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Help! What can we eat with no kitchen?

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Dauphinois · 28/02/2020 22:11

We're having a new kitchen fitted as part of a building project, but for the next week or two we'll have no cooker and probably no sink.

We have a microwave, a slow cooker, a camping stove, a toaster and a kettle.

There are 6 of us to feed - help me out with some ideas!

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Dauphinois · 28/02/2020 22:12

I should have said that I still have my cooker this weekend so I can prepare stuff in advance. We'll have our fridge / freezer throughout.

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trilbydoll · 28/02/2020 22:13

Ready meals
Bolognese
Camping type meals - tinned potatoes etc.
Lots of casseroles in the slow cooker.

Mixingitall · 28/02/2020 22:14

We had a temporary kitchen for a while and did something in the slow cooker, or bbq’d with disposables.

Buy lots of salad bags, microwaveable rice and a slow cooker cook book. I got 2 from the works.

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Howmanysleepsnow · 28/02/2020 22:14

Casseroles, bacon/ egg on toast, pasta pesto, microwave meals... loads of stuff.
I threw out my microwave thinking the kitchen would be done in 1.5 weeks as promised. I don’t have a slow cooker or camping stove. It was 2 months of hell and takeaways...

Heismyopendoor · 28/02/2020 22:18

I would google/Pinterest slow cooker dump bags. Get them prepared this weekend and into the freezer. Then when you need them just defrost and put into the slow cooker.

Other ideas would be to make some meals like cottage pie, lasagne, etc and then reheat from fresh or frozen.

Toast and beans
Rotisserie chicken with crusty bread and salad
Baked potatoes in microwave or slow cooker

jmh740 · 28/02/2020 22:39

Things on toast, beans, eggs, cheese. Batch cook a load of things this weekend that you can microwave, chilli, spag bol, cottage pie, fish pie, you can make curries in one pan and get microwave rice, pasta and sauces. I have an air frier if you have one you could do chips, jacket pots, sausages. You can microwave tins of soup.

Pipandmum · 28/02/2020 22:50

Get a baby belling oven too. We survived six weeks with that (and they rigged up a sink in the hallway).

ErrolTheDragon · 28/02/2020 22:55

Couscous is useful as you can make it with just water from the kettle

formerbabe · 28/02/2020 22:58

Jacket potatoes in microwave or slow cooker

Those sachets of rice you can microwave

Weenurse · 28/02/2020 23:02

I have a Tupperware microwave triple stacker that came with its own cookbook.
Cooked a lot from there with no kitchen.
That and slow cooker casseroles with microwave rice.
Also we have a pub across the road for treats.
Maccas for breakfast when we had to move out for the floors to be done

Dauphinois · 29/02/2020 12:22

Thanks all, some great ideas here. Will stock up on microwave rice! I'm going to batch cook this weekend which will hopefully be a good start. I just want to fast forward the next few weeks, but it'll be lovely when it's done x

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MrsT1405 · 29/02/2020 12:43

I've just been through this. Five weeks in total! Also take away and ready meals aren't things on my small sea side Spanish village out of season. I made a lot of curry, stew, bolognese etc and froze it.Lots of batch cooking before hand. Pasta cooked ok in the microwave. The hard bit was the washing up. A bucket and a draining rack helped. We had a lot of salad as well.

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