Lunch on the slopes

[ski diva]

Do you bring your lunch or buy? Is it hot dogs and fries or chili?

I (almost) always bring mine. The food at the mountain usually isn't very healthy or very good, and it's always expensive. So I generally bring a turkey wrap and some carrot sticks or a small orange. Then I'll buy either tea, water, or a diet coke.

What about you?

 

[Jilly]

At Tremblant "boxed lunches" are not allowed in the main lodges. They want you to buy their food. So, we'll quite often bring a sandwich, but buy soup or chili (Hubby usually buys a beer). The food at the Grand Manitou isn't bad as for nutrition and choice. But the price. As season pass holders we get a discount, but still!! If you bring a complete lunch, which many of the racing families have to, to survive, you are put in the basement area near the washrooms!! Yeah!

 

[eng_ch]

I think we're spoilt for choice with mountain food over here. Various Americans I spoken to certainly consider it part of the "European experience". Certainly never bother taking sandwiches or anything

 

[Marigee]

When we are on vacation I buy. This year we are staying in a ski-in/ski-out when we go to Steamboat at Christmas. We will eat in the condo at lunch and avoid the crowds (and eat healthier too!) When we buy I usually get soup or chicken chili and a diet coke. If I'm really hungry I'll get it in a bread bowl and eat that too!

At our local mountain we bring lunch and leave it in a locker. They have a special area set aside for "brown baggers."

 

[eng_ch]

Ours can be anything from a steaming hot bowl of soup or a jacket potato with cheddar to spaghetti bolognese or "Züri geschnetzeltes" to a juicy hunk of meat cooked over an open fire. Or sometimes just a bowl of chips. Depends on mood, money, time and location

 

[dburdenbates]

Lunch is always in the lodge. I'm a vegetarian, so finding something good to eat at some ski areas is next to impossible and generally I have to settle for a slice of cheese pizza.

But at other places like Deer Valley, I can get a great hummus sandwich or veggie chili.

Eng_ch, one of the best on mountain lunches I've ever had was on a mountain side in Zermatt. Hearty vegetable minestrone with homemade bread and an assortment of cheeses complimented by a good German beer. Yum!

Then there was the lunch on the mountain side in Cervinia. Classic! I have no idea what the food was, but because of the communication gap, when we ordered what we thought was 2 glasses of wine turned out to be 2 litres!!!!! The rest of the day is a bit hazy.

If I skied more often, I would almost certainly pack a lunch because the lodge food is pricey!

 

[Jilly]

I think the best lunch I've ever had was at Heavenly. We got a steak or chicken breast, BBQ'd it and had sides of some sort with it. After that it would be a French thing - Racelette or Fondue on the side of the mountain, sunshine and espresso (cafe noir to the french) It amounts to a long lunch hour. And yes lunch is an experience, which is typically french. American's eat fast and don't enjoy their meal the French say. And the wine.........

 

[eng_ch]

Courchevel is reputed to be fiendishly expensive - and it can be - but I know a place where you can get a massive omelette de montagne that comes on a 12"+ plate and covers it and costs a massive 5 euros That will certainly keep you going for the rest of the day

 

[ISki]

Europe does lunch right!!!!!

If I'm feeling frugal or wary of lodge calories, I bring a sandwich and fruit. Buying is an option though. Food is still reasonably priced at my hill, and they've tried to introduce some healthy options. Yay California!

 

[trouble]

The best lunch for me is always breakfast. I have some form of protein & carb on the way up in the car. This year it's been a homemade egg sandwich each time - bagel / muffin, egg & cheese, tossed in the toaster oven while I get ready to leave and in a baggie for the car (and portability to the slopes). I'm vegetarian (lacto-, ovo-) so I used veggie breakfast "sausage" patties the last couple times for an extra boost.

That, plus chai in a thermos, and maybe a handful of granola or crackers & pre-sliced cheese at a short rest break, gets me through til late afternoon. Dinner is huge though!