Healthy Road trip Snack When You Are on the Go

Valley GMC has an inventory full of SUVs and trucks that are ideal for road trips. Of course, everything we carry at the Valley RV Supercenter is all about road trips. While GMC models can provide comfortable seats, a smooth, quiet ride, offer useful navigation tools, and provide musical entertainment, they can’t help you with what to eat. 

Even those among us who try to eat healthily can let things slide during a road trip. It is also easy to snack because the driver is the only one in the car with something to do, so once you feel a little peckish, there isn’t much to distract you from it. The restaurants along the highway usually don’t specialize in healthy fare, and the convenience stores behind the gas pumps may have some healthy options hidden among the chips, cookies, and candy bars displayed more prominently. But all it takes is a little forethought and maybe a cooler to make your road trip a healthy one.  

The cooler is your greatest asset because it enables you to bring along the healthy-eating dynamic duo of fruits and vegetables. The fruit can be anything that will fit, but some of the more car-friendly examples are grapes, particularly of the seedless variety, apples, tangerines, and bananas, the latter of which do not need a cooler. Most of these do need a trash bag for the peels, cores, and stems. 

For veggies, baby carrots are quite healthy, convenient, and surprisingly satisfying. Pack a batch in a Ziplock bag to keep them clean in the cooler. Consider also celery sticks and sliced cucumbers. If these seem too bland or watery on their own, bring along some hummus as a healthy dip alternative.  

For something more savory, packs of string cheese can hit the spot and are quite convenient. Simple cheese slices can work as well.  

For more solid options, consider low-sodium crackers or rice cakes, to which you can apply hummus, almond butter, or peanut butter. Adding cheese or deli meat is another option. 

Another complement to these options is trail mix filled with nuts, seeds, and dried fruits. There is also yogurt, which can come in individual tubs, tubes, or pouches, which you can freeze in advance to make it easy and less messy for kids to eat.  

Besides the fruits and veggies, not all the options may be perfectly healthy, but they are likely to be better than the snacks on the endcaps at your roadside convenience store. Purchase them from the grocery store before the trip, and they will also be much less expensive. 

All this takes is a little planning ahead of time, which is a requirement of any successful road trip. Valley GMC supplies great road trip vehicles. Valley RV Supercenter can provide great accommodations when you get there. You bring the snacks, and a great road trip can be had by all.