HEALTHY EATING WHILE TRAVELLING

HEALTHY EATING WHILE TRAVELLING

Are you thinking about booking your summer holiday and wondering how you can eat healthily while you are travelling? I have a few tips to share with you on how you can stay healthy and still enjoy your holiday.

When choosing a hotel, try and get one with a mini fridge so you can store your homemade or bought healthy snacks.

An apartment is a great choice because it has its own kitchen and you have more freedom to eat healthily.

If you can maintain a healthy eating habit while you are on holiday, you won’t feel as tired or bloated and you will have more energy too.

Prepare some snacks to take with you. You could make some granola bars, almond cacao powder biscuits, raw trail mix of mixed nuts and dried fruit, a few bars of at least 70% dark chocolate or some energy balls (homemade or bought). If you like crisps, you could take kale chips, cassava chips or plantain chips.

When I am travelling I like to pack my own salad. You could chop up some tomatoes, cucumber, celery, radish, spring onion, pepper and mix in some cooked quinoa or lentils and mix in a salad dressing with olive oil, apple cider vinegar, tahini and a little lemon juice. I like to add some feta cheese or goats cheese.

A tortilla wrap with filling of your choice.

You could prepare some overnight oats by mixing oats with coconut or almond milk and adding anything you like such as raw cacao powder, nuts, seeds, dried fruit.

If you have chosen to stay in an apartment, you could shop before you travel and put a few things into your suitcase if you are flying or into a cool box for your car journey.

Take your favourite tea bags with you.

Find out where your nearest supermarket is before you arrive at your destination so you can stock up on some essential items such as fruit, cut up vegetables, hummus, eggs, organic plain full fat yogurt to mix with fruit and nuts if you like. Flavoured yogurt contains hidden sugars so adding your own fruit tastes much better.

If you are staying in a hotel there should be healthy options for breakfast such as fruit, yogurts and cooked options such as eggs, bacon, roasted tomato and mushrooms. These are great options and will fill you up and keep your blood sugar stable. If you need a snack during the day, you are already prepared with the snacks that you have packed as mentioned above.

There is a great probiotic called Sacchromyces Boulardii that you can take while travelling which helps to stop diarrhoea. It helps to kill bacteria and aid in digestion. If you find yourself a bit constipated while travelling, pack some magnesium glycinate or a magnesium oil to spray onto your skin. Magnesium helps to relax you so can also help with sleep too.

Things to make a note of to stay healthy while travelling are:-

Eat a balanced breakfast which includes fruit, plain yogurt, cooked breakfast of eggs, bacon, tomato and mushrooms.

For lunch you could look for lots of salads or a tortilla wrap with lots of salad and some protein such as fish, chicken or cheeses.

Load up on vegetables and skip the white starchy potatoes, pasta and white rice. Choose sweet potato, lentils, quinoa or brown rice instead. You could order salad or more vegetables as a side dish.

Always carry a snack and some fresh water around with you.

You can still enjoy the local cuisine whichever country you are travelling to by following the above tips.

Have a great holiday.