What food is good in the truck?

The microwave is left up to the company to decide if they'll let you have it. It's all left up to inverter size and if they'll let you have one of those also.
As for foods, just walk the isles in a store and look at the panels and you'll have all the sodium and fat calories information you need. It's all up to what you want to eat.

Not everything in a heat up container is "good!"
Canned veggies and meats are just as good just not as "easy" to make and from experience most of that "easy" crapola out there is either to fattening, too much sodium, unpronounceable chemicals or just plain nasty!
The hardest part about "saving" money on the road is cooking in the truck.
You have to buy plastic plates, bowls or have gallons of water on hand to "wash" dishes or cook ware in the truck.
Then cooking a lot in a truck especially one with velour upholstery will start to "smell" from all the food odors it will absorb plus the washing of vinyl upholstery to remove the layered smell off not to mention if you're a smoker!
Yes you need to just walk around Walley World and a few grocers before you jump into this cesspool of trucking! See what you would like to stuff in your face and read the labels. What one might like you might not.

You do have to get the heck out of that truck. Go in and sit at the counter several times a week and eat cooking done on a real stove by anothers hand and talk with people face to face as it's way better than living on a text or cell phone!

 

Most truckers have refrigerators in their trucks so you can pretty much have anything you want to. Yes you can have a microwave. Some people have toaster ovens, coffee makers, crock pots, foreman grills, bbq's etc... Pretty much anything goes. It's best to go to Walmart and stock up instead of buying or eating at truck stops. Much more healthier too!

 

99 cent ice cream sandwiches and Pilot coffee--that's all you need to live.
























I'm kidding!

I look for things with very few ingredients. For rolling down the road snacks, I keep a mix of peanuts and cashews. I buy 'em in the truckload size and refill my small can as necessary.

I don't have a fridge in my truck, but certain things will keep for a little while. Fruit.... baby carrots... bread for sandwiches (I buy lunch meat daily). Most grocery stores will have truck access of some sort. Just park out of the way, run in and buy your crap and get back out before they call a tow truck.

Ice cream sandwiches will keep for a few days as long as you store them under your mattress (ok... kidding again).

 

yes that's why alot of carriers (especially the big ones) won't let you have one. There are a variety of electric coolers out there, some good some not so good....I had a coleman for a couple of years.....it just died this winter.

there are also alot of 12 volt appliances you can get.....just don't leave them plugged in all the time, for various reasons.

As far as food goes, really anything goes, I plan on taking my small coleman camping grill with me when I get back in the seat.....set it up on the cat walk and away I go. I also plan on taking more fruit with me this time out. I also like having trail mix with me...it's a good healthier snack.

 

I premake my old man 5-6 dinner meals every week, anything from pork chops to roast beef for his dinners. I keep at least 2 lbs of lunch meat, slices of cheese, to make quick meat sandwiches, a well as a jar of peanut butter and jelly, beef jerkey, cheese crackers, dried fruits, cans of different soups variety of different nuts, granola bars, cereal bars, I also buy the single servings of different fruits and vegetables, I keep his truck pretty stocked with wide variety of a lil of everything. It has saved is so much monies, and don't forget a big bag of chocolates cookies and ur favorite candies for that sweet tooth. Sara lee honey wheat bread is also very good in a truck dos not get as old as fast as ur generic brands. Case of soda, water and we get those single packet servings of teas lemonade packets u can just add to ur bottled water for flavor. Get creative they're plenty ways to eat healthy, and save monies.

 

You can eat at a truck stop just as healthy as you can at home or in the truck! It's what you eat that matters! Heck you can eat as "unhealthy" in a truck stop and the truck too!

Watch what you order at any restaurant!
You can also tell the wait staff not to use say butter to fry something but use olive or canola oil as most cooks and restaurants have this for just such a request. You can tell them no salt but I would also recommend you go to a calorie counting web site and down load the list of most common foods and what their calorie count is so you can make a better decision when you order.

It's just a rumor that you can eat out of a truck healthier than a truck stop! it's what you feed your self and the amounts that matter! Go to a buffet but just because it says "all you can eat" doesn't mean it's a freaking eating contest! 1 plate and that's it! You just get more choices of food but you don't HAVE to eat it all!

 

Funyuns...

 

I'll go to a TA or Petro and the first thing I do is look at the buffet. If it's mostly fried food, which a lot of times it is, that really turns me off from gorging myself. Then I'll look at what they have on their salad bar and what their soup choices are. Often times if I'm really hungry I'll order something that comes with the soup and salad bar. If I'm hungry but not for a dinner, I'll get one of their sandwiches and add the soup/salad bar on to it.

Adding egg whites and cheese onto my salad is a guilty pleasure but I always make sure to include a few cucumbers and tomatoes. Maybe broccoli and cauliflower if they have it. Now if I can just get myself to step away from the ranch dressing once in awhile....