As final preparations are underway for a ten-day road trip, I wanted to share with you my favorite and best gluten free road trip snacks. They are loosely categorized as fruit, grain, protein, sweets, or some combination of the same.
FRUIT
My favorite fresh fruit for travel is banana. I mean, come on y’all, a ripe banana in its own pretty yellow peel is just so dang happy-looking and cute. I find a banana to be delicious and almost impossible to resist. I can pat myself on the back for eating healthy, while gleefully giggling since a banana is so sweet and yummy.
GRAIN
For grains, I prefer the General Mills Apple and Cinnamon Cheerios, which are oats. https://www.generalmillscf.com/products/category/cereal/box/apple-cinnamon-box-large-14-2-oz They are so convenient and can easily be packed into any size container. Plus, this is another snack that satisfies my sweet tooth.
PROTEIN
Proteins are the most versatile group and can include meats, beans, and nuts. My go-to meat is Old Wisconsin turkey sausage sticks. https://www.oldwisconsin.com/snacks/snack-sticks/turkey Each pack normally contains from ten to twelve sticks and each one is about one-half ounce.
The best bean choice for me is edamame, and The Only Bean company based in Las Vegas https://theonlybean.com/ has crunchy roasted edamame that I dearly love.
As far as nuts go, I like to take any small jar of peanut butter or peanut and honey spread because it is smooth. This can easily be put on cookies.
Sometimes I will grab several varieties of trail mix, take out the bits I don’t like, and create my own special blend. This usually includes stuff like chocolate, mango, raisins, and yogurt.
SWEETS
Sweets… yes, I’ve already mentioned items that may be sweet, but have saved my three best gluten free road trip snacks in the sweet category for last. In case you haven’t figured it out yet, I love sweets!
Even though I am not Italian, I happen to enjoy the heck out of biscotti. There are many good brands of these wonderful gluten free biscuit cookies. Most include small slivers of almonds, and the ones I like add cranberry. They are awesome for dipping into my morning coffee.
The top choice for cookies goes to Mi-Del Swedish Style ginger snaps. https://midelcookies.com/category/products/gluten-free/ As a wordsmith, I admit that it is hard to put into words just how great they are or why I crave them so much. I mean, ginger and molasses, so so so awesome! In my opinion there is only one sweet treat in the universe that could be any better than that.
By now you are probably hungry for the best gluten free road trip snacks. And you are wondering what my absolute favorite could be, right? Here it is! Take some shredded and sweetened coconut, then cover it with decadently delicious dark chocolate. What you have there is a Mounds candy bar! https://www.hersheyland.com/mounds THIS is my all-time number one sweet treat.
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I’m trying to stay away from sweets, but natural sweets are great. I’ve found that a Fugi apple is the best and dipping it in peanut butter makes it even better.
I am big on protein snacks like pepperoni and cheese sticks. Yummy.
Peanut butter makes most things better! And, yes, protein is important.