that is.
Take a small cutting board and a sharp knife with you to the hotel. Have a couple kitchen towels, handi-wipes, zip-lock bags, napkins and paper plates. You can do a lot without going to restaurants for all meals.
Simple breakfasts could be handled with the fridge: cereal & milk, cold cuts and bread, cottage cheese and fruit. Buffets (if you can handle them) and cafeterias can be faster restaurants with better choices than fast food. If you have to do fast food, you can stick with the salads and grilled meats. Take the grilled chicken from a bun and add it to a salad to get more protein in the salad.
For lunches, Kids can eat at school and you can pick up or make a salad for yourself.
Do a "cracker barrel" dinner - sliced "cracker sized" coldcuts, sliced fruit, olives, chunked vegetables (cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, broccoli, etc. Go for ones that are already prepared at the grocery and may not even need to be washed) low-fat triscuits, hummus. Go heavy on the veggies for yourself, or use lettuce or spinach leaves as your crackers. Count out the crackers and coldcut slices for yourself.
Get a couple of Subs and cut them into small sections to mix and match. Serve them with raw veggies and fruit instead of chips.
Best wishes.
Last edited by WebRover; 03-27-2008 at 02:29 AM.
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