What do you eat?

Once upon a time, before touring I made a meal plan for the week. I shopped once a week, with a list, and served meals at 7:30 am, noon, and 5:30 pm.  Eating out was a rare occasion, and I would say besides our love for pizza, I made fairly health meals.  Even when we are on breaks I fall back into this routine.  I only mention my natural tendencies to contrast what eating while touring is like. 

Preparing lunch is a bit of a balancing act in the car.

So what is it like?  We eat 2 or 3 meals a day. The time and place of these meals are different everyday.  Most of the time I am not making these meals either.  While I don't really like having so little control over providing meals for my family it is a GOOD and constant reminder that God provides each day what we need.

Lots of people we know travel differently, but this is how we eat on the road. We travel with a "food tub" which contains essentials like PB&J, oatmeal, utensils, plates, bowls and snacks. We also have a "cold bag" which allows us to buy things like yogurt or cheese and keep them cool until lunch or dinner.  

When it comes to breakfast, most mornings we eat it. Breakfast is either provided by our hosts or oatmeal from our food tub. Some mornings we wake up too late for breakfast to be important.


 Lunch is the most interesting meal of the day because most of the time we are on the road.  When we first started touring there was a lot of fast food dollar menu consumption.  Now there is quite a bit less, but our go to for the moment is Taco Bell.  We most often buy food for lunch at Aldi in the Midwest and East, and Grocery Outlet in the West.  The barren waste land of Wyoming and Montana where, as far as we know, neither exist, is a sad place for us. The challenge that we face is to buy just enough for one meal but also feel like we have eaten a meal.  Some of these "meals" appear below.

Lunch provided by Aldi

Lunch provided by Grocery Outlet

Lunch provided by my mom. 

Dinner is often provided at shows.  There are many, many people that provide home cooked meals for us. 

 There are many, many people that provide pizza for us (my family's FAVORITE). 

And sometimes we get to taste the local fare, a special treat.

We "shared" an cream cheese brownie, s'more cookie ice cream sandwich in Fort Collins, CO.

Here are a few confessions from eating on the road:

• Sometimes ice cream IS lunch.
• Kevin has used a CD as a knife.
• We don't refrigerate our jam.  It just stays in our food tub and has never gone bad.
• Roadside produce stands (particularly) in the south are our weakness.  We make highly impractical purchases like a whole watermelon and bags full of REALLY ripe peaches.