A Microwave And A Toastie Maker. WTF Can I Cook?

[TooBigForMyBoots]

Me and the kids are going on holiday to the 1980s a caravan by the seaside. I've just found out that the cooking facilities are a kettle, a microwave and a toastie maker.🤯

Anyone got any easy dinners I can cook up for me, a teen and a tiny?

You can cook pasta in a microwave, ready meals, frozen veg, mug cakes, maybe fry bacon on the sandwich maker.

Warm up tomato soup in the microwave and serve with cheese toasties. Maybe ramen noodles - the ones where you just need hot water - add some spring onions on top.

Kettle does couscous, can then heat up chilli or curry from home/ readymade in the microwave. Boil eggs in kettle (bring to boil and switch off, carefully drop in pinpricked eggs, cover and leave for 10 minutes). Fine noodles will cook with just boiling water poured over and covered. Instant mashed potato is surprisingly edible with plenty of butter, cheese, salt and pepper.
Microwave: soup/ curry (red lentils, garlic paste, stock cube, curry powder, chopped up veggies/ spinach, more or less water depending on how thick you want it to be). Serve with rice done in the microwave, or naan/ pitta etc, dollop of yoghurt. Mug cakes, although better done in a bowl with plenty of spare room to avoid disaster. Plain fish (white/ salmon/ whatever) cooks well in the microwave, put it on a covered plate over a bowl of veggies in a bit of water and serve with couscous or nice bread. I expect you could do chicken in the same way, chopped up. Then mix with sachet of stirfry sauce, some small chopped veg, zap a bit longer, serve with noodles. Quorn sausages (and probably normal sausages although you miss out on the browning flavours) work in the microwave, with microwave jacket potatos or instant mash or in hotdog buns.

Toastie maker: I admit I usually just have cheese and ham, but I've also done a good banana and peanut butter one before, for breakfast. Mash the banana a bit so it cooks in the time.
You'll need one of those vented plate covers to avoid a pebbledashed microwave.
None of these are terribly inspiring, but hopefully it's a start.

If you'll have a fridge cook lasagne and chicken curry, freeze in portions microwave with rice/ baguette/ salad.pasta and pesto with ready cooked chicken/cheese. Baked potatoes with fillings, tortilla wraps with cheese/ham/rice/guacamole whatever the kids will eat toasted in the sandwich toaster. Noodles with chicken from the cold meat section and some shredded veg cooked in Microwave for a few seconds. Some soy, grated ginger, chopped garlic. Scrambled eggs/beans.add in a chipshop night and you're home, craving vegetables 😊

The toastie maker is far more than just cheese and ham! I lived 6 months with just it and a kettle as a student.

You can make

Cheese and beans
Egg and beans
Brie and cranberry
Pear rocket and Gorgonzola
Banana and Nutella
Strawberry and Nutella
Chilli and avocado (tinned chilli)
Chicken and pesto
Tomato mozzarella and basil
Corned beef and beans/ cheese
Cannelini beans with spinach and harissa
Loads more I'm sure.

You can make little triangle jam filled cakes in it too.

Thanks everyone,some great ideas there, I'd forgotten you could bake potatoes in the nuke.🤦‍♀️ There is no freezer unfortunately.

@kittenkipping, can you make French toast in a toastie maker?

Macaroni cheese recipes.sainsburys.co.uk/recipes/microwave-mac-and-cheese

Risotto www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/toddler-recipe-microwave-courgette-and-pea-risotto-prawns

Pretty much anything actually

I'm veggie so I'd be having veggie alternatives/vegetarian food

That said:

Kettle - cup a soup, stock, cous cous (even better made with stock), pot/instant noodles, pot pasta, smash!

Toastie maker - anything that can be grilled basically. As well as toasties - bacon, chicken nuggets, chicken breasts, burgers, hot dogs, not sure about fish fingers as they're so soft.

Is there a normal toaster? If so get toastabags and you can cook loads in them too inc eggs and baked beans

Microwave you can cook ANYTHING in just only in certain ways/dishes

You obviously can't do stir fries or roasts but off the top of my head:

Omelette (omelettes are delicious in the micro, light and fluffy get a micro omelette maker - usually available in pound shops), poached (again micro poachers in pound shops) or scrambled eggs

Baked potatoes (you can scoop out flesh and mash for wee one)

Pasta (you could use pesto or make a tomato based sauce in the micro - just Passata/tinned tomatoes, purée and herbs and garlic)

Rice dishes/accompaniment - you could get micro rice or simply normal rice but micro boil it

All meat can be cooked in micro but I think it might be nicer grilled on toastie maker

All veggies work great in micro, but for this scenario I'd take/buy plenty of tinned as they cook quickest and can also work cold eg sweet corn

I get tinned curries and chillies as a matter of course and they're lovely, I've also just bought tinned lentil ragu but haven't tried it yet so can't say if it's nice

You can also get tinned :

Stews, pasta (Bolognese, ravioli, Mac cheese), chicken in sauce, burgers in gravy, meatballs in sauce...I'm browsing Tesco app and there's sweet and sour chicken in a tin

You can have cold meals too, salad with tinned tuna, ham, spam, corned beef... I loved corned beef as a kid!

One of my favourite meals was corned beef mash and baked beans that would be a super easy meal!

Boil kettle, beans in micro, make up smash, slice up corned beef the rest will be ready - serve

Toastie you could make breakfast toasties along idea of a fry up, or banana and cinnamon is gorgeous!

Loads of stuff you can make.

Hope you have a lovely time