Eating clean while driving over the road?

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  1. gerardo1961

    gerardo1961 Road Train Member

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    to many food from the Can is high on sodium(sal)
     
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  3. Ridgeline

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    You have to take meals not as a means to eat the most tasteful food, but as nutrition for your body to function.

    Taste is meaningless in the grand scheme of things.

    So if you want to be a real trucker, then the only real food you need to eat is Rollerdogs and wash it down with truck stop coffee. No water or anything else remotely considered mainstream healthy.

    An alternative is 2 servings of microwave ramen noodles, to which you add Lipton's onion soup mix to boost up the sodium to massive coronary event levels, at least 10 grams of salt, or in doctor's terms - a hell of a lot of it.
     
  4. bad-luck

    bad-luck Road Train Member

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    Bring groceries with you. Pre-cook your food at home as well, so all you have to do is heat it up in the microwave.
     
  5. Radman

    Radman Road Train Member

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    IMG_9118.png IMG_9118.png I’m on the road 4 nights a week pretty much 5 days. I grab 2 bags of frozen grilled chicken strips makes 4 meals. Throw it in tupper wear. Throw either Raos sauce or Alfredo sauce, moz cheese and parm cheese. Throw it in the freezer night before. Last all week in my fridge. Nuke when ready to eat either in the truck or use the truckstop microwave. Also I buy a lb of sliced cheese and lb deli meat from the deli. Make a wrap or taco with the cheese. Also I’ll buy tuna or chicken in the can from the store. Slap some sugar free sweet baby rays bbq sauce on the canned chicken.

    I use this have mine for 3 years. Don’t need an inverter has a car charger plug also. If you have a fridge in the back this thing fits between the seats for more fridge space.
     
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  6. Espressolane

    Espressolane Road Train Member

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    Does your truck have a refrigerator?
    That can really help.
     
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  7. Magoo1968

    Magoo1968 Road Train Member

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    A lot of guys use a air fryer to cook food they bring from home.
     
  8. Moosetek13

    Moosetek13 Road Train Member

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    I have a couple lunch box ovens, a toaster oven and a small George Foreman grill.
    I do not use a microwave.
    A typical meal is a baked potato or rice, salmon or chicken breast and a veggie.

    I usually get to a Walmart every 2-3 days so everything stays fresh.
     
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  10. 77fib77

    77fib77 Road Train Member

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    Fridge and cold cuts. Tuna in a can. Cook something at home and freeze it. I would do hamburger and eggs, which I didn't freeze. Pot roast I would freeze. Hard boiled eggs, like two dozen. Canned vegetables heat in the microwave put sone butter on them. Potatoes they store well. You can cook them in a microwave.


    If you can get an inverter and a fridge it will help. Keto is good, I know it's bad for the animals, but we don't burn a lot of carbs sitting around.


    Also unplug the fridge at night so the batteries are good to start truck.
     
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  11. rollin coal

    rollin coal Road Train Member

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    I eat two of these egg kits every morning when I'm trucking. There are different ones, some have potatoes. I drink juice or milk with it and no bread. At home I love 2 eggs (sometimes scrambled, sometimes fried) and 3 strips of bacon every morning religiously but cooking bacon in a truck ain't practical. This is a good, healthy alternative. And anybody that says it ain't healthy, well that's your opinion lol.
     
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