I’m 47 years old. Most of my friends are about the same age. The difference? I’m retired. They are not. I can wake up, decide to file a flight plan and go.
Oh and suck it.
Cutting Costs
- Thread starter jjach
- Start date
Please register or login
Welcome to ScubaBoard, the world's largest scuba diving community. Registration is not required to read the forums, but we encourage you to join. Joining has its benefits and enables you to participate in the discussions.
Benefits of registering include
- Ability to post and comment on topics and discussions.
- A Free photo gallery to share your dive photos with the world.
- You can make this box go away
I’m 47 years old. Most of my friends are about the same age. The difference? I’m retired. They are not. I can wake up, decide to file a flight plan and go.
Oh and suck it.
I take frozen steaks, pork chops, lamb chops, some times chicken breasts, sausage/bacon, cooked shredded pork and or beef for tacos (also frozen), frozen sticks of butter. Also packets of my favorite herbs, protein or energy bars, steel cut oatmeal, small plastic bottles of maple and agave syrup (also sealed in ziplocks in case they leak). Sometimes shredded cheese. Maybe a few other items we can’t easily get on island.
Typical breakfast is often cereal (bought on island) or oatmeal. Lunch a preprepped salad or tacos, and dinner a meat and vegetable (maybe spaghetti and salad) or very often we have breakfast for dinner, bread or french toast with eggs which are plentiful on island. We eat a lot of eggs there.
Typical breakfast is often cereal (bought on island) or oatmeal. Lunch a preprepped salad or tacos, and dinner a meat and vegetable (maybe spaghetti and salad) or very often we have breakfast for dinner, bread or french toast with eggs which are plentiful on island. We eat a lot of eggs there.
I second the frozen steaks and breakfast meats. When we travel with our group, we take something like 8 Costco ribeyes. They're still mostly frozen when we arrive. Cooked leftover ribeye works for breakfast or into fried rice (buy a packet of Indonesian fried rice seasoning at Van den Tweel). Nevertheless, this isn't really a cost-cutting tip, as it's not like the alternative would be to buy ribeyes from Van den Tweel. Any way you slice it, meat is expensive on Bonaire.
We do buy cheese and deli meats from the deli counter at Van den Tweel and take sandwiches with us for lunch between dives. The food trucks are fun but not especially economical.
We do buy cheese and deli meats from the deli counter at Van den Tweel and take sandwiches with us for lunch between dives. The food trucks are fun but not especially economical.
Doctorfish
Contributor
No need to be crude! I was just stating a fact. The OP wanting to cut costs and you started talking about private planes The irony was too hard to resist.
Except that he’s welcome to fly with me on my nickel next time I go.
Jersey
Contributor
Yep - like UNCFNP & Lorenzoid we freeze steaks & big boneless chicken breasts, sealed in Food Saver bags, then wrap in neoprene skins for the flight. Still frozen solid when we arrive. I also create small Food Saver bags for herbs & spices >salt, peppper, garlic salt, Italian seasonings, whatever I plan to cook with. Ziplock baggies would work as well. Couple pounds of pasta. Chunk of Locatelli cheese. Teabags to make sun tea. We started hoofing food out of need when Cultimara was the only grocery store option and they closed at 1:00 on Saturday with no Sunday hours. Just make sure the bags don't exceed 50lb.
wgw04024
Contributor
Man bringing food with me TO bonaire sounds like the quickest way to ruin a vacation. Support the local eateries you tight wads!
In my 13 times of going to Curacao, I always bought a meal plan that covered breakfast and dinner and left lunches to eating out in places on the way or from dive sites. I am not going to worry about getting meals ready or packing food from home to take with me to vacation destinations. That is way too much for me. BUT, whatever works for you and makes you happy.
OK, Thurston.Of course none of this might apply to you. I have my own planes
Similar threads
