Help? Food/recipe related and a dumb decision

[bullygirl979]

I am doing my first half in a longgggg time. The race is 10/6. I kind of wasn't thinking when I signed up for this as we are doing a complete gut job on our kitchen around the same time. The last three weeks of training, I will be without a functioning kitchen. I don't want to plan to eat out for every meal as I want to maintain healthy eating leading up to the race.

Does anyone have any fairly easy, healthy meals/recipes that could be made with minimal effort and equipment? We will have a fridge, microwave, large toaster oven (it will fit a 8x8 dish), and grill. I may end up buying a single burner hotplate, too.

[shauni27]

grill as much as possible! you can make sides either on the grill or in the toaster oven/microwave. Nuke a potato and finish it off in the toaster oven to get a baked potato. Trader Joe's makes great rices that you can cook right in the microwave in 3 minutes. Salads (though that might require more chopping and stuff). But for the most part, cook on the grill.

[labbie]

We lived by the grill when our kitchen was gutted. This is my go to recipe for summer, and I double or triple it to keep in the fridge for lunches and sides. I modify it and add frozen corn and black beans, and use quinoa instead of rice sometimes. Steamable rice packs make it super easy. I always add extra cilantro. You can basically put any veggies you want in this, I really like the very simple dressing. It also gets tastier over a few days in the fridge. You can grill a protein to put on top. I've also used Trader Joe's ready to eat marinated tofus on this and they're tasty.


www.wegmans.com/meals-recipes/meals/salads/southwest-bean-salad-with-rice-corn.html

[bullygirl979]

Aug 19, 2019 10:58:04 GMT -5 labbie said:

We lived by the grill when our kitchen was gutted. This is my go to recipe for summer, and I double or triple it to keep in the fridge for lunches and sides. I modify it and add frozen corn and black beans, and use quinoa instead of rice sometimes. Steamable rice packs make it super easy. I always add extra cilantro. You can basically put any veggies you want in this, I really like the very simple dressing. It also gets tastier over a few days in the fridge. You can grill a protein to put on top. I've also used Trader Joe's ready to eat marinated tofus on this and they're tasty.


www.wegmans.com/meals-recipes/meals/salads/southwest-bean-salad-with-rice-corn.html

Ohhh...I forgot that TJs has a lot of ready to eat meals! Good  call.