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80% of this thread summed up:
To keep stuff cold, get a Polar Bear.
To keep stuff hot, get a Hotlogic.



1. Some of our POM meals in HI were fantastic. And some that were great in the past were inedible. And some of are meals were wrong.
2. 48 pack cooler should fit 20-24 POM size meals. If they're frozen for a few days they'll stay frozen in the cooler for days with no ice needed.
3. Fill the Polar Bear with hot water in a tub and let it sit for a few minutes to expand it so it can fit more meals.

Food/ cooking utensils which are easy to bring while traveling
Beef Jerky/Dried Salami (Easy to make a sandwich. Can add mayo packet)
Wraps, good to use as bread, stays a long time.
Foreman.
Sandwich maker. Bring bread and cheese.
Ramen noodle soups, try with cold water, it isn't bad.
Or ask a coffee shop for free hot water.
Oatmeal Packets (just add hot water and it’s a filling meal)
Tuna Packets
Buy eggs and hard boil inside hot water thing

Foods which are easily found in obscure places in the USA
Bread: Thomas bagels, Sara lee bagels.
Lox, can be found in most groceries.
Sabra humus products.
tuna fish, sardines, etc.
peanut butter, jelly.
cereals. milk, if you drink cholov stam.
Fresh and frozen fish. Try cooking salmon on a foreman with a bit of spices. (Tip the Foreman back a little to keep the juice in for better taste.)

Foods which are easily found all over the world
Fresh fish.
Perhaps american canned tuna.
Fresh fruits and vegetables (in IL there is a problem of terumes and meisres)

Seasons Kosher Meals
Seasons supermarket now advertises that they offer travel meals, similar to Pomegranate

Pomegranate M2G
https://www.thepompeopleonline.com/categories/97309/products

From Dan's Banfff TR
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Something Fishy - http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=46759.msg968426#msg968426
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Boneless spare ribs with wild mushroom rice and popcorn cauliflower.  The ribs were moist and delicious, I’d order them anytime in a restaurant.  The popcorn cauliflower was fantastic as well.

Sesame chicken, Chicken Tortellini with pesto sauce, and Balsamic Baby Portabella Mushrooms.  The Sesame chicken was good though it could have used more sauce.  The mushrooms were great and the chicken tortellini was very good as well.

Eggplant Rollatini.  This stuff is unbelievable.  Eggplant loaded with ricotta, tomato sauce, and cheese. It’s probably the best eggplant dish I’ve had in my life.  An absolute must try.

Eggplant Parmesan was the absolute best Eggplent Parmesan I’ve had in my life as well. It’s such a pleasure to eat so well while traveling.

Penne a la Vodka was good, though overshadowed by our massive portions of out of this world Eggplant dishes.

Honey Mustard Corned Beef.  This was a truly awesome mouth-watering dish.  Thick juicy slices of tangy corned beef, it’s a real treat.

Glazed dark meat chicken stuffed with pastrami was awesome.  The couscous and green beans were good as well.

I wasn’t such a fan of the Sino steak as it was a bit tough.

Fettuccine Alfredo was creamy and fantastic.

Baked Ziti was delicious as well.

Lasagna was good, but not quite up to par as some of the other dairy meals.

Absolutely perfect Chicken Marsala though I wasn’t such a fan of the Shlishkes. The grilled Portabella Mushrooms were very good.

Hot pastrami was very good, but just can’t compete with the honey mustard corned beef.  The Garlic mashed potatoes were phenomenal!

Ancho Marinated Hanger Steak had a fantastic flavor though it got a bit dried out unfortunately.  The grilled vegetables were very good.

The Mac and Cheese was very good, though obviously not as good as when the hotel heats it up for you.

Spicy Southern Fried Chicken Nuggets are outstanding.  The seasonings are just amazing.  The only thing I’d like with it is a dipping sauce so it was perfect that we also had the meatballs below!

Meatballs were very good in a tasty sauce.

Mini stuffed cabbage were excellent as were the roasted potatoes and garlic string beans.

But this was what really blew me away.  The Delmonico steak in a red wine reduction was far superior to the steak that you’ll receive in your local steakhouse.  And when a store figures out how to make a frozen steak that is reheated taste better than what most steakhouses serve I’m left completely speechless.  Plus it’s packed with 2 of my favorite sides-the garlic mashed potatoes and popcorn cauliflower.

From various DDFrs -
 Honey mustard corned beef and the spare ribs were delicious.
The garlic green beans were a great side dish.
The cheese blintzes were fantastic
Sesame chicken, Chicken Tortellini

From SF Maui TR http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=46759.msg968426#msg968426
Every single dish, whether a fancy rib steak or simple tzimmes, was absolutely delectable. The General Tso's was saucy, spicy, and delicious

@Yehuda - August 2015:
Great - BBQ chicken nuggets, Baked breaded chicken cutlet, Buffalo chicken wings, Cheese blintzes, Penne ala vodka, Popcorn cauliflower, Roasted potatoes were great.
Okay - Ribs too fatty for me, Fire Poppers Chicken Nuggets too spicy for me, Garlic broccoli, Mashed potatoes
Bad - Roasted asparagus (was white asparagus)

http://yeahthatskosher.com/2014/01/kosher-travel-meals-a-complete-guide-of-options/


https://www.koshwhere.com/en/
Here's how it works:
Use the search bar and fill your destination address (hotel/airport/home/office,etc) , date range and how many guests will eat. View the caterer's kosher certification, select your favorite kosher meals from the caterer's menu for the days you need, choose your delivery preference and make an order
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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #120 on: March 22, 2012, 09:38:51 AM »
Just to get back OT --

