Good truck stops if you cook your meals

Miss elvee about to become famous ! Lol.

 

Email sent. Talk to you tomorrow.

 

I dunno bout famous. Mr. E loves my cooking. I told him before we were married I knew what to do to keep a good man: feed him, love him and don't spend his money. Lol. Being in the truck doesn't make that any less true.

 

Im only out 8 or 9 days now so I just whip up a batch of food before I leave and freeze it ..then nuke it .
South Texan is right though most food on the road is prohibitly expensive or straight up garbage.

 

It's true that most of the food out here is terrible, but there are those poor, sorry sad sacks like myself who do not have the ability to cook (I once screwed up Jell-O, burnt an entire pot of popcorn to the point of making the pot unusable, and tried to poison ALL of my friends with baked chicken. I'm a TERRIBLE cook!) and also lack a patient significant other to take care of our idiotic tailfeathers.

For us, it's either truck stop grub or starvation. And sometimes I'm not sure which would be worse.

 

I'll feed you, too.

 

You taint gonna find food in the truckstop. Most have been buried and replaced by big box costcos in the last 30 years or so. Many good stops are now just that. Big box stores.

Other stops have converted to self sell, such as fast food subway or whatever. You are not going to be treating such a stop as old truckstops were once.

Wife and I cooked on the move. We got our groceries at Laramie Walmart in Wyoming about once every 6 weeks. That way the only thing we needed in the truckstop are two things, Fuel and shop work should something break on it.

You kept a cooler fridge type cabinet, a inverter for making house power to drive a 120 volt Mr Coffee (Which also brews hot water in a pinch for doing dishes etc) a pair of dutch ovens off the 12 volt outlets, one in the cab and the other in the sleeper where there are or were cigerette lighters kept. A pair of dutch ovens slow cook your dinner. Ham, small onions, potatos some form of gravy or broth and say.. florets broccoli. Takes about 6 hours. But serves up two people two seperate dinners on two seperate days.

It beats parking for 45 minutes, walking in to a old truckstop, wait 30 minutes to order, another 30 to get it cooked to your table, a hour or two to eat.. and another hour getting out onto the interstate after phone calls etc.

Being able to cook while rolling equals miles saved and you are paid those miles today, not miles lost sitting in a stop.

Finally but not last, retail pricing in truckstops are outrageous. Inflation has made what used to be a bottomless coffee 4.50 full breakfast into a 16.00 plus tax and coffee etc.... There is no point when you can buy the raw food for way less than 16.00 for two meals for two people.

18 eggs for 3.00 maybe, toss that into the fridge, milk, bread and so on and even bacon carefully selected by the case can provide many breakfasts for two in the truck cooking on the move. Call it 12 to 15 dollars total for about a week or so. Which is about as long those eggs will last in the fridge along with the milk etc.

Today's small crock pot might feed off a smaller inverter more slowly and cook better. Especially when you consider what Omaha Steaks now offer for them things online shipped to your home. Toss a small crock into the cab floor, strap it down after filling with food and let the thing slow cook all day. The value of the food it will provide will more than replace what you burned today.

 

Don't forget us little people!

 

She wont. You can count on that.

Ive a couple more meals to consider. Cook ground beef or meat as you like it well done, pour beef broth into crock pot or similar. Add chopped taters, chopped onions, corn, diced tomatos, chopped celery, chopped carrots and so on until the thing is full. Toss in several jalapeno peppers into it to taste. Break out the mccormic spices as you like it toss some in.

Clap the lid on and wait a day. What should result is a good eating dad's stew no matter how bad it's wintering outside. This particular meal comes from Alaska. A big crock can keep one or two people going for several days. You do need to leave a half inch below the top so that the heat expansion of the meal does not overflow the lid.