💥 TRAVEL NUTRITION 💥 If you travel, you have 4 choices for nutrition between where you left and where you’re going:

1️⃣ Fasting (difficulty: hard / cost: lowest)
2️⃣ Bring your own food (difficulty: moderate /cost: cheap)
3️⃣ Buy food at the airport (difficulty: easy / cost: most expensive)
4️⃣ Purchase in-flight food (difficulty: easiest / cost: expensive)
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For our goals and our family, we choose to prepare ‘snack bags’ (as pictured) for ourselves and our 4 year old daughter. We do this because (1) we know the free snacks offered on flights have an extremely low nutrition value (2) we want to eat more food for less money 💸
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Nutrition is more important than ever while traveling because:
🔸We may change time zones or experience jet lag. This disturbs our sleeping patterns, we could have daytime fatigue, and many of us have trouble concentrating and functioning as normal immediately after a trip.
🔸 We tend to drink less water while traveling and may be dehydrated.
🔸 Higher altitudes mean less oxygen and compromised blood flow (especially combined with long periods of sitting with little movement).
🔸Stress! Before we even get on a plane we’re dealing with the stress of waiting, dealing with strangers, sharing a confined space, etc.
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Take all of these not-so-great factors of travel and layer on salty peanuts & pretzels, cookies, and limitless soft drinks and juices, and we have a recipe for feeling like sh*t!
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Some people pack full-on meals for travel, but for ease of storage and trying to limit what ‘smells’ we expose people to on our flight, we’re packing: @traderjoes grass fed beef sticks, unsweetened apricots, raw nut trail mix packs, almond and seed bars, @rxbar, elderberry chews, @emergenc packs, and empty water bottles to fill up once we get through security. It’s all about planning. You can make and store these snack packs in advance and grab one from your pantry before your next flight!