How to eat well on the road. On a budget.

And what is the cost of said 24oz cup of Kuerig mud? I like the price ($20) of the unit. But isn't the coffee expensive?

 

I'm thinking he meant the k-cups. I opted for the regular style cone filters and regular ground coffee in a can because I'm just cheap that way. When I worked in an office, I loved going somewhere that had a Kuerig machine and also paid for the supplies LOL.

 

If you buy Green Mountain coffee, yes, it is expensive (Green Mountain owns Keurig and a whole bunch of K-cup manufacturers.) However, everybody sells a small K-cup-like unit that you can put your own coffee in. I use one all the time; I buy green beans, roast them, and grind them as I need.

 

Wow that sounds tasty. I thought those kcup coffee makers used only the prepackaged coffee. I didn't realize you can use conventional filters and regular coffee. Who knew?

 

Regular coffee, yes. Regular filters, no. This is what the assembly looks like. Holder, filter, cover.

 

I have an inverter and a 750w microwave. I also have a small built in fridge. My wife freezes some leftover dinner portions in microwavable containers to send along. I also take hot dogs or Johnsonville brats and sandwich fixings. I like those tuna salad and cracker packages for a quick snack.
I carry LOTS of shelf life food you just heat and eat and, of course Cup O Noodles as a standby...I too like to get an actual kitchen prepared meal at a sit down place on occasion and have found a few good ones in my travels that I make a point to stop at...

 

I bought my microwave from walmart.com and used "site to store". $38.00 - cheapest new one I could find. Fits in the truck perfect. Being a Bunn man, I used to laugh off the Kuerig until my son bought me one for Christmas. (I also bought one of the refillable screen cups) I'm so impressed, I'm going to buy a Kuerig for the truck. It's not the price of truck stop coffee that puts me off, the person making it usually has never drank a cup of coffee in their life. Ends up tasting like weak dish water!

 

I guess there's a difference between eating well and eating healthy.

I just try to avoid processed foods, corn syrup and preservatives. Limit sugar to occasional treats and what naturally occurs in fruits.

And soda pop is poison. Why does a grown man need sugary drinks anyway? Are you a frikkin hummingbird?

And just a note about calories, I'd worry more about the above mentioned things more than calories. Calories are energy.

 

I'm 'learning myself' (learn by doing) to break down a whole chicken into parts, courtesy of various YouTube videos, all of which do it slightly differently. One starts with the bird away from you, like it's sitting watching TV, another pops the wings back and takes those off first, another starts with drumsticks, pops those and takes those off.

Have 1 done and the back ready to go into crock pot for soup, 1's in the refrig ready to fly into pieces. Got three in the freezer waiting their turn...

Okay, I have a little more room than a truck, but home's based on small living... I'm a trucker and we're the original small-space-living people. We were trendy like that before it became cool.