Microwave motorhome advice

Ready made meals are too salty for us David. 

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Best bit of kit i have is a halogen oven . At the moment i am cooking a brisket joint in it at home . Roast potatoes come out lovely . My energy bill at home has dropped a lot by not using a huge oven . Use in the caravan all the time ,even for toast

Our Auto-sleepers is fitted with a Daewoo - cheap and cheerful and it packed up this year. They don’t last too long due to the vibration but are cheap as chips and easy to replace. As David says, simply a single screw up through the supporting shelf into the raised part of the tin base. We don’t use our oven but the microwave is sometimes useful. Didn’t miss it in our 5 week trip this year.

What I failed to say is that the m/wave has been replaced in the 'van with the famous REMOSKA** !! With a little foresight and a timer or three it does all I need apart from brewing my cuppa - tho' it's possible it could do that if I fully read the handbook { ?? who reads / keeps handbooks I ask myself  }

** The modified version of the NEW Remoska --  the one with the clear panel in the upper part. It's nice to watch my dinner cooking  .

Alan

Don't tend to find that in Waitrose or M&S ready meals. Some other supermarkets are a bit salt heavy. I have to be careful because I suffer from hypertension so have to watch salt intake, added to which I don't really like salty things! 

David

The greatest invention to dietary control  in the last fifty years ==  Brian's bi-focals for reading those, so kindly provided, modern  contents lists etc 

 I use SOME ready meals from "Lidl" if i have to as an emergency standby don't find those salty ,,apart from my homemade Bolognese sauce with home grown I.o.W garlic on pasta.Otherwise i eat out .

It’s pays to read the colour coded warnings label on every product. If the salt don’t get you, the saturated fat will! All the supermarkets hide behind this, it allows them to push some of the onus onto diners by declaring that their ready meals are only intended for occasional consumption, as part of a “balanced diet”. Yet M&S have specifically developed a range to appeal to the elderly who either cannot, or don’t want to cook. They sell a single pie, chicken and leek (sounds healthy enough, lean meat, bit of veg... ) that has 150% of recommended daily saturated fat! Scary...... Mind, pies aren’t healthy anyway of course, definitely in the once in a blue moon category.

I actually love cooking when away. We did try a microwave in our no oven caravan, but all it got used for was jacket potatoes, so it wasn’t worth the hassle and weight. Found a small steamer more use, outside van, salmon in one tier, tatties in another, veg at the top. Worked a treat. I know lots of one pan recipes as well. 

 

I am a strange cove (as some are aware ) I have done nearly all the main cooking at home for around 40 years and although I use seasoning etc I never use salt when cooking other than to draw moisture from aubergine and always use unsalted butter so if I eat plain unsalted crisps to me they taste slightly salted..