cooking in the truck

The company I drive for uses Rig Master generators so I have a 110 power outlet. It can run a coffe pot, Microwave, and a toaster oven from Wal Mart. I can cook up just about anything I want in a matter of minutes and if I bring leftovers from home its even quicker. My wife is really good at saving me the left overs and freezing them. They will store in my colman cooler for about 1 week

 

I notice a lot of you guys say that you restock your groceries...what do you normally get? If it is things that you have to cook, how do you do so? What sorts of things do you buy on these grocery shops? Do you keep a cooler in the truck for drinks and such?

Keep in mind, I have never even seen the inside of a rig up close so I dont know and am wanting to learn things.

 

i have read where some have crock pots, others have a microwave, then there is the portable bbq.

 

Plug in cooler and a microwave does most of it.

 

i normally get stuff you don't "have" to cook. canned spaghetti [chef boy r d], fruit, vegetables poptarts and the like. then if im at a truck stop ill heat them up in the microwave or use the cab heater (we dont have apu's but do have wabasco?? cab heaters)

 

I have a cooler and a lunch box cooker in the cab. I also try to eat one decent meal a week when out on the road in a sit down establishment.

 

My boyfriend uses a plug in cooler to pack up his groceries in before he heads out. He doesn't have an inverter for a micro and tries to avoid truck stops so he uses either a butane-powered burner or a little propane BBQ, depending on how lazy/tired he is and what he wants to cook. I got him a crock pot for Christmas. The last time that he was out, he didn't eat a meal out once. Before he leaves, I stock him up, and he will hit WalMarts on the road for fresh meat to cook up.

 

Good for you on stocking him up. You can not only save tons of money by cooking your own stuff or taking it with you vs. eating out every night, but with a little practice and imagination you can have some pretty healthy and tasty meals. Granted a nice meal out once in awhile is good but it gets old and spendy.

 

My brother in law stocks his cooler with ice, water, lunch meat,crackers juices and peanuts(nut products) He brings about $60 on the road for the week and only gets on hot meal for the week. two when i go out with him.

 

I also try to send him out with some homemade meals that are more elaborate that he wouldn't make on the road, yet easy enough to still warm up on his burner. Like a curry chicken over rice, something like that. He's not making rice out on the road, or anything like that that requires two different pans.