Anonymous wrote:I am vegetarian so Taco Bell vegetarian items are always okay for me.

Otherwise large gas stations where lots of trucks stop at tend to have good options like fresh fruit cups, string cheese sticks, Chobani yogurt, pickles, nuts etc.

TACO BELL!!!! I can’t believe it took more than four pages into the forum for someone to say Taco Bell. I freaking love Taco Bell. And only eat it on road trips. Pintos and cheese or a bean burrito! My kids get plain grilled chicken tacos and snarf them down. It’s not as ubiquitous as other chains, so coming across one and plotting your stop is part of the fun.

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Anonymous wrote:We pack coolers with healthy food and repack the cooler with food and ice on stops. Lots of veggies and fruits, Greek yogurt and cheese/ meat. We try to avoid too many carbs in the car as activity is limited on those days. We do normally go for a family jog at lunch though before we eat. We park at a school/ neighborhood park and jog a couple miles then eat. It’s quite lovely. Our kids as young as 4 have done this.

Are you serious?

Sadly there’s a part of me that thinks this actually may be serious.

I was hoping it was satire, but…no.

Yes, I’m serious and don’t really understand all the snarky responses. The jog is setting no records and is a great way to stretch our legs. We run together as a family at home too. We do it before we eat, simply because we feel sick if we eat first. The cooler of food helps us save money too. We road trip a lot, and this is our routine.

Haven’t seen Cookout mentioned. Those onion rings with cookout sauce are delish!

Wawa (heading north) or Sheetz (heading south) are our picks because everyone can get exactly what they want. There are packets of fresh fruit and cheese sticks in the middle section.

McDonald’s is always the fastest with bathrooms. Two kids get nuggets, my non meat water gets the yogurt parfait and fries and I get the mango smoothie and fries (so yummy). McDonald’s really does fill a need for the country.

If we can find it, Panera. The Napa chicken salad is really low calorie and tasty.

Dunkin is also actually great. Good coffee and their avocado toast is surprisingly very good. Kids like the egg sandwiches.

Chik fila is so greasy it always makes me vaguely nauseated for the car (although I love their shakes), and chipotle is so oniony that I hate it for car rides. I just want to brush my teeth after I eat it or I feel like I’m sucking on an old onion all day. Moe’s is better or Baja Fresh but harder to find, and none of that is good car food.

We don’t do a ton of driving vacations but we have so many dumb sports tournaments that are two hours away that we end up stopping on road after those — sitting down to eat after sitting for hours at a tournament is just more than i can bear.

Anonymous wrote:Chick fil-A is my ride or die.

Then I realize it's a Sunday.

Anonymous wrote:We don't do "driving trips" but I've stopped at Wendy's for a plain baked potato a couple of times. In-n-Out is okay also.

What is a "driving trip"?

Jersey Mike’s or CFA.

I try to bring some clementines or bananas or blueberries. I’ll eat those for breakfast along with convenience store string cheese and almonds.

For lunch I tend to get a Jimmy John’s turkey sub or ChikFilA salad or nuggets and fruit. Sometimes a Mc chicken or nuggets. I don’t get fries and I eat more fruit. Diet drinks or seltzer or coffee.

Dinner? I don’t know. We rarely eat dinner in the road but I suppose the few times we didn’t was Chipotle because the kids love it.

I'm gluten free for medical reasons, and that limits a lot of fast food. Chipotle has true GF options, but it's not always available. McDonald's has real fresh salad, so at least I know I can eat that.

Local Mexican places also have options...as well as ME places assuming they have something like chicken shawarma.

Anonymous wrote:Panerai, Bob Evans, Ihop

Occasionally a Waffle House if we're in the south.

Kids lean toward breakfast foods, dad some kind of meat, and mom an omelet

Stopped at a Cracker Barrel once, will never return: I don't meet the weight requirement. At least at the one we stopped at in the mid-west, you cannot enter unless you weigh 300 pounds 🤣

Awful person alert.

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Anonymous wrote:We pack coolers with healthy food and repack the cooler with food and ice on stops. Lots of veggies and fruits, Greek yogurt and cheese/ meat. We try to avoid too many carbs in the car as activity is limited on those days. We do normally go for a family jog at lunch though before we eat. We park at a school/ neighborhood park and jog a couple miles then eat. It’s quite lovely. Our kids as young as 4 have done this.

Are you serious?

Sadly there’s a part of me that thinks this actually may be serious.

I was hoping it was satire, but…no.

I am vegetarian so Taco Bell vegetarian items are always okay for me.

Otherwise large gas stations where lots of trucks stop at tend to have good options like fresh fruit cups, string cheese sticks, Chobani yogurt, pickles, nuts etc.

Anonymous wrote:We pack coolers with healthy food and repack the cooler with food and ice on stops. Lots of veggies and fruits, Greek yogurt and cheese/ meat. We try to avoid too many carbs in the car as activity is limited on those days. We do normally go for a family jog at lunch though before we eat. We park at a school/ neighborhood park and jog a couple miles then eat. It’s quite lovely. Our kids as young as 4 have done this.

This is such an amazingly unhinged response. Your poor children - stopping a family road trip so a four year old (!!!!) can exercise before being given lunch?! Wtf…

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Anonymous wrote:We pack coolers with healthy food and repack the cooler with food and ice on stops. Lots of veggies and fruits, Greek yogurt and cheese/ meat. We try to avoid too many carbs in the car as activity is limited on those days. We do normally go for a family jog at lunch though before we eat. We park at a school/ neighborhood park and jog a couple miles then eat. It’s quite lovely. Our kids as young as 4 have done this.

Are you serious?

Sadly there’s a part of me that thinks this actually may be serious.