Meal suggestion with no kitchen!

Hi BillieW If you have enough time, make up some meals and freeze, then put in microwave. Plenty of salads with cous cous. EAT OUT too ?

Have been without a kitchen for over 2 months. We've fallen in love with Morrison's microwave meals (3 for £6) and have decided we'll continue buying them when our kitchen is finished.

I had no kitchen last year for one month whilst having a new one fitted. If I had had a sink I think it would be easy to cook a variety of meals with microwave, slow cooker and sandwich maker/grill but having no sink we stuck to ready meals, take aways, lunches out, sandwiches, salads, beans on toast, cereal and used disposable crockery and cutlery and bought lots of bottles of water. I also bought ready prepared veg that cooks in the bag in the microwave as ready meals are lacking in green veg.

Love my Remoska (from Lakeland) - just let a friend borrow it as she has no kitchen at the moment

I love my Remoska too,and used it a lot motorhoming. It'll cook all sorts of things,and bakes a mean spud.

The Remoska is great, you can use it wherever there's a electric plug and it will do anything from stews, roasts. chops to cakes and even bread and it's economical on fuel and easy to clean. Love it!

We lived on cold meats and salads for near on 20 years... - and I'd choose that over microwave ready meals any day.

When we our new kitchen was acompagnied by building work that left me kitchenless for six weeks I moved the fridge and freezer into another room. Did plenty of batch cooking in advance so that my freezer was full of casseroles, risottos and other reheatable meals. I had a plastic microwave rice cooker for rice - and I also used it for pasta. Veg can also be cooked in the microwave.

I only had a microwave and kettle as cooking appliances but we managed to eat almost normally. Now and again I got bored with juggling different all the different dishes in and out of the microwave to get them all cooked and hot at the same time so we had take-aways or ate out.

Tell all your friends and you should get a few dinner invites. Pub lunches are good as you are out of the way of the builders and you don't have to cook in the evening, just cheese and biscuits supper in front of the telly.

When I was in this situation a few years ago, my slow cooker and combination microwave were my saving grace. Slow cookers are not just about casseroles. I discovered that I could 'roast' a joint of beef or pork in the slow cooker far more successfully than in my oven. The meat is always beautifully tender, and it makes it's own delicious gravy which just needs to be thickened. I still do roast my joints of meat in the slow cooker even though I have a conventional oven.

Thanks for all your suggestions, some of which I should have thought through and remembered! Just in panic mode. We have been without a kitchen before-- for 6 weeks when we had 3 children, I hated that experience, but this should be much smoother. So as you comment, with the summer, a BBQ, daily shopping, salads, we shall be fine!
I have the offer of a halogen cooker, so I shall take it! A new experience!

All very useful as from next Wednesday we're having our kitchen re done too. We have a separate utility room which will act as a temporary kitchen and I'm hoping for warm weather so we can eat outside.
Loving the pub lunch suggestion!

Went to Lidl today, they had a plug in, 2 ring induction hob for £29.99!! Got to be worth it at that price.

(I will hold back from mentioning the 6 chocolate & vanilla cornetto type things for 99p)

I had no kitchen for six months, but with a plug in single ring hob, a slow cooker and a microwave, I managed just fine. A bit of jiggling about with plugs and stuff but honestly it was fine. Managed to prepare Mother's Day lunch for eight and cater a Christening for 40! It's amazing what you can do when you have to. Loads of good recipes on line Pinterest for slow cookers. Everything from roast chicken to lasagne. Good luck.

You could try a deep fill sandwich maker too, not only for toasties, but cooks eggs, pancakes waffles etc.

I managed without a kitchen for about a year while the house was being renovated, and coped well with a Remoska and a microwave.
Even cooked a whole turbot in the Remoska!

Things like packs of microwave rice or lentils will help you also.