Eating Healthy While Traveling
- Travel with food: Options include whole fruit such as apples, nuts already portioned in quarter-cup serving sizes, pumpkin seeds and roasted edamame. If traveling by car, bring a cooler along with mess-free foods like hard-boiled eggs, string cheese and nut butter, or turkey sandwiches.
- Breakfast: portioned oatmeal with hemp seeds, chia seeds, dried fruit and nuts
- Cereal bar like Square Organics, they are delicious, gluten free, non-GMO, lower in sugar and high in protein
- Apple slices and nut butter
- On the plane: drink ½ glass OJ, vitamin C helps boost your immune system and it naturally contains electrolytes
- Bring an empty water bottle to refill
- Healthier options when eating at fast food restaurants: grilled chicken sandwich with lettuce & tomato, hold the mayo and fries, chose a side salad or fresh fruit. If you can’t resist French fries, order the smallest portion and share or eat half.
- When in Rome: eat local. You’ll be eating fresher, local ingredients that typically have fewer preservatives and get a chance to explore that culture’s unique food.
- Stay active: schedule your workouts, when at the airport walk around instead of sitting down before departing. Try to incorporate movement throughout your day.
- Prepare and freeze a healthy home-cooked meal for your return à slow cooker freezer bag meal.
