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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
http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/33245
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 #200 on: August 01, 2012, 12:56:31 PM »
My wife makes many of the same foods we eat at home and we heat them up using a portable burner.

What kind of portable burner do you use, and where can I get one?

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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #201 on: August 01, 2012, 01:00:53 PM »
What kind of portable burner do you use, and where can I get one?

Walmart? Amazon? Target?
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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #202 on: August 01, 2012, 01:06:33 PM »
Walmart? Amazon? Target?

Of course, silly me.  Don't even know why i asked that... But can anyone recommend a particularly good one? All the ones I've seen have reviews that say they cycle on and off, making it difficult to boil a pot of water.

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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #204 on: August 01, 2012, 04:55:19 PM »
www.amazon.com/dp/B000I14C7I/?tag=cl03f-20
Probably will just get broken in transit.
The $10 burners will boil a water just fine.
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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #205 on: August 01, 2012, 05:14:51 PM »
instant soups
frozen deli
packs of tuna
packs of instant mashed potatoes
and for hot water this is a great item  www.amazon.com/dp/B000I8VE68/?tag=cl03f-20
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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #206 on: August 01, 2012, 05:16:29 PM »
Probably will just get broken in transit.
The $10 burners will boil a water just fine.

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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #207 on: August 01, 2012, 05:18:27 PM »
I've put no less than 20,000 miles on mine. Works like a champ.
It's not about miles, but the amount of times it gets manhandled by the baggage folk.  At any rate my $10 burner has survived over 250K miles, though a crock pot broke after just one trip, never tried that again.
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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #208 on: August 07, 2012, 09:49:32 AM »
NOT EDIBLE AT ALL!!!!!

The pictures on the boxes bear NO SIMILARITY WHATSOEVER to the contents of the boxes.  The meatballs & spaghetti was the only one that was almost edible -- but with a reddish/brown liquid that is supposed to taste like tomato sauce.

Stick with the Meal Mart meals (that need to be heated) - but are also shelf stable.  The baked ziti, eggplant parm (both pareve), and pareve cholent are all good and actually taste OK.  The Turkey Schwarma is decent on the meat side, as are a few others that I can't recall off the top of my head.

And as I mentioned once before in this thread, the Luck CHen noodle bowls are also good -- need to add hot water and let it sit a while.
I recently tried the pareve cholent.  I'm very impressed.  Tasted better than some ppl's home-made cholent ;)

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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #209 on: September 25, 2012, 12:47:18 AM »
Want to bring Chalav Yisroel milk to Maui from NYC with a stopover for an hour and a half in PHX. Think frozen milk would make it that far?

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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #210 on: September 25, 2012, 08:36:29 AM »
Frozen milk sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
Just stick with soy milk IMHO.
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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #211 on: September 25, 2012, 11:09:42 AM »
Frozen milk sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
Just stick with soy milk IMHO.

Or buy the dehydrated milk powder and mix with water when you get to your destination.

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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #212 on: September 27, 2012, 09:42:00 AM »
or shelf milk

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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #213 on: September 27, 2012, 09:58:00 AM »
or shelf milk
Can you get that in America? I have seen it in other countries but never in the US

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Re: Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #214 on: September 27, 2012, 10:30:07 AM »
Can you get that in America? I have seen it in other countries but never in the US

Sure. Most chains should carry it.
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Re: Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #215 on: September 27, 2012, 10:36:24 AM »
Sure. Most chains should carry it.
In cholov yisroel?

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Re: Re: Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #216 on: September 27, 2012, 11:01:13 AM »
In cholov yisroel?

Ah, no. That I have yet to see. Though I imagine somewhere in New York they must have it. Not where I live.

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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #217 on: October 24, 2012, 01:18:10 PM »
I see a lot of folks (dan included) saying that they bring a burner everywhere. Do hotels allow that in the rooms? Boiling water and such?
I had an unfortunate run in with resort staff involving a lanai in princeville and a portable grill and so now Im afraid to bring burners, grills etc to hotels/resorts. Did I just have bad luck with that one resort (they claimed that they had a guest start a fire a few years back that destroyed half the resort).

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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #218 on: October 24, 2012, 01:20:28 PM »
Not sure what you think happens, but when I brought one to MLE, I did not also have a poster with me that said:

"I have a burner in my suitcase which I will be using to cook kosher food!"

And, if you want to avoid the problem completely, just put it away when your done using it.
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Re: What Do You Do For Kosher Food While Traveling?
« Reply #219 on: October 24, 2012, 01:43:43 PM »
Not sure what you think happens, but when I brought one to MLE, I did not also have a poster with me that said:

"I have a burner in my suitcase which I will be using to cook kosher food!"

And, if you want to avoid the problem completely, just put it away when your done using it.

Neither do I anymore. It caught fire when it got too close to my burner while I was cooking kosher food. Hows that for irony?
I meant in terms of cooking in the hotel room and if the smoke from boiling water brings management running.