Summer is here and with it, travel! It doesn’t matter if we are traveling by car, train, bus, bike or plane. Chances are, especially on longer trips, we’re going to get hungry. If we want to continue with healthy eating, The best thing when we travel is to prepare our own healthy snacks.

Most of the options at gas stations or airports They are full of sugars, additives, dyes and unhealthy fats. And if we find any more version healthyit will most likely be quite expensive and will come wrapped in a lot of plastic.

Here is the recipe for a super healthy snack: oatmeal and peanut bars.

In fact, when we buy a snack out there, knowing how to distinguish a truly healthy snack from one that is only healthy in appearance is not always easy: you have to know which ingredients to avoid and which ones to prioritize to choose the best snacks.

For all this, whenever we canthe best both for our health and for that of the planet it will be bring healthy homemade snacks.

The ideal healthy snack to take on a trip

An ideal snack should include a piece of fruit or vegetable (as a contribution of vitamins and fiber) as well as protein and good fats to satisfy us. If we are going to go without eating for many hours, if we have more physical fatigue or for the little ones, we can include complex carbohydrates.

The best is avoid simple sugars of pastries, industrial cookies and chocolate bars, especially if we travel with children and want a quiet trip. Instead we can take homemade sweets.

In the case of trips, the essential thing is that the snacks are easy to transport, can be eaten with your hands and hold up well outside the refrigerator. Additionally, if we travel with other people, we have to be careful that it does not have strong odors, such as garlic, onion, cruciferous vegetables (such as broccoli and cauliflower) or fermented vegetables such as kimchi. In these cases it is advisable to prepare hummus without garlic, for example.

Snacks during trips They also have the role of entertainmentespecially for the little ones and I recommend that, even if you normally don’t snack on anything between meals, you take something in case there are delays or to avoid cravings for the industrial snacks that they offer us everywhere.

If we travel by planewe have to be careful that our snacks do not contain liquid. In this way, instead of a jar with vegetable pate and crackers, for example, a ready-made sandwich is preferable. We should also avoid cut fruit that contains a lot of water or salads with a lot of dressing.

Packaging is also important:

• It is best to take your snack small individual portions in case we travel with the family and each member wants to eat at a different time; and to avoid overeating.
• To save space We can use silicone bags or bags that we can seal instead of containers. So after eating the snacks we can fold them and they don’t take up anything.
• If we have something more sensitive to heatwe can bring food in thermo bags.

here you go 35 healthy snacksso you don’t run out of ideas!