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03-30-2017, 04:55 PM | #31 |
Rose Garden
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Re: Healthy Travel Food
The regional health food store in that area is called Natural Grocers. It looks like they have one in Durango and Farmington. You would be able to get a lot of allergen free foods there if you need to re-stock.
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03-30-2017, 05:04 PM | #32 |
Rose Garden
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Re: Healthy Travel Food
I've driven the kids across the country (FL to OR) 5 times now! We usually stay in timeshares along the way because of the numerous food allergies & such. So I usually had the advantage of being able to shop and cook. But here are some tips, and I might come back to add some in.
-Nick's Sticks - organic grassfed beef sticks that are shelf stable. I buy direct from Nickssticks.com, and I buy the "wholesale" 100 packs at a time. You might see who likes them by purchasing them at Vitacost first before you buy that many. -Costco has some strangely tasty crunchy broccoli product. It may not be at all Costco stores, as it's new to me. Ingredients are broccoli and palm oil, I believe. Avocados (of course you have to time it right to eat them, but I find they are good travel food!), canned sardines, canned olives. Actually, just run down the canned food aisle at Costco and check it out! Plenty of fresh fruits are fine without refrigeration. Dried fruits and nuts Trader Joes - has interesting shelf stable items Oh - I would suggest that you invest in a cooler that plugs in in the car. The nice thing about that is that you don't waste space inside the cooler with ice packs. And the nicest thing is that when you take it into the hotel at night, you don't have to unpack it. You just plug it in in your hotel room. And if your hotel room doesn't have a mini fridge - no problem! (You'll need an adaptor plug though.)
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03-30-2017, 05:39 PM | #33 |
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Re: Healthy Travel Food
Yes, I agree, we love our plug-in cooler. They are pretty expensive but I'm pretty sure we've gained that back by saving food cost at restaurants.
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03-30-2017, 07:07 PM | #34 |
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Re: Healthy Travel Food
Costco has a box of individual cups of hummus that are reasonably price (last time I got it, I ended up getting it instead of a big tub because the per oz price was less on the individual cups). They're awesome to throw in a lunch with some baby carrots! Take them out of their box and they'd take up zero room in the cooler because they'd fall into all the tiny nooks and crannies. Costco also has a salad mix that my parents love when they travel. I don't remember what all is in it, but I know mom says when they travel they'll stop and just buy a bag of that and split it for a quick, healthy, light lunch. Pricey (for my budget) but they also have those packets of madras (sp?) lentils that they were sampling regularly for awhile. They're pretty tasty and I'm pretty sure they're just heat and eat (or probably could eat them cold on a bed of lettuce).
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03-30-2017, 07:22 PM | #35 |
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Re: Healthy Travel Food
Great to know! We will spend one night in Farmington between destinations.
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04-27-2017, 05:34 AM | #36 |
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Re: Healthy Travel Food
Hmm, I'm not sure if I stealing your thread but I would like to share what travel food I have prepared for our road trip. If you feel I should start ow healthy travel food thread please mods move me.
As of now I have made: 2 pints vitamin C enriched blueberry/elderberry jam 2 pints pemmican (3lbs grassfed beef and 1 lb lard) 1 additional pint of home rendered lard 3 pints ghee (3lbs grass butter) I plan to make: 2 pints bit C enriched strawberry and goji jam Salmon jerkey from 4 lbs salmon (I'm not sure how much this will make) 2 quarts pickled eggs to can (will boil in vinegar) 6 quarts canned meals to go (maybe) I will take but not yet make: Sprouting seeds and six jars in various stages of sprouting Sourdough starter in half gal jar and a half gal of wheat berries Any other suggestions? I am hoping to have enough packed up to only have to buy fresh food once a week, but will not be able to keep stuff cool for more than two days or three if I'm lucky. |
04-28-2017, 08:04 AM | #37 |
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Re: Healthy Travel Food
And energy balls. We make ours with pb, but I am sure you can do another kind of butter.
Also for super quick shelf stable meals/snacks - we love gopicnic. They are not cheap but come in a variety of choices - like vegan and gf and other (since we only have 1 vegetarian, I forget all the options). But it might be good to have a few around and they dont need refrigerating. They are like lunch-ables but better. Or even you can look what they put in them & get some ideas from that.
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