Have the right equipment for how you cook, and be inventive.
I usually cut vegetables and sometimes meat, so a paper placemat wouldn’t work. Can one even find paper bags regularly?
I almost always cook dinner at home and shop on a daily basis. I enjoy what is sometimes the challenge of trying to cobble together dinner from a small town grocery store, trying to keep some pasta with me as a base.
Pasta with canned chili and canned mushrooms at Rockwood on the GAP back in September. Very small selection at the Dollar Store.
While I make coffee every morning I don’t cook breakfasts. The most I will do is toast a bagel in my large pot if it’s cold out. I like to hit the road early so I don’t want to spend the time doing “dishes.”