Need cold foods to keep in cooler on road trip? help
Posted by Jade716 on Dec 05, 2008 · Member since Aug 2007 · 25 posts
8hr road trip in a few weeks and I want to pack foods in the cooler I can eat so that I do not have to stop for food. I am thinking of doing maybe a pasta salad and a fruit bowel but any other ideas of things I could take. No PB&J's :'( since I'm pregnant and they tell u not to eat PB when ur pregnant >:( anything else anyone can think of???
Thanx in advance
you can use cashew nut butter! Also, you can take dried soups(spice hunter) home made trail mixes, fruit smoothies, grape tomatoes!
Hummus wraps are my favorite traveling food. Even if it gets a tad warm it is still safe.
gosh they all sound great but with a condition that I have i can't have foods with acid so no tomatoes and avocados are on that list too, and hummus cause it has lemon juice :'( i want to try hummus sooooo bad. guess i'm gonna have to get really creative here! but keep the answers coming if u think of anything and thanks guys! :)>>>
You can make the hummus without lemon juice.
I always make it different thus the reason I have been eating it for a year straight without getting tired of it.
When I travel, I take 2 coolers, a camping cook stove, a cast iron skillet & a cast iron dutch oven. I use 1 cooler for dry goods like pastas, flours, corn meal, rice, dry soup mixes, etc.
The 2nd cooler holds things like Small cans/boxes of goat or soy milk, fresh raw fruit & veggies, rice salad, left overs of whatever I've cooked on the road yesterday.
I wouldn't recommend anything that that requires ANY kind of mayonaise as it can go rancid rather quickly & make you sick.
But you have to know when I travel, I camp out in my pick up camper.
Whenever I take a road trip, I make avocado sandwitches with tomato and lettuce. They are yummy and filling too.
If you can't have that sandwich with tomato, try it with roasted red pepper instead, or grilled mushrooms or something.
Make up a batch of Chickpea dip. Simply mince onion, celery, carrot and bell pepper to your taste, mash cooked chickpeas and season with celery seed, garlic salt, pepper, mustard and Veganaise. Then you can either make it into sandwiches with bread, pita or tortillas, or you can dunk veggies or crackers into it.
Pasta salad is nice. I always like to go with a very veggie one with all the basic veggies in it that I eat and maybe my favorite salad dressing.
Make up a bean dip to dunk veggies, tortillas and chips into. Simply mash up your favorite bean with complimentary seasonings; white beans and garlic, black beans and cumin, red beans with cilantro and so on.
I feel that having a well stocked cooler full of a variety of foods is always best. It is horrible to be craving something salty when all you have is sweets. So take a bit of everything. Bring pickles, olives, raw veggies, raw fruit, chips, cookies, brownies, bread, tortillas, chips, crackers, chocolate chips, nuts, dried fruit and commercial bars like Luna or Lara brands. That way you can make a well rounded meal or perfect snack from any of it!
Excuse my ignorance since I've never had children.....but why can't you eat peanut butter while pregnant? Or have acid-y foods? Curious.
there is old-school thought that eating peanuts while pregnant caused peanut sensitivity/allergies to unborn child, thats been debated, but I did recently read that children who's mothers ate peanuts daily are 50% more likely to have asthma.......I unfortunately read this after my pregnancy, but I've avoided peanuts while nursing.....(interestingly I've also read that eating 1 apple a day reduces the chance that your unborn baby will have asthma.)
As for cooler foods I love almond butter, individual boxes of rice dream, soups in thermos, rice, bean, qunioa mix or burrito, I make my own snack/ trail mixes w/ raw almonds, pumpkin seeds, dry cereal/ granola, dry fruit, (unsulphured,) like mango, etc...., definitely cookies/sweets if your pregnancy is anything like mine was ;) fresh fruit, etc... good luck if you get car sick try eating little nibbles of food and drinking bubbily water
you can use cashew nut butter! Also, you can take dried soups(spice hunter) home made trail mixes, fruit smoothies, grape tomatoes!
this is a good suggestion but I also wanted to mention sunflower seed butter. It tastes more like peanut butter, stacks up similarly nutrition-wise and cost the same as the peanut butter at trader joes.
What about bringing something how in a thermos? Like soup? ummmm....yummy pea soup....or, you know whatever soup you dig...
Trail mix cookies? Or... just trail mix. Bring some fresh fruit, depending on how long you're travelling - apples will fare better than grapes will fare better than raspberries.
You could go for bento-style food - not the fancy kyaraben stuff with the sprinkles and happy faces, but things like onigiri will travel well, as will veggie burgers, blanched hard veggies...
you can use cashew nut butter! Also, you can take dried soups(spice hunter) home made trail mixes, fruit smoothies, grape tomatoes!
this is a good suggestion but I also wanted to mention sunflower seed butter. It tastes more like peanut butter, stacks up similarly nutrition-wise and cost the same as the peanut butter at trader joes.
What about bringing something how in a thermos? Like soup? ummmm....yummy pea soup....or, you know whatever soup you dig...
I was going to suggest a thermos of soup too. I picked one up from Target from my husband and it works really well. Or maybe some gas stations along the way might have a microwave oven you could use to warm up your food.
i will be keeping an eye on this thread because we are heading down to Mrytle Beach in Feb and I think it'll be an 9 or so hr drive.