Food & meal planner
Proper meals. Zero cooking.
Your daily menu, built from your household answers. Every item is safe to eat cold and needs no fridge before opening.
Foods we never use in standard plans
These are great everyday foods, but not when there's no power or gas.
Dried pasta
Needs cooking or boiling water.
Long grain rice (dried)
Needs cooking or boiling water.
Dried red lentils
Needs cooking or boiling water.
Dried red kidney beans
Raw kidney beans are toxic unless boiled — never suitable for no-cook plans.
Sliced ham (chilled)
Needs a fridge.
Instant noodle pot
Needs boiling water.
Approved no-cook foods
- Cornflakes
- Wholewheat biscuit cereal
- Fruit & nut muesli
- Gluten-free cornflakes
- Instant oat pots (made with cold milk)
- UHT semi-skimmed milk
- Long-life oat drink
- Long-life soya drink
- Raisins
- Dried apricots
- Tuna chunks in spring water
- Mackerel fillets in tomato sauce
- Sardines in olive oil
- Pink salmon
- Chicken breast in brine
- Corned beef
- Baked beans (ready to eat)
- Chickpeas in water (cooked)
- Mixed bean salad
- Five bean chilli (eat hot or cold)
- Smooth peanut butter
- Ready-to-eat lentil pouch
- Cream crackers
- Rough oatcakes
- Lightly salted rice cakes
- Rye crispbread
- Microwave rice pouch (edible cold)
- Tinned new potatoes
- Sweetcorn
- Sliced carrots
- Garden peas
- Pickled beetroot
- Peach slices in juice
- Pineapple chunks in juice
- Fruit cocktail in juice
- Creamed rice pudding (eat cold)
- Ready-to-serve custard
- Fruit pots in jelly
- Apple & pear fruit pouches
- Oat cereal bars
- Mixed nuts
- Sunflower & pumpkin seeds
- Digestive biscuits
- Milk chocolate bar
- Dark chocolate (dairy-free)
- Fruity flapjacks
- Ready salted crisps multipack