On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 02:11:25 GMT, "Doug Vaughan"
wrote:

Anyone have any good ideas for easy meals on a delivery cruise?
The boat is brand new which means no utensils. However, it is
a really nice boat with refrigeration, stove and microwave.
I was thinking TV dinners. What are your favorites?
What are good snacks for at sea?

I'd take a bag of dishes and cutlery and pots with me - that wouldn't
be much trouble and would make things much more pleasant. Soup in
mugs is a nice hot snack/meal that doesn't need two hands under way.
Knorr-Swiss packet soups are especially tasty and typically take about
8-20 minutes to make. Tortilla shells (wraps) in zip-lock bags keep
palatable longer than bread. Mayonnaise, mustard, and that handy
amalgam Dijonnaise all come in plastic squeeze bottles. Sandwich meat
and cheese can both be purchased pre-sliced in resealable bags.
Smoked salmon, cream cheese, and bagels make a splendid cold
one-handed breakfast, and you can simplify even further by just using
smoked-salmon cream cheese.

Have you got an oven? I haven't sailed with either an oven or a
microwave, but either of them would open up lots of previously-frozen
possibilities such as lasagna, Jamaican patties, meat pies etc.

When I feel queasy I like to eat grapes, plums, or saltine crackers,
and when things are too busy or too rough to make sandwiches in the
galley I like to have chocolate and candies and granola bars in the
pockets of my foulies.

Someone else mentioned taking drink mixes rather than limiting
yourselves to tank water. On a delivery cruise on someone else's
boat, I wouldn't bother mixing up powdered drink mixes or frozen
lemonade, which can potentially be messy - I'd take individual cans
and plastic bottles of an assortment of one-serving-size drinks
(water, lemonade, pop-with-caffeine, pop-without-caffeine) and keep
some cold and some warm.

I don't know your arrangements with the owner ... but I'd probably
also pack along enough cleaning supplies that I could wipe down the
whole galley and heads afterwards to leave no traces. I'd also go
prepared with sealable plastic bags for garbage and recycling.

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