Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am laughing about the chutneys and hard boiled eggs. Here's some real talk. I like road trip candy that keeps my mouth busy for a while. Skittles, Starbusts, etc. FWIW, I also like cucumbers, grapes, etc.

A realistic person, for once. Lol. Also, gummy bears. And for an actual meal? A sandwich is fine!

I would be a depressed puppy if I had to eat like this. Why? Why? Why?

I love snacking my way through road trips, disclaimer, my choices are not what DCUM would approve of as healthy. My last 12 hour trip consisted of:

Bold Chex Mix
Gummy Peach Rings
A pack of Cream filled cupcakes
2 La Croix
Peppered Beef Jerky

one stop at Sonic for a diet cherry limeade, a corn dog, and tater tots

one stop at Dunkin for a black iced coffee and a glazed donut

When I got to my destination, I went out for a late dinner.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No way to warm the food? I love road trip food. We tend to think of it as a picnic, but we don't pack huge quantities of the same food. We take lots of variety.

For early lunch - I would pack an insulated multi-container lunch box (called tiffin box or dabba) with a nice veggi pilaf, daal, chicken curry, and paranthas. This would be eaten warm.

For a less fussy meal - rava-veggi idlies with chutney podi and coconut chutney.

For tea break - cucumber sandwiches and egg sandwiches. Some slices of homemade banana nut bread. Make tea in an electric kettle for car.

For coffee break - cookies and some via coffee satchets. Warm water and milk in electric kettle.

Pack fruits like bananas and tangerines. We like to buy fast food also - mainly fries, chicken nuggets and onion rings to go with the tea or coffee break.

Where did you get that???

Make friends with some Indian aunties. They will feed you to the gills.

So true. Their life revolves around cooking and feeding people. And if they cannot feed you because you are short on time, they will pack food in empty plastic yogurt, butter, sour cream containers for you to take along. Then they will text you to not forget the food in the car and to put it in the fridge.

LOL I want one of those aunties.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Combos are the best for this. Carefully eat the outside pretzel until you have a cheese nugget. One bag lasts hours.

I very much want you to be my friend. Combos are my road trip guilty pleasure.

SAME

Combos are required.

I plan how many meals I need. For 12 hours, I’d say two, plus snacks. One meal would be hard boiled eggs, cheese, and pickled beets (or pickles, or something veggie with flavor). Other meal would be PB&J sandwiches.
Snacks would be grapes, pretzels, more of the cheese, olives, and nuts. If I ate meat I would put together a little antipasti type arrangement of some cured meats, cheese, olives, nuts, etc.

Anonymous wrote:I am laughing about the chutneys and hard boiled eggs. Here's some real talk. I like road trip candy that keeps my mouth busy for a while. Skittles, Starbusts, etc. FWIW, I also like cucumbers, grapes, etc.

A realistic person, for once. Lol. Also, gummy bears. And for an actual meal? A sandwich is fine!

Anonymous wrote:No eggs! They smell so rank, and even worse when the egg farts kick in.

For real. And we have moms that send them to ES aged kids for snack and lunch at school 🤢

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Combos are the best for this. Carefully eat the outside pretzel until you have a cheese nugget. One bag lasts hours.

I very much want you to be my friend. Combos are my road trip guilty pleasure.

I also want to join your friend group. I average 2 out of 3 combos that I can do this with until my lack of self control kicks in and I just eat every 3rd combo straight up. I need to up my game.

Do people really do this?

What direction are you heading OP?

THings I pack:

Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (do not have to be kept cool)
Sliced chicken and cheese sandwiches (do need to be kept cool)

baby bell, string cheese
gorp (one large container, but have several small rubber maid containers to dole it out) (nuts, m&ms, cheerioes- heavy on the cheerioes)

cut up apples and strawberries (usually need to be kept cool, esp strawberries)
grapes cut up in small bunches
cut up cucumbers, peppers and carrots (usually need to be kept cool)
yogurt (need the cooler)
put in a jar of pickels if your family likes pickles
some sort of salty crunchy snack- pretzels, chips......

everyone gets a refullable water bottle at their chair and everyone gets a seltzer or caffeinated soda in the cooler.


You can take a canvas bag, line it with a thick beach towel and put freezer packs on the bottom) then stack the things that need to stay cool in and cover with towel. Then you can save your cooler space for drinks and yogurts. I suggest stopping for lunch and use the towel to cover the picnic table at the rest stop. Getting out eating and running around for 20- 30 minutes really helps the trip.

Anonymous wrote:Chart out what restaurants are available on the route, and then plan your food according to that.

This. There are routes that make this difficult, such as most any route through WV. But heading north or south from DC? Save time and sanity by having passengers look at google maps as you drive. It's almost 2023.

Chart out what restaurants are available on the route, and then plan your food according to that.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No way to warm the food? I love road trip food. We tend to think of it as a picnic, but we don't pack huge quantities of the same food. We take lots of variety.

For early lunch - I would pack an insulated multi-container lunch box (called tiffin box or dabba) with a nice veggi pilaf, daal, chicken curry, and paranthas. This would be eaten warm.

For a less fussy meal - rava-veggi idlies with chutney podi and coconut chutney.

For tea break - cucumber sandwiches and egg sandwiches. Some slices of homemade banana nut bread. Make tea in an electric kettle for car.

For coffee break - cookies and some via coffee satchets. Warm water and milk in electric kettle.

Pack fruits like bananas and tangerines. We like to buy fast food also - mainly fries, chicken nuggets and onion rings to go with the tea or coffee break.

WOW. Can I roadtrip with you???

Yes! Yes, you can. Road trips for us is all about the packed picnic food, sitting down as a group and having a feast, and tons of snack breaks. Also a steady supply of good tea. The more people, the merrier.

Throughout the lockdown, we took a number of day trips around the DMV area with our friends, and the picnic foods was one of the highlights of our trips.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No way to warm the food? I love road trip food. We tend to think of it as a picnic, but we don't pack huge quantities of the same food. We take lots of variety.

For early lunch - I would pack an insulated multi-container lunch box (called tiffin box or dabba) with a nice veggi pilaf, daal, chicken curry, and paranthas. This would be eaten warm.

For a less fussy meal - rava-veggi idlies with chutney podi and coconut chutney.

For tea break - cucumber sandwiches and egg sandwiches. Some slices of homemade banana nut bread. Make tea in an electric kettle for car.

For coffee break - cookies and some via coffee satchets. Warm water and milk in electric kettle.

Pack fruits like bananas and tangerines. We like to buy fast food also - mainly fries, chicken nuggets and onion rings to go with the tea or coffee break.

Where did you get that???

Make friends with some Indian aunties. They will feed you to the gills.

So true. Their life revolves around cooking and feeding people. And if they cannot feed you because you are short on time, they will pack food in empty plastic yogurt, butter, sour cream containers for you to take along. Then they will text you to not forget the food in the car and to put it in the fridge.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am laughing about the chutneys and hard boiled eggs. Here's some real talk. I like road trip candy that keeps my mouth busy for a while. Skittles, Starbusts, etc. FWIW, I also like cucumbers, grapes, etc.

Combos are the best for this. Carefully eat the outside pretzel until you have a cheese nugget. One bag lasts hours.

YES!