canned meals/recipes -- OT

[Guest guest]

Elle,

If you have stovetop capabilities then you just need to plan for no

leftovers. Besides chili and soups (which can get old really fast) how about

things

that would mean a simple fresh purchase from the grocery store, and quick

preparation? Start collecting condiment packets from places now if you

can.......

(Just the meat purchased at the last minute)

* spaghetti

* mac*cheese (with the sauce packs where you don't add milk and butter) with

hotdogs

*Tuna with tuna helper

*Hamburger Helper

* Chicken & Dumplings

Canned chicken, fresh or canned veggies, canned broth, water, (season to

taste) biquick or other such mix. It is a great one-pot meal!

* Good old peanut butter & jelly

* veggies that travel well: potatoes, onions, carrots

in WA

[Guest guest]

We will be leaving for the Pacific Northwest in the next 10-14 days. I guess

when we have the house totally packed and cleaned. We plan to take 5-7 days to

reach where we're going. I know it is only 2,000 miles, but we will be driving

a 26' foot Uhaul towing our car and a truck pulling our 29' travel trailer.

Unfortunately, our truck is a half-ton and a little on the wimpy side for

pulling that big trailer. Thus our goal is between 300-400 miles per day.

(More, of course, if we can get it!)

Hopefully, we will stay in the trailer along the way, but we want to have as

little weight in the trailer as possible... and thus won't be loading it down

with things like FOOD.... including refrigerated food. I need to have 7 days of

canned dinners that can go in the moving van and be pulled out at the last

minute and needing a maximum of 15-20 minutes preparation. (I will have access

to stove top heating, but not oven.)

If you have a great meal suggestion out of canned foods, I would be ever so

grateful... especially if it lucky enough to include a lot of protein, but a

minimum of the gaseous producing beans!

Things are getting ship shape here. Our travails of a couple of weeks ago have

dissipated, and we have been invited to the governor's press conference on

Thursday with our boys. (THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR PRAYERS!)

Elle **

DS 2-2002

-130 pounds and holding pretty darn steady after 4 years!

[Guest guest]

Elle

Do you have a seal-a-meal? If so then do some cooking ahead of

time...a pot roast, spaghetti, stew....seal it up, freeze it, put in

ice chest, take it out and put bag in a pan of boiling water...ta-

da...hot home cooked dinner, easy clean up. If you don't have a

seal-a-meal..ziplock bag it, just thaw, empty in pan and heat. (if

you have enough frozen meals you won't even need Ice...but you can

extend the length of time things stay frozen by adding dry ice)

Tuna helper can be a boxed+canned easy to prepare meal. You can

even use canned evaporated milk instead of fresh milk...just dilute

with some water..Or...they have boxed milk that you don't

refrigerate until it is opened..look for it around the

powdered/canned milks).

Who doesn't love Spam burgers...lol. Spam and MacNcheese...

Take canned chicken and some tortilla's...spice it up and make

burritos or tacos.

Happy travels

Jo

[Guest guest]

Hey Elle,

Some of the things that came to my mind were:

Clam Chowder

Beef Stew

Frito Boats (I use Ranch Style Texas Beans, Frito Corn Chips and Cheese) (I

know you said try to do it without beans, but it was just a suggestion)

Instant Oatmeal/Cream of Wheat

Ramen Noodles

I guess that's about all I could think of, sorry. If I think of anything else

I'll let you know.

Love ya,

Dani

Elle Rowley at HolidayFun wrote:

We will be leaving for the Pacific Northwest in the next 10-14 days. I

guess when we have the house totally packed and cleaned. We plan to take 5-7

days to reach where we're going. I know it is only 2,000 miles, but we will be

driving a 26' foot Uhaul towing our car and a truck pulling our 29' travel

trailer. Unfortunately, our truck is a half-ton and a little on the wimpy side

for pulling that big trailer. Thus our goal is between 300-400 miles per day.

(More, of course, if we can get it!)

Hopefully, we will stay in the trailer along the way, but we want to have as

little weight in the trailer as possible... and thus won't be loading it down

with things like FOOD.... including refrigerated food. I need to have 7 days of

canned dinners that can go in the moving van and be pulled out at the last

minute and needing a maximum of 15-20 minutes preparation. (I will have access

to stove top heating, but not oven.)

If you have a great meal suggestion out of canned foods, I would be ever so

grateful... especially if it lucky enough to include a lot of protein, but a

minimum of the gaseous producing beans!

Things are getting ship shape here. Our travails of a couple of weeks ago have

dissipated, and we have been invited to the governor's press conference on

Thursday with our boys. (THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR PRAYERS!)

Elle **

DS 2-2002

-130 pounds and holding pretty darn steady after 4 years!

[Guest guest]

Elle, here is what I would do: I would pre-pack a bunch of food, then

throw Cheetos and potato chips at the kids to shut them up, drive

through fast food places on the way, and when I arrived at my

destination, I would have all that food pre-pared ala Jo and all those

domestic goddesses to put in the cupboards of my new kitchen.

However, here ya go:

Brown hamburger, empty a can of beans and a can of corn into it. Viola!

Brown hamburger, empty a box of Cheeseburger Macaroni Hamburger Helper

into it. Voila!

Brown hamburger, boil two cup of macaroni, empty a can of cream of

mushroom soup into it. Voila!

Brown hamburger, chop or slice a couple pounds of potatoes into it and

boil all together. Leave the peels on, that's where the vitamins are.

Add or do not add, one can cream of anything soup. Voila!

Brown hamburger, empty three packs of ramen noodles into it. Voila!

(you can add veggies to this such as green peas, but my kids didn't

like veggies)

etc etc etc. Did you remember I raised my kids while going to college,

med school, then residency? lol

Marta

the Queen of something, but cooking ain't it! I think referred

to my status as that of a " troglodyte " .

> If you have a great meal suggestion out of canned foods, I would be

ever so grateful...