What can you have in your truck?
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Brucely, Feb 26, 2018.
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Same with a baked potato..."I like potato with my butter and sour cream."
An no, the shape I closely resemble is not a circle, or oval. Ha ha!
I enjoy eating what I shouldn't. I pay for it though by having to do some walking. All that other exercising is likely to kill me.
An now I must go make a baked potato. Curse you Dave, curse you! I will get you and your little dog* to!
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I think nearly all trucks have little fridges in them now. Many come with inverters. Mine didn’t, so I installed a 2500 watt. It runs a 750 watt microwave and my Kcup coffee maker. Tonight I had salad and beef stroganoff. A lot of the frozen entrees and the stuff that you microwave that doesn’t have to be frozen is acceptable nowadays.
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Since my company now allows large inverters I have more options.
I use a 12V lunchbox oven or two, and a toaster oven and small electric grill off the inverter.
I use a Coleman 12V cooler to keep things cold. Most times very cold.
With that combination I can keep a good supply of fresh food and make some pretty good meals.
Rice, baked potatoes, any veggy, hamburgers and fish and chicken.
I eat as well on the truck as I do at home, although a bit less variety.
Things like mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, fried rice... those are not really possible without a real stove and larger pots and pans.
I don't use a microwave in the truck, or at home. It just ruins the flavor of anything, and nothing cooks correctly in them. They are a real wasted technology as far as I'm concerned. Always have been.
Real heat is the only way to cook properly. Nuking just blasts everything from the inside out.Brucely Thanks this. -
When it gets nicer out. A camp stove. Or at least one burner stove. Outside would work nicely.
Perhaps a Dutch Oven?
I agree on the microwave. I don't have the power yet. If I did. I'd get a convection/toaster oven.Brucely Thanks this. -
I used to have an electric skillet, crock pot, electric kettle and toaster oven. Fridge was built in, although when I started I had a 12v Coleman cooler.
Now running team, we both exhaust our 70 hours every 6-7 days and don’t have much desire to spend and hour or two cooking up meals on the go.
Instead, I brought a microwave and do all my cooking at home. A pot of stew, usually a pot of cabbage/bacon/veggies, cook up a bunch of steaks and some finger foods - meatballs, boiled eggs, chicken wings, fried pepperoni, etc. I freeze it all before I leave home in Tupperware, and I have my fridge turned way down so it will stay frozen all week.
There’s about 30 meal sized portions in my fridge, and I just nuke whatever I feel like for my meals.
I’ve also been keto for about 6 years, so there’s almost nothing in a truck stop or fast food restaurant that I’m willing to buy.Brucely Thanks this. -
My guess is they do the same for steak?
Just doesn't sound right, even though it's probably not bad at all.
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