If summer is a chance for short or long road trips with your family, stopping for snacks can eat into your food budget.
Stocking up on snacks before or during your trip at an Ingles Market or packing up snack items that are easy to eat in the car or at a roadside stop, can help keep your trip economical and give you and your kids better-for-you options than fast-food or convenience store items.
Here are some ideas for foods and beverages to pack up in a cooler or insulated bag:
• a bag of mini carrots or sliced carrots
• celery, mini peppers or cucumber slices/wedges with dip
• Apples/apple slices or bananas
• Peanut butter crackers
• Nuts or peanuts
• Meat sticks (jerky) or trout jerky (just check the sodium amount)
• Homemade bags of trail mix made with cereal, raisins, and nuts
• cheese sticks or cubes
• drinkable yogurt
• UHT milk (shelf stable)
• 100% fruit juice
• water or low calorie/no calorie beverages
Leah McGrath, RDN, LDN
Ingles Markets Corporate Dietitian
facebook.com/LeahMcgrathDietitian
800-334-4936