Cutting costs on the road

Dam,$200.00 a week????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When do you find time to drive,lol.

 

I go .80 cents to like $30 a week. Grilling, gets your behind out of the cab. Win, Win. It's like camping somehow. I should write a book.

 

Here's my recommendation: http://www.americanrvcompany.com/Dometic-Portable-Refrigerators_c_1671.html

Make crock pot roasts, chili, spaghetti,... when at home and freeze in quart sized bags in one of these units which operate off of 12 volts DC. The bigger ones will hold 3 or 4 weeks worth of meals.

Thaw a bag the night before and cook for a few hours or whatever, while driving, in a lunch box cooker also using a 12 volt DC outlet.

 

I use one of those coleman 40qz cooler from walmart that wrks pretty good as long as its not sitting on the floor of the cab. Probably will grab me a small grill or one of those foreman grills that i can store away. I manily use the cooler for like cold cuts etc whenever i get the chance to run by walmart or kroger to do shopping for items. I also have a lw so it wrks for me as far as space saving is concerend

 

I would buy that book.

 

Husband has the igloo cooler that is a 12volt plugin, we bought 3 of the coleman's in the past, rebuilt one with a bigger fan, but they did not last long. We have had a very old short dorm refrigerator with small cooler in his old volvo. Had a small refrig from Home Depot from Hairer which was nice in his international, the only thing when he was team driving the compressor rattled, rattled, really noisy.

He has one of the lightbody trucks that Prime has now, his cooler is in the front seat. He has the microwave sitting on the floor in front of the seat. Just had to take it apart and fix the rattling fan in it, most likely due to all the potholes and rutted roads you all go over.

He has a small crockpot when he wants to drag that out and put soup or a roast on, or whatever.

Lot of people use the burton lunchbox stove, it plugs into a 12volt I believe. We had a 12volt, 1 or 2 qt sauce pot which was supposed to be for cooking noodles or whatever in, it had a hot spot in it and I put an old stoneware saucer in the bottom of it to help keep it from burning.

Here's a couple of links on here already about the subject:
http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...-the-road.html?highlight=cooking+in+the+truck

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...the-truck.html?highlight=cooking+in+the+truck

 

I have a 12 volt refrigerator that can be used as a freezer too...plugs rite in to the 12 volt outlet and only draws 2 amps. It was pricey, but I've had it almost 10 years so it's paid off. That and a small microwave that I plug in to an inverter & I'm all set. I spend about $70-80 every 2 weeks on food stopping at Walmart Supercenters on the road.