Hello anon ^_^
Soon I shall be living in my car again, and I was hoping you all would have ideas for food that doesn't require refrigeration.
On previous house-lacking ventures,
public microwaves were my best friends.
Which is still something I'm willing to use, I just don't want to eat microwaved ramen and soup all the time.
Also: Is there a good way to prepare rice in a microwave? I was hoping I would be able to buy bulk rice, but I don't know how I would prepare it in a microwave.
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That was fast, comrade.
Did you google it, or is it a method you approve of and regularly use?
Oatmeal is a good microwavable breakfast.
Lots of veggies and (obviously) fruits are pretty good raw. Grocery stores have a veritable slew of stuff that is microwavable. Also, certain restaurants are fantastic when you are out of a kitchen. Try and find out which restaurants serve a lot of food for relatively cheap. I know that thai food places are generally good for two or three meals worth of food in a $6 entree. Asian food in general, really (vegetable fried rice, vegetable lo mein, etc.).
Oh yeah, also try and find out where and when various soup kitchens are open. Another fantastic resource is Food Not Bombs: http://www.foodnotbombs.net/contacts.html Sam's Club/Cosco may require membership to buy stuff, but on Saturday mornings there's a veritable buffet of 'samples'. Be creative! There's a ton of food out there for the taking.
Lots of places (Meijer, Target, etc.) sell electric burners really cheap. Hardware stores sell skillets for like $10. You can pick up a hibachi grill for like $5 when they're on sale. Mom n pop grocery stores tend to throw out a ton of good produce when it doesn't look shelvable. When I was broke-ass dumpstering pretty much saved my life. Trader Joe's has the best dumpsters around.
This post is relatively long, and may not be all that helpful since I'm a vegan and do what I can to remain vegan. But, if I can eat three square meals a day without visiting a grocery store, then it should be all that much easier for you : D
I use public wifi, so I don't what it records as IDs and such,
but OP here.
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Oatmeal doesn't even need to be microwaved, for me ^^; But it is still good warm.
Thank you for your post, it shall be helpful ^_^
I may check out the local Food Not Bombs . . . what is it, exactly? All the site gave me was an email address for the person running my local one.
Samples, yeah! Last summer my friend and I got samples when we could, but didn't know when or where to go. So Sam's and Cosco ^_^
I thought about a propane-type grill, but even at that, I'm not TOO interested in actually cooking things like that. Though I might, if I get bored enough with microwaved things.
Where is Trader Joe's? I've gotten pizza from Hungry Howie's dumpsters before, right after they close. I need to be more adventurous with dumpsters, and try looking in a few.
>Food Not Bombs is a loose-knit group of independent collectives, serving free vegan and vegetarian food to others. Food Not Bombs' ideology is that myriad corporate and government priorities are skewed to allow hunger to persist in the midst of abundance. To demonstrate this (and to reduce costs), a large amount of the food served by the group is surplus food from grocery stores, bakeries and markets that would otherwise go to waste. This group exhibits a form of franchise activism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_not_bombs
Trader Joe's is an upscale grocery market franchise; try looking for them in the phone book.