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Ok, so I'm at Oxford for a month and living in rez (dorm, college, whatever you call it). I have little to no access to stuff like a baking dish--though a frying pan is possible. I miss my kitchen dearly, but dread the thought of having to eat plain chicken breasts with spinach salad for a month. So, please send any ideas my way. Minimum equipment is the requirement here folks. I can make omelettes, pan-fry chicken. I _can_ make oatmeal--once I figure out where to buy sugar... There is virtually no real way to store things either, so single serving is the way to go for now.
On a slightly off-note--how many cups of water to how much steel-cut oatmeal is required for a single serving? I've always made HUGE batches of the stuff. I hope it goes well with chocolate protein powder 'cause that's all I've got with me. Thankfully, I did haul it from Canada, 'cause I don't even know where I could find it here, even if the price was okay.
When you're busy, cooking 4 or five times a day can be a pain...
Do you have access to a freezer to refreeze large "blue ice" packs overnight? If so, you can make a day's worth of food and put in a cooler. I do it for work and take it with me, but it would be a snap to do in the dorm.
For the blue ice, I've learned to get the biggest blocks you can find. They're called "Weekenders." Get twice as many as you need and always have 1/2 in the freezer so you can rotate them to the cooler.
Just be sure to let the hot foods cool down BEFORE you put it in the cooler so the whole cooler doesn't get warmed up.
If you can keep it cool enough, you might even get away with a couple of days worth. We used to do that for weekend camping trips, so I don't see why it wouldn't work for a few days in a dorm.
There's a fridge at "work", so that's not a huge problem. The issue isn't how to eat 5 times a day, it's what to make when all I have access to really, is a small pot and a medium sized pan. I'm used to making all my food for the week on Sundays, but at home I have access to everything from a blender to a baking dish to a pan to all spices under the sun. I'm only here for a month and then travelling to Sweden for 2 weeks (where food is made for me) so I'm not about to spend craploads of money setting up a suitable dorm kitchen.
Do you have access to a dining hall? I used to make like 7 turkey sandwiches and sneak them out of there in my pack.
If you look around in the deli section at the grocery, they now have seasoned chicken already cooked and sliced up and packaged ready to roll. Just carry that around and dump on a salad, make a wrap, etc.
If you get rolled oats, you can just soak them in milk/water for a few hours, and it's ready to eat cold or hot.
Lots of tuna. I ate tuna a ton. A quick tuna salad is 2 cans of tuna, olive oil, and yellow mustard. Throw some onion, apple, walnuts, or dried cranberries in there for a little sweet. I could still eat this every day.
I'll try to think of some more stuff for you.
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I'm in England, so for whatever reason, no access to a dining hall like there are America. Food availability is somewhat low and pricey here. Deli meat is almost a definite no go because it's just prohibitively expensive to buy small quantities of it. It's actually cheapest to buy whole foods and cook them yourself (like a chicken breast on a spinach salad). I brought steel cut oats with me, so I'll just the soak and heat method for those. Can anyone tell me what the 'protocol' is for that, by the way? Tuna can be difficult, because again, it's 'processed' and anything in the 'processed' category is almost always way more expensive.
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