There is an old story about a young mother who cut the ends off her Christmas ham before baking it in the oven. When her daughter asked “Mommy, why do you cut the ends off the ham?” She replied “It’s what my mother did. It makes the ham taste better!”
The little girl thought about that and went to her grandmother and asked the same question. Her grandmother replied “It’s what my mother always did. It makes the ham taste better!” The little girl was not convinced. She moved on to her Great Grandmother. “Nana, why have you always cut the ends off the ham?” The old woman replied, “Why dear, my oven was so small, the whole ham wouldn’t fit!”
I feel this story living in an RV. The oven is small, the stovetop is small, the grill is small. You can’t do BIG meals. Combine that with the fact that we have no interest in spending all of our time creating meals and you find ways to simplify. I love the fact that cooking has become so simple when you live in a tiny house.
We find simple one-pot type recipes that we really like and use those as a basis for our meals, we also do a lot of slow cooker meals and easy RV meals in the stove. We can get creative as we want, but we always try to keep it simple. Here are 5 Easy RV Recipes to get you started.
This is a wonderful overview of some of the drawbacks as well as the many benefits to RV life! I think #15 might be one of my favorites, ha!
I know it’s my husbands lol. Thanks so much for contributing to it 🙂
My husband and I, along with our three goldens, traveled the country for about a year. While we did stay 2-3 weeks in some locations, we mostly fast traveled because we took a year off and wanted to see as much as we could. Several months after resettling (yes, buy everything again) we realized how liberating traveling full time was. We are not tech savvy so we couldn’t work virtually. If we had had a steady source of income I have no doubt we would’ve kept traveling. At a more relaxed pace. We miss it.
Hi Candy,
It is really a wonderful way to live. Try looking for travel applications of you and your husbands careers. You may be surprised to find a niche just for you. Glad you had the year you did!