Question:
I'm a little concerned about my husband's food health diet nutrition while on the road - his trainer has a small refrigerator which has helped as far as allowing him to take food (mainly sandwiches). We can't afford for him to eat out very often right now. His diet has consisted of mainly junk food (crackers) and processed lunch meat - practically 0 nutrition - and hopefully after the training process is over and he gets a truck we can improve on this. Because they cross the Canada/U.S. border so often, I understand that they can't have fresh fruit in the truck. I'm sort of a nutrition fanatic anyway because I know how important diet is to one's health and also how the wrong food can break down one's health: 4 questions for those of you who want to participate: 1. How many glasses of water do you drink per day? 2. How many pieces of fresh fruit do you eat per day? 3. How many servings of fresh (not canned or processed) vegetables do you eat per day? 4. Do you use a microwave? How often? Let's take a look at this and talk about this, and if anyone has any suggestions or tips about food health diet nurtrition while on the road that you have learned from experience, by all means please post them
Answer:
When I was OTR, I had an electric cooler and a DC Oven to heat the food. I ate every meal out of the truck except I would get a fast food meal once or twice toward the end of the week if my bread was getting stale. I would cold cereal or instant oatmeal and a bagel for breakfast. I could also heat up the microwave biscuits in my DC oven. I would typically eat a sandwich and some chips for lunch. For dinner I would eat a sandwich and soup or stew. I could also heat up most type of TV dinners in my DC oven. I carried canned fruits and veggies, plus crackers and peanut butter. You can eat virtually anything you want, you just need to make the healthy choices in the grocery store. I would suggest staying out of the truck stop restaurants as much as possible due to the costs, the relative lack of healthy choices, and the good possibility of winning the botulism bingo at the buffet. I haven't heard of the fresh fruit and veggie prohibition for entering Canada but it sounds reasonable enough. I would guess that going to Canada will be a rare occurrence. You can always throw out the fruit and veggies at the border and buy more in country. You are right that eating out of the truck will save you money. I used to spend 1/2 to 1/3 as much to buy groceries for the truck as I and others spent on a week's worth of restaurant meals. It's probably difficult now with your husband in training to carry enough food while he shares the truck. I would definitely prefer canned fruits and veggies to over-priced and over-hyped energy bars and powdered drinks that claim nutritional nirvana. There is so much bogus information in the health food arena that you are better off staying out of the places and eating real food, even if it's in a can
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