Healthy Road Trip Snacks

Plenty of healthy alternatives to candy bars, chips, soda, and fast food are available for family road trips. And with a little planning, you can keep your families eating well too, even on the road.

• Wheat Crackers
• Cheese
• Carrots and celery sticks
• Cherry tomatoes
• Raisins and dried fruits
• Snack mixes
• Pretzels
• Bananas, apples, and oranges
• Muffins
• Peanut butter with a swirl of honey and a hint of cinnamon for dipping veggies and fruits
• Iced tea
• Water
• Lemonade
• 100% fruit juice with ice (the ice keeps it cool and waters it down a bit to help lesson the sugar effects)

There's a few options for packing all of your snacks up for the trip as well

• Use one big carry on bag for the snacks and a small cooler for ice and spare drinks, parishables
• Pack each family member their own lunch box filled with healthy snacks and a reusable water bottle
• Keep a larger cooler in the trunk with food for roadside picnics, ice and spare drinks

Suggestions-
Carry all totes- Nubius Organics has a great selection of safe and eco-friendly bags

 My own personal vacation bag is the Sea Turtle bag by Pretty Green
At $14.99 it's a steal! There's tons of room for everything you need. I use mine for snacks and activities on the trip, and then switch it up as a beach bag once we arrive. Another tip is to use a single bag as your beach bag and purse, to reduce the amount of bags your lugging to the beach. Simply put a zipper bag in the beach bag with whatever personal effects you need to carry along.

You definitely want to take along reusable drink bottles. Plastic water bottles are very bad for the planet and our bodies as well. BPA leeches through the plastic and into our systems. You can read up on BPA and other dangerous plastics at LunchSaks.com Safety Tips. Nubius Organics has a large selection of water bottles that are safe and eco-friendly at affordable prices.