Whats cooking in 2 pans / microwave and no access to fridge

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My DS is away in shared barrack accommodation with work. They have no fridge but plan to get one (sometime in March-ish). He can eat in the facilities but it is cheaper to shop and cook.

What are your best recipes for cooking in 1 saucepan and one frying pan, use of microwave and no oven, freezer or fridge.

I want to send him a shopping list and some easy cook meals. He is notoriously lazy so quick is good. He is currently living on noodles as its the 'only thing that keeps that I can cook'

I would love to send him a few different things which are more nutritious and to spark some interest in feeding himself properly.

He can put chicken in with the noodles.

Tbh, he probably is going to carry on eating noodles.

Otherwise he'd be doing sausage and mash, soup, chops and potatoes/veg, at least. Beans/peas etc.

We could start suggesting stews, rice dishes, but honestly, he won't bother.

Does he have some colleagues to share the load with?

Is there an accessible shop that they can buy things at? If they shop and cook the same day, even fridge and freezer stuff will be fine as long as they are not completely daft, eg leaving prawns on the radiator. In winter things will stay cold in the car if they have one for a few hours anyway.

How about Mob Kitchen?

It is aimed at students but the premise is easy to source ingredients that you'd get from Tesco Metro, Co-op etc and the only storecupboard ingredients are salt, pepper and oil. If there's a group of them, they could all cook once a week for 4 or 5 nights and then there's always days left for takeaways, eating elsewhere (family, boy/girlfriends etc), restaurants or easy food like omelette, egg or beans on toast etc.

Might even be worth them buying a slow cooker and a toaster if it expands their repertoire - you'd probably get a supermarket version of both for about £25-30.

Pasta with jar sauce/pesto
Rissotto if he’s been to the shops that day
Eggs don’t need to go in the fridge do things like omelets etc.

Things in pouches good, Heinz do a lentil curry and rice packs come like that.

He is shopping monthly so eats anything perishable in the first few days and then is down to tins etc. but resorts to noodles because he likes them, he can cook but has no imagination so I am hoping to give him nudges. Sadly when he learnt to cook at home most things were oven food or required loads of fresh ingredients.

Eggs are so good, I blew his mind last week when I told him he can do them in the microwave instead of on the hob, it was like I had made a major scientific breakthrough. I have failed in my teaching abilities