Hi there! 👋 What are your “go to” meal ideas for travel days? Comment your favorite travel day foods and snacks and any travel day food hacks you have! Let's help each other out! 🥰😁🫶
On travel days we also like to pack a lunch. Sandwiches and chips are always good. I love hummus and flour tortillas. For quick breakfast I make sausage biscuits and muffins ahead of travel days and freeze them. I will also cook up extra ground beef and freeze it for quick tacos, or spaghetti sauce for quick stops between destinations. Nice recipes, will have to try some ❤LauraD
@@MakingMyAbodeOTR I put the bacon in right at the beginning on airfry setting. Few minutes after the temperature says add food my bacon is usually done😉
I love the bento box idea! These can even be made the night ahead for a nutritious meal. We always stop for lunch on our travel days. It just takes the stress down so many notches!
You forgot to mention ".......and healthier." I'm diabetic so I can't eat bread and pasta and things with sugar, but by using healthy KETO substitutes for these items and fixing my meals I keep to the plan. Keeping the ice keeper in the towing vehicle with cold drinks makes travel days much nicer. The recipes you suggest are all good. Because I'm sure you travel during the morning, do you prep for the next day's meals the night before? Often while fixing the evening meal I get other household members to sit at the table with a cutting mat to peel and chop veggies and meat for the next day's meal. Then when I am ready to cook (and tired) that part is done and I find it makes my life easier. I learned to do that from Peg Bracken's: "I Hate to Cook" book. Ziploc bags are your friend. I even got an adjustable bag stand that holds the bags open so I can fill them. Have you found a need for something like that? Your bento boxes are genius. I've never seen those before. It is smart to travel no more than 4 hours a day. How long does it take you to load up to leave and to set up to stay the night? I just got an air fryer and don't know where I would be without it now that I live full-time in an RV. It is the best cooking tool ever devised. I have a dual air fryer. I made some oatmeal/pecan bars using parchment paper boats to bake them (using the bake feature) and they came out great. Do you ever use liners in your air fryer for baking? Give us more air fryer ideas when you have time. Is your Microwave also convection? Have you done a video about that? Also, how often do you use your propane stove? Thanks for this video.
@judyross182 Sorry I'm just now getting around to responding, yesterday was a travel day 😁. Definitely healthier! I do meal prep sometimes for travel days unless I already have a very easy meal planned. Super helpful to have things ready to go! I have seen those bag fillers but have never really saw a need for my kitchen. I just use my glass measuring cup to hold the bag I want to fill. Recently I've made a few changes that have sped up our take down and set up! It takes only about an hour to be fully hooked up and ready to go. As for set up about 30 to 45 minutes depending on the leveling situation. 🙃 The airfryer is the best isn't it!! Sounds like you have a fancy one 🤣 I keep telling my husband when our current one dies I'm getting a new one IMMEDIATELY! I was using the parchment air fryer liners but I had one catch fire because it came loose from under the food because of the force of the air. That freaked me out so I bought a silicone liner with little handles from Walmart. Works great! Regarding the microwave...it's just a regular old microwave not convection. I pretty much just use it to store my bread 😅 We use the propane stove and oven EVERY day, sometimes 3 times a day! I love it! I love to cook and nothing beats a gas stove 😊
I have two kinds of parchment paper air fryer liners. I have an 8-quart dual Ninja and I can cook two items at different settings at one time. The parchment paper boats can be put under the grate to contain dripping grease or on top of the grate to contain batter, eggs, and other runny stuff that I want to bake. Another handy air fryer gadget is a dehydrator rack that I don't use for dehydration (yet) but I did use it to cook a three-level batch of sausages. It would be good for cooking chicken, fish, hamburgers, and any larger quantity of foods that are flat. I put a parchment paper boat on the bottom and the three racks hooked together inside with the food. ***I also use the racks individually to hold down foods that are lightweight and will be blown around so that was how I solved the food/liner blowing around and catching fire issue that you mentioned.*** They make these for single-drawer air fryers, too. This is what I use in my dual: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09P17YPT8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 The other parchment paper liners are flat with holes in them and they go on top of the grate so things don't stick to it which they don't. Anyway, your tips are useful and appreciated. Thank you.
Hello from central Colorado, love your meal suggestions. I think I will pre make a few of those yummy dishes. Plan on site seeing each day, bring our lunches and have pre made dinners ready to go at night. Hope you got away from Galveston before all the scary weather was going thru Houston/Galveston.
@@MakingMyAbodeOTR I think it would be too much for me. When I eat peanut butter, it needs to be spread thin. Can't stand jelly on it either. Too thick and gloopy.
Hi there! 👋 What are your “go to” meal ideas for travel days? Comment your favorite travel day foods and snacks and any travel day food hacks you have! Let's help each other out! 🥰😁🫶
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On travel days we also like to pack a lunch. Sandwiches and chips are always good. I love hummus and flour tortillas. For quick breakfast I make sausage biscuits and muffins ahead of travel days and freeze them.
I will also cook up extra ground beef and freeze it for quick tacos, or spaghetti sauce for quick stops between destinations.
Nice recipes, will have to try some
❤LauraD
Great ideas, thanks!
