With summer travels from road trips to weekend getaways, it’s important that we have snacks on hand! Otherwise, you might find yourself hangry, with low blood sugar, and searching for anything sugary for quick energy. 

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Recently I experienced this first hand while my husband and I were traveling… On our way to Spain, our first flight got delayed for so long that we missed 2 other flights, ended up with a 3rd rebooking, had to run through 2 airports to make our flights and…

We didn’t have any food. I had grabbed a snack to eat at the first airport planning to get more of a meal during our next connection. 

That’s right. I messed up!

I didn’t get to grab a meal because of the above story (and because flights don’t have any gluten free foods… or anything more than cookies and pretzels). As a result I didn’t eat until 10pm that night. 

I was not happy and that stress (both emotional and physical) was not good for my body or my hormones. When we don’t eat regularly or enough it can cause our main stress hormone, cortisol, to go up which then effects our blood sugar and can take a toll on our hormone regulation. Especially when this happens often. 

Which is why we are talking about easy foods that you can have ON HAND to make your travel plans easier! 

These are some of my favorite snacks to have around and they are perfect for travel too! 

When you are thinking about your snacks to have, we also want to make sure that you are getting the macronutrients that you need. This means both carbs and protein for snacks. The carbs give you energy and the protein helps to keep this energy more balanced and long lasting.

When you choose carbs and protein together you are also keeping yourself from having a sugar rush, and avoiding the inevitable crash that comes later. These snacks can do this by keeping your blood sugar (or blood glucose) more regulated. 

This will also help ensure that you don’t go so long without eating that when you finally do eat, you are starving and end up eating everything in sight without regard for your hunger or fullness. 

A good example of this using the snacks above would be choosing to eat a rice cake with a chomps beef bar. The carbohydrates are coming from the rice cake and protein is coming from the chomps. 

I also like to make my own trail mix using the ingredients above, including walnuts, dried tart cherries, dried edamame beans, chocolate powdered almonds and you can even add in pretzels or dark chocolate chips. 

Choosing snacks to keep you satisfied and help you avoid a hanger episode doesn’t have to be complicated. In fact, by having these foods on hand you will be ready anytime you need them whether it is on a trip or if you just need a snack when that 4:00 pm hunger strikes. 

If you need more hormone healthy food ideas make sure to get my 5 Hormone Healthy Foods 5 Ways to make eating for hormone health and fertility easier! This is a list of 5 of my favorite hormone healthy foods and each food has 5 DIFFERENT ways that you can include them so you can get all the variety that you need!