Three items here cost under two euros each. What they share is that they keep at room temperature, need no cooking and do not spoil while waiting. For someone living alone or eating at a desk, the value is in always being there rather than in any single good…
What you need to know
Living alone, the usual problem is not being unable to cook but getting home past the hour when cooking still appeals.
What that moment needs has to keep at room temperature, leave no pan to wash and cost little enough that a wrong guess does not matter, and not much satisfies all three at once.
Three items in this edition meet all of it, each under two euros, which makes taking several at a time reasonable.
- Bonduelle groente 150 - 200 g at € 0,69: tinned or cupped vegetables go straight into instant noodles or a salad, and this is the only one of the three that fills the vegetable slot, keeping for months in a cupboard.
- Knorr Cup a Soup at € 0,79: hot water is the whole recipe, a few sachets in an office drawer beat snacks on the day a meeting runs to two o'clock, and nobody has to leave the desk.
- Nescafé koffiespecialiteiten at € 1,99: instant speciality coffee needs no machine, which covers a home without one and a hotel room on a work trip, standing in for the cup from downstairs.
None of this is impressive on an ordinary day, but on the day it is actually needed, having it in the cupboard makes a real difference.
Flavours and sizes depend on what each branch stocks, and prices follow what is marked in store.
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