no kitchen. need ideas for healthy meals for a couple of weeks

[Caittune]

We are renovating our kitchen and it is taking longer than I'd hoped. After today ill be without a sink or stove.

I'm looking for ideas for healthy dinners. I don't have an electric skillet but I think I might pick one up today.

Ideas?

[cristeen]

Do you have a toaster oven? Microwave? Crockpot?

[Caittune]

I have a small toaster a bbq and a rice steamer. I hadn't thought of a toaster oven. I wonder if that might be more useful. We don't really fry things. I don't want to blow
our budget with eating out. Lunches and breakfasts are easy but I feel like I should do a proper dinner. Maybe I'll have to relax my standards for the next couple of weeks.

[JessicaS]

by BBQ do you mean a grill? You can make lots of things on a grill. I like kabobs, grilled corn, grilled veggies and rice..

[Casha'sMommy]

You can even grill pizza!
At this time of year, I would absolutely make proper use of my grill.

[jldumm]

we do a lot of cookless cooking in the summer because we live in NM and have only a swamp cooler... which does an ok job, but during monsoon season it is too humid to really cool off and the fan blows the loght off on the stove. so that heats it up even more.

tonight i had other plans but was too hot for anything other than
garden made salsa, nuked black beans, avocado cubes, and a cheese sauce dh made when he got home.

we also do main salads (taco, cobb, veggie blt, etc).
You could do cold soup in the blender and bread
we love spring rolls, sushi, lettuce wraps.
grilled veg sand
grilled pizza
i have done a grilled gumbo in a pinch

i will keep thinking

[mumkimum]

When in the same situation, our electric skillet was a lifesaver - I could do eggs, omlets, fried rice, grilled cheese, quesadillas, etc. on them.

Regular tabouleh (or fruit tabouleh for breakfast) are great - you just need to soak the bulgur. With a rice cooker - you can easily do grain salads (rice with cucumber/tomato/parsley/lemon/olive oil). You can also steam veggies in it.

Wrap sandwiches, salads - you can grill a big batch of veggies/meats and use them to make either of those a bit heartier.

[cristeen]

Rice steamer can be used to make grains or even pasta. Grill can be used for any meat or veg. If you wanted a little more variety, a toaster oven would cover baking/roasting, and an electric griddle or skillet would cover everything from sauteeing to pancakes.