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[serene]

Our road food:

Me:

Corn nuts (preferably barbecue flavor)
Iced tea (preferably homemade; if not, sweetened-no-lemon)
Water
Some kind of chips (sometimes kettle chips, sometimes barbecued fritos, sometimes something else) or mixed nuts (no peanuts!)
Fruit and/or veggies and/or hummus wraps
Bits of whatever someotherguy is eating
NO dairy!

someotherguy:

Beef Jerky
Lots of coffee and diet cola
Apples
Veggies
Nuts
Bits of whatever I'm eating

What's your road food?

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[geminigirl]

Twizzlers, baby carrots, carbonated beverage, some kind of protein containing sandwich along the way. Sometimes some sort of chips/combos/cheesedoodles/popcorn. Usually some sort of fruit as well.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Oh, I completely forgot: someotherguy LOVES stopping for rest-area vending-machine sandwiches. :-)

[kismet09.livejournal.com]

teriyaki beef jerky, cheddar and pretzel combos, water, iced mochas, carrots, cheese and apples, trail mix. Yum.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Diet Coke
Pringles (regular or light - I hate flavored chips)
Cheetoes (Puffed or crunchy)
cheese
sunflower seeds
carrots
chocolate in some small easy eatable form
apples

[geminigirl]

I like onion rings too, when I can stop for them.

I do the road trip between NJ (where zedrikcayne is) or slightly further into New York where my parents are, and here often enough to know what my rest stop choices are.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

*nod* I make the identical trip every month or two. I've seen the same rest areas, same gas stations, same everything twenty times in the last year. It's very familiar and comforting, in a way. I still cringe driving through the area where nolly and I broke down last year, and I still drive like a bat out of hell through the Central Valley. It makes me feel like such a grown-up. Weird.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I sometimes take a small package of something sweet -- Jelly Bellies, or a tootsie pop or something. I don't like to overload on sugar, but sometimes I do crave a bit of sweetness among my salty snacks. (The salty snacks are probably the reason I don't have to stop very often for restroom breaks.)

[krasota.livejournal.com]

bbq chips
popcorn
rice cakes or popcorn cakes (in that case, cheese flavored)
baby carrots
cashews
occasional soda/tea, lots of water
crackers and cheese
string cheese

i love to bring chex mix, but i often forget it. it's a pain to make. i just stocked up on safe worcestershire sauce, though, so i'm back in the game. ;)

we always have *tons* of food in the car on trips because boy has to eat constantly.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I often wish I could do dairy on long trips (it gives me a tummyache, and yes, that's a euphemism) because cheese and foofy coffee drinks and cheetos and lots of other things are out of the question.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I take tons of food, too. Chewing on stuff keeps me alert.

Love popcorn. Often pop a big batch to take -- when it's not a long road trip, I add parmesan cheese and onion powder, yummm.

[halibut.livejournal.com]

Fruit juices
Nuts and dried fruit (preferably containing both dried mango and dried banana chips)
Grilled pork sausages (ancient family tradition and indispensable)
apples
A few sandwiches -- maybe egg mayo or something like that.
Whatever else seems like a good idea at the time :)

[red-frog.livejournal.com]

I'm boring. If anything, it's baby carrots, apple slices, and water. I'll stop for a Snickers if I'm in the mood for something more filling, or sometimes a roadside hamburger if it's a long trip instead of just a few hours. If I need coffee, I'll stop for it--I don't like drinking it while I'm driving.

[ailbhe]

We don't do road food. We don't do road trips, either. We eat whatever can be found in international airports, when on long journeys...

[kismet09.livejournal.com]

I don't know what I'd do without my foofy drinks! Iced tea sounds like a reasonable compromise, I suppose. You could also try getting the drinks with soy milk, if that has less of the euphemistic tummy ache effect.

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

V8 (preferably Spicy) is absolutely indispensable roadtrip nourishment for me...

[mittelbar.livejournal.com]

Hm.

Diet Coke.
Water.
Carrots.
Apples.
Sweets!
Sun Chips.
Cheetos.
Beef jerky.
Yogurt, if I'm not driving.

I should remember corn nuts! I love corn nuts, and they are just too offensive for the office.

I have to be careful not to eat too much of any one of the above items -- too much sugar, flour, caffeine or MSG just hurts.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Yeah, salt rules the day for me, but I've gotta have something sweet, too!

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

All trips: Water, an apple or two.

Shortish trips which are still long enough to require road food: pepperoni, cheese, french bread, an apple or other fruit. Possibly carrot sticks and/or celery sticks.

Longer trips (say over the course of several days): Same as above, but leave out the cheese (it gets too squidgy). Add beef jerky instead of pepperoni. Also add a big bag of assorted rice cracker mix.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that reminds me: Wasabi peas!

[lyrical1.livejournal.com]

Luna Bars (lemon or chai tea, but any flavour will do)
Cashews
Fruit or Fruit Leather
Pringles or Baked Lays if I'm in a junk food mood.
I also like GORP with chocolate bits too.
and I must have lots and lots of Smart Water and Coffee

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Cheetos or other cheesies.
Bottled water as cold as possible, in screw-top bottle not slurp-producing sports bottle.
Tim Horton's decaf coffee black.
Tim Horton's raisin tea biscuits.
Green grapes.
Granola bars.
Apples.
Juice, Diet Coke, Sprite in resealable bottles.
SmartFood popcorn.
Gum.

road food

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

carbonated water or filtered water if that runs out
coffee (take/make my own, or from tim horton's, or a espresso wagon; random coffee sucks)
fresh bread
cheeses (yes, more than one, and i take a cooler so they don't get squidgy)
coldcuts sometimes (ham, chicken- or turkey-breast, but i don't make sandwiches)
grapes, apples, pears, cherries (if fresh at farmstands)
sugar snap peas
protein bars

if i do junk, it's BBQ potato chips (very specific brands) but i am pretty much weaned off them now.

occasionally i stop for fast food; rarely. guilty pleasure: sausage-egg mcmuffin, or sourdough grilled chicken club from jack-in-the-box wih curly fries, or roast chicken club from arby's with lots of horsey sauce.

i live somewhat healthier on the road than at home, *heh*. mostly i eat small portions and nothing heavy, because that regimen interferes least with driving long distances and staying alert. if this is a driving vacation (as in, i am exploring large tracts of land by car instead of having a specific goal towards which i am driving), the menu gets much more varied because i'll stay in campgrounds overnight and cook something.

