There's no waiting to get to a truck stop restaurant only to eat what someone else decides to put on the menu or a buffet. 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 regional driver for his trucking company when he was by himself in his truck. We have seen it together whenever Vicki has ridden with him.

Yes, the job demands that professional drivers face make it challenging to eat frugally on the road, but it's not impossible.

This page contains an overview of ideas about food and links to recipes that you can fix in your truck. It is meant to be used in tandem with our meal preparation page.

Some professional drivers want simple meals with only a few ingredients while others don't mind preparing more elaborate recipes.

On this Trucker Food and Recipes page, we'll provide:

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

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."

Here is a list of Breakfast foods we have prepared in a truck:

• ham and cheese omelette;
• Vicki's crock pot version of Amish Baked Oatmeal;
• waffles;
• turkey bacon; and
• freeze dried eggs.

You can also cook hot cereals like oatmeal, grits and farina (commonly called Cream of Wheat) in a hot pot.