How do you find a simple, easy, quick healthy meal when travelling that will actually fill you up?
When I’m on the road I usually have a loaf of bread, jar of peanut butter, and a bunch of clif bars, and maybe some apples or oranges, and maybe some chips, and usually some candy or chocolate bar of some kind. This is fine for a day or two or three but after that it gets pretty old and I start to get pretty hungry from lack of getting a larger size meal or one with just more palatable calories.
Usually around day 3 I break down and find myself pigging out at a fast food joint with a cold drink. Warm water and peanut butter sandwiches on old smashed bread just looses it’s appeal after a few days.
Here’s the problem though: I can go to Taco Bell and get a couple bean burritos. In that I get about 2400 mg of sodium which is outrageous and don’t even get full from it. I can go to Subway and get a turkey & cheese sub sandwich which is more like bread, lettuce and a hint of meat, leaving me hungy shortly after eating a 12″ sandwich and also containing far too much sodium. Blimpee puts more meat in their turkey sandwiches than Subway but accordingly also contain more sodium. So then I really break down and end up in Burger King getting a whopper, fries, soda, and maybe a chicken sandwich too. Now I’m getting even more sodium, tons of saturated fat, tons of trans fat, tons of cholesterol, but bottom line, after I eat that, I feel full and don’t have to slop together another peanut butter sandwich in an hour.
But what if there was a place with a quick healthy alternative fast food that could really fill one up? I guess these are considered to be places like Subway or Blimpee but, how does one get full off these meals without getting far too much sodium? At home I can load up on chicken, pasta, vegetables, potatoes and only get a few mg of sodium. But try to get this food out and the amount of sodium you get with it, it’s pretty much toxic with sodium.
So what is a healthy alternative when you want a home-cooked healthy meal but are not at home? One that is widely available while travelling and quick and easy and cheap. A healthly meal in my mind should be extremely low in sodium, low in saturated fat, absolutely no hydrogenated oils, low cholesterol, and preferably containing some amount of vitamins and minerals, but at the same time has to be substantial enough and palatable enough in large quantities to have a high fullness factor and allow one to get full from it without much difficulty. If you have any ideas kindly let me know.
In the mean time, I will keep searching and packing the peanut butter and clif bars.