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If you're planning a vacation, take my Easy Vacation Meals with you! This list of simple and fun meals to make on vacation is perfect for spending more time enjoying your trip with your family and less budgeting at restaurants.
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I love going on trips with my family to relax or visit out-of-state relatives, and believe it or not, one of my favorite things about taking a vacation is the chance to enjoy our usual family meals even while we're away from home!
If you're like me, you probably don't like waiting at restaurants or worrying about budgeting any extra funds when you're enjoying time off. You can prepare delicious home-cooked meals ahead of time that will last you the full week, instead!
These are my personal favorite easy meals for large groups on vacation. I make these same vacation dinners every time my family and I go on a trip, and can guarantee you will love how simple and fun they are. It's so easy to make the leftovers into entirely new dishes, too!
Easy Vacation Dinners FAQ
My advice for cooking while traveling is to first make sure you are staying somewhere with access to a kitchen or, if you're driving to where you'll be staying, bring a portable induction cooktop or electric skillet. Plan your meals ahead and cook in large batches, making meals that will last the week to be repurposed in leftovers. For example, pasta sauces are a great choice for vacation meals as pasta is easily available and easy to make on the fly!
If you're driving and plan on bringing food with you to cook while you're away, make sure to store it properly in a cooler. Any perishable products should be stored directly on top of ice. Bag everything and ensure it will stay cold for the duration of your drive. You can even use frozen water bottles to fill gaps in the ice and keep everything as cold as it needs to be.
Breakfast Vacation Recipes
Lunch or Dinner Vacation Recipes
Vacation Dessert Recipes
Tips for Cooking on Vacation
- Make meatballs at home and freeze them. They will defrost in the cooler on the way, and when you arrive, you can prepare our meatball sauce to add them to!
- I always make sauce ahead of time, add it to gallon freezer bags, then freeze the bags. They will defrost on the way in the cooler so they're ready to use when you arrive.
- If you want to make a fresh sauce, homemade bolognese is super quick and easy to make!
- Slow cooker pulled pork is the easiest meal in the world to make on vacation. What I love most about it is there are so many easy spins on it, like pulled pork fried rice or pulled pork tacos!
- I always bring a bag of rice to quickly make a big batch for rice bowls or for fried rice. It's so easy, and leftover rice makes the best stir fries.
For more easy vacation dinner ideas, take a look at some of my favorite Sunday Dinner Ideas!
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