Zip lock makes this cool steam your vegetables in a bag in the microwave
I do hate crunchy veggies

Those bags are awesome. You can also stop by a Wal-Mart or somewhere and buy fresh fish and steam that in those bags too! Yummmy!

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Heavens, I can cook anything in the truck that I can cook at home! We had home-made enchiladas while we stuck in a Denver snowstorm.. and pork chops, mashed potatos and gravy while we were waiting for the 40 to clear.... and yes, I cooked it all myself, in the truck! And if I cooked too much, the driver in the next truck got fed!

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Guy's Lady,

That's exactly what I'm hoping to do, when my hubby and I get up-and-running. How do you cook like that? What appliances do you use in the truck? I'm thinking a pressure cooker/slow cooker combo, something like a george foreman (with combo grill/flat plates), small rice cooker, camping stove, small bbq.

I should be able to make healthy meals with that...now of course, I'm assuming I'll have room for it all.

It really will depend on what size inverter you are able to have. A crock pot doesn't use much juice, a grill uses lots.

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When I am on the truck, we have:

Small George Foreman grill

2 lunch box ovens

1 hot plate

1 small skillet

1 small pot

1 crock pot

I cook the pork chops and gravy in one lunch box oven, and the mashed potatoes in the other.

The hot plate and skillet are used for eggs, bacon, etc...

The small pot is for oatmeal and such...

and the crock pot is used for soups, etc...

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Thanks! If I can ask one more question....what's a lunchbox oven?

Maybe we should start having a cooking class in these trucking schools. We could have GuysLady and some of you other female type people who can cook, show us guys what to do. I'm building up my gear for the future and have my electric cooler, 2 inverters (one cig plug, the other wired in) a small coffee pot and other small stuff. I was looking at a lunchbox cooker, and wondering how in the hell do you use it. I can cook around the house with no problem, but I think I'd miss a gear trying to fix pork chops, gravy and taters in one of those gadgets. Also cooking on a hot plate in the truck would seem to smoke and grease up the interior. Occassionally I've seem teams bar-b-que on a parking lot somewhere, and a George Foreman Grill would be easy enough.
Maybe we could start a discussion of easy recipes and ways to cook them on the road for dummies. A light tutorial on lunch box cookers wouldn't hurt.
I mean I'm having mental pictures of eating bologna, crackers and cheeze whiz, and peanut butter and banana sandwiches for a month. That is except for the times when I might bravely approach the buffet at the local Interstate Choke and Puke. But at 6'6" and 350 lbs, I don't particularly care to miss too many meals. The most creative thing I've done was cooking fish and veggies wrapped in foil on an engine block. I also heated my MRE's that way on a couple of stake outs. OK ladies, (and guys) you gotta give me the skinny on the food. THIS IS IMPORTANT!!!

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Don't laugh, but I was already thinking that my first book that I would write if I ever go out on the road with my boyfriend is a trucker's cookbook.

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