By Cheri Sicard
In the video below. we join Val from Our Next Adventure for an RV cooking tutorial on her favorite travel day recipes.
These are recipes you can make ahead so that there’s one less thing to worry about doing on RV travel days.
Making your RV travel days meals in advance will also reduce the temptation to give in to unhealthy fast food, although, to be sure, some of Val’s recipes also fail to pass the “healthy” test. But they are perhaps healthier than typical fast food road fare.
Watch the video for the recipes and to see how they’re made. Val shares a snack, a lunch, and a dinner to take you through an entire RV travel day.
So what are Val’s go-to RV travel day recipes?
- Rice Krispy Treats: Val likes to have Rice Krispy treats on hand for on-the-road snacks. Whip up a batch in about 5 minutes!
- Pineapple Chicken Bowl: Val saves time by using a rotisserie chicken and convenience foods for this make-ahead one-dish healthy meal. You could easily substitute fresh and from-scratch ingredients (I would but this travel day recipe otherwise sounds delicious).
- Taco Salad to Go: This make-ahead salad is a complete and hearty meal on a plate. And who doesn’t love taco salad?
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My wife and I fully agree with pre-made dinners. We do a semi-annual 1,700 mile N<>S seasonal migration. We are on the road 4 nights. In the weeks leading up to the trip, we make a dinner entree for 4 rather than 2. The other half goes into microwave/freezer safe storage containers. We do this for each road night. We buy small serving microwavable side dishes to accompany the entrees before we hit the road. By doing this over several weeks, we don’t feel like the trip is all leftovers, even if it is. Better food, and ready within minutes after setup. Less cleanup also.
My wife makes good use of our crock pot when we are on a multi day trip with our fifth wheel. Usually chili or a chicken dish and sometimes a ham. The pot rides in the sink with masking tape to keep the lid in place. It takes very little power from the inverter and boy does it smell good when we open the door.