If you’re living in your car (or just cooking off-grid) and you don’t have a fridge—or you’re down to one pot—this video is for you. After four years cooking out of the back of my Subaru, I’m sharing my four favorite no-fridge, one-pan meals that are simple, healthy, and genuinely satisfying. I also show you three different cooking setups I’ve used on the road (electric kettle on a solar generator, a Jetboil MiniMo with a small cast iron pan, and a two-burner Coleman stove) so you can adapt these recipes to whatever you’ve got. I bought the ingredients for all four meals for about $33, which lands around $5–$7 per meal—and I didn’t even use everything up. One of my biggest road-cooking strategies is planning 4–8 meals at a time and intentionally repeating ingredients between meals so my grocery list stays tight and my car stays safer and less cluttered. The recipes I make are: coconut lentil dal with lime and crispy sweet potato (I pre-soak lentils to save fuel), a fig-blackberry banana pancake (my favorite “no oven” ripe banana solution), quinoa with Moroccan tofu and roasted red pepper (super flexible swaps), and my “Desert Doctor” noodles—my rainy/windy, eat-it-in-the-car staple inspired by what I ate almost daily on my 500-mile Rocky Mountain hike.