Sandwich alternatives for city trips

vegan_vicky

I often face the problem that my diet becomes very bread and cheese centred whenever I do trips to cities where eating at restaurants is expensive. In a city I sleep mostly at youth hostels where there is no stove or microwave to warm ready made meals or cook. At best, there is a water kettle. It should serve as a full and healthy meal (so no snacks like fruit and raw vegetables, fastfood or ready-made meals) and portable so one can prepare it...

Originally asked by Alexander Gogl on Stack Exchange (travel) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

These days many supermarkets sell 'ready to eat meals'*, salads and food that can be heated with just the simple kitchens that are available in almost all hostels. *These are often not cheap filling unhealthy options but very good meals, of restaurant quality. (Just a pan of water kept just under the boiling point with a sealed packet of food will be fine, and you can do that with just a kettle by refreshing the hot water.) Also you can do a lot with simple fresh food, little of which needs cooking, as long as you know how to do basic cooking. Cold cuts of meat, fresh vegetables, many kinds of bread and bread substitutes like wraps and ready made toast, ready to eat rice, pot noodles (often...

Full answer by Willeke: https://travel.stackexchange.com/a/85773 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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