Looking at your diagram I am impressed you can fit all that in your van! About the only option for making everything fit while you sleep would be to somehow suspend some gear from the roof.... Even then...
As far as cold food goes.
- Salads (potato, pasta, lettuce)
- Sandwiches; make the toppings ahead of time and stack all the servings together separated by wax paper. Assemble the final sandwich with condiments at the last minute.
- Cold soups (gazpacho?)
- Soups can be kept warm for 12 hours or more in a vacuum thermos. Warm tomato or chicken soup goes well with a lite sandwich or bagel.
- Pre-sliced fruit can be tossed into a salad with a sweet/sour dressing. Finish up with some nuts.
- There are lots of dry foods which can be made in minutes with hot water. Get a jet-boil and you can have food with zero setup in less than 10 minutes. Oatmeal, dry soups, instant rice etc.
Good list, thanks man. Found
this list today too, some really tasty looking stuff in there. Not so healthy, but equal to or better than eating out and nothing was too time consuming.
I LOVE my disc o bed cabinet! Cant wait to see how you use yours. Ours gets heavy loaded with clothes, bent the original 1/8" mount I made, should have used 3/16. Vans looking good.
Just got the shipping notification, says it weighs 11 lbs! Curious to see what shows up.
I noticed in your pic progression youve got windows... Di you just swap the side doors or retro them?
can you tell me about the rear windows?
Swapped the doors with some off of an early 2000's junkyard van. A couple hours with a helper, honestly pretty easy. Still need to sell the old ones, but this mod was priceless, the ladies are all much happier now.
What kind of awning/mounts are you using? I'd like something like that for my van, but I haven't been able to find gutter mounts.
I've got the ARB 2500 mounted directly to the uprights of a Vantech rack. I just drilled right through them, easy peasy and works great. I'm planning a Sportsmobile style cabinet "kitchen" on the rear side door, I'll probably swap the awning back to the passenger side when that happens.
Starting to ponder a high top, prices are not crazy and it would get closer to the goal of fully contained without needing to pull stuff out at camp.