we rarely use the cook top at home - electric fry pan, electric wok, oven and bbq get a good workout (and would be lost without the rice cooker) - basically anything you can cook on the stove top you can cook with those few things! we did it for over 2 years cos the stovetop in our old place was rusted and i wasn't real happy with the heat distribution it gave and i wouldn't use the oven cos it was old - we still cooked everything except pasta bake/lasagne things - everything else we could cook! if we were having pasta, we either cooked in the micro (rarely though, cos we had a little micro) or in the rice cooker - could also steam veg in the rice cooker - and i think the one we have cost maybe 30 bucks - and it still get used weekly!

good luck finding creative ways to cook without a stove top hun - it's definitely possible - and you might find yourself creating interesting new dishes for your family