Foods Recommended for Travel

The Clan Thompson website has a list of suggested foods for travel at http://www.clanthompson.com/life_travel_tips_foods.php3

The following foods were recommended over the internet from several different persons in July of '06. The original poster had asked for ideas for snack foods or other individually portioned/portionable foods (mostly healthy) that travel well, either at room temp or in a cooler (no way of heat/reheating anything). They are not in any particular order.

• GF Cookies - Nana's No Gluten Cookies are healthy as far as cookies go - no refined sugars (sweetened with juice). Taste good and come individually wrapped.
  
• Single serving squeeze TUBES of applesauce. Whole Foods carries them, as does another health food store we like (Open Sesame). Good news - they're hard to puncture, bad news - children need help opening them and the applesauce is fairly thin and better frozen. Walnut Acres Organic Applesauce comes in both plain and berry. "This stuff is really thin, so I keep the tubes in the freezer and they're easier to eat as a popsicle."
  
• Lay's Stax Chips
  
• EnviroKids Organic Crispy Rice Bars (berry, chocolate, and peanut butter)
  
• nuts - any kind. Trader Joe's sells a bag of individual snack-sized bags of almonds.
  
• dry GF cereal
  
• www.Minimus.biz sells individual packets of condiments and other items for travel. Be sure they are gluten-free before purchasing.
  
• GF health/snack bars - such as Lara Bars
  
• dried fruit/trail mix - Easy to mix up a trail mix at home of your favorite items (different kinds of plain nuts, shredded coconut, M & M's, chocolate chips, raisins, etc. Trader Joe's also has a few premade ones on their GF list of foods.
  
• Corn Thins - These work better than most rice cakes because they don't crumble as easily.
  
• GF crackers - rice crackers or Nut Thin crackers
  
• fruit (bananas are great because they aren't messy), apples, grapes
  
• baby carrots
  
• celery (spread with nut butter or cream cheese)
  
• hummus and/or bean dips
  
• jar of nut butter and disposable knives. Or peanut butter tubes. Jif makes something called "Jif-To_Go" that may be near where the apples are in the grocery store. Spread a Corn Thin with a nut butter and then throw the knife away. Almond butter and bananas on Corn Thins make a great breakfast or snack.
  
• deli meat, if you have a "good cooler".
  
• tuna in foil pouch
  
• GF pretzels - Ener-G Foods
  
• cheese - individually wrapped cheese sticks work well, or cheese cut into cubes
  
• Pediasure/adult nutrition drink (Boost, Ensure)
  
• popcorn - can be messy.
  
• Corn Nuggets