Vacationing on a budget

Yes, we do cook in our motel rooms.  Here you see bacon frying; we were having bacon-and-tomato sandwiches that evening (no lettuce, because it doesn't travel well).  Sometimes I prepared a box of Kraft macaroni and cheese and opened up a can of green beans.  Other times I fixed Campbell's tomato soup and made grilled cheese sandwiches to go with it.  I realize these aren't the healthiest meals, but they are cheap and easy to fix.  
Most of the old fifty-dollar motels don't serve breakfast, so I cooked pancakes once and French toast another time.  We had cereal a couple of times, too.  We have a stainless steel percolator coffeepot that gets lots of use on the road, too. 
Considering that we were on the road for over a week, I feel we did well to only eat fast food three times (not counting the senior coffees we frequently picked up at McDonald's).  We ate one real, sit-down meal out the whole time we were gone, and that was in Canada.  When we were on the road, we stopped for lunch at rest areas and ate sandwiches:  the daughter-in-law left a full package of lunch ham in our refrigerator, so we used that up.  We also had tuna sandwiches a few times.  I took along a dozen eggs that were in the refrigerator, half of them raw and half of them boiled.  A boiled egg is a great snack when you are really hungry.  
Two of the meals we ate at fast-food restaurants were because we were running late and I didn't feel like cooking a meal, even an easy one, at bedtime.  Oh yes, and on our last day, the motel only had donuts or cereal for breakfast, no fruit or yogurt.  So I had a breakfast burrito and a fruit-and-yogurt parfait.  
We honestly cannot afford to eat out often, and this was one way to keep our costs down on our road trip.