Snacks / light meal ideas

Regular car snacks for us?

Hummus with vegatable sticks. I love that so many supermarkets sell pre-cut veggies like celery and carrot sticks for when I'm in a hurry. Grape tomatoes eaten whole work too.

A ziploc bag filled with fruit. Could be grapes, melon chunks, berries and/or apple slices. Clementines and mandarin oranges are nice as well.

Cheese, dry salami chunks and fruit pieces.

Cucumber water is refreshing as is ginger iced tea:

Martha Stewart wrote:

Ingredients Makes 2 qts.

1 medium cucumber, scrubbed well
2 quarts spring water

Directions

Remove strips of cucumber skin, creating 1/2-inch-wide alternating bands of peeled and bare cucumber. Trim and discard ends. Halve cucumber lengthwise; cut into 1/2-inch slices. Combine cucumber and water in large pitcher; steep for 1 hour, and serve over ice.

Eating a meal on the run and no time to stop? Tuna or chicken Nicoise sandwiches:

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/nicoise-tuna-sandwich-pan-bagnat-104642

Easy enough to replace the tuna in the recipe with leftover roast chicken meat or grilled chicken. If you have some leftover pesto that makes a nice condiment to use w/ chicken as well.

Wrap in lots of plastic wrap to contain the olive oil or pesto, weigh down with a heavy pot and put in fridge until ready to embark. I use a ciabatta or boule loaf about.....6" in diameter to serve 2 hungry people or up to 5 who just need a little something. How much filling you put in is all about your wants but the more filling the more people it'll feed.

Or a muffuletta. This isn't the exact way I make it all the time but gives you a great idea of the basics:


http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/muffuletta-sandwich-369030

Grilled veggie sandwiches with smoked mozzarella; great when you are feeling "peckish" but don't want meat "bulk".

PB+J on whole wheat cut into quarters is always a classic. I cut it in quarters cause it's easier to eat in the car. Sometimes I tun the PP+J into a triple decker (3 pieces of bread) and cut into strips. Kids and adults love 'em.

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Well, agree on veggies and fruit. If you can stop to eat it, a whole grapefruit is a nice sized meal.

NOT on salty anything. Look out for chicken take outs. They use lots of salt. Canadian gov. is trying to get processed food providers to use less salt. My doctors agree.

Veggie wraps from whomever, Subway or anyone, good.

Some take out soups ok. Again watch the salt.

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Tater chips are just soooo greasy, I try to avoid them! From a gas station; pretzel rods, chex mix, trail mix, bagged nuts, lots of stations now carrying meat and sausage snack packs. If I feel like something greasy, pop up a bag of microwave popcorn in the trailer, easy enough to eat up in the cab.

If I plan ahead a bit, it's much healthier snack fare: When I'm able to stop at a grocery; apples, naval oranges, seedless grapes, prewashed and cut celery sticks, baby carrots. PB + celery is a great snack food for the trailer, but too messy when I'm driving.

When I was driving the southwest, a lot of stations didn't have pretzels, they had pork rinds... kinda developed a taste for them, but they're very rare in my home area.

When you move away from the salts and fats, and go to the veggies and fruits it becomes a lifestyle. Carrots, celery, radishes, grapes, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, bits of fruit, sometimes we add a prepackaged cheese slice.

Throw in some good for you crackers, not the salty fatty ones. Dry crisps.

Hummus, salsa, and lots of water.

Once when we were leaving on a trip one of my Uncles gave us two dozen plums from his tree. He had washed them and placed each one in a paper towel and then put them in a shirt box. Ever since then we always have a small ice chest with drinks, fruit, celery and carrot sticks. Trail mix is another favorite.

We did splurge on one trip and had a box of the full sized Moon Pies to munch on. It was amazing how a single Moon Pie would keep you full in between meals.

some boxed breakfast cereals(pretty good nutrition values), Chex snack mix, bananas, and in season, sliced apple slices with cheese curds! Vienna sausages, a big jar of peanut butter, a bag of tangerines(cuties). And don't forget, lots of water to go with any of it!