How to still prepare most of your meals at home when you have no oven, stove, sink, or dishwasher because your kitchen is being destroyed and rebuilt.

1. Paper plates and plastic cutlery. Try to get the kind that can be recycled or composted. Make food that is held in the hand to eat, like sandwiches and wraps.

2. Outdoor grill: burgers, chicken, fish, kebabs, potatoes, can all be grilled. We’ve grilled in the rain before (it’s Washington), we can do it again.

3. Cold breakfast like cereal, muffins, fruit, yogurt. Pre-prepared hard-cooked eggs.

4. Microwaved meals (yuck, normally would not do this, but sometimes there is a need).

5. Make a menu plan, as detailed as possible.

6. Take out or eat out, but not too many as this gets freakin expensive. We’ll be without kitchen for 10-14 days, so maybe eat out ten times (breakfast, lunch, and dinner), which is a lot more than we usually would.

7. The crock pot can be plugged in anywhere! A bitch to clean it, but eh, it can be done. The rice cooker is also especially handy. You can even steam veggies on top of your rice.

8. Stay positive and eyes on the prize! As you’re eating yet another tuna sandwich, sit on your new hardwood floor watching your gorgeous new cherry cabinets being installed, ahhh.

Any others? This starts in four days.