What was your first meal after returning

[RedSoxWon]

I'm curious. What was your first meal after returning home from your cruise? After our first cruise ten years ago, we had "Steak-um" sandwiches. Last week, I defrosted some frozen Buffalo wings. Both were terribly depressing experiences after all the pampering and great food on the ship.

[nosnobunny]

We have a tradition - it's meatloaf with mashed potatoes with gravy and veggies. :D We're always away from home for at least three weeks. That's a lot of restaurant eating. By that time I'm sick of big meals and in dire need of some comfort food.

 

Beth

[jerzzgirl]

I think it was pizza. I know I didn't cook for like a week - I was still in pamper mode :D

[CrusinElf]

Ohhhhh, Beth. There's no better comfort food than meatloaf and mashed potatoes, is there? YUM!!!

 

Let's see...on our first night back, I usually make pasta with a very basic sauce. It's easy and tasty, but it's not being on a cruise! WAAAHHHHH! :(

 

Elf

[kyriecat]

We stopped for a seafood lunch (shrimp & crab) on the drive home, but what I really wanted was some extra spicy, cheesy Tex-Mex!

[Michuck]

Purposely stayed away from any pizza on the cruise, so was ready for it when we came home....fridge was empty, so ordering in was great!

 

Michele

[98Charlie]

Meal? You mean people eat actual meals after getting off a cruise ship?

 

Normally our stomach growls because it thinks it's empty. We look at sandwich vendors and restaurants in the airport - nothing sounds good. If we're staying over at disembarkation city we walk the streets looking for something that sounds good --

 

Our normal answer is, had that, had that - want something different. So we share a sandwich between us or share a plate of appetizers in a restaurant and still feel stuffed when we go to bed --- and are still stuffed 3 days later. :eek:

Dianne

[Folgy]

McDonalds ...burgers and fries :rolleyes:

[joyceyw]

We always stop for fried chicken and mashed potatoes. On our 3 day Monarch cruise we left the ship and drove straight to Roscoe's House of Chicken & Waffles. Yum, Yum.

[Sea Island Lady]

For some reason, we have a tradition of eating BBQ (pulled pork sandwiches)after every vacation. Not the first meal after the cruise, but the first nights meal when we return home. :)

[Murphy]

Usually pizza or some other take-out. I start to unpack while we wait for it to arrive! Not quite ready to cook for myself the day we get home. :(

[Blizzard54]

Usually it is cereal.

[Cruise Queen 50]

We usually always go and have a burger at In&Out.....Yummmmmmm

Cruise Queen 50

[B J]

Being a native Texan it is always something very Tex-Mex, there is nothing better after all that rich food.

[Sophie]

It was Jack In The Box for us.

[Lauri32]

Probably McDonalds or Subway. It's nice to have something basic like a club sandwich after all the rich food.

[hstrybuf]

I don't remember what it was. All I know is it was cheap, easy and didn't look or taste as good as what I'd been eating the week before!

[CGAGE]

We just got home this morning from a long weekend cruise and had Publix subs for lunch...and we're in the process of preparing Chicken Breasts on the grill...steamed broccoli...caesar salad and tator tots. Nothing exciting, but pretty healthy after all the mass quantities of rich, yummy food!

I'm having major PCD!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

How many days until Feb. 6th??? Radiance...here we come!

[FrankiRN]

We drive to most of our cruises, so we usually stop at a Steak and Shake on the drive to the cruise, and on the way home from Florida to Savannah. We don't have them in Savannah, so it's our only opportunity to have it.

[tanker47]

Got in yesterday from the Mariner. We only live 2 hours from Port Canaveral and were home by 11:30am. We have a small business so we grabbed a Big Mac and fries up the street to munch on while we checked our business.

 

Tanker47

[MszKitty]

We usually always go and have a burger at In&Out.....Yummmmmmm

Cruise Queen 50

Us tooo! Forget about those Johnny Rocket burgers...give me an In & Out burger any day!

[cctexan]

Every cruise, every time, TEX-MEX! Nothing else will do.

[MamaTene]

Broiled chicken breast and canned soup!

[Overtyme]

It's all about the Cheesecake Factory for us! mmmm mmm mmmm :-)

[lvcruiser]

Our first meal off the ship on the 10/23 NOS sailing was with our son in Ft. Lauderdale and he took us to a local Mexican restaurant. However, our first meal after returning home was our favorite local pizza. We both had a craving for it after not getting a decent one onboard the ship.

 

Our biggest problem for the past three weeks since returning has been continually wanting the same good food we received on the ship and eating out way too often, but not getting the same amount of exercise we got while onboard and doing our shore excursions. Accordingly, we have gained more weight since returning than we did onboard.