Eating when traveling

[oldmansax]

We eat in the bus about 98% of the time. With friends 1.5 % percent. Eat out .05%. My wife is an excellent cook and I prefer her meals over all else. I am a starvation cook meaning if I cook, at least I won't starve.

Roller dogs and pizza burgers play havoc with my plumbing and decent restaurant food (and I use the terms loosely) play havoc with my pocketbook.

TOM

[luvrbus]

We eat in the bus about 98% of the time. With friends 1.5 % percent. Eat out .05%. My wife is an excellent cook and I prefer her meals over all else. I am a starvation cook meaning if I cook, at least I won't starve.

Roller dogs and pizza burgers play havoc with my plumbing and decent restaurant food (and I use the terms loosely) play havoc with my pocketbook.

TOM

4 decent burgers at a restaurant (not a fast-food joint) now will cost you 60 bucks.Send me some crab cakes Tom I know how to cook those LOL

[Busted Knuckle]

WOW! $9 a dozen? Holly crap! I guess being here in rural TN and having Amish neighbors is a good thing. We get "free range eggs all day long for $1.50-$2.00 a dozen and fresh milk for $2.50-$3.00 a gallon depending on which farm we go to. (funny thing is the farm I prefer to get it at has the $2.50 a gallon price and it's about 35-50% cream! The more expensive ones separate the cream and it's always 5% or less cream!)
Also one of the local guys sells whole hogs at $0.80 per pound! One of the guys that rides with me everyday on the work crew, I haul everyday bought a 300# hog ($240) Saturday and we delivered it to another guy that runs a butcher shop to have it butchered. I plan to buy one myself and do the same when we go pick up his. I haven't found out the price for butchering it yet, but the guy doing it does it all from making the sausage, curing the bacon, and even making some of it into summer sausage!
I guess I'm spoiled.
  BK 

[luvrbus]

WOW! $9 a dozen? Holly crap! I guess being here in rural TN and having Amish neighbors is a good thing. We get "free range eggs all day long for $1.50-$2.00 a dozen and fresh milk for $2.50-$3.00 a gallon depending on which farm we go to. (funny thing is the farm I prefer to get it at has the $2.50 a gallon price and it's about 35-50% cream! The more expensive ones separate the cream and it's always 5% or less cream!)
Also one of the local guys sells whole hogs at $0.80 per pound! One of the guys that rides with me everyday on the work crew, I haul everyday bought a 300# hog ($240) Saturday and we delivered it to another guy that runs a butcher shop to have it butchered. I plan to buy one myself and do the same when we go pick up his. I haven't found out the price for butchering it yet, but the guy doing it does it all from making the sausage, curing the bacon, and even making some of it into summer sausage!
I guess I'm spoiled.
  BK 

Your not spoiled BK with no internet the Amish don't know how much money they are losing ,but they will figure it out the ones in OK always did lol keep your Amish people away from Walmart so they don't see the prices

[Van]

When on the road how many eat in restaurants vs cooking?, the price of food now is just outrageous in the stores, last night at Safeway eggs where almost of stock @ $9.00 a dozen. I can buy 3 bacon,egg,and cheese biscuits for $10.00 at Carl's Jr, lol eggs for breakfast are off the menu around here I am not paying $9.00 for a dozen eggs.This shortage BS needs to stop lol I may need to map out all the senior centers when planning our trip just to eat

[Busted Knuckle]

LOL! Clifford they have been there, but they don't like it (or the prices).
One Amish community about 70 miles from here has an Egg Sorting Facility that ships about 10-12 53' truckloads of eggs to CA every week!
And one of my Amish friends has a neighbor that just put in a set of 4 barns for nothing but laying hens that produce about 40,000 eggs daily! (all together or roughly 10,000 each)
It's not owned by Amish as it has too much technology involved, but they do help him with the harvesting, packing and shipping on a part time basis and I imagine when his kids are old enough they will probably work there in the summers until they finish school!
  BK 

[windtrader]

Your not spoiled BK with no internet the Amish don't know how much money they are losing ,but they will figure it out the ones in OK always did lol keep your Amish people away from Walmart so they don't see the prices

Now, that is hilarious! and no electricity so no radios or tv either, no wonder they charge 1850 rates!

[Glennman]

Not to give the legislators any ideas, but even a cold sandwich is a "prepared" food. They are not selling you the ingredients to make the dough!

[oldmansax]

Send me some crab cakes Tom I know how to cook those LOL

I'll have to look around to find some I trust that are good. All the old timers who were in the business either died, retired or the covid mess closed up the retail ship-it-in-the-mail businesses. The people still making cakes have cut corners and are selling all they make to local restaurants and tourists. What a mess! I have not had a good crab cake (by the old standards) in 3 years and I live here. You will have to dig up one of your gold bars and send it to me so I can trade for them if I find any that are good...  .  I'll see what I can do.

TOM

[dtcerrato]

I'll have to look around to find some I trust that are good. All the old timers who were in the business either died, retired or the covid mess closed up the retail ship-it-in-the-mail businesses. The people still making cakes have cut corners and are selling all they make to local restaurants and tourists. What a mess! I have not had a good crab cake (by the old standards) in 3 years and I live here. You will have to dig up one of your gold bars and send it to me so I can trade for them if I find any that are good...  .  I'll see what I can do.

TOM

I don't think Luke would mind me sharing this photo of him. It's one of my favorites of him - heck it's probably one of his favorites too! Nothin' like a cold water NJ blue crab! Lol 
Just don't eat those delicious buggers if you have an upcoming lab for blood work as they WILL spike your cholesterol. 

[luvrbus]

Tom sent me some real crap cakes several years ago they were the best I have ever eaten even with a few crab shells mixed in.Sonja loves King Crab legs,I guess I need to break down and buy her a couple of pounds @ 80 bucks a pound now wasn't long ago at Casnios here it was 20 bucks for all you eat now it cost a 100 bucks for 2 trips   

[Ed Hackenbruch]

During the California and Alaska gold rush days, eggs were a dollar each.

[luvrbus]

During the California and Alaska gold rush days, eggs were a dollar each.

In today's money that would be $25.00 each or $300.00 a dozen, I don't like eggs that much

[dtcerrato]

In today's money that would be $25.00 each or $300.00 a dozen, I don't like eggs that much

Egg laying chickens were probably worth their weight in gold!

[luvrbus]

A steak house we eat at sometimes in Scottsdale has raised their prices to $40.00 a once for steaks, I am not paying those prices, plus the sides and drink lol a side of Mac and cheese cost $15.00 now