Food for no kitchen (skillet, grill, frozen, tuna)
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I'm probably going to have a kitchen renovation soon and will be without a fridge, oven/stove, and kitchen sink for...weeks on end til it's done. I also won't have a grill but will have a microwave (although I'll need to be careful to make stuff I can eat in one go since I won't have fridge storage).
Any help coming up with a variety of foods that I can eat - that don't require refrigeration or anything beyond microwave heating - will be much appreciated. So far I have:
peanut butter and jelly on bread
tuna foil packs and crackers
apples
bananas
oranges/grapefruit
Currently I eat a lot of cheese and hummus but think I won't be able to have those with no fridge
How about purchasing one of those dormitory sized refrigerators and a conduction cooktop (one burner)? You will still have access to a sink in the bathroom right?
I'd buy a small fridge as suggested above. If you can't do that, then a block of ice in a cooler will keep some things cool for quite a while certainly cheese and hummus)and you can replace the ice as it melts. And toaster ovens can be plugged in anywhere, in any room. And the sink's in the bathroom.
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Been there, done that, hated every single second of it. But I loved my kitchen afterward, so the pain was worth it. (We'll need pictures of your new kitchen, by the way. )
The kitchen renovator dudes moved my fridge outside my kitchen... and plugged it in. Couldn't you do that too? Or is your fridge being tossed in preparation for a new one?
My store sells salamis of different kinds in vacuum packs, unrefrigerated. I forget the brand name, but they're only about a buck/buck-fifty. Pepperoni, Genoa, Calabrese, chorizo. Each package contains enough for a couple of sandwiches. Tomatoes are fine on the shelf, but you'd have to figure out condiments. Maybe snag some individual mayo and mustard packets.
Aside from sandwiches, canned foods and snack foods I'd really just rely on take out or grocery store prepared entrees. I don't know if you have Fresh & Easy, but their entrees are a great bargain for full single meals, like $3-$6, and way better than those frozen TV dinners.
We had a complete kitchen renovation done this summer and used our sunroom as our "kitchen." We have a small dorm-size refrigerator in there and I really recommend picking up one. You will be surprised how much you will use it and they are very inexpensive. We also used our toaster oven for almost everything, including baking a cake. Our grill came in very handy. Of course, there was take-out, but that got old very quickly.
Surprisingly, I have never used my oven because my toaster oven does everything that I need. When and if I ever sell the house, people will think that we went out and got an oven just for them. If you can, take Dawn's suggestion and see if they can plug your fridge in somewhere else. You definitely need one.
The worst was having no sink. I would recommend paper plates, etc. because washing dishes in the bathroom sinks is no fun. Normally I never use paper, but it became a real hassle washing dishes.
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