Easy Travel Snacks
January 29, 2009
Alas, I am parted from my beloved blender sometimes!
So I was going to post that salad recipe I was talking about in the last post. But what is really on my mind right now is the topic of traveling snacks. For two reasons: 1) I’ve been traveling a ton lately and 2) A friend of my mine is about to travel soon and she was just asking me! So this blog is dedicated to Nadine. ☺ Traveling can be challenging, because there is not a lot of great food on the go. But try to plan ahead, if possible, and also be flexible. Don’t beat yourself up if you don’t eat perfectly- but don’t let your daily diet go to total hell either. ☺ Here are some ideas that have helped me out:
- Dried figs are the #1 blood cleaner. Have a few but not too many.
- An avocado. Just plain! It has such great healthy fats that it keep you full. One time recently I went to the airport I brought one and just ate it for dinner.
- Along those lines, if you are near a deli in a natural foods store (in NYC Lifethyme, Natural Frontier, even Wholefoods) and you are pretty hungry you can also buy a smallish container of guacamole and eat it plain. I’ve done that before after a super hard yoga class. 
- A Kombucha drink– GT brand. Full of B vitamins and probiotics. Also suppresses the appetite. Sometimes when I’m busy I just grab one for lunch. (There are tons of great flavors and I switch around- but I like Guava, Grape, Green, Cranberry and Gingerade).
- Greens+ bars- I like the chocolate flavor. They have spirulina and algae in them, but don’t eat more than one a day. A good meal replacer- or 1/2 of one as a desert! (Note: Don’t eat fake-sweetener filled Luna, Cliff, or Balance bars).
- Raw almonds- or walnut/almond/Brazil nut/cashew mix. (I’ll do another blog sometime on sprouting your raw nuts too).
- Oranges. I read somewhere that they are the fruit that make you feel the fullest, out of the common fruits. Plus it’s great they have a peel, so they don’t get all beat up if you are traveling and lugging them around. If I’m in a huge bind I’ll buy them from fruit vendors on the streets of New York. But if I’m in a medium bind I’ll take a wee bit more time to run into Wholefoods and get an organic one.
Okay, well have a great rest of your week! Hope all is well.
And hope to see you back soon,
Kimberly
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Kimberly-
What is a typical daily menu for you on the Raw Food Diet… Breakfast, lunch, dinner etc?
Hi Gillian,
Well, this question is one that I could- and hope to!- write a whole book on one day! There isn’t a typical day per se, as it depends on what I am doing, where I am, and what physical activity I am involved with. Generally, during the day I consume a big green smoothie with hemp protein and other supplements (more on that later!), then eat some fruit- which I change up according to the seasons, light snacks, 1/2 avocado with sprouts, dulse, a fresh green juice, some raw flax crackers with a nut spread, etc. etc.
Then for dinner I usually have a huge kale salad (see recipe), or another kind of HUGE salad, filled with sprouts, avocado, more sea vegetables, hemp seeds, pinenuts, sundreied tomatoes, etc. etc. For desert i usually have a young coconut with Acai smoothie, or another raw desert I make.
I measure my day’s food intake by how much greens I got in that day- which I consider the most important food group.
That is the fast answer! But I do hope to elaborate on that more for you in the near future.
I realize that it is a whole new way of eating, and it can be a bit confusing to figure it out.
I really want to share it all- so I hope my book will be not too far away, and I can really lay out daily and weekly diet plans, ideas, checklists of necessary items to get all the superfoods and highest nutrition in every day, etc.
Well Gillian, please let me know if you have any more questions.
Hope you are well!
Best, Kimberly
Kimberly-
I would like to try kombucha but am nervous about allergic reactions and other stomach reactions. have you heard of this? can you offer any advice? Thanks so much!
Hey Cait,
), okay for the vast majority of the public to drink. But if you are really worried, you could ask your doctor, though they might not know too much about Kombucha.
Thanks for reaching out! If you’ve never had Kombucha before I would just drink a little at a time and see how you do. Like 1/3 of a bottle. It is full of probiotics, so it may stimulate you to release, which is a good thing! I personally have never heard of anyone having an allergic reaction- and the commercial sold GT/Synergy, etc. brands are not crazy strong (mine on the other hand…
It makes me feel so energized and clean. I love it!!
Let me know how you do.
All my best,
Kimberly
Hi Kimberly,
i was wondering what water do you drink while you are traveling? are those bottled spring water considered raw? (i usually drink those, but recently the word “mineral” on the bottles makes me think…)
Thanks!!!
Hi Maggie,
When I’m traveling, I do drink bottled Spring water, though at home I have 3-filter, magnetized water system.
Make sure you aren’t buying those “purified” waters like Dasani and Aquafina. They are owned by Coke and Pepsi and are really just like tap water!
Also, no distilled water.
I like Evian and Fiji.
Hope that helps!
All my best,
Kimberly
Thanks for posting this. I love your posts!
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