Better Food Options While Driving OTR?

You say your stomach gives you problems with fast food, yet you are using the half fabricated (canned, frozen, ready to nuke) meals. They have more chemicals and preservatives than a fast food.

This is a simple way of eating a bit stomach friendlier while on the road)

 

When the pandemic hit and we had the road to ourselves for awhile, I bought a 54 quart freezer chest. It sits on my passenger seat. About 3 months ago it crapped out and I bought a new one, this time a smidgen smaller, a 45 quart model.
Anyway, that has been my answer to the food dilemma. I stock up on frozen stuff. Homemade stuff frozen when I can, but frozen dinners when I can't. That has been a real game changer for me on food options. It isn't a perfect solution, but so much better than not having that stuff available. Besides giving me more food options, it also gives me more flexibility, as I don't have to put what food options are available high on my list of priorities on where I stop.
Overall, I carry the freezer, a coffee pot, a toaster (I always keep bagels and cream cheese on hand) and then a microwave oven. My truck has a fairly big refrigerator built in.
That's been my solution to the food dilemma and I think getting the freezer ended up being the biggest single game changer for me. Simply never want to run without having one with me anymore.

 

I'm doing split sleeper mostly on the road. There are two three hours to do whatever and then on the second break 7-8 hrs of rest without thinking of anything but to watch something on YT.
And it eliminates 30 min break as well.

 

As mentioned
1. get a fridge if you don’t already have one
2. Grocery shop for real food.
3. Hot meal cooking devices
4. Get a jumprope and a weighted jump rope and download a jumprope workout app.. Crossrope -jumprope lite- there’s plenty of them… it’ll save your life and mind

 

The biggest game changer for me was spending an hour at home cooking and prepping. It makes portion control and menu planning practically effortless.

 

When I was OTR in the late 80's and early 90's I carried a small camp stove with me and a couple pots and pans and one of them small outdoor "grills" that use newspaper and grease dripping for fuel. The 12v coolers back then (don't know how they are now) were not the best, so I routed a tube straight from an air conditioner vent to the inlet vent of the cooler on hot summer days. We were not supposed to cook in the truck but sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do. For some reason the cooking stuff always worked better when the wife went with.

 

Carry a dirt bike on the catwalk behind the sleeper. This is an excellent way to save thousands of dollars a year by doing the "Dine & Dash" method at meal times.