Healthy Travel Snacks

In the midst of all the rush and excitement of getting on a plane to jet off to a new destination, healthy eating invevitably ends up being put on the back end.

It just seems too much of a hassle to actively seek out healthy food at the airport. And restricting yourself to the (horribly bland) ‘healthy’ food on an airplane does NOT make out for an enjoyable travel experience.

Personally, travelling makes me very hungry, and I have more than often found myself (naturally) gravitating towards Starbucks to grab a sugar-filled drink and a chocolate chip muffin (or even some Popeyes fried chicken, YUM). But, whenever I keep a variety of healthy-yet-delicious snacks in my bag… Starbucks who!?!

I’ve created a list of all the healthy snacks that I have taken on my previous travels, and I hope this motivates you to pack some of your own fave clean nibbles.

The majority of these take almost no time to make, and will barely occupy any space in your bag - easy peasy!

Get ready to say, bye-bye Popeyes!

Packaged Snacks

These snacks can be bought from your local supermarket or health food stores...

• Raw energy bars e.g. 'Lara Bars'

• Protein bars e.g. 'RX bars' (My favourite is the blueberry flavour)

• Kale chips

• Dark chocolate (Steer clear of ones with added sugar and an unncessarily long list of ingredients)

• Banana chips/apple chips/fruit chips (Make sure you pick up ones with no added sugar)

• Low fat mozzarella cheese sticks

• Packaged oatmeal/Pots of instant oats

Home-made/Prepared Snacks

What I love about home-made snacks is that you can customise them to your own liking and just put them in little baggies. This way you can control your portion sizes and know the exact ingredients that you are going to be putting in your body.

• Roasted chickpeas

Recipe:

- Preheat oven to 230 degrees C

- Drain can of chickpeas

- Make sure to dry them really well

- Spread them out on a baking tray

- Sprinkle on whatever spices you would like (I like to use smoked paprika, chilli powder and pink himalyan salt)

- (This step is optional but it helps them taste/cook better) Add some melted coconut oil on top

- Bake them for about 30-40 minutes, or until they get brown and crunchy

- Pack them in little plastic baggies and take them with you!

• Homemade trail mix (Almonds, cashews, pistachios, cranberries, raisins)

• Nut butter packets with rice cakes/oat cakes

• Bag of green grapes

• Sliced apples in an air tight container (Pairs really well with the nut butter packets)