Food Trucks?

Very rarely anymore. I used to frequent them often when I was out and about on the town, but I have a wife and kids now and pretty much a good party night consists of me drinking a few beers and staying up past 10...

I doubt you will find any that list nutritional information. Most of those are mom and pop type of operations and aren't going to be able to have all of the testing necessary to accurately determine nutritional information without charging you a million dollars for your taco.

I ate at food trucks (in Washington, D.C.) for lunch about once a week while losing my first 30 lbs (since then I've been doing a little more telecommuting and brown-bagging, and we've had a few more good brick-and-mortar lunch places open up near my office, so I'm probably only hitting the food trucks once or twice a month). I've never seen a truck that posted nutritional information. I just deconstruct the meal to the point that I can find entries for the parts or ingredients (a lot of the ones I eat at serve fairly unusual stuff, like Korean- or Vietnamese-influenced tacos, so it's hard to find a match for the whole dish -- plus, entries for a dish generally don't indicate weight or amount of food, so there's not much point to using them). I've been weighing my food long enough that I feel reasonably confident estimating how much pulled pork or beef brisket is in the taco, for instance, and I do enough cooking to feel like I can tell whether there's just a half-teaspoon or a whole tablespoon dressing the cup of boiled collards on my platter.

Mostly out of food preferences, but also to limit the calorie impact, I don't generally go to trucks that serve deep-fried foods, pizza, most sandwiches (they tend to be huge, and a big calorie "spend" on bread that often isn't that tasty), or stuff smothered in cheap cheese (cheese is yummy, but melted orange plastic cheese isn't worth the calories). Among my favorites are tofu tacos with kimchi; koshary (an Egyptian dish of rice, pasta, lentils, chick peas, tomato sauce, and fried onions); and an Ethiopian vegetable platter with injera (a spongy sourdough bread made teff flour).

Here in southern california theres taco trucks and theyre everywhere. If you drive down any busy street youll see atleast one.

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shartran wrote: »

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dbmata wrote: »

shartran wrote: »

Wondering how often, if ever, do you frequent F.T.'s?

Also, which ones do you go to (what city too)and what do they serve?

Does any city have any that actually know and list the nutrition(ie Calories/fat/sodium, etc.,)?

Oh man, back in the day about 10 years ago they were all the rage. I loved em.

Kinda wish that trend would come back.

In my city, we didn't even know about food trucks 10 years ago...we just got the city's 'ok' to have them about 2 years ago!

Same in Sask...they are just getting popular here. Typically if one parks in the city somewhere - it will be in the news and the lines are massive.

Toronto as well, they just blew up a year or two ago. There are a lot of permits and etc. to get through, and they've loosened up the by-laws a bit. Still, they're mostly around during food festivals in the summer, or around the university campuses. I've tried to avoid them this year because of calorie counting, but I know there's some good ones I haven't tried yet. I ate at one at a music festival this past summer and got some kind of cold noodle salad which was delicious (can't remember the name of the truck though..). It was always a dream of mine to open my own food truck, but it's very difficult if you don't have a restaurant to work out of, plus now there is a lot of competition

The best food truck food I have had has been from the shrimp trucks in Hawaii. I usually have garlic shrimp with rice and coleslaw. It's one of the things I really look forward to when I go there.

At home in Australia, most food trucks seem to be associated with craft markets. The last thing I remember having from one of those trucks was chocolate covered frozen strawberry skewers.

mmmmm....street meat.


No I never eat at them. I only dream.

I eat from a food from a truck a couple of times a week (none of which post nutritional info). There is one right outside of my office (Philadelphia) that makes great omelettes. They'll make them however you like (egg whites, veggies etc.). There is also a burger truck and a crepe truck (both savory and sweet crepes) a few blocks away that I know must be terrible calorie wise but is totally worth it every once in a while.