[pameladean]

Vast amounts of water
sunflower nuts
almonds
Tofu To Go (this is several somewhat messy packages of tofu triangles, already cooked, and variously flavored sauces to squeeze onto them). Not tidy, but very filling and tasty, especially the sesame-ginger.
grapefruit
avocados
hummos
bread
mustard
a tub of greens
canned kippers

That's what Eric and I had when we were driving about in the Bay Area. It's been a while since I did a road trip with anybody else, but the sandwiches David used to make were scrumptuous. I couldn't eat them now.

Pamela

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Usually a bag of commercial fruits-nuts-and-seeds trail mix with a the addition of a small jar of macadamia nuts, and a very large bottle of water. I don't like to *eat* on the road so much as I like to nibble.

[bafleyanne.livejournal.com]

Water, Dr. Pepper, sometimes juice, Combos, and often a sweet food like dried fruit or bite-size candy (M&Ms or Reese's Bites, usually).

[nmc.livejournal.com]

Fast food.

About the only time I ever eat it. Wendy's, McDonald's, Arby's, whatever. It never feels like a proper road trip if you aren't fishing your meal out of a bag while steering with your knees at some point.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

If we're leaving in the morning, it's absolutely obligatory to have McD's sausage egg mcscnoogies (mcmuffins) on the way out. Although betnoir prefers the biscuits.

western_slope and I like beef jerky. And those granola bars you can get at Costco. Hidden Valley? The chewy kind with big almonds and dried cranberries in them. But we're more likely, on a trip up to SF from SoCal, to stop off at a halfway point, stretch our legs and either dine in or get burgers.

Now my parents, they were big on roadfood. Omusubi (rice balls) stuffed with soy sauce flavored bonito shavings, or with umeboshi, or kelp. Little skewers of grilled beef or chicken. Rice cracker mix. Rolos (my dad loved those). KitKats. Pringles. Pocky.

[mittelbar.livejournal.com]

Oh, that reminds me! Rice cakes!

[leandra333.livejournal.com]

Lynn and I go on quite a few road trips per year. Between the two of us we carry bottled water, diet soda, Red Vines (stale, of course), trail mix, cheese, crackers, Look and Twix candy bars. If we are in a hurry and don't want to stop at a sit-down restaurant, we usually stop at Burger King. Going to BK during a road trip is the only time I ever eat fast food.

[circumspectly.livejournal.com]

dulce de leche luna bars (or any kind, really)
some sort of jerky
water
diet mountain dew (fresca for chris)
apples or baby carrots
golden crackle and hummus
light or ff pringles plain (no flavored pringles!)

if we are extremely rushed, we take nothing and stop to get goodies along the way, in which case it's "whatever the convenience store has".

[windsea.livejournal.com]

We're usually travelling with The Kids on road trips, so we need to make sure we have enough nibblies to forestall plunging blood sugar meltdowns. They're great travellers, as long as they don't get too hungry. We usually have:

sausage and egg McMuffins, or breakfast burritos
smoked venison sausages from the farmers' market here
beef jerky
apples
cheese
cheerios
sunflower seeds
when in Quebec, salty fresh string cheese
water
Tim Horton's coffees

Mostly, though, we like to stop and eat in independent restaurants -- we get more of a feel for where we're passing through. I've had some of the best meals of my life picking a random restaurant in a random town :-). With the exception of the aforesaid sausage and egg mcmuffins and Tims coffees, we generally don't do drive-throughs. In October, for example, I drove up to Ottawa with The Kids. We had a *fabulous* supper in a small town east of Quebec City, nondescript mom and pop restaurant that had a lot of local cars parked beside it. It turned out to have classic Quebecois country food, clearly all made from scratch. Urp.

[brotherelf.livejournal.com]

Please excuse me while I drool over my keyboard.

(Incidentally, none of my friends wanted to try them when I said it was peas, so I told them "Just try" and watched. I am an evil man, and was trained on ginger root.)

[brotherelf.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't do "road" in the strict sense (having no car and no license), but way back when I did (somebody else drove), it was a bottle of water and congesting medication up front.

Rail food: a bottle of something, usu. non-sugared, and having eaten plenty a while back.

I think I panic about the thought of having to use toilets while travelling.

[danger-chick.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...I don't tend to pack food. I just eat at rest stops. When Mike and I were still dating, we'd pack movies and have sex while driving, so eating didn't seem important.

[linenoise.livejournal.com]

I'm boring. My road food is a 2-liter bottle of water, and $5 for a burger at around Coalinga.

Much more important than road food, though, is road tunes. I very carefully select my tunes.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

This time, we passed over the deep-fried munchies (we both felt like crap after the last trip) in favor of:

apples
celery
olives
bananas
a few nuts (raw walnuts and pecans, dry-roasted almonds) -- he gets sick if he eats too many nuts
rice cakes for him, hummus and crackers for me
turkey lunchmeat and bread
bottled water

We'll need caffeine, but that's easy to find on the road.