Yeah, everyone's circumstances are different, and it's hard to tell from the outside. Are you on a meat-only diet?

I sort of also don't have a fridge at the moment, as it happens. The things I've found store most easily are small pieces of dried plants: mung beans, rice, yerba mate, flour, peanuts, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, texturized vegetable protein, sugar, dry minced garlic, dried onion flakes, black-eyed peas, tiny noodles, polenta, that kind of thing. I usually store them in cleaned plastic coke bottles, which are beetle-proof but not mouse-proof; details are in Dercuano if you're interested. Storing meat is considerably dodgier, since without refrigeration, it pretty much has to be canned (heavy and expensive) unless you preserve it with really aggressive chemicals, like traditional hams and sausages. Yogurt-making can sometimes help both to stretch milk out for longer and to help with certain medical stuff, like lactose intolerance and some intestinal microbiome problems. But maybe not your medical stuff, since I have no idea what it is.

For people who can eat them, fresh fruit and vegetables are often much cheaper and healthier than other options, but you have to really keep on top of them if you or your neighbors are sensitive to decay. It doesn't take long for a perfectly delicious orange to turn into a fly-breeding ball of mold, especially in a hot climate.

In case somebody else reading this is facing the "no stove" problem, well, the apartment where I woke up today had the gas cut off for a while, so a few times I cooked dinner here on a "penny stove" built to Mark Jurey's design. It's fiddly, and the smell of partly burned alcohol is unappetizing, but it's easy to improvise from garbage in any urban area. You can use it if you can get liquid fuel and if you aren't at too much risk of burning down the house or being kicked out of it for trying to cook. It can run on alcohol, which is a pretty low-risk liquid fuel, since it's nontoxic and you can put out alcohol fires with just water. Butane stoves that run off butane cylinders can also be an option, but storing butane cylinders indoors makes me nervous. And truck stops still sell dirt-cheap immersion electrical heaters with which you can boil a cup, a bowl, a thermos, or a pot of water without any fire, at least, if you remember to unplug the heater before you take it out of the water. They do pose a nonzero risk of serious electrical shock. Electric teakettles can be a safer and more convenient way to do a subset of this; for example, at the moment, I'm munching on a bowl of Maruchan ramen cooked by pouring boiling water onto it from an electric teakettle, then soaking for a few minutes under aluminum foil.

Ziploc omelets are a very-low-effort and tasty way to leverage a boiling pot or even bowl of water into a reasonable simulation of grilled eggs: eggs, cheese, maybe some vegetables, and seasonings in a sealed ziploc bag cooks the eggs quite nicely into a reasonable simulacrum of an omelet. (Moreover, it's sterile, though I wouldn't count on that for long.) The company recommends against it, saying the plastic may not be safe for food contact at high temperatures.

Just to repeat, these are things that have worked for me, and they aren't guaranteed to work for anybody else, but it might be valuable information to somebody.

> I'm trying to be philosophical about the whole thing and view it as An Experience, among other things.

You're not dead yet, which is more than I can say for many of my friends. Every day you're still alive is a victory!