There are a gazillion guides to healthy habits while traveling, but I think I’ve got a tip I haven’t seen anywhere else:
Bring an anchor.
My anchor is oatmeal. Except when I’m cutting starches, I have it religiously for breakfast. One day I’ll be old and toothless and still eating oatmeal for breakfast. (See, it’s good that my favorite breakfast isn’t peanut brittle. I’m planning for the future here.)
Of course, travel is an opportunity to break routine and enjoy new foods and styles of eating. I embrace that. But I need an anchor, and that’s oatmeal at breakfast. That way I don’t ride into the culinary Wild West, binge on whiskey, and get into a bar fight.
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1 Melissa H. // Dec 20, 2007 at 11:14 pm
OMG, oatmeal is SO my anchor, too! I bring it everywhere–even brought packets of it to Italy so I’d have “My breakfast” which I’ve become so addicted to the past couple years.
When I go home now, my mom often has a canister waiting–but even when I travel to friends’ houses, I bring my own pre-made baggies with cinnamon and brown sugar Splenda all measured out. They know I do this and don’t give me the BAER one might expect.
Doing this: solves the guess-work of “what to eat”, gets my day off on the right foot, and is the one meal I can (typically) always control while traveling. And it’s nutritious and tides me over a good long while.
I am sooo with you on this!!
2 Crabby Mcslacker // Dec 21, 2007 at 3:55 am
What a great idea!
I wish I liked oatmeal.
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