Feeding Yourself On The Road

i showed my wife the part about wife cooks for husband
she said good luck with that

i am out 7-10 days
enough food in the truck until i get home
except for coffee

i have a best friend lives on $20000/year
and a sister declaring bankruptcy on $100000
friend is content could work harder but chooses not to

 

Oh Deer, do I smell venison.? With mixed veges.

 

crockpots while you are driving work was well put soups and stews etc.... make sure you have a solid surface and something that wont melt!

 

I have a 110v electric cooking pot that can do just about anything from working all day as a slow cooker to boiling water for pasta (and off-grid bathing) to frying. I hit a Wal-Mart about once a week for groceries which include fixings for 3 meals a day and on average I spend right at $100 a week. I eat very well, very healthy and know exactly what's going into my food. I'll eat out maybe once a month and it sure as heck won't be a fast food garbage joint at a truck stop.

I have a little 5 cup coffee maker so my morning coffee with fresh half-half and real sugar costs about $.20 for two full cups, don't drink pop or anything like that so no expense there. On my grocery list is usually 6 to 8 gallons of drinking water at $.88 a gallon which makes coffee, boils food, cleans and hydrates.

I make a lot of stew type meals where I can put the leftovers back in the fridge and make at least one or two more meals from it. Tonight's menu is going to be 3 cheese ravioli with home made fettuccini sauce. There will be enough sauce left over for probably two more meals and the cost will run less that $1.50 per meal and a hell of a lot better than $2.14 worth of McDonalds garbage as well as no comparison as far as the health difference between the two.

I realize not everyone is equipped with refrigerators, APU's and/or inverters but even without any of those a small propane cook stove/grill and some thinking outside the box can save a ton of money on food and do more for your good health than almost anything else in the world. Eat over salted fast food garbage every day 2 to 3 times a day and pay more than the price of money for doing it.

My blood pressure had gotten to the point of only qualifying for 3 month physicals and I was on medication. I look and feel like I'm in excellent health but I was eating out most of the time on the road. The ONLY thing I changed was my diet. I started cooking in the truck, shopping around the outer edge of the stores and within 1 year my blood pressure had returned to normal with no medication needed. I will admit that shopping/eating healthy seemed more expensive than eat-out garbage in the beginning but after my body adjusted so did my appetite and I found I don't need to eat nearly as much to feel full. Another benefit is I do not get hungry between meals either. It took a few months to adjust but it was the second most satisfying thing I have done in my life right behind quitting smoking.

 

Average American probably spends the same or maybe a little less than truckers. Every time around noon lunch time everyone goes on their lunch break from the office to eat taco bell,McDonald's, etc... Same principles apply make your own food and you'll save money.

 

What time do we eat???

 

About 6:00pm

 

I'm there! I may be late on a load now and then but I NEVER am late to dinner, or do you all call it supper?

 

I cooked lunch for myself and my trainee.
Chicken tenderloins, asparagus and potatoes