My favorite thing to air fry is bacon! No mess, cooked to perfection ❤
🫨 I haven't tried that yet!! 🤯 What time and temp?
@@MakingMyAbodeOTR I put the bacon in right at the beginning on airfry setting. Few minutes after the temperature says add food my bacon is usually done😉
I love the bento box idea! These can even be made the night ahead for a nutritious meal. We always stop for lunch on our travel days. It just takes the stress down so many notches!
Good ideas!
Great food ideas for travel days! I love easy recipes👍
You forgot to mention ".......and healthier." I'm diabetic so I can't eat bread and pasta and things with sugar, but by using healthy KETO substitutes for these items and fixing my meals I keep to the plan.
Keeping the ice keeper in the towing vehicle with cold drinks makes travel days much nicer.
The recipes you suggest are all good. Because I'm sure you travel during the morning, do you prep for the next day's meals the night before? Often while fixing the evening meal I get other household members to sit at the table with a cutting mat to peel and chop veggies and meat for the next day's meal. Then when I am ready to cook (and tired) that part is done and I find it makes my life easier. I learned to do that from Peg Bracken's: "I Hate to Cook" book.
Ziploc bags are your friend. I even got an adjustable bag stand that holds the bags open so I can fill them. Have you found a need for something like that? Your bento boxes are genius. I've never seen those before.
It is smart to travel no more than 4 hours a day. How long does it take you to load up to leave and to set up to stay the night?
I just got an air fryer and don't know where I would be without it now that I live full-time in an RV. It is the best cooking tool ever devised. I have a dual air fryer. I made some oatmeal/pecan bars using parchment paper boats to bake them (using the bake feature) and they came out great. Do you ever use liners in your air fryer for baking? Give us more air fryer ideas when you have time.
Is your Microwave also convection? Have you done a video about that? Also, how often do you use your propane stove? Thanks for this video.
@judyross182 Sorry I'm just now getting around to responding, yesterday was a travel day 😁. Definitely healthier! I do meal prep sometimes for travel days unless I already have a very easy meal planned. Super helpful to have things ready to go! I have seen those bag fillers but have never really saw a need for my kitchen. I just use my glass measuring cup to hold the bag I want to fill. Recently I've made a few changes that have sped up our take down and set up! It takes only about an hour to be fully hooked up and ready to go. As for set up about 30 to 45 minutes depending on the leveling situation. 🙃 The airfryer is the best isn't it!! Sounds like you have a fancy one 🤣 I keep telling my husband when our current one dies I'm getting a new one IMMEDIATELY! I was using the parchment air fryer liners but I had one catch fire because it came loose from under the food because of the force of the air. That freaked me out so I bought a silicone liner with little handles from Walmart. Works great! Regarding the microwave...it's just a regular old microwave not convection. I pretty much just use it to store my bread 😅 We use the propane stove and oven EVERY day, sometimes 3 times a day! I love it! I love to cook and nothing beats a gas stove 😊
I have two kinds of parchment paper air fryer liners. I have an 8-quart dual Ninja and I can cook two items at different settings at one time. The parchment paper boats can be put under the grate to contain dripping grease or on top of the grate to contain batter, eggs, and other runny stuff that I want to bake.
Another handy air fryer gadget is a dehydrator rack that I don't use for dehydration (yet) but I did use it to cook a three-level batch of sausages. It would be good for cooking chicken, fish, hamburgers, and any larger quantity of foods that are flat. I put a parchment paper boat on the bottom and the three racks hooked together inside with the food.
***I also use the racks individually to hold down foods that are lightweight and will be blown around so that was how I solved the food/liner blowing around and catching fire issue that you mentioned.***
They make these for single-drawer air fryers, too. This is what I use in my dual:
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09P17YPT8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
The other parchment paper liners are flat with holes in them and they go on top of the grate so things don't stick to it which they don't. Anyway, your tips are useful and appreciated. Thank you.
Thanks for the ideas. I need to get a lot better about food on travel days.
Hello from central Colorado, love your meal suggestions. I think I will pre make a few of those yummy dishes. Plan on site seeing each day, bring our lunches and have pre made dinners ready to go at night. Hope you got away from Galveston before all the scary weather was going thru Houston/Galveston.
We did!! We're in Missouri now...possible weather later this week but we're ready! I can't wait to get back home to Colorado for the summer!!
Hi fellow Coloradian. I live north of Denver. Nice video.
@lynettebaumgartner6201 👋 Hi 😁 Thanks!
@@lynettebaumgartner6201Hi, are you related to the Baumgartners around Keenesburg?
Yes. They are fifth and sixth cousins.
My mom always used to put butter on her peanut butter sandwiches and I always thought that was so strange.
@christineconley7903 😆 Have you tried it? My grandpa always did, and I thought it was strange until I tried it 😁
@@MakingMyAbodeOTR I think it would be too much for me. When I eat peanut butter, it needs to be spread thin. Can't stand jelly on it either. Too thick and gloopy.
What is the cooler you are using in the vehicle on travel days?
We picked it up at Walmart. The brand is Igloo it's a backpack style. I couldn't find a link for the exact one but there were others like it. 😊