healthy road trip snacks (featuring eggland’s best)

Packing for a 3 week long trip (for five people) is just the worst.

I mean I can think of much worse things, like the Black Plague or global warming, but packing is right up there on the list of “things I just don’t want to deal with.”  We leave in just 5 short days!!  I’ve started an extensive list (me?  a list?!?) but I’m sure Friday night will roll around and the only thing I’ll have laid out for our trip to Colorado will be the snacks.  ;)

Speaking of road trip snacks – they can get really unhealthy if I’m not careful.  Hours on the road, bored and tired.  I automatically reach for the big ol’ bag of peanut butter M&M’s and a diet coke at whatever gas station we happen upon.  And my kids?  They’ll want milkshakes and Sour Patch Kids.  I’m not against a few treats along the way but for this trip, I’m trying my hardest to pack HEALTHY, protein & fiber rich foods that will energize us (<–we’ll need it – we’re driving for 22 hours and a lot of it overnight).

Here’s a list of everything I’ll be packing!

Healthy Road Trip Snacks

I’ve divided the snacks into a two different categories:  Dry Goods & Cold Goods

Dry Goods

• Blue Diamond Almonds (honey roasted cinnamon & lightly salted)
• Quest bars (Smore & chocolate chip cookie dough flavors)
• Detour bars
• Fruit leathers
• Original cheerios (for Porter)
• Veggie straws
• Bananas
• Pork Jerky (we love this Krave Black Cherry BBQ )
• Sunflower seeds (Travis requests these every road trip – hulling them with his teeth helps to keep him awake on night drives)

Cold Goods

• Edamame hummus
• Organic baby carrots (bagged)
• Cut celery & broccoli
• Fresh fruit (kiwi, blueberries & strawberries)
• Earth’s Best baby food pouches
• String cheese
• Kombucha (nothing worse than an upset “carsick” tummy)
• Eggland’s Best Hard-Cooked Peeled eggs

Can we talk about these hard boiled eggs for a second?  Eggland’s Best hard-cooked peeled eggs are selected and produced from Grade AA farm-fresh medium EB eggs.  They deliver all the same benefits of their fresh shell eggs (vs ordinary eggs) but are SO convenient (and especially when you’re in a car and don’t want to have to deal with peeling an egg!!).  Each egg has 60 calories, zero carbs and 5 grams of protein, meaning you can snack on a couple and be satiated for a few hours.  Everyone in my family adores eggs so these definitely had to be included in our cooler for the van.  Thanks Eggland’s Best!

QUESTION:  That’s all I have written down so far.  What else should I include??  What are your favorite healthy road trip snacks?

splendid…lindsay

This post is sponsored by FitFluential on behalf of Eggland’s Best.