Best truck stop restaurants

I'm not a big fan of Denny's but I will eat there if there's no other choice. I don't get the hate on Country Pride and Iron Skillet. Decent amount of food for the money....cant eat there every day but you will get full. Everyone complains about the dislike for the fast food joints in truck stops. I like them. I do like Arby's and Taco Bell. It is worth mentioning, OP, that you don't have to solely rely on truck stop chains for good home cooked meals.

 

I don't mind a little fast food in a pinch. But it does not last. say a hour at best then it wears off and I am hungry again. And you wonder why people get obese.

I require food in good amounts at a meal. I'll pay for it and wait to have it cooked properly. If a truck stop cannot do that right I simply don't come back.

 

I suspect meals are no longer as large as they used to be—in an attempt to reduce overeating in our country. A little starving is normal and healthy. Try drinking water before eating so you feel more full and prevent overeating. To make it until your next meal without starving, drink water or very low calorie drinks like coffee or tea with low sugar/creamer. Unfortunately this isn’t very practical for truckers as drinking lots of fluid translates to frequent urination. Some people swear by the gallon jug, but you didn’t hear it from me.

 

I have reached a balance in food at home. Essentially gone back to my childhood in a way. One of the relatives was a cook and a loss when she passed on. She always cooked a certain way for us at the table. Fed the whole family once a month. BIG strong family too and their children besides. Its amazing. (Food costs less in those days...)

I keep a hershey bar on hand always. Its treated as a emergency ration. One relative told me that was exactly what they were for in his war years but I don't have anything to back that up. If I feel poorly and there isnt a meal just yet, I'll finish one bar. And take a hydrate of something. Its alot better than consuming what might be nutritionally EMPTY food that the body gains nothing from except fat or worse.

If I ate now the way I ate in trucking at work lumping trailers I would be bad obese. I already got rid of excessive weight once. Im not going to eat that badly again if I can help it. Portions and counting calories help. There is nothing wrong with me like diabetes and so on. Thankfully. But if I don't have a certain amount of food, I am prone to a special failure in the brain that collapses the whole body. I had that happen twice in trucking. They shipped me to trauma half dead. The problem was working too long on no intake of food and fluids. After a certain point the body has no more power and down you go.

I hate that. Its not good for you.

So I am a grazer. Nibble this nibble that nibble something else. Drink a bit of this and that. As long the urine is clear or slight yellow the kidneys are fine. IF the urine is DARK yellow I am deyhdrated if I did not already feel it then.

Blood pressure is another problem. Kidneys can fail. at that point we have a big problem. But not until then.

Another reason for grazing a nibble here and there. If I eat a trucker breakfast, coffee and a pastry in a hour, Im going to be a over revved Monster seeking work big time Doctors used to be scared taking early morning BP readings after a meal like that. And I wonder sometimes.

Hungry is good. But not too long.

 

I should have said that they reheat the food that’s been sitting for some time as opposed to cooking the food and soon sending it out to the customer. I’ve lost count of how many times they brought me a plate that was less than warm.

 

Water is empty of nutrition, but if you already ate, there is no need to eat again until your next meal. Eating again would mean more calories that in this day and age nobody needs. If you are on a diet to lose weight, you can try taking a vitamins/minerals pill once a day or every two days, so you aren’t lacking in these nutrients.

 

One of these days when this whole covid is all over and done with I should visit a doctor capable of surveying my system at a nerve level to see where the failure is. Im fine upstairs thats not the problem and the body lumbers along well enough at one weight give or take 2. Its the nerves in between that I might have issues with. Probably from wear and tear of trucking. I don't know. I would hate for it to be something else.