Eating on the Road

If healthy cooking at home is a challenge doing it on the road could be considered a royal pain in the tookie. 

If we let it be. 

With a little bit of preparation you don't have to deal with a malnourished cranky carload.

You can have a well fed cranky carload.... but the crankiness can be blamed solely on your husband's inability to stop at a decent hotel the first night of your road trip.... this might be getting a bit personal so let's talk food ;)

We are used to being on the road but normally we travel in a motorhome in which I can function as well as when I'm at home.  I once baked cookies... but that probably wasn't very safe so let's move on.

This two week trip is in the car. 

The most important thing is to have a really good variety of healthy options as even favorites can make you want to throw them out the window after too much repetition. 

Here is a quick list of ideas to include;

Hard boiled eggs

Peanutbutter

Flax crackers

Cherry tomatoes

Trail mix

Cuties

Sticks of cheese

Hard salami

Carrot sticks

Bananas
Hemp Hearts
Sugar Peas
Dried seaweed
Aussie Bites
Apples

Celery sticks
Dried fruit
Nuts
Bars

Bottles of water (I know the wasteful argument, and the drinking out of plastic one too, but I have brought reusable water bottles and filled them with gallon jugs of water and it was too much to fathom on this particular trip. We, as you can see, are stuffed to the hilt.)

Some other related items to have along; cups (to serve smaller items), paper towel, a knife (use a piece of cardboard as a cutting board to chop salami and apples.)

Go full boar or supplement meals out, either way you'll be better off in so very many ways!

Turkey Rolls

They're called turkey but any lunch meat works.

Well, not really, most lunch meat is full of nitrates and crap that is gross and really bad for you. So take your time, read the labels and find some lunch meat that is just that; meat.

Very simply, spread cream cheese on meat and roll.

So easy and so popular with the kids!

Variations;
Put a pickle in the middle.
Use a stick of cheese instead of cream cheese and roll it up in meat.
You can slice these and make pretty little appetizer snacks for ‘snacky meals*’

*Snacky meals are super popular around my house.
 They can consist of pretty much anything as long as it can be cut up and served in little pieces. A peanut butter and banana sandwich is only so exciting, but when it is cut up in 6 pieces and served with small pieces of cheese, grapes, roasted garbanzo beans, cucumber slices.... you get the drift; finger foods are popular for a reason, you’ll be amazed at what you can slip on your kids’ plates!