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Avoiding Hotel Food
How to survive at a homeschool conference
with starving children in a hotel room where all the food is
way too expensive for your budget.
Dateline: 8/8/04
By Nancy Friedland
Bring:
- Ice chest (refill with the hotel ice)
- Paper goods: plates, bowls, cups, forks, spoons, knives,
napkins and/or paper towels.
- Serving bowls to hold things like fresh fruit and other snacks
so they are available for easy grazing
Main course type foods
- Salad fixings and dressings
- Veggies: red peppers, carrots, cucumber etc for dips, plain
snacking, or add to salads
- Bagels and cream cheese
- Box cereal and milk
- Peanut butter and jelly (or honey or whatever)
- Cheeses (Babybels or string cheese come individually wrapped
for easy snacking)
- Hard boiled eggs
- Cold leftover pizza (or get take-out)
- Trader Joe's Just Chicken/Shrimp
- Tuna salad, or egg, chicken, or ham salads as an alternative
(can pre-make at home)
- Cottage cheese
- Yogurt
- Add-ons for yogurt or cottage cheese: Honey, jam, cinnamon
(can also be a dessert fruit dip)
- Pasta salads: add bagged greens, fruit. Or tuna, diced chicken
or ham, or grated cheese for protein, and you have a near-complete
meal.
- Take some good brown mustard and a bit of curry powder too.
Either one in plain yogurt (or mayo) makes a spread, dip or salad
dressing (really jazzes up hardboiled eggs).
- Cold cooked chicken
- Fruit
- Dried fruit--raisins, apricots, cherries, mango, pineapple,
etc. (Trader Joe's has a great assortment)
Cook with hot water (from hotel coffeemaker or
bring an electric teapot)
- Ramen or other things you can pour hot water on
- Couscous and cracked wheat (bulgur) are ready in about 5
minutes after pouring hot (near boiling) water on.
- Indian food entrees in foil pouches could sit in hot water
- Oatmeal packets
Bring a toaster oven for:
- Frozen waffles
- Gardenburgers
- Leftover pizza
Drinks
- Juice boxes, or larger bottles plus paper cups
- Bottled water
- Instant hot chocolate
- Instant shakes
Snacks
- Granola bars
- Trail mix
- Nuts: add sunflower seeds, almonds, pumpkin seeds etc. to
salads, cereals, yogurt or eat plain.
- Cereal bars
- Trader Joe's Soy and Flax chips
- Your favorite crackers
- Breads
- Chips and other junk food
- Protein bars
- Packaged sweet rolls
- Crackers and humus
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- The Complete Home Learning Source Book : The
Essential Resource Guide for Homeschoolers, Parents, and Educators
Covering Every Subject from Arithmetic to Zoology
- by Rebecca Rupp
- This ambitious reference guide lives up to its name. Practically
three inches thick--and we're not talking large print here--it's
packed with titles, ordering information, and Web site addresses.
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- Home Learning Year by Year
How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool Through
High School
by Rebecca Rupp
A structured plan to ensure that your children will learn what
they need to know when they need to know it, from preschool through
high school.
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First Year of Homeschooling Your Child
Your Complete Guide to Getting Off to the Right Start
by Linda Dobson
With the constant concern about the safety and quality of our
nation's schools, many of today's families are opting to teach
their children at home. The first hurdle these families face
is getting started.
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