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Today, pretend that the power has suddenly gone out right before dinner. Cook a meal entirely outside or eat something that doesn’t require any cooking at all if you can’t cook outside.
This will help you see how ready you are for an unexpected power outage. If you have neither a meal that you can throw together without cooking nor a way to cook outside, you will want to make some adjustments.
Here are some tips on cooking outside.
Here are some no-cook meals.
Let us know what you’re having for dinner in the comments!
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I get out my butane stove, and a pan. Grab a can or two of chicken, Uncle bens ready rice, teriyaki sauce and can or two of veggies. Open them all with a manual can opener. Pour in the pan, heat and viola.
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Ironically enough, I had beef jerky and trail mix for breakfast before looking at the challenge. Might get my camping stove (a little esbit qualifies for this, right?) and eat one of my older freeze dried meals that I’ve been thinking about eating and replacing anyway in the spirit of the challenge
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Hm…. Already had grilled chicken and salad planned for supper, so I’m GTG.
We do want to get our wood cook stove up and running again. She needs a bit of reconstructive surgery since our move, but it won’t take more than an hour or two to get her back in action.
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Already had steaks on the menu for tonight! How very convenient!!!
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Sounds like a pb and j, a bowl of cereal, or possibly scrambled some eggs outside over the grill…the less opening and closing of the fridge, the better.
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Canned salmon salad.
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Hubs already prepped chicken for grilled chicken fajitas for tonight. Perfect timing. We are always ready to grill 🙂
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No change as cooking on wood stove….wild mushroom rice (picked on farm mix of morels and oysters) tonight is stew made of beef,venison and bacon with our tomatoes, red wine, salt chilies onions and garlic from garden. Slow cook over woodstove all day in pressure cooker. We call it mystery stew lol
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Well the power went out, so I won’t open the freezer or the fridge too much to keep cold in. Then plug them into one of the Kodiak solar generators. Then hook up solar panels to keep them charged.
My dinner will be a really big salad with shaved steak that I will grill. Natural gas stove and oven so not worried about cooking, only refrigeration.
If needed I could go out back and cook in the RV with lp gas. You can’t be too prepared.
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I cooked on the grill. I grilled chicken kabobs (used chicken and veggies in refrigerator). I also made rice pilaf on the side burner (I have tons of rice in my emergency stores). I seasoned with my spices (Zatar). Quite yummy.
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Hmm…lunch was a sandwich using stuff from fridge that would need to be used up if the “power is off” for long. Tonite….In Real Life….thunder is savage above our heads right now. It would not be funny if we really DID lose power. BTDT waaay too many times.
Tho we have a covered porch, IT’S COLD out there right now. Grill or a few options for camp stoves are possible but not-having-fun with rain being blown in, under the high roof. Soooo, supper will be salads with thin shaved leftover roast beef. And lots of “melting ice cream” for dessert….maybe make malts?
Thinking of other things in fridge/freezer that need to be used up quickly. Freezer is pretty packed….with those large gel freezer things to take up any space that isn’t food. They will help to keep things frozen longer. I can bring some down to the fridge…next to the milk, for instance. Most other things will hold pretty well. Mayo might want a “freezer pack companion” too.
OldMtWoman … LOL I hadn’t decided WHAT to do for supper…this made it easy. 😉
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Main cooking is on a gas stove using a propane tank, have a fire place and a wood stove, plus acres of campfire options and lots of experience doing so.
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We already had dinner tonight. We have a gas stove. Natural gas and also a whole house generator. So if we loose electricity, we are still good to go. Fried pork chops on stove earlier.. But if was unable to do that, I have my propane grill on the ready. We do use that a lot and I noticed last time I used it we have to buy a new burner for it. So That is going to be ordered soon. I also have a small charcoal grill for back up.
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I met my husband when I watched a presentation he gave with his antique chuckwagon as a background. I married a real chuckwagon cook! So, we cook outside quite a bit, and manage fine with no electricity. On an everyday basis we cook outside the majority of the time. I love to garden, so the veggie part is usually my thing, and this time of year it’s usually a salad picked from our garden. He makes cornbread or biscuits, depending on what else we’re having, in a Dutch oven. Since I needed to clean out the freezer and fridge, tonight’s meal was what he calls “roadkill” which is an assortment of odds and ends of meat, seasoned with peppers, onions and garlic, from our garden. He also did a small Dutch oven off rice to serve it over.
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No power? No problem. I could use the propane kitchen stove, or the propane grill, or the propane Camp Chef stove, or the White Gas Coleman Stove or the Coleman Butane stove, but i chose to start a fire. In the fire pit.
We had sliced ham, sweet potatoes, and parsnips, with pineapple rings sprinkled with ginger and folded into two pieces of heavy duty aluminum foil. About ten minutes on each side over white hot coals, since the ham is always pre-cooked. I always like silver dollar dinners. I was going to use our camp irons to make an apple pie, but Hubby put out the fire before I told him. So, poor us, had to suffer through frozen yogurt bars before they “melted.”
