How Do You Eat Healthy While Traveling?
When you’re ready to take a vacation – or preparing to travel for work – considering how to eat healthy while traveling may not be on the top of your list. But that doesn’t mean healthy eating isn’t important!
Whether you’re hitting the road or taking a plane, visiting family or staying at a resort hotel, here are some tasty, and good-for-you ideas for eating healthy foods.
When traveling or at your destination, choose your snacks and meals with healthy choices in mind.
Travel by Car
If you’re traveling to your destination by car, you can pack both healthy snacks that are non-perishable, and keep other, perishable energy-enhancing treats in a cooler. Just be sure that for those items that require refrigeration you have enough ice or frozen gel packs to stop bacterial growth. It’s important to keep food that requires refrigeration at 40°F or below. From pre-sliced veggies and fruits to guacamole, hummus, yogurt, or cheese, these cooler-friendly food choices make excellent on-the-go snacks or a quick meal.
And, keep snacks you don’t need to refrigerate handy, too, like dried fruit, pre-portioned nuts, individually packaged nut butters, crackers, pretzels, or trail mix.
Travel by Plane or Train
Those non-refrigerated snacks will come in handy when taking another form of transportation, too. Along with the nuts, trail mix, and dried fruit, you’ll find bringing your own sandwich, or picking up food once you’ve cleared security and before boarding a plane, to be healthier than any in-flight service. And, be sure to drink plenty of water to stave off any dehydration from flying.
Cheese and nut snacks, pre-cut veggies, a sandwich on whole grain bread, are all easy to pack. In the terminal, it’s usually easy to find yogurt, fruit cups, or pre-packaged wraps or sandwiches to carry on the plane.
Speaking of Sandwiches…
While sandwiches are convenient to eat when traveling, it’s important to keep your choices healthy: select mustard instead of mayo, or choose vegan mayo or hummus to make a sandwich healthier and easier to transport; whole grain bread or soft spinach tortilla wraps keep things on the healthy side, too.
And when it comes to salads, go for the vinaigrette rather than a more caloric choice like Ranch or Thousand Island dressing.
Burgers? With better-for-you vegan options often readily available, they make a lighter protein-rich meal. Regardless of your protein type, go for a single burger, rather than a double.
Better Beverage Choices
All the super-sized sodas in the world won’t enhance your energy, no matter what the marketing claims. In fact, the only thing sugary drinks can increase is your waist-line! Plain or sparkling water, unsweetened tea, coffee, or fruit juice, all make better, more revitalizing choices.
When You Reach Your Destination
So you’re settled in and ready to enjoy your first day at your destination. What’s for breakfast? While a pastry or fast food meal may seem like an easy solution, instead try instant oatmeal, fresh fruit, or a pre-packaged hard-boiled egg for a breakfast on the go.
Remember, if you have a coffee maker in your room, you can make instant oatmeal. Make it even tastier by mixing in dried fruit or nuts, or an individual packet of honey.
Additionally, you can also supplement your travel dining with healthy vitamins and herbs.
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