Road trip snacks

[manybellsdown]

What are some good foods to have on hand during a road trip for a toddler?

She loves fruit, so I have lots of options there. Is there any easy, not messy way to get veggies in her?

Any ideas for the whole fam appreciated. Two days of driving coming up!

[athn64]

DD likes peanut butter crackers, teddy grahams, raisins, peanuts, trail mix (we buy the kind without candy in them), etc.

For veggies, maybe some of the Gerber snacks, like little twists. DD always enjoys them. Will she eat carrot sticks?

For the whole family, same stuff as for her, crackers, teddy grahams. We also like to do pringles, but they;re far from healthy. Gum and hard candies too.

[packerfan4life]

We do pouches for easy, non-messy veggies. DD only has 5 teeth though so most veggues are hard for her to eat unless they're cooked. Berries and oranges are common car snacks. Fruit leather, although that can get sticky and messy

[mladerri]

Pouches are the way to go. There are so many fruit and veggie combos. We love dried fruit, freeze dried fruit and trail mix too. Other good snack items: Annie's bunny crackers, string cheese and raisins.

[sandandsea]

Cheerios DS loves the fruity Cheerios
Pouches. All different kinds including applesauce
Carrot and celery sticks
Cut grapes
Bunny crackers or mini peanut butter or cheese sandwich crackers

[Stringy]

How old of a toddler? Mine (when like 2.75 ) loved whole apples and would take forevvvvvver to eat them. Perfect car snack. But not if your LO is like 15 months old. Sorry- mobile.

[manybellsdown]

Jul 25, 2016 20:06:01 GMT -5 Stringy said:

How old of a toddler? Mine (when like 2.75 ) loved whole apples and would take forevvvvvver to eat them. Perfect car snack. But not if your LO is like 15 months old. Sorry- mobile.

She's 3 in a couple of months, so yeah! She also really loves to keep things whole (especially fruit), so this perfect.

[Stringy]

Jul 25, 2016 21:13:38 GMT -5 manybellsdown said:

Jul 25, 2016 20:06:01 GMT -5 Stringy said:

How old of a toddler? Mine (when like 2.75 ) loved whole apples and would take forevvvvvver to eat them. Perfect car snack. But not if your LO is like 15 months old. Sorry- mobile.

She's 3 in a couple of months, so yeah! She also really loves to keep things whole (especially fruit), so this perfect.

Just beware if she doesn't like the skin and spits it out you may have a mess.

[manybellsdown]

Jul 26, 2016 6:04:11 GMT -5 Stringy said:

Jul 25, 2016 21:13:38 GMT -5 manybellsdown said:

She's 3 in a couple of months, so yeah! She also really loves to keep things whole (especially fruit), so this perfect.

Just beware if she doesn't like the skin and spits it out you may have a mess.

She's a weirdo and actually likes to eat the skin off first.

I still just love the idea of how much time this snack will take up.

[birdhut]

I've been MIA but saw this while checking in today. I bring one of those small craft boxes to church with us that I saw on Pinterest for traveling. I put some cut up fruit on the different sections. I also have put a small bag of trail mix or goldfish crackers. She loves it. She likes being able to have a variety and choose what she wants. She will eat what she wants and when she's full she takes a break and I put it away for later.
An example
Also I have a tray that goes over her car seat so she can put it on that and eat it. She's pretty good with it just on her lap as well.

That's the tray. Don't let the picture fool you though. The sides do not stay up that well!