Cooking with no kitchen?

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Our kitchen's being redone next week, we have to pack away most of the plates, pans etc and will have a fridge and minimum of food storage space (freezer we're emptying the last bits over the weekend and defrosting). The fitter can lend us a baby belling 2 ring thingy. We'll always have access to water easily, so that's not a problem (phew...!)

Any ideas for 2.5 weeks worth of things that don't need loads of ingredients for 2 grownups and a toddler? We've got toaster and kettle... Thanks very much!

we had a similar set up for 2 months!!!

we had lots of pasta with sauce

easy to make bolognese / chilli on 1 hob and pasta / mash pot / rice on other for those dishes

also jack pots with beans / grated cheese / tuna mayo and salad

fresh filled pasta / tortilinni etc

you can do fish fingers in microwave, waffles in toaster / and beans on microwave

also its only for a week... have fish n chips one night, invite yourselves round to friends house and then they can come to you when you have a kitchen

a few ready meals wont kill you and if you look carefully they arnt all full of junk!

make sure you buy lots of paper plates and cup to minimise washing up!

Should have mentioned - we don't have a microwave (yet...!) so that puts the kibosh on a lot of otherwise very easy things It's 2.5 weeks altogether - 3 weeks in total but we're going to the ILs for a long weekend while the plastering's done.

well we tend to live off pasta/rice most of the time so sounds as if that should be ok! Good call on the paper plates

Do you have a BBQ outside?

scurry - that's an outstanding idea, my bro cooked an awesome pizza in his (as well as all the usual stuff)

When the weather gets better (ahem) we tend to cook and eat outside. Even in the winter I will cook some fish dishes outside because I don't like the smell in the house. There's not much you can't cook on a BBQ (if you have a brolly and a G and T

You can do quite a lot on a 2 ring baby belling cooker, I would imagine. Have a search through the camping threads for recipe ideas on there.

What about stew things beef,chicken or pork [pork in ratatouille type sauce is yummy] and left overs can be blended into soup for lunch All done on the hob. Risotto, pasta [cook veg with the pasta in the water lazy i know but easy just add a jar of sauce ]. French toast with sausage and bacon. One pot dishes and paper plates are the way to go esp if you have no kitchen sink, I would really not want to wash to much in the bathroom. Sailor on the raft with beans.
Do a pot luck Sunday lunch with friends you provide the wine and salad and they bring the food.
A teddies bear picnic with honey sandwiches.
Also you def deserve a dinner out`

cab you borrow a microwave? or get a £20 ONE from tesco, or look on freecylce...

a microwave could go anywhere there is a plug lol

A slow cooker would be another option. You can get basic ones from £10.

We were like this for over a month while the kitchen was being finished, my best friends were my steamer pan,
you can cook loads one ring with it eg: new potatoes, steamed fish and veggies,
and my slow cooker just bung everything in and away you go.
We ate lots of stews, spag bol, mince and mash, sausage casserole.
I shopped daily mostly at the co-op and butchers so didn't get tempted by supermarket bargains, it was a pain but we only had one of those mini cooler things so couldn't store loads of food.

My mum was helpful with recipes because all she had was a two ring camping stove until I was two.

tbh the new kitchen is costing so much we don't want to spend any more on extra bits of equipment that would just end up in the loft. Will try the camping threads, that's not something I'd thought of!

Sailor on the raft - what is this?

Sorry was reading this when DP came in and asked did I want one so I added it in.
1 Slice bread and cut a small square out of the centre fry bread on one side, turn over crack egg into centre hole and fry till cooked top off with the cut out as the sail, sailor on a raft
It was a stable when we went camping every year as children as was buying cooked chicken / ham hock from the deli counters, BBQ is also great we used to cook lamb on it wrapped up in nearly a roll of tinfoil and covered with the coals for hrs was yummy.
Oh and tinned rice pudding and jelly and ready to pour custard were great for pudding

Could you borrow a steamer from someone? although I must say I love mine and it is used nearly daily for potatoes and veg or reheating as the microwave died a few weeks ago but as we are moving to Irl next week we have not replaced it.
So it is a great investment esp for steaming fish [although I tend to use the dishwasher for that] esp as most of my kitchen has been shipped already so very little equipment left

Get yourself a george foreman grill thingy - can cook most things on it - with that and a tiered steamer you can have lovely meals.