>>2891012
If you have a car and travel overland, you can bring a full kitchen set including ice cooled perishables with you everywhere you go. Pajeets do it in Nepal all the time, cooking in a big group on the roadside or sidewalk. Reddit Nepal seethes endlessly over it.

You aren't even traveling if you want to cook at home, going out to buy groceries by the kilo with all the housewives of the city. When you have $200 worth of foodstuffs in your rental for preparing delicious homemade meals, you're going to stay there for a while and make the place into your home.

Yes, you can try preparing skimpy meals with low quality ingredients, but then you're back at square one eating slop dinners to travel light. Which is what you tried to avoid by eating at restaurants.

>>2891012
Keep it as simple as possible. The best accommodation is private bath / shared kitchen, because then all of the cooking utensils you need will be there. If you want to buy your cooking supplies, just buy one thing and cook everything from that. For example in China on my first day I bought a $5 rice cooker and only used that for the 90 days.

Know what's subsidized. In most countries bread, milk, eggs, and some form of meat is subsidized. So you're basically getting paid by the government to eat it. All you need is these staples + nuts and mixed vegetables, and maybe fish depending on if you can get it cheap
>>2891024
>When you have $200 worth of foodstuffs in your rental for preparing delicious homemade meals,
This redditor manchild is a larper that never cooked in his life. You don't need to be Gordan Ramsay. Spend $5-10 every two days. Don't waste time with fancy inefficient meals that women do to show off for instagram.
>Yes, you can try preparing skimpy meals with low quality ingredients, but then you're back at square one eating slop dinners to travel light. Which is what you tried to avoid by eating at restaurants.
You avoid restaurants to avoid paying the labor fee of the restaurant employees, the rent of the restaurant, the utility bill of the restaurant, and the profit margins of the restaurant. All of that is baked into the price unavoidably. And as a bonus you get to avoid third world hygiene protocol, which even in highly regulated first world countries is iffy at best.

>>2891012
>But im also considering traveling with a portable grill and rice cooker
Book some places with a shared kitchen or kitchen, tons of hostels and Airbnbs have them. This is just retarded, you'll probably spend more trying to ship these around than the money you save off them.

Going out to eat all day everyday gets old
>go to supermarket
>get precooked meal or deli meats
>eat
wow so hard

>>2891335
>>go to supermarket
>>get precooked meal or deli meats
>>eat

Found the guy who never traveled outside the united states

>>2891340
Japan-
Donki has precooked meals same with AEON
Korea-
Virtually every Emart, Lottle mart, and supermarket
Thailand/SEA-
Any Robertsons or similar supermarket, I'd get precooked chicken or pork chops for 89thb ez
Europe-
Aldi/Lidl constantly have precooked meals baring norway which supermarkets just kinda completely fuck up
Taiwan-
Pxmart

All have some deli section or bakery with premade sandwhiches/bento boxes/cooked chicken/etc. You actually have not traveled if you can't find precooked meals in those places

Only place I wouldn't grab precooked meals at is South America but the dollar goes so far in most those places why bother? Now if you mean feeding a family of 4 or something yeah might be a bit more difficult or if you're only meals come from 711 sure, bigger issues.

>>2891345
>Just travel 5 km to aldi

Most places don't have Aldi or fancy supermarkets they have a room with chips and candy and beer

>>2891352
Where are you going that's 5km away from an aldi or lidl, if it's a small town you'll always have a deli or bakery to get something.

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>>2891379
Aldi is a shit tiny store but mist yuropoors dont even have one within 100 km. The grocery store situation in Europe is bleak

>>2891419
> The grocery store situation in Europe is bleak
No it's not, Lidl and Aldi were just examples of some mega ones. Any mid size town worth a damn that people would visit will have grocery store, kiosk, deli style thing with grab and go heat up at home style meals. Literally just google "grocery store" look for one that seems like a supermarket, boom.

This place is literally filled with people too dumb to tie their shoes.

>>2891419
It's true. Europe doesn't have any food. Europe doesn't have real human people. They are all androids that are powered by solar energy and rainwater. Basically plants disguised as humans.

>>2891421
So you go from everyone has an Aldi to everyone has a kiosk, lmao

>>2891424
yes because you're moving goal posts, most major cities have a Lidl/Aldi or similar that provides ready to eat meals.

>>2891421
You have to put it in mutt terms. Some places in muttmerica have Safeway, some have Publix, some have Stop n Shop, some have Shaw's, etc

But mutts are so stupid a Florida mutt will move to the west coast, search for Publix, see that there's nothing, and conclude that everyone eats out every meal

>>2891425
Dude Americans dont want to eat kiosk hot dogs 3 times a day just because you dont have grocery stores, next you will tell me to buy Aldi boxed ice cubes because you dont have A/C

>>2891426
I am a burger, I do europe 3 months a year. Anon is just being obtuse as a gotcha.

>>2891012
I went to Argentina a year ago. Every hotel I stayed in had a kitchenette with pots, pans, and plates (in each room, not a separate shared space). These were all low-end hotels, just one step above a hostel. The impression I got was that Argentineans are too poor to both travel and pay for restaurant food, so they bring their own food and cook when they go somewhere.

The cooktop was particularly useful in one place that had inadequate heating. I just left the electric cooktop on all night to keep the place from being freezing.

>>2891430
Grocery store food there is expensive, i never saw more people eating out of garbage bins than argentina

>>2891432
(I deleted my first post to fix some text, reposted >>2891431 here)
Yeah, at least in BA food prices were 20% higher than in the U.S. for even basic groceries like eggs, same with even basic fast-food like Wendy's. (OTOH high end restaurants are maybe half the price of the U.S., again presumably because Argies can't afford them otherwise.)

In the Argentina thread, someone posted that prices are much lower for food outside BA. I didn't get to do any traveling outside of BA so can't say.

>>2891433
I went to cordoba and Mendoza food was high there also

>>2891345
I should of said no goyslop reccomendations

OP here, It seems I should of mentioned I want healthier options and the reason for wanting to cook my own food is not to save money. It is it eat more of what I want , when I want and not have to always go out to dine and be around people
The bummer is I am a big eatter , ( no im not fat but plz feel free to make some dumb useless comments ) and skipping breakfast or just eatting nuts and a yogurt or whatever you yoga loving redditors do , does not satisfy me

>>2891444
>I want healthier
>well really I just want to eat a LOT of food without people noticing how much I eat
>not fat btw :)
there it is

Then you answered the question in the OP, book an airbnb with a full kitchen and cook stupid shit at 3AM because oooo tummy hungy!!1

>>2891444
just get a liter of milk, hard boil some eggs, and have bread on hand. you can buy these things in walking distance in any city in the world

>>2891479
>just eat bread and eggs

These bitter replies from non travellers are so helpful

>>2891494
All I can tell you is what works for me. You want some super sekrit "hidden gem" tiktok life hack but its not coming. Stick to the fundamentals

Your best bet is just staying by a McDonald's . You can live off 2 double cheeseburgers per day supplemented by local fruits and vegetables,,,,very healthy,,,,pro tip,,,,burgers only don't get the meal its death