Cooking In Truck

I really have not noticed this: how and what do you cook in your truck?

Ex. Crock pot, one burner hot pad, George Forman.

For Christmas I got a microwave. Last year I bought an electric skillet and between the two, I have cooked a fair amount of meals. I also have one of those refrigerator/freezers that I use as a freezer, a Coleman cooler that needs a new fuse and the company has a refrigerator installed. I also have a one cup coffee maker that I got at Family Dollar. That's all I need, which allows me to cook a lot of different things. My company installed 1,800 watt inverters and it runs all my equipment.

As for food, I'm trying to eat up the meat I have in the 2 freezers I have at home before I get any more home raised meat. I have bought some frozen vegetables but was having issues with that freezer so I've gone to canned goods and I keep them in a tote that PackRat gave me....which holds a fair amount. I'm out 3 to 4 weeks, so try to stock up before I head out so I don't have to hit any stores while I'm out on the road. Although there is a Walmart in Lexington NE that allows truck parking, so I usually grab a few things if I'm low on groceries.

Laura

I don't cook as much as I'm pretty selective about meals I get. Lean cuisine and organic high protein low carb frozen foods, premier protein shakes, organic preservative free canned food, organic preservative free lunch meat and cheese. Fairlife organic lactose free milk (not that I need lactose free, it just tastes great and is high in protein) no soda, only water.

Basically I do all my cooking with sir nuke alot. Mostly I have sandwiches and cold cuts. I eat small meals about every 2 to 4 hours. Keeps me from a food coma and works for my metabolism

I have a 3-1 galanz microwave/ air fryer/ convection oven is my primary tool. I also have a crockpot pressure cooker as well. That gives me the ability to a pretty good range of things. I have a portable 30 qt freezer on the truck as well with an assortment of pork, chicken and frozen veggies as well as anything I may have prepped at the house, And Usually at least a 2 or 3 simple microwave meals as well for the nights I am fried and just want to nuke something and be done.

You can buy one of those small size crockpots at Walmart for less than $15. I have one and use it to cook my food (that needs cooking) while I’m driving.

I have a Presto electric frying pan that I use a lot. I get by without a microwave and use the microwave compartment for storage of my can goods, coffee and tea making stuff, etc.

I also have a small (from Walmart) electric hot water heating pot that I use to boil my water for coffee and tea

1800 watt inverter. I only use one appliance at a time.

I see numerous billboards of a cow encouraging people to eat more chicken, so I cook a lot of chicken in the crock pot. Lol

I’m probably not as conscientious about my food as Davy is with his diet, but I eat well and very inexpensively.

When your with your trainer, I probably will not need these items yet, right..

Does trainer show you the tricks to cooking in the truck, or are we as trainee, do we need to kind of fend for ourselves in the stops we make? I'm thinking it is like renting and apartment for the weeks I'm on the truck and you share the costs of food and other cooking things if it is possible. Sorry just asking questions.

Brian, those are valid questions. The answer at this time is: It all depends on the trainer.

When I was out with my trainer, he did not cook in the truck at all. His wife prepared his food for him one week at a time. I brought some stuff with me that didn’t have to be cooked or refrigerated. Other than that, we stopped enough for me to buy what I needed.

I was better prepared the second week than the first.

I use a one-burner hot plate thing that I put a regular pan on to cook meats like steak and chicken. I love sirloin so I usually get the sliced-for-stroganoff cuts or similar, for ease and time. That and a microwaved bag of steamer veggies is my usual dinner. For lunch I usually eat some deli-sliced salami and cheese. Breakfast is an Atkins or similar brand milk drink, or cereal when there's time.

I have a small crockpot I'll bust out on resets for a beef stew or mexicany chicken concoction.

I want to get a plug in freezer as the one that's part of the fridge is too small. Until then though, I usually get groceries delivered to the truck on one of my resets when provisions are low. I think it was Davy that mentioned doing that a long while back and it works fine.

I try to drink water or Powerade Zero mostly but I have a root beer addiction, and it flares up bad when I pumped enough fuel for free drink refills.

Nope. My trainer was weird about food on the truck. I was so dang sick of fast food by the time I got off the truck. Some trainers do teach that stuff too, or offer to share, but it is not required of them.

When your with your trainer, I probably will not need these items yet, right..

Does trainer show you the tricks to cooking in the truck, or are we as trainee, do we need to kind of fend for ourselves in the stops we make? I'm thinking it is like renting and apartment for the weeks I'm on the truck and you share the costs of food and other cooking things if it is possible. Sorry just asking questions.