While out on the road, do you mostly make your own meals or buy food?

Retort?


I usually do the frozen chicken, Sam's club meatballs, other frozen stuff. Start off with pot roast or other 2lbs of cooked meat in Pyrex tuberware. Once fresh is gone time for frozen. Canned tuna with mayo is the last.

 

High pressure high heat sterileization and packageing. Think uncle bens rice in bags or the like. Basically shelf stable wet foods that arent or cant be canned for various reasons.

 

You don't have a fridge? Rice in the pouches, I like those too.

 

I do i just keep lunch meat condiments and such in it. Since i use freeze dried so much its eaiser then carrying fresh and almost as good outside leafy greens.

 

My first few years I ate only my groceries/TV dinners out of my cooler for 4 of the 5 days. On Fri I would splurge and buy a fast food meal. My last few years I would buy a couple of fast food sandwiches, eat one and save one for tomorrow. My own cereal or oatmeal for breakfast everyday.

 

Always took a good hour or so for dinner at a decent restaurant. Coffee and donut for breakfast, make a sandwich for lunch…we just dont burn that many calories steering a truck. Cooking in my truck never went past boiling water for coffee or rice noodles in a pinch…

 

Back in 1999, I went to some town in New Hampshire for work, took my wife with me. We went down to New London Connecticut to see her aunt. On the way there, we stopped at a mom-and-pop TS to get something to eat, it was pretty busy. I went over to the fridge to grab a couple of cokes, and I looked down in between the racks. There were two dead rats, and another one was eating one of them. Right next to the coolers was the warm food area, my wife was coming up to the cashier to buy a bunch of warm food, I told her put it all back, we will get something from another place, and we walked out. We ended up hitting the health food place - McDonald's - on the way there, I still wasn't sure about that place either. Some of the worst places I have eaten at, outside of the disgusting places in Paris, all have been in the north east.

 

Ahhh the crem de la crem only the bestest cuisine. You can always tell the bestest and highest paid in the fleet by how many roller grill items they cram into their mouths while waddling back to the truck. However they do have to wait till the truck levels out till they can finish the gallon of pop and rest of roller grill items. Oh lawd if we all could be so fortunate.

 

Both. When i was OTR I preferred making my own meals in the truck; it was cheaper, tasted better, and healthier. But, usually about once per weeks, just to get out of the truck for a few hours, I'd go and eat at a restaurant or something.