£7 per week meal plans and grocery shopping without a freezer or oven...

Nargleblast

You will need to use up the mince and chicken fairly quickly, so how about making a tomato-based sauce with the mince? You can have it hot with pasta the day you make it, then the rest can be portioned off and put in the fridge - you should be able to get a couple more meals out of it, and it will be ok for a couple of days in the fridge. It can be resurrected as curry, chilli, a filling for savoury pancakes, savoury mince and dumplings, bolognese....
The chicken fillets can be fried till cooked, some used that day in a meal and the cooked remainder should be ok for a day or two in the fridge and eaten cold with salad or in a sandwich or served with chips and mayonnaise.
Once you have used the chicken and mince up (I know it will mean 4 or 5 days of mince/chicken dinners) you can go veggie the next day or two, then plan your next shop to take advantage of bargains and supermarket reductions.

Funky_Bold_Ribena

Is there a one or two ring hob at all? Can you ask for one on freecycle if not?

I survived for 3 years with just a one ring hob; and a microwave which I hated and have never had since...but needs must. You get pretty good at cooking one pot meals.

Nargleblast

With a microwave you can make a sponge pud. Use a cake recipe (4oz each of flour, margarine and sugar, 2 eggs and a little milk) and put a generous dollop of jam or golden syrup in the bottom of a Pyrex bowl. Put sponge mix on top. Microwave for about 5 minutes. Turn out and serve with some cheapo custard (value brand sachets about 15 pence, tins about 17 pence).

Maitane

Hi Miss_Mulberry,

I used to live in a studio in Brittany that sounds quite similar. I had a sink, a two ring electric hob and a small fridge. I had to boil water in a pan for tea.
There are plenty of things you can cook, it just takes more creativity.

I've got some recipes I can pass on tomorrow - I'm on my phone on a train at the moment. I may or may not be sat as close to 1st class as I can to take advantage of the free wifi :-D

Miss_Mulberry

Funky_Bold_Ribena wrote: »

Is there a one or two ring hob at all? Can you ask for one on freecycle if not?

There is a hob yes, two ring.

Nargleblast wrote: »

With a microwave you can make a sponge pud. Use a cake recipe (4oz each of flour, margarine and sugar, 2 eggs and a little milk) and put a generous dollop of jam or golden syrup in the bottom of a Pyrex bowl. Put sponge mix on top. Microwave for about 5 minutes. Turn out and serve with some cheapo custard (value brand sachets about 15 pence, tins about 17 pence).

Brilliant! That's been added to to recipe 'book', thank you!

Maitane wrote: »

Hi Miss_Mulberry,

I used to live in a studio in Brittany that sounds quite similar. I had a sink, a two ring electric hob and a small fridge. I had to boil water in a pan for tea.
There are plenty of things you can cook, it just takes more creativity.

I've got some recipes I can pass on tomorrow - I'm on my phone on a train at the moment. I may or may not be sat as close to 1st class as I can to take advantage of the free wifi :-D

Ah, thanks! I'm also boiling water in a pan. Far quicker than a kettle anyway...