The thought occurred to me recently; if a "nuisance disaster" came up and food wasn't available temporarily, I wouldn't really want to break open my dehydrated food stores and start cooking outdoors on my Solo Stove. What's a good, reasonably normal food that keeps well and tastes good cold?
I suppose you can go either cheap food + a bit pricier heating plan or expensive food and no cost heating.
If you get a small stove like the Esbitt with fuel tab/denatured alcohol, you could get a week worth of cans (stews, pasta, soups, beams, veggies, fruits) and be alright.
Or you can buy a case of MREs ( http://www.costco.ca/Meal-Kit-Supply-Self-Heating-Meal-–-MRE-(Meals-Ready-to-Eat).product.100074037.html ) where for $80 shipped, you get 12 meals with flame less heaters.
Edit... I re-read your post and saw that you already have a stove. A. Indoor option could be a butane heater.
You need to start practising some recipes with ur stores. My kids are UBER picky so I try a 100% storage recipe every Saturday . So far it's a total disaster but.... God loves a trier!
Hope I've inspired ya
What about regular peanut butter and jelly or tuna salad out of packets and pouches, served on crackers (Saltines or Ritz). They make little kits for making ham and tuna salad, too, but they're small and expensive for my tastes. My green sign dollar store sells pouches that are single-serving size, though.
Then there's dry granola bars, GORP/trail mix, jerky, dried apples, and drink mixes made from water instead of milk.
Any regular grocery or home-canned fruit would be inexpensive enough to eat for a short-term emergency, fairly cooling even in summertime outages, and I can find them with 1-2 years on the stamped date so stuff I'm less likely to eat can be donated (MOST can't accept and hand out foods not inside those dates, regardless of how anybody else feels about them). They're also nice in that they contain liquids, in case water mains are down, too, although that makes them bulkier and heavier.
Graham crackers and shortbread cookies store well and go well with fruit even if you don't want to make a little grill fire and use a pie sheet to make a muffin-mix coffee cake or pancakes.
For a few days, I personally don't worry too much about total balance in meals. If you're looking for something that doesn't have to be rotated as often, you could try one of the recipes for making your own food ration bars. It's not balanced, but it will store for 3-5 years even in a hot-cold-frigid-boiling vehicle.
Probably the best thing you can do here is look in your cupboards now and see what you already eat that would fit the bill. Then make a point of having enough extra on hand to cover your time frame. You'll always have enough of what you already eat and it will be regularly rotated.