Hotel Room Snacks – Ideas for the best healthy foods for easy meals to have in a hotel room without a kitchen or even a fridge to save on money while staying at hotels.
Hotel Room Snacks
We just returned from a lovely week long trip to London and Rotterdam. And, while in London our hotel didn’t have a full kitchen or even a mini fridge.
It can get pretty expensive eating out at every meal for our family of 4. So, I headed to a local grocery store for no cook, healthy foods to enjoy as hotel room snacks. (And save a bit of money by enjoying our own food too!)
We had a Lidl store in walking distance to our hotel, which is a budget friendly chain similar to ALDI. Have a look on google maps for supermarkets near your hotel to make it easy to stock up on food on the way back after a day out.
We also took early morning walks to Lidl for breakfast supplies and headed back to our hotel room to enjoy a breakfast in our room.
For our hotel room breakfast we usually each picked a yogurt, had a hard boiled egg (or two) and a piece of fruit.
Healthy Hotel Room Snack Ideas
Here are the foods that we enjoyed during our recent stay and some great ideas for more foods you could easily enjoy in your hotel room.
Fresh Fruit
On day 1 I like to buy a bag each of apples, bananas and mandarins or oranges. So, there’s a rainbow of fruit to choose from that require no prep.
Vegetables
Cucumber and baby carrots are our go to as a great way to enjoy fresh vegetables during our hotel stay.
We just snap them into bite sized pieces – no cutlery required. You could also pick ready prepared salads to pick at for a rainbow of healthy vegetables.
Hard-Boiled Eggs
Every supermarket in England seems to have their own brand pot of spinach and a couple of hard boiled eggs. We enjoyed these as a protein rich snack or breakfast.
Yes, it’s WAY pricier than doing it yourself, but when you don’t have kitchen ready hard boiled eggs work out to be an economical, instant, healthy protein option.
Cheese
We all love cheese, so chose a different block each day. We simply broke it into pieces and enjoyed the whole block between the 4 of us in one go. So, we didn’t have to worry about refrigeration.
And yes, smaller cheese is more expensive than in bulk but it worked out cheaper than eating a meal out and we got to sample a different cheese each day!
Tuna & Smoked Salmon
My youngest son will happily eat tuna straight out a can and my oldest son adore smoked salmon. Both make excellent, instant hotel room snacks.
We sometimes even buy a small tub of cream cheese and make cream cheese smoked salmon roll ups by filling slices of smoked salmon with cream cheese, rolling them up and enjoying the healthy high protein foods as an almost instant meal.
Yogurt – Best Hotel Room Snacks
All you need is a spoon to enjoy a small tub of Greek yogurt. We sometimes had them plain and other times mixed in a handful of nuts, chia seeds or a store bought paleo granola that we found.
We each chose a different flavour every day and had them straight away, without having to worry about refrigeration or food waste.
Chocolate Dessert
We were on holiday after all, so indulged in chocolate desserts that we found. Depending where in the world you are, you may want to enjoy a healthy local dessert that you can find.
You could also take along your favorite chocolate bars or chocolate chips to indulge in while away from home.
Nuts and Seeds
A good option is to take along your favorite nuts and seeds as non-perishable snacks, you could also fill a ziploc bag or carefully take along mason jars with a whole trail mix of healthy foods to enjoy through the duration of your stay.
Vegetable Crisps/Chips
A selection of vegetable crisps, lentil chips and other healthier chip options kept my kids happy and full to complete a meal.
We found that the above hotel room snacks helped save money while travelling and also nutritionally balanced the rest of the meals that we ate out during our trip.
Hotel Room Healthy Snacks Video
Here’s the video with some of the food items I bought to put together quick and simple hotel meals. Hit play below or click here to watch on YouTube.
Healthy Travel Snacks To Make
For the travel day and first day while on holiday, I also made the following snacks which I took along with us:
Gluten-free Cookies With Chocolate Chips
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