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road trip food suggestions
Any any other road trip suggestions for that matter! We are leaving next week for a 13 day road trip to California. We are driving 3 days to get out there, and 3 days to get back. I need suggestions for healthy, non-sticky snacks and drinks for the trip.
If you have any other suggestions for driving 26 hours in 3 days with a toddler, I'd love those too!
Re: road trip food suggestions
Almonds, Grapes, Cherries, We do a lot of summer sausage/cheese/crakers
I make a "trail mix" with different cereals and things I like to throw together.
Ranch Pretzels (bag of pretzels, good amount of buttery popcorn oil, ranch packet, mix together and put in baggies).
Juice boxes, water bottles, there are smaller bottles of soda if you are into that....
I always keep baby wipes on hand for easy clean up....
Keep lots of baby wipes and kleenex in the car!
For food....trail mix (with raisins, nuts, seeds, m&m's, chocolate chips), goldfish crackers, teddy grahams, raisins, grapes, almonds, carrots, juice boxes, water, string cheese.
We always take apples and a knife b/c E and I love apples.
Do you have a DVD player for the car? I think that's essential. Coloring books, games (are there games a 3 yr old can play in the car?), an I Spy bag.
love is for every her, love is for every him, love is for everyone
Is there any way for you guys to drive at night while she's sleeping? Our last trip to NE took us about 18 hours driving straight through with B. We left at 8:00 at night - and he was asleep by 10. I had only planned to drive the first 3 hours and next thing I know, I'm outside of Chicago! Made great timing with B asleep (as well as DH).
This would be fabulous! We have a DVD player in the car too, so that helps. E does love the iPad though, I need to load up on some apps before we go.
My husband loves peanuts and spice drops. I love red vines and cinnamin bears.
Regarding activites, do a sticker book. I think I may have some that the kids never used if you are interested. Other activity books as well.
When I was growing up and we would drive for vacation my parents always packed a cooler with sandwhich fixins, bananas, apples, and milk. Yes we drank milk while on vacation! But we didn't grow up drinking much pop so it was ok. It was easy to pull up to a rest area and have lunch meat, cheese, miracle whip, and bread.
Twizzlers were also a staple - not sure if that is considered unhealthy but I love them. Walgreens has some that are like 2 ft long now too. I bought them for my dad since they are his fav.
Ritz cheese crackers and peanut butter crackers, pretzels, string cheese, edamame, gatorade (1/2 water 1/2 that in sippy cup), goldfish has a ton of diff flavors, granola bars, craisins, dried fruit
etch a sketch, magna doodle, small flashlight
We keep Owen busy in the car with small things that he can manipulate with his hands - transformer figurines, cars with moving parts. Flashlight is a good idea, she would have fun with that. Sticker books, magnadoodle, kiddie camera, visionfinder thing with the disks of pics you slide in and click to cycle through the pics and they are 3d'ish
Food - licorice, cheesy crackers, trail mix (although I still dont like giving him peanuts), gummis, teddy grahams
For some reason, we always, always had twizzlers on road trips. I do an "imaginary road trip through the Great Depression" with my students, and they always get twizzlers.
PP's had great ideas.
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