Food and Recipes
for Eating and Cooking in Your Truck

You're hungry and you'll be in the dock for hours. But because you planned the food and recipes you would eat and cook on this trip, that's not a problem. Not only will you take advantage of the time on your hands, you'll save money in the process!

We saw this scenario played out over and over again in the days when we teamed. Mike continued to see it as a solo driver for his trucking company when he was by himself in his truck. Now we see it together as Vicki rides with him full-time. Yes, the job demands that professional drivers face make it challenging to eat healthfully on the road, but not impossible. This page contains an overview of ideas about food and recipes that you can fix in your truck. It is meant to be used in tandem with our meal preparation page.

Do you crave a sub sandwich? You can make one. Pizza? Check. How about a steak? You can have that, too!

What you fix depends upon your individual preferences, the tools at your disposal, and help from your home support team.

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Over time, we plan to link the following sections to this page:

• Guidance on the following types of food:
• home canned food;
• commercially canned food;
• dehydrated and freeze-dried foods;
• breads and cereals; and
• perishable and frozen foods.
  
  
• Recipes and menu ideas grouped by meal:
• Foods for breakfast;
• Foods for lunch;
• Foods for supper or dinner; and
• Snack foods.

Some professional drivers want simple meals with only a few ingredients while others don't mind preparing more elaborate recipes. We'll share some ideas on:

• easy recipes and food choices on the road;
• recipes that require only a few ingredients; and
• where you can get loads of recipe ideas.

We have fixed a ham and cheese omelette in Mike's truck. We also prepared homemade pizza.

Our largest Food and Recipes undertaking to date was preparing our 2009 Thanksgiving dinner, which included cooking turkey and preparing a sweet potato casserole.

We have also made many batches of waffles in Mike's truck. What a yummy idea for breakfast!

To go with breakfast, we have prepared turkey bacon. For lunch or dinner, why not try a delicious grilled cheese sandwich or tuna noodle casserole? Need quick hot meals? Why not try canned ravioli or Chinese food?

On the beverage side, you might be interested in learning how we make hot chocolate from a homemade mix. 

For a cool, delicious treat, try a fruit salad.

Looking for a good source of protein and a meal that's easy to fix in your truck? Split pea soup might fit the bill any time.

Since we have experience in cooking food in a truck, you can learn from our successes and failures in trying to prepare home cooked meals. Discover which combinations we thought were sensational and which were absolute flops!

We'll showcase Mike Simons, who calls himself "The Trucking Cheffy."

Mike loves to cook and he'll show you how to make food and recipes in your truck that are "Dee-lish [short for "delicious"] to the nth degree."

Money saving tip: More often than not, you can buy and cook food to eat in your truck that is far less expensive than any meal you could ever hope to buy in a restaurant. Consider, for example, meals consisting of soup and salad; a grilled cheese sandwich; a steak and baked potato. Your choice of food and recipes is practically limitless! We've found that being prepared to eat in the truck is not only good during long loading or unloading times, but also just to save money and eat healthfully. Unless your circumstances dictate otherwise, you can do the same if you really want to.

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