Vacationing with Thrive Food

One reason I love Thrive foods is that it makes it easy to eat healthy on the go. As you can tell from the lack of activity on my blog, I've been out of town all summer. I love vacationing and visiting with family, but my pet peeve is that we never seem to eat healthy and wind up getting sick as a result. We've actually done pretty well though, and that is partially thanks to our Thrive foods. Here is a quick list of how they can be used on the road:

• Pack snack bags with your kids' favorite FD fruits and veggies rather than sugary gummy fruit snacks or crackers for a healthy treat in the car.





• Assemble bags of ingredients for your favorite freeze dried meals and quickly have a healthy meal on the go. This is especially helpful if you are camping, but you can also heat up water in your hotel room coffee pot and enjoy the meal there too! (Stone soup would be a great coffe pot meal!)





• Buy some healthy cereal to bring on your adventure as well as a baggie of instant milk and your favorite freeze dried fruits or yogurt bites. Then when it's time for breakfast you can quickly mix up your milk, pour it over a bowl of cereal, and top it off with the freeze dried fruit or yogurt for a tasty and healthy breakfast that you and your kids will love.





• If you are going on a hike, add some freeze dried fruit or yogurt bites to your trail mix for extra nutrition and energy without the added sugar.





• As a reward for your kids' good behavior on long airplane or car rides, bring along some freeze dried ice cream. They could enjoy their snack in the plane or the car without making a big mess and still enjoy the delicious ice cream experience kids love. (Feel free to treat yourself too!)





• Flying with kids is always a bit nerve racking. You could make it an adventure though by pretending to be astronauts and then giving them some space food (aka freeze dried food) in flight just like the astronauts eat.





• If you have a baby traveling with you, leave the bulky baby food at home and instead rehydrate some FD fruits/veggies and mash it for baby. Babies also love to snack on yogurt bites and you get more of them for your money through Shelf Reliance than if you buy the little bags of them in the baby aisle.
  

I'm sure there are many more ways to use Thrive foods on the go. Please share if you have any good ideas that I didn't think about!