From the article: Healthy Eating on the Road
Finding healthy foods while you travel isn't always easy. Much of the food you find in service stations, convenience stores and fast food restaurants is high in fat and calories, but not so high in nutrition. What do you do to find healthy foods on the road. Share Your Tip
everything health
- Green tea, water, apples, bananas, carrots, bread, tomatoes, cabbage, rice, beans, watermelon, noodles, salad, milk, juice.
- —Guest Savannah
Ask the hotel for a mini refrigerator
- If you're staying in the hotel for an extended period, ask for a mini fridge so you can fill it with healthy snacks and meals!
- —Guest TheFoodBuff
Bring the Cooler
- A small cooler holds water, yogurt cups, fruit, and sandwiches. We bring home popped popcorn and whole grain crackers for crunchy snacks. It's so important to eat healthy and I'm teaching my son how to do so, too. We did a 7 hour drive yesterday, fueled by healthy snacks.
- —Guest Aileen
dried fruits, clementines
- I take packs of dried apricots, prunes, figs, pineapple etc. This time of the year its easy to get clementines and apples. All these need no refrigeration.
- —Guest latita
Food & Travel As an experience
- Finding healthy food while you travel is not always the right thing to do (if there's any such thing as 'the right thing'). In many countries, food is your gateway to their culture and by avoiding many kinds of food you just touch the surface of that country. So it is important to keep your health in share, but culinary travel opens a whole new world you never knew existed. Food for thought ;) Yonatan
- —Guest Yonatan Weic
Healthy Travel Snacks
- Eating healthy on the road is important and there are many delicious choices for your road trip. I travel a lot for figure skating competitions (national and international), so I am on the road a lot! Here is my list: *bananas, *baby carrots, yogurt cups, water bottles, mini Gatorade bottles, string cheese, granola bars, reduced sodium pretzel stix, fat free or lowfat pudding, *cherry tomatoes, *raspberries, *blueberries, *blackberries, Quaker rice cakes, lean meat sandwiches on wheat. *If you want, combine the starred items and mix them into a fruit and veggie salad. Don't forget to bring some spoons and/or forks.
- —Guest Emmaleigh
Healthy grazing
- We travel a lot for sport, we get our meals at the supermarket. Bag salad (watch the dressing) and yoghurt, wholewheat bagels or fruit.
- —Guest Tina
NO to soup
- Soup, most of the time, is extremely high in sodium. If you're trying to eat healthy, avoid soup - especially packaged/non-home made types.
- —Guest Josh
On the Road
- I get sick of fast foods, so when I travel I bring some healthy snacks from home and keep them in a small cooler.
- —kendylreis
