If you’re traveling to a major city on a budget, consider
booking an apartment or suite hotel instead of a standard room. Specifically,
find a room w/ a kitchen especially if you’re staying four or more nights.
Instead of eating out twice a day, you can look to have an eat-in dinner or
make take-away lunches.
If you’re driving to your destination, consider bringing
some key ingredients from home such as coffee, cooking oils, spices,
condiments, and cereals. This is especially important if you’re only traveling
for a few nights and want to avoid buying some of these items at a tourist
destination. Also, don’t forget to bring some of your better cooking tools such
as a good knife or frying pan.
If you’re going to a foreign destination, some of the best
local (and often cheaper) produce and meat/poultry can be found at markets. I
like visiting the markets early on my first day of the trip to load up on
ingredients. Markets tend to carry only seasonal items so be flexible on your
menu and ingredients.
If you like take home food, why not on your trip? Instead of
eating out, bring back a pizza from a local restaurant, a rotisserie chicken,
or even Chinese or Indian take-out. Just do a little bit of research of what
types of food are really good at your travel destination.
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