Eating well during Business Travel

My business travel & eating in when the firm puts us on Per Diem and an under $200/night room rate

I welcome your advice, so please, enter your comments below. 

1. I always try to get a room with refrigerator and microwave.  Then I seek out a nearby Whole Foods because I like to eat organic as much as possible.
2. One of my great go to items is fill the little hotel fridge with Greek Yogurt, my favorite granola, apples, oranges, grapefruits when in season, Korean Green Iced tea, Almond Milk, regular Organic 2% for my coffee and bottles of water. 
3. I like the Marriott, or Hyatt Residence Inn because they have a stocked kitchen.  When I cannot get booked there I bring my own eating utensils, and a bowl. 
4. Lately, when I go to the Silicon Valley to work I stay in a hotel because traffic is brutal!  Since it is close to home I can pack up the car with some of my favorite stuff for the hotel kitchen. 
5. I like my own Peet's coffee so I bring it with me in a little container to last the week along with my Coffee Press. 
6. One other very cool thing I like to take along is my little size 4 cup Cuisinart rice cooker. 
7. Here are some of my favs that with very little ingredients

Make vegetarian or with Chicken
Ingredients:
2-3 cups Chicken or Vegetable Broth-so it covers your ingredients
1 cup Arborio Rice or any rice that you like
1 boneless skinless chicken breast or Tofu
Vegetables:
1 Carrots or Parsnip
1/2 Sweet Potato
Slice small Onion, leek or scallion
Garlic
Spinach
Spice
Salt and Pepper
Add other spices if you like and cilantro lovers here is a chance to add that in too. Or, a little fresh basil.
Push the switch to on and it will be ready in 15 minutes
Mix and match ingredients for this recipe using your imagination.  I sometimes add a small can of beans, or 1/4 cup of Quinoa, even dried peas or wild rice with my Arborio rice (any rice will do)  I just happen to like Arborio because it makes the rice in this dish similar to Risotto.  And, if you want to use meat in this or other spice just be creative.  The best part of this for me is that it is small and the food is ready fast!

This is it!  I got mine on Amazon
In 15 minutes I can have a delicious one pot meal. 
I have been on a doctor's prescribed bland diet.  So, I adapted it to the approach below.  It is good for anyone that is hungry and does not want to go out for dinner after working all day.
 

Swami's Acai Bowl

I love Acai bowls
(pronounced ah-sah-EE)

There are not many places to get them in Northern California so I often make them at home.  I had my first one in Hawaii and was hooked!

 

Two place where I get my Acai bowls are (Blue Hawaii in San Francisco and Vitality Bowl in San Ramon or the Stoneridge Mall Vitality Bowl-Just outside JCP) 

This recipe goes in layers, starting from the bottom (Acai Smoothie pack first

In the blender

2 cups Acai Smoothie pack (in the freezer section at Whole Foods) some have cane juice they also have sugarless

mix in with acai MACA (mixed in with the acai) Hemp, flax, chia seeds, aloe juice (optional)

(blend frozen blueberries, boysenberries, bananas and strawberries)

1/2 cup frozen blueberries

1/2 cup frozen boysenberries

handful of strawberries

 

Topping

2 tbsp bee pollen

1/4 cup coconut (optional)

coco nibs (optional)

granola 

1 banana

gogi berries (optional)

Swirl on some honey (optional)