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Meal ideas with no oven on!

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Eggybreadwithnuts · 12/07/2025 07:58

Ideas of what to eat tonight and tomorrow lunchtime, I cant bear to put the oven on!

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Yorkshiremum80 · 12/07/2025 08:04

We are having a BBQ but you could have salad and cold meat, pasta dishes, fajitas, quiche.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 12/07/2025 08:10

Pasta with pesto
Omelettes
Buffet type meal - a few nice cold ready-cooked things, deli type stuff in jars/tubs, salad, veg sticks, olives, nice bread or pitta, everybody just helps themselves
Massive salad
Bread and cheese
Salmon, new potatoes, vegetable(s)/salad

Devilsmommy · 12/07/2025 08:18

Have you got an air fryer. Told my DH if it can't be done in that then he can't have it because no chance is my oven going on either😅

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Eggybreadwithnuts · 12/07/2025 08:23

Abit fed up with salad 🥗

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Devilsmommy · 12/07/2025 08:18

Have you got an air fryer. Told my DH if it can't be done in that then he can't have it because no chance is my oven going on either😅

Exactly
Something that goes in the airfryer and salad.

Floranan · 12/07/2025 08:25

yesterday I stuck a chilli in the slow cooker, rice in the rice cooker was no trouble. Day before I did a chicken in the slow cooker we had with salad, if I’m in I would put the chicken in the airfryer but I was out so slow cooker. Tonight is bbq, tomorrow I’m doing some salmon on the bbq tonight (wrapped in tinfoil on the side to cook gently) we will have that cold tomorrow with salad and fresh bread (I have a bread machine if it’s not as good as oven baked bread but doesn’t get the kitchen hot)

if it’s still hot , or even if it’s not, we will then be having a chicken and apricot tagine with cous cous, I have a gammon joint in the freezer I’m thinking to get that out and cook in the slow cooker that will do us a couple of days

Floranan · 12/07/2025 08:26

Oh and he grandchildren have requested macaroni cheese at some point

Pixiedust49 · 12/07/2025 08:29

We’ve been having cheese, grapes, fresh baguette and posh crisps for the last few nights, it’s all I can face.

tumblingdowntherabbithole · 12/07/2025 08:30

Sandwiches, pasta salads, deli bits from the fridge.

NerdyBird · 12/07/2025 09:53

we are having toasted sourdough bread topped with houmous or tzatziki, then avocado slices and sliced cherry tomatoes. Squeeze of lime juice and bit of chopped basil. then tomorrow more avocado mashed up and mixed with chopped spring onion, bit of mayo and chili, chopped cooked chicken, bit of coriander. Spread on lightly toasted burger buns. I am considering whether to do a few chips or wedges in the airfryer.

Cerialkiller · 12/07/2025 09:59

Quesadilla,
grilled cheese sandwiches
Tuna pasta with mayo and sweetcorn
Savory pancakes
Coronation chicken (home made or bought)
Potato salad (homemade or bought)
Stir fried prawns
Prawn cocktail
Deli meals, hummus, flat bread, tzatziki, vine leaves (dolmedes) cheese stuffed peppers, artichokes etc etc.

Stormroses · 12/07/2025 10:06

Crusty French bread, cheeses, charcuterie, olives and salad, eaten in the garden when the sun is almost gone.

Salad Nicoise. You need to boil eggs and potatoes and steam green beans but you can do all that on one ring on the hob.

Greek salad with watermelon and mint. Feta, olives, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumber, olives, sprinkled with thyme olive oil and fresh lemon juice.

Wraps. Pan fry chicken fillet slices. Put aside and cook onion, tomatoes, sweetcorn with some tangy spices in the same pan. Or just mix some humous or tahini with lemon juice, Greek yoghurt, garlic and cumin to drizzle on the chicken with lots of iceberg, cucumber, grated carrot.

Avocado pasta. Mash ripe avocado's with lemon zest and juice. Fry garlic znd pine nuts. Toss them in pasta with sliced dun dried tomatoes. Serve with rocket.

boulevardofbrokendreamss · 12/07/2025 16:21

BBQ.

Eggybreadwithnuts · 12/07/2025 16:55

Gone with...
Prawn cocktail salad crusty baguette
Chicken swasharma kebabs with flatbread

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coxesorangepippin · 12/07/2025 17:01

Rôtisserie chicken, baguette, coleslaw, sliced toms

Cheesecake for pud

CharlotteCChapel · 12/07/2025 17:07

Last night we had stuffed pasta and to.ato sauce

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