Healthy Travel Snack Ideas
Here are some of my favorite travel snacks to pack that will fuel, nourish, and give you energy for your trip.
It’s so important to have nourishing real food snacks while traveling for you and your family! Most of these options listed below are found in most grocery stores. Always remember to read the ingredient list on the store brought packaged foods and pick brands that make their product using real whole foods rather than filler unnourishing ingredients.
Fresh fruit and vegetables
These fruits and veggies are the easiest to pack and don’t spoil.
1. Apples – I love packing a couple of Honeycrisp or pink lady apples for my trips.
2. Cucumbers – This vegetable is easy to snack on. I love buying mini cocktail cucumbers or buying a couple of cucumbers.
3. Clementines or oranges – Such an easy fruit to bring and so important to get lots of vitamin C to keep your immune system up.
4. Sliced Carrots – I personality like sliced carrots since they make it easy to dip in hummus, but any carrot will work.
5. Mini Bell Peppers – Another great vegetable to bring is mini bell peppers. I love dipping these in hummus too or eating plain. Mini bell peppers are also a great vegetable to keep your immune system up.
6. Snap peas – These are so yummy to have on hand, especially when you are craving something crunching.
7. Seedless Grapes – I love to remove all the stems from the grapes, clean the grapes, and then add to a glass container. It makes eating grapes on the go so much easier.
8. Celery – Eat with natural nut butter or plain
Protein Snacks
Snacks high in protein satisfy your hunger. It’s important to snack on snacks high in protein to boost your metabolism and give you energy for your vacation.
1. Nuts & Seeds – Pack your favorite nuts and seeds. I pack almonds and pumpkin seeds.
2. Grass-fed Beef jerky – Try and find jerky that has natural ingredients, grass-fed and has no sugar added.
3. Hard-boiled eggs – Make sure to hard-boil your eggs a day before your trip.
4. Mini RXBARS Protein Bars – these protein bars have simple wholesome ingredients. I love packing tons of these. They have lots of flavors my favorite is the chocolate sea salt bars.
5. String cheese – Easy to snack on and high in protein and calcium.
6. Jelly/Nut butter sandwiches – Check ingredients on your jam and nut butter. Make sure all the ingredients are real food ingredients. I love making homemade jam and homemade nut butter.
7. Greek yogurt cups – Greek yogurt has more protein than regular yogurt and is more nutritious plus nutrient-dense to keep you full. Try and get yogurt that is made with whole milk since non-fat yogurts have added sweeteners and fillers to make up for the lost flavor. Fat is so important for your brain and keep you full. I love buying Maple hill greek yogurt, stonyfield greek yogurt, voskos greek yogurt, chobani. Check out this article about all the benefits to greek yogurt and different yogurt brands.
8. Hummus – I love buying plain hummus but there’s a lot of different hummus flavors that you can pick from. Make sure to check the ingredients.
9. Chia seeds – I added these to my yogurt and flavored water to add protein, omega 3s, and fiber.
Homemade Travel Snacks
The day before a trip, I love to make these healthy homemade snacks and pack them for our trip.
Other healthy packaged snacks
1. Mamma chia – I love these chia seed squeeze snacks. They are fiber-rich, high in omega-3s, and helps your gut. Plus there is no added sugar and all the ingredients are made with real food. They also have tons of flavors to pick from. I love the blueberry acai or strawberry banana. My little girl loves eating these.
2. Fruit & vegetable strips – I love buying products that include fruit and veggies. These fruit and vegetable strips are so good. Make sure the ones you buy are made with wholesome ingredients and have no artificial flavors, sugar, or artificial colors.
3. Gogo squeeze fruit & veggies – These are amazing for kids and I like eating them too. They have fruit and vegetables in them and they taste great too. Plus no added sugar or unknown ingredients. Here’s the link to the brand I get.
4. That’s it mini fruit bars – These fruit bars are made with pure fruit. Thats the only ingredients. They taste so good too. I buy mine from Costco but amazon sells that’s it bars too.
5. Bare baked banana chips – I love banana chips. This banana chip brand is my favorite. The only ingredient is bananas.
6. Boom chicka pops sea salt popcorn – You can make homemade popcorn to bring or buy a Boomchicka popcorn that has wholesome good ingredients.
7. Bare baked apple chips – Another great fruit chip is apple chips. I love snacking on these at home and on vacations. Here’s the link to my favorite apple chips.
8. Crunchies freeze-dried fruit – I love adding freeze-dried fruit to my greek yogurt for a snack or breakfast. Or even snacking on these plain. Here is the brand I like buying. They have tons of different freeze-dried fruit to pick from.
9. Brads Crunchy kale chips – Great to get some leafy green in a crunchy chip snack. I love eating kale chips. Here are two of my favorite brands: Brads kale chips or Rhythm kale chips.
10. Sliced fresh fruit cups – Check ingredients to make sure there is no added sugar, high fructose syrup, and more.
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Hi! I started this blog to share healthy wholesome real food recipes and nutritional info. Choosing to strive to eat wholesome real foods will result in a nutritious healthy sustaining diet and give our bodies the nutrition to stay healthy.
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