It’s really hard to keep your healthy eating habits while you are traveling. It’s almost impossible. You feel like you deserve that pina colada, after all the work you do, amiright?! After a lot of time hacking my health routines I’ve learned a lot about how to travel and not throw all those good habits out the window. I want to share some of what I’ve learned with you so that you can travel and still feel your best.
Traveling with Food
- Plan ahead!!! If you know you will be en route for 5 hours then pack several light snacks. However, if you will be traveling for 12 hours,meal prep the night before using a container that separates your meal into sections so that you have enough to last you the entire journey. Always keeping in ming if you are flying that what you bring on is allowed *side note I once brought vacuum sealed corned beef and cabbage on the plane…it was St. Patricks day*
Low maintenance foods that don’t need utensils or refrigeration are your friend:
- hard boiled eggs
- almond butter packet with sliced apples
- avocado, leftover chicken and salsa (just take a few pieces of leftover chicken and mix it with salsa and avocado chunks and you have yourself a delicious meal!)
- sliced bell peppers with hummus packets
- granola
- bananas
- aloha greens packets
- shakeology packets
- grain salad (quinoa and kamut berries are my favorite)
Eating Well While On Vacation
Usually when I go on vacation, most of my rules are bent, but always within healthy boundaries. If I have little control over what I’m eating because I’m at restaurants or someone’s house, I try to load up on the healthiest thing there but still enjoy other foods. When I went away skiing with my family my aunt made a delicious linguini dish. Normally I don’t like the way pasta makes me feel but I didn’t want to deprive myself either on this one occasion, so I took a smaller portion of the linguini and filled the rest of my place with the other veggies that were available. I don’t believe in deprivation but everyone must set their own individual boundaries. It took me a long time to learn what my food boundaries are.
- Don’t deprive yourself of anything you really want
- Eat those indulgence foods in small amounts
- Hangovers on vacation are not fun so set ahead of time how much you are willing to drink and stick to it. I usually am good with no more than one drink in about a 4-5 hour period.
Top Tips for Healthy Travel
- Bring your favorite organic tea bags with you. Most places do not have organic tea and I hate being stranded somewhere without tea, so I always keep a few teabags in my purse at all times. It also saves a ton of money bringing your own tea.
- Pre-plan your portable and healthy foods to bring with you. I find that granola, nuts, almond butter packets, and powdered greens or protein powder are best.
- Balanced indulgence. Don’t deprive yourself but certainly enjoy in moderation. Food and alcohol can be your friend or your enemy. You decide which one it is.
- Keep one part of your routine the same, whether it’s the time you wake up in the morning, your daily yoga/meditation practice, or 30 minutes of exercise. Keeping some part of your self-care routine consistent can really help when everything else is thrown off from your travels.
- Always take your refillable water bottle. Hydration is often lost in the shuffle of travel. If you don’t have access to filtered water, check out these charcoal water filters you can stick right into any water bottle.
I hope the next trip you take will be a little easier and healthier!
xo,
