We need to eat all of our food before we get a new kitchen!

Floss

As we have a gas cooker and no slow cooker, I had to manage with just the microwave when DH ripped out our kitchen. Luckily (!) he then went away for work for a couple of weeks and left me on my own so it was easy to cater for one!

HOWMUCH

If you plan ahead you can get some HM ready meals into your freezer and just ping them in the microwave. As others have said SC if you don't have one could have the loan of one? Do you have a toastie machine my DGS just loves cheese toastie.

abby1234519

Thank you all. I'm not panicking anymore Well, I am panicking about moving a very heavy freezer into the living room but hey ho!

We won't have access to the oven as it's going in the tip, we're having a integrated one fitted.

However I may have forgotten that I do have a slow cooker as well as a george foreman! We will make sure that we have microwave rice and things so frozen curry and rice it is. We will be fine I don't know why I panicked so much!

We're just making sure that we eat from the freezer and cupboards wherever possible and just buying food to supplement. We should have been doing this anyway....Last night was lamb chops (YS of course), with sweet potato fries, brocolli and beans. Once I've got room I'll make enough bolognese to last us the week!

I also have printed this thread...

MallyGirl

we did not like pasta cooked in the micro - it went all slimy

Feral_Moon

Rather than make separate bolognese and pasta, why not make a lasagne which will be much easier to freeze and reheat in microwave, either in individual portions or family size one.

PasturesNew

MallyGirl wrote: »

we did not like pasta cooked in the micro - it went all slimy

That just sounds like you did it wrongly.
You need to try again/do something a bit different.
Done properly there's no difference between a saucepan or a microwave.

For the OP:

Overall though - it's not the food so much as the washing up that'll get you. The best thing you can do is to buy some cheap/disposable dishes and make microwave meals on the basis you'll eat them out of the dishes then chuck those in the bin. Do that for as much as you can to reduce the overall washing up load.

MallyGirl

thankfully it was a short term thing whilst the kitchen was built. Washing up in the shower was more of a hardship

maman

Floss wrote: »

As we have a gas cooker and no slow cooker, I had to manage with just the microwave when DH ripped out our kitchen. Luckily (!) he then went away for work for a couple of weeks and left me on my own so it was easy to cater for one!

I had an even better idea. I left DH sorting out the kitchen while DD and I had a week in Majorca!:rotfl:


Unlike OP, we were able to leave the cooker plugged in during the evenings and for when I was away I made DH a load of ready meals that he could just ping.

Slinky

My inlaws made good use of the BBQ when their kitchen was being redone.

abby1234519

PasturesNew wrote: »

Overall though - it's not the food so much as the washing up that'll get you. The best thing you can do is to buy some cheap/disposable dishes and make microwave meals on the basis you'll eat them out of the dishes then chuck those in the bin. Do that for as much as you can to reduce the overall washing up load.

Ahhhh!!! very valid point. I hadn't thought of that. I will speak to the fitter when he comes on Monday as he will have a better idea of how long it will take. I know it will take a while as we need the whole room replastered, electrics doing and painting. I could also sneak into work late at night and use the dishwasher if necessary....

Feral_Moon wrote: »

Rather than make separate bolognese and pasta, why not make a lasagne which will be much easier to freeze and reheat in microwave, either in individual portions or family size one.

Good idea! I can make small ones in the pyrex dishes I have (that have lids) and freeze that way