it is possible to eat well OTR

I tell you, LadyTrucker2go, I lost 20 lbs since when I started trucking... Not that I wanted.... I was 120 lbs and now less than 100... But has been impossible for me to eat the same amount and as often as I used to when I was living in a house. Like you, I don't buy much food cause I don't want to end up throwing it away. And the inconvenience of cooking in the truck, the lack of time to stop and have a meal... I keep running non-stop... so now I have only one hot meal a day instead of 2 that I used to... And sometimes I am so tired, after my 10 or 11 hr driving, that I don't feel like cooking and end up having a bowl of fruits with yogurt and honey... there's nothing at truck stops that I would eat. Every thing has meat and is greasy, fried, full of oil, sugar, just junk... Other than salads and sporadic french fries, there's no food for me out there...

 

Yep. Unless you get the grilled chicken breast with terribly cooked veggies and the salad bar. Splurge on a tablespoon of dressing... heheheee

Mostly, for me, TS meals are just to have some company.

Mikeeee

 

I tried a new breakfast recently. Four kinds of fresh seasonal fruit (about a cup) two dollops of lowfat plain yogurt, and a sprinkling of granola on top. My favorite drink is green tea, either hot or cold (no sugar.) Several small feedings a day is much healthier than trad three big meals. Also a healthy evening meal is small, like salad or soup.

Lady Trucker, and Rocks, you sound like you have this food thing figured out

 

Have been vegetarian (no poultry, no eggs, no fish, no meat of any kind) and nothing with white sugar for 30 straight years. Unfortunately not being able to cook properly in the truck... I can't keep a very healthy diet.... besides, have been eating can beans and sometimes Uncle Ben's pre-cooked rice... but I will try to cook real beans in my slow cooker again... The last 2 slow cookers I had didn't last long... the fuses burnt out and I couldn't find another to replace. Have been cooking my brown rice in that black box that plugs into the cigarette lighter. Don't like Uncle Ben's rice... not natural and many chemicals...

 

The Purple Cow Restaurant exit 495 on the east side of Interstate 90 in Hardin, MT. the Montana Breakfast, was featured in Reader's Digest. It's a half-pound of bacon, sausage or ham, four large eggs, twelve pancakes, three-quarter pound of hash browns, and a pint of orange juice. At 6'4 280 I have been known to pack it away from time to time but now that I'm older I do eat healthier for the most part, a good hot breakfast once a week and Petro buffet for the fried chicken once a month other wise its eating on the truck cereal for breakfast fresh veggies to snack on during the day and either a cold cut sandwich or a toasted subway spicy Italian ( i tell them to really load on the lettuce and other veggie then when I get to my truck I scrap them off in to a bowel for a side salad) for dinner, But the Montana Breakfast was out standing Although I was disappointed that I left 4 pancakes un eaten lol and man was that the longest 600 miles I drove after eating that.

 

Sure you can eat good and right OTR. I keep fruit, veggies in the truck at all times with me. Plus i'm active most of the time pulling flat beds and step decks so that helps to keep the pounds off to. The other thing you can do is park not so close to the truck stop building so that you have to walk a bit to get inside as well as returning to your truck. Nothing like burning those calories. Also, vitamins and minerals are suggested as well. Some people bring there bicycles with them out on the road, i think it's a great idea myself, just another way to get rid of those calories to shed those unwanted pounds.

 

Rocks, that sucks with the rice cooker burning out. There must be a better brand, or better way of steaming rice. I had a recipe book once that came with a rice cooker, and man! there were some healthy recipes in there. Walking, climbing stairs, exercise courses in the public park, bicycling are excellent. Maybe we could all start a movement by suggesting to management we want a safe place for cardio...?

Free2frog, I would rather just be shot now if I could never, ever again have another chocolate, pecan, espresso brownie. The trick is "once in a while"... Now about that Montana breakfast, that thing sounds like a ticket to the cardiac care unit when coupled with sitting for hours at a job, stress in traffic trying to meet a deadline. Time to reset the program, call for a re-deal, re-wire the circuitry...do what it takes, but man that ain't healthy no way no how.

You don't even need me to tell you that, do you?

 

Hi Brit... I don't have a steamer in the truck. I was referring to the slow cooker for beans... I had 2 so far but the fuse burnt out....



I can cook rice fine in that black box that plugs into the cigarette lighter.

 

Hey, Rocks. Cool toys! Did you drop a note to the company telling them about the design defect...? I'd tell them I put it online and my buds all think they ought to replace it with one that worked, or give you your money back. Grrrrr...! By the way "brown rice" is the word... that processed white stuff is naked calories with no vitamins left. Brown rice takes a little longer to cook and takes a little more water, but it is worth the wait with that nutty taste and loaded with nutrients. I buy the store brand rather than the stuff in the designer boxes.

Live long and prosper.

 

Hey Brit I say rice, but I mean brown rice. I know about it... I don't eat white rice either.... I buy my brown rice, granola (without sugar), raw salt and pasta at a healthy food store once every 2 or 3 months during my "hometime" and stock it up in the truck.