Hey Caine - Liked your reply, sounds like a plan to me. However, since moving here last year, we now have all electric appliances, had gas range previously, so I would not be able to cook. I know what my husband and I would do would be to just move out into our motor home and turn on the generator. We could also always cook on our Weber gas grill. What I would really worry about would be the refrigerated and frozen items should the power be out for any extended period of time. We could potentially run an extension cord from the motor home generator to the house to plug the fridge and freezer into it for power. I would only do this if the power was out long enough to possibly cause spoilage of the foods.