I always take one or two Luck Chen noodle bowls with me -- I think they happen to taste pretty good, and only require hot water to prepare, which you can find just about anywhere.  But try to get hot water from the hottest source as it works better -- i.e. in the lobby of a limited service hotel, find the urn in the pantry, rather than using the thermos pot at the coffee station in the lobby.  At an airport club -- same thing.  I have eaten many of them in airport lounges, and have always asked the attendant to let me into the pantry to get hot water straights from the urn -- or they have filled a cup for me from there.

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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #121 on: March 22, 2012, 07:47:27 PM »
Honestly, I don't remember learning it that way, but it's been a while. What you're saying is that if I used a dairy fork/spoon (that hasn't been used for hot dairy for 24 hours) with hot meat, I can wait 24 hours and put it back in the dairy drawer?
my rabbi says it is better to put it under boiling water which is really easy to do to avoid shailos.

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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #122 on: March 22, 2012, 09:29:28 PM »
Honestly, I don't remember learning it that way, but it's been a while. What you're saying is that if I used a dairy fork/spoon (that hasn't been used for hot dairy for 24 hours) with hot meat, I can wait 24 hours and put it back in the dairy drawer?
Absolutely not what I said. Just saying that if you basically assume there is no problem by ovens, but you want to be machmir a little, but not all the way then to add natla"f would make sense
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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #123 on: March 25, 2012, 01:52:03 PM »
anyone have any ideas how to travel with grape juice and not check luggage?

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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #124 on: March 25, 2012, 01:55:16 PM »
anyone have any ideas how to travel with grape juice and not check luggage?
If you find s/o on your flight that you're willing to trust and let them check it in.
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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #125 on: March 25, 2012, 02:42:20 PM »
anyone have any ideas how to travel with grape juice and not check luggage?
Bring grapes and squeeze them when you need the juice.  ;D

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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #126 on: March 25, 2012, 02:59:23 PM »
Bring grapes and squeeze them when you need the juice.  ;D
in that case I can buy grapes there!
Thinking of putting the grape juice in little shnapps bottles. 2.5 bottles is a revi'is at 50 ml

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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #127 on: March 25, 2012, 07:23:06 PM »
in that case I can buy grapes there!
Thinking of putting the grape juice in little shnapps bottles. 2.5 bottles is a revi'is at 50 ml
I've heard solidly full bottles are undetectable at the TSA.
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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #128 on: March 25, 2012, 11:59:07 PM »
I've heard solidly full bottles are undetectable at the TSA.
do you know anyone who got away with such a thing?

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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #129 on: March 26, 2012, 01:10:38 AM »
I don't know if this has been discussed here before, but the trick is to bury them in the bottom of your carry on and prominently put a bottle of water on top of everything else right when you open the carry on. The scanner will notify a 2nd guy that there's liquids in it. He will take it and open it - see and remove the bottle of water and possibly zip it back up without searching too thoroughly. Basically, he has no clue what the scanner guy saw - only knows that 'something' liquid is in it.

It's worked like a charm for me before.

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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #130 on: March 26, 2012, 01:19:05 AM »
That is genius!

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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #131 on: March 26, 2012, 01:27:55 AM »
Many time they send it through the xray again so YMMV.

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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #132 on: March 26, 2012, 03:20:19 AM »
I don't know if this has been discussed here before, but the trick is to bury them in the bottom of your carry on and prominently put a bottle of water on top of everything else right when you open the carry on. The scanner will notify a 2nd guy that there's liquids in it. He will take it and open it - see and remove the bottle of water and possibly zip it back up without searching too thoroughly. Basically, he has no clue what the scanner guy saw - only knows that 'something' liquid is in it.

It's worked like a charm for me before.

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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #133 on: March 26, 2012, 09:32:03 AM »
last time i went through security at mdw and had liquids in my bag they knew exactly what they were looking for even though i had employed this trick (they also deemed to know that i had meat in the bag

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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #134 on: March 26, 2012, 10:42:50 AM »
Many time they send it through the xray again so YMMV.
+1, almost every time IME.
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What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #135 on: March 26, 2012, 10:49:58 AM »
Or travel with your baby. (or borrow one)
Would they let grape juice the same way they let water for a child?

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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #136 on: April 02, 2012, 08:09:13 PM »
Any good ideas for kosher food over pessach besides cold cuts, hot dogs and tuna?
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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #137 on: April 03, 2012, 01:21:25 AM »
Any good ideas for kosher food over pessach besides cold cuts, hot dogs and tuna?
buy a burner and have omelets and you can make bbqs too.

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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #138 on: April 03, 2012, 10:41:16 AM »
buy a burner and have omelets and you can make bbqs too.
Burners in USA are around 110 volts I need a 220 for Europe. If I have a car outlet adapter will I be able to run my burner out of my car?
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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #139 on: April 03, 2012, 10:44:20 AM »
definitaly not on the small $5-15 adapters, MAYBE on the bigger $70. check the adapter for max amps.