Plus. With all them snacks you are constantly eating. Next thing you get busted in Virginia for being overweight :lol:

 

:arrow: This is good advice. I use my AT&T air card to locate Wal-Mart's via their online store finder located here ---> http://www.walmart.com/cservice/ca_storefinder.gsp and map it out on my GPS.

Unfortunately as some of us know, some of our co-workers love to toss pee bombs and other assorted trash in WM's parking lot so you do risk being kicked off the lot.

I did that for awhile too. I ate so many turkey sammiches I thought I was going to turn into a turkey. Suckway is too expensive for what you get IMO.

 

I guess I spend about 3 or 4 hundred dollars a week. I'm kind of a high maintenance individual. 8)

 

With just a 12v Igloo cooler and a microwave oven in the truck, you can still spend $150.00 a week eating "fast food"- the problem with PLANNING on eating out of your truck is--it gets "old" real quick. Soon, you find yourself cruising around with $200.00 of 'grub' and 'snacks' and still grabbing that $6.00 Subway sandwitch or Wendy's or Arby's. What you really need is the
1000watt(or larger) Inverter with small Dorm Refrig/Freezer and the Microwave- these gives you the widest variety of food combinations, ease of preparation---clean disposal . This is were you loose the most $$$$ in setting up for eating out of the truck--paper plates, bowls, paper towels, trash bags, plastic spoons, etc---

but, once you drop the initial $200.00 to get all this stuff in your truck--- you can go shopping for TV dinners, etc and eat like a SUPERSLAB SLOB on $35.00-60.00 a week.

Or, you can travel light, watch your Weight( having food always available IN TRUCK- can cause weight gain) spend that $150.00 a week at Good restraunts away from the truckstop crap. Find yourself a shopping center with some parking space, and go to a steakhouse, etc. The price is about the same as the crappy slop they serve at the T/S.

 

Sorry to go off-topic here but has anyone tried http://www.truckfridge.com/ ? They are $479 + S&H :shock: I'd be willing to pay it if I knew that they were reliable.

 

Waste of money in my opinion, I have a coleman plug in cooler from walmart for $70, plenty of space, and I have to unplug it every day or the stuff will freeze solid! works that good. It easily holds a weeks worth of food, plus drinks. right now mine has various cold cuts, hot dogs, hot pockets, drinks, condiments that require being cold, etc all in there, with room to spare.

 

me too it's sitting at home because it doesn't work well in the summer and I just keep forgetting to put it back in for the winter. One thing to remember with those thermoelectric coolers is, they cool better when the in-cab temperature is colder, it only knocks down the ambient temp. 30 degrees I believe. So if it's on average 80 degrees inside the truck that lunch meat will be cooled at 50 :shock: which will make you one sick puppy if you eat it.

Not all of us idle our trucks all summer long because some of us pay for fuel.

 

It's hard to tell, they since they don't give you minor details like the brand name of the thing. Probably a Chinese knockoff.

I have a Waeco portable refridge/freezer. It works very well, draws much less power than either a 12v cooler or an inverter dorm refrig/freezer combo. You can leave it running over the weekend and still start the truck on Monday. It was slightly cheaper than truckfridge as well. It's been dropped and once took a trip to the bottom of the lake, and still works. The rated temperture range is from 50F to 0F at 86F. It will hold 0F in a parked truck in GA, with no climate control.

Waeco and Engel are the main suppliers for the medical and sailing/yachting industries. They are tough, efficient boxes. They have to be.

Try googling the net for the best prices.


Birdy


Google them, and

 

2 Year replacement warranty sounds good. A lot less expensive than an Engel. Wonder if they china scrap, or something built to last. Gonna research this one!

 

As far as food and drink goes i get by on about $60 a week. and that includes 4 6packs of 24oz sodas. if you're a soda drinker, the 24oz bottles are cheaper and you get more.

(12 x8= 96 oz about $4 - $5 OR 6x 24= 144oz $2.50 - $4.00)

I munch on carrots mostly, but chips and cheezits and grapes too. I also eat a lot of lunch meats and soups in my lunchbox stove for dinner. I usually save my eating out for when i get home, and take my wife out. I'm still new but this has been working for me for 3 months soo..... OH!!! get a cooler, but not a coleman. Mine was crap and friends have had issues with them too. My 40qt igloo coolmate is awesome.

And yes guys i know.... 576oz of soda a week is alot..... i know it's just over 10 cans a day. i'm trying to cutback ok.