Eating Healthy While Traveling

These questions were recently referred to me: How to eat healthy while traveling? It is not always possible to pack your own food. How to find reasonably healthy restaurant?

Eating healthy has many definitions, and an Internet search will find a “healthy” restaurant that meets your needs. Local Harvest provides contacts for “healthy” restaurants, stores, and more around the United States.

When a healthy restaurant is not convenient, I recommend eating the least processed food possible, which would include smaller wild caught fish (such as salmon) with vegetables and real butter or salad with oil and vinegar dressing. Smaller fish are preferred because exposure to mercury is lessened, and wild caught fish are preferred because fish farmed in a self-contained system are treated with antibiotics and chemicals. Never eat shrimp from a foreign country, as they are farmed and treated with antibiotics and chemicals that are illegal in the United States Shrimp and Your Health — Food & Water Watch. Unless eating at an organic restaurant, any meats will have hormones and antibiotics, which raise numerous health concerns and should be avoided. Of all meats, conventional hamburger (as opposed to organic, free-range) should be absolutely avoided. The New York Times reported in depth regarding hamburger concerns, and hamburger recalls almost a monthly event. Please read Another Hamburger Scare.

What is healthy eating? Again, that is a subjective idea. For my family it is eating to heal. Food has freed us from ADHD, premenopause, exhaustion, memory loss, debilitating seasonal allergies, osteopenia, aches and pains and more, as discussed throughout my blog.

What does healthy eating mean to you?

Comments

[Gwen Gordon]

We just got back from a trip and had to think about food to bring while traveling.

Airplanes no longer serve meals (besides who'd want to eat them.)

We brought hard boiled eggs, raw cheese and sourdough bread, crispy nuts, carrots, hummus and clementines. My youngest son loves PBJ which I made using just ground nuts, jelly (with no suger or corn syrup) and sourdough bread.

The raw cheese blocks and crispy nuts lasted awhile. But unfortunately after that supply the meals went downhill. I made hardboiled eggs from regular store bought eggs and my boys would not eat them as they said they tasted terrible.

We survived but got right back on nourishing foods when we got home!

[Gwen Gordon]

Also, I brought oatmeal for breakfast and soaked it overnight per Sally's recipe.