Ok I could do with some suggestions for the upcoming term actually, because I really shouldn't eat out or get takeaways pretty much at all if I want to preserve my moneys.
Here's my situation: I live in a single room bedsit in a cheap seedy boarding house. My cooking equipment consists of a two-hob electric hotplate, a pop-up toaster, a kettle, a saucepan, a frying pan, some mugs, a wooden spoon and basic cutlery. That is it. I have no freezer or refridgerator, but I have been leaving like eggs and milk out in a plastic box on a little balcony I have whilst the weather is cold. So basically things which I can buy and use over the course of a couple of days tops are ideal. At the moment what I am mostly cooking myself is things such as irish stew (tinned steak chunks, stock cube in a mug of boiling water, chopped potatoes/onions/carrots/mushrooms/whatever I got, bit of guinness, then I drink the rest of the guinness whilst I am waiting for it to cook), boiled or egg fried rice with various things (for example tinned curry or some stir fry vegetables), omelettes, beans on toast, scrambled eggs on toast, tinned soup, boiled veg, fried potatoes...you get the picture. Anyone got any ideas for some interesting things I could try and cook with the following caveats: I don't like pasta or indeed most italian food except like pizza, can't stand whole tomatoes (really can't stand tinned tomatoes, so gross), anything where you can taste vinegar, mayonnaise, salad dressing, coleslaw, any pickled things and a bunch of other stuff I am probably forgetting. I am British though so I am fairly ok with like eating offal or fried blood or whatever.
Help a brother out. This could run to like suggestions of new utensils I should get as long as it's something cheap and small.