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Wednesday 26th of July 2017
If you tend to be a bit of a boredom-eater on trips, then fruit and veggies are where it’s at. You can fill up sandwich bags with cauliflower florets, sticks of carrot, cucumber, celery, whatever you fancy munching on to pass the miles away. We recommend sticking with veggies that aren’t messy and avoid anything that bruises easily. We’d also skip any produce that could stain if you drop it (berries, cherry tomatoes, etc.)
Dippers are great for little ones and come in all kind of cute packaging. Try making these veggie-and-houmous jars, or guacamole snack jars. Easy to prepare the night before and sealed tight for the journey.
Bonus: The crunch of biting and chewing the carrot sticks will probably help keep you awake and alert
When we’re on the road, we feel the F word: fatigue. While the United Kingdom is all the more accessible for its vast lengths of motorway, staying focused on the road for hours on end can be challenging. Is it worth the trip? Absolutely! Especially if you’re snacking healthy and keeping yourself alert enough to enjoy it all. There are other drinks than coffee and red bull to keep you alert and hydrated.
Try these in your power smoothie
If you can’t make it more than a few hours without something sweet, dessert bars are the perfect, devilishly good, road-food. Anything tray-baked or dry like brownies, cookies, blondies, etc. This Rocky Road recipe is a perfect treat suitable for all ages! It’s chocolate cookie dough (oh yeah! Bring on the chocolate!) with dry roasted almonds (crunch + salt) and sweet and gooey marshmallow creme. The trick is not to have anything runny and keep the oozy, sticky good stuff inside by coating the outside with dry ingredients.
Whether you fancy something chocolatey or fruity, take a look at these comforting bakes.
Raspberry Oatmeal Crumble Bars
Have you ever tried to eat a sandwich with lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise, and pickles? It’s hard enough to do when you can eat over a plate on a stable table – trying to eat it in a car means ending up holding two pieces of bread with a lap full of pickles and tomatoes. Now imagine you’re a kid with a short attention span and small hands, not easy. Pack them something easy to pop in their mouths without any help from mum and dad.
Chocolate bars and packets of crisps are easy but how will they make your children feel afterwards? If it’s sleepy and full, great! If it’s bouncing off the walls and full of sugar then you’re not in for a quiet ride.
The idea is pretty simple for these travel-jars. They can be in plastic containers or mason jars – it’s entirely up to you. You can fill them with chilli con carne, guacamole, cheddar and tortilla chips. Or meatball sauce, spaghetti and mozzarella. It’s all about that balance of filling food plus tasty treats.
It’s always best to put your wet ingredients in the bottom and your leaves on the top.
The first layer needs to be the dressing, sauce or wet ingredient. It’ll sit at the bottom during transit and shouldn’t disturb the other food, making it soggy. When it’s time to eat, you simply tip the container upside down, give it a shake and voila!
For the second layer, enter crisp ingredients such as tomatoes, cucumbers, red onion, asparagus, celery, peppers, carrots into the jar. This level is important to “protect” the other ingredients from getting soggy. Best are vegetables that you can imagine pickled in vinegar.
Layer 3. This level is for ingredients that should not necessarily swim in dressing, but it’s also not a drama if they do get wet. Some ideas would be mushrooms, zucchini, beans, lentils, peas, corn, broccoli and so on.
The next layer should have more delicate ingredients such as hard boiled eggs and cheese (feta, gouda, cheddar etc.) can be added now.
When you’ve got enough layers of enjoyable foods, top with your salad leaves or garnish and seal them tight. Ready to pack up and go, just don’t forget a fork!
Instead of throwing everything all willy-nilly into a bag in the backseat, head to the pound shop and pick up an open tote to hold your non-refrigerated snacks. That way everything is easily accessible and easy to see. No digging through to the bottom of the bag to get the crackers you want. It’s never a bad idea to have a roll of kitchen roll, some baby wipes, some hand sanitiser, and utensils with you. Also, I recommend packing a few large, litre-size zip top bags and plastic carrier bags to work as trash bags. The ziplock bags are particularly good to hold any food that would stink up the car!
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