Can I post a food vent in here??

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evan

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It's not about my food or any home cooked meal, it's about hotel food!

I started in a new job in August and even though I love my new job and the traveling it involves, I am quickly growing to resent hotel food!

First of all, it's the same food everywhere. It's often full of fat, flavourless or too sweet.

I have spent 6 nights the last two weeks in hotels, and I'm spending the entire next week in a hotel.

I have eaten a lot of yoghurt and had a lot of tea, but I could kill for a piece of fruit!

Or a vegetable dish!! (oh, they do have vegetarian dishes. Usually something boiled to unrecognition and killed with salt!)

Am I asking too much?

 
I often find myself ordering off the appetizer menu plus a salad.

shrimp cocktail and salad, crab cakes and salad, even chicken wings and salad or carpacchio and salad or soup if it's "homemade". Not sure if something like this is available in Europe.

 
AngAk, the worst thing is the lunch buffets, but dinners are a close second.

I'll definitely try your idea! It is probably way more healthy and tasty than the main course - as you say, appetizers usually taste good.
Thanks for sharing your idea. I would never have thought of it myself smileys/smile.gif

 
Here, we have to watch out for the dearth of deep fried appetizers, but hotels and better

restaurants usually have some nice appetizer choices to pair with a salad or soup and a good bread basket.

 
can you bring fruit with you? can you get out to a greengrocer when you're there? how about

local resturants that deliver? even a good deli close to the hotel? pizza or chinese for delivery?

room service is usually the worst smileys/frown.gif

 
Ang, this what I do when out for lunch. This way I am assured of no having too much

food in front of me. If it's there I eat; if not I don't.

 
Why do you have to eat in the hotel? Is is a matter of who pays?.....

I travel almost constantly for my job and I too love it. I travel mostly by car although I stay at one spot for a week or more. I have a bin with a hot plate, take a small cooler, and mostly live from the local grocery store. I take a few meals that I have made at home and then buy salad makings and other healthy things like fruit and chicken breasts from the grocery and cook in my room. Otherwise I get a big salad at Golden Coral plus some veggies and chicken. Usually enough for 2 nights. I always avoid hotel food. It is difficult, especially for lunch but I usually find a Subway and get a roast beef sub with oil and vinegar and the inside extra bread removed.

 
This is what I do because I'm cheap. smileys/bigsmile.gif (But really, appetizers are often the best parts of a menu)

 
I have a lot of conferences and the meals are included. Add to that

we usually have a busy schedule (not really time to run out and buy food other places) and most hotels we are in are by some airport - read: In the middle of nowhere.

I DID however try Ang's advice today and I had the chef make me a green salad with dressing on the side (served with a salmon carpaccio appetizer.) It was delicious - and healthy! Thanks Ang!! smileys/smile.gif

 
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