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We are eating sandwiches to use the things that would spoil if the electricity went out. Our backup plan would be to grill some meat from the freezer. The third plan would be to open cans from the pantry: canned meat and vegetables. I love the idea of s’mores with Hershey spread and marshmallow fluff. They are always in my pantry. Thanks Daisy!
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Time to pull out the jetboil and Mountain House
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We had supper before reading the challenge. Heated leftover spaghetti on the propane stove. Wouldn’t have been a problem if the power was out. We have cooked brats on the grill lately (but not today).
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No power. Eggs either on the propane cook top lit with a match handy beside the stove for this, Or PBJ, or steak on the barby outside, or salad with berries I usually have for lunch with precooked chicken strips or salmon. No power so no shows so off to bed to read by candle/flashlight light and get a good nights rest. AAAWWWW the quiet.
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I seem to be running a day behind since I either read e-mail early AM or late at night. So,for tomorrow dinner we will smoke a chicken and grill corn on the propane grill, and have a salad and sliced cukes and carrots. Beer or water for beverage, cool from cellar storage. For breakfast, coffee (hand ground) made with a Melitta cone into a thermos, the water heated on a jazzy rocket stove (which I will charge my tablet with as well). Eggs fried in bacon fat(both cooked in cast iron skillet, I have several and use them regularly). Don’t really need to do the grill and rocket stove, have a propane stove.
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Hmmm…first thing I did was to open a can of tuna and make a tuna salad for a sandwich…I possibly could have done a peanut butter and jelly sandwich…now if I get motivated I might fire up my camper stove and fry a little bacon with scrambled eggs…otherwise, I’ve got salad making stuff in fridge for a quick, no hassle supper…and I have some cheese and crackers that sound good for supper with a nice glass of red wine (good for the heart they say)….cooking for one gives me lots of flexibility. 🙂
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I was already planning pork chops for dinner so I’ll just grill them and serve with a zucchini and tomato salad.
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I was going to fire up the grill or cook some Dutch oven (we LOVE using that thing), but I ended up working late and so we had cereal and fresh fruit from the garden. This time of year, we have an abundance of tomatoes, peaches, and grapes. If we didn’t have the fresh fruit (due to the season) We could pull out some of our canned goods. Oh yeah, that reminds me. My daughter had canned mandarin oranges for a snack too.
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burgers on the barbie. i have 4 5gal. tanks of propane, can heat water to sponge off too.
also have burner that fits on top of the 1lb. propane tanks, and 3 different fueled
backpacking stoves.
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Power goes out and I need to cook a meal?
Definitely checking to see what needs to be used first in the fridge. Pork Chops and corn on the grill. Ours is just a basic, charcoal grill. We can use tree limbs if/when we run out of charcoal. I have lots cast iron to use over an open flame. Bowls of cereal for breakfast to consume the milk, maybe gravy..
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so, plan for tonight was to open a prepackaged meal from one of the long term boxes I had just bought. I boiled the water on a propane stove. We ate creamy vegetable pasta, and it was pretty good. As a bonus, I used my old fashioned timer instead of a digital one !
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No problem. I use a propane cook stove regularly, have a coleman camping stove, and also a propane grill. I would think about what is in the fridge that would go bad first and use that. No problem cooking it. I also have a fire ring with a grill top to use, a small grill that uses charcoal, and a rocket stove.
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On a last minute run to the store Wednesday am I picked up a rotisserie chicken and some kid food because one of the grands decided to stay with us. Otherwise, we would have had sandwiches, apples and peanut butter and drinks. We have a gas range and charcoal grill if we had needed to cook something.
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I would pull out the camp stove and frying pan and cook scrabbled eggs and bacon. Serve with homemade bread and homemade jam. Boil water on the stove for tea.
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<p style=”text-align: center;”>I keep canned meats that I prepare myself, including lean ground beef, bacon, and chicken breast. Mix witg marinara or white sauce and heat on propane burner. But if power is out I would grill whatever meat has thawed in freezer.</p>
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OOPS, thought I had posted for Day 4 challenge. Had beef stew in crock pot before I got to this. We have gas stove if gas was still running and standby generator went out. If genny is still running , we would have power. I also have my camp stove with fuel, the barbecue grill with propane. We also have a wood burning fireplace with grate to cook on(grands would LOVE to cook in the fireplace. Then they can do marshmallows LOL). We could also use Sons charcoal grill as they probably will be here with the kids. Other than the above, I have cans of food that can be eaten cold with bread or crackers, “picnic style”
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I think this was the day we did brats and grilled corn on the cob on the grill. I haven’t been able to find our camp oven since we moved, so I’ll need to find it soon for outdoor baking.
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