Extreme frugality: Cooking in your hotel room (video)

By Lylah M. Alphonse, Shine Staff

If you're trying to save money while traveling this summer, renting a place with a kitchen and cooking your own meals can save you some serious dough. If you want to save even more, though, tuck some aluminum foil, salt, pepper, and paper towels into your bag, add a tiny bottle of dish soap for easy clean up, and you can create a make-shift kitchen right in your hotel room.

Your iron can become an instant panini-press (or you can turn it downside up and use it as a hot plate). That coffee maker can be a tiny electric pot for making instant oatmeal, ramen noodles, or even poaching some fresh salmon.

This video from Lonely Planet is a little tongue-in-cheek, but the tips are solid.

Seriously… flight attendants cook this way all the time.

Crazy, cool, cheaper than take-out (and better than eating yet another peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich on the road).






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