Traveling is part of all our lives, but what do we do about our new eating lifestyle?
We found an awesome cousin to stay at the house while we are away, that way our furbabies are well taken care of and the house can be watched, so the homestead is accounted for, but you cannot pack a trips worth of meals no matter what you try.
What will work for me and hopefully you? CAUTION!! Read what you are about to eat and dont be afraid not to eat something if it does not meet your expectations. Remember to ask, is it breaded? is it fresh? is it cooked beyond recognition?
First part of the trip is the easiest, packed the outer leave from our butter lettuce we received in our CSA basket. The leaves were beautiful and large and made perfect sandwich wraps. mix some tuna with a little mayo and pickle and we are ready to go for lunch. Chopped up a couple carrotzillas and some radishes, and brought a bag of raw cashews for snacking. Water is a must, we don't like to (okay I don't like to) stay overly hydrated as you cannot be sure where the next bathroom is, but I am believing this is vital and you can probably find a restroom off most exits.
Airport food sucks! I don't care how hard you try. We ate at this diner, had local vegetables and grass raised beef and bison, How could this place not be great? well, the food was pretty good, I got the bison, it was dry and gamy, which is probably just the way it is, but in not reading the menu properly it ended up being a "chopped steak" otherwise know as a hamburger, or in this case a bison burger, patty. As I have mentioned before processed foods are digested faster losing the longer lasting effects of a nice protein in your meal. Besides the protein my dish came with three vegetables: corn, broccoli and mashed potatoes which would be covered in brown gravy, also known as liquid death :) Substituted a salad for the potatoes, which was a nice variety of mixed greens with a few vegetable slices, and of course croutons, solid death, which I had forgotten to ask them to hold, I never remember to ask them to hold and I have never eaten croutons.
Anyways, the bison tasted good, it had roasted peppers and onions on top. The vegetables came drowning in butter, seriously? You go through all that effort of letting us know they are local and fresh and then you cannot even taste the vegetable, just butter. The salad was sadly the highlight, the greens were nice and fresh and varied, they didn't have oil and vinegar so went with the balsamic which was potent.
Dessert, no way? I look back and wonder how I used to eat all that food, I would plow through an appetizer a large entree and then dessert without thinking. If you look at appetizers a lot are fat, sugar, wheat loaded, they increase your appetite rather than satisfying it.
Sad news? I was hungry less than an hour later. Guess all that processing depleted the wholesomeness of that great food.
Plane ride was interesting, we all get on and are settled then we have to all get off because they didn't do the international security sweep. Drink? Coffee? Cream and sugar? Black. Pretzels? God NO!!!!!
Oh well, we arrived and were alive, cannot say my family were enjoying my radish burps. OMG those radishes were spicy, whew!!!!
Breakfast was okay, need to watch myself tomorrow, I was hungry so I inhaled a plate of greasy bacon and sausage, some flavorless eggs. At least I wised up and had some fruit and deli meat, probably not nitrate free but at least it wasn't slimy with grease. Unless I find some paper towels or paper napkins tomorrow will probably be deli and fruit. The only positive of that breakfast is I will not end up eating lunch. Found a scale after breakfast so I will have to see if I have recovered from travelling tomorrow morning.
Maggiano's for dinner, this will be a challenge above all others, a family style Italian restaurant that continuously brings food to you. Have to please everyone when you vacation with others :) We will find at least one non pasta entree and their salad is phenomenal so maybe I will eat that and just try a little of the entrees.
Starting Saturday we won't have internet for a week, but I will track what is going on nutrition wise and hopefully can set a good example. The scale after breakfast did not make me happy.