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Hi!

We are heading off on a 7 week caravan holiday to Northern Queensland on Monday (I am so looking forward to the warmth! ).

I am interested in your ideas for low carb foods while "on the road". Sandwiches are so convenient when travelling, but don't exactly fit the bill. What are the alternatives?

(I am sure there are answers in the low carb tent, but there is a lot of material there to sort thru, so I am being a bit lazy...!!!)

When I travel, I always take with me some Soy Protein Isolate Powder, a plastic cup and a spoon, and some Stevia sweetener. I pack the powder into a small plastic box. You can then mix 1-3 tablespoons with plain yogurt, or sugar free juice concentrate and water or anything else. Very good for emergencies. Sometimes when my hubby takes sandwiches along I mix this sort of yogurt with fruit and berries chopped up, put it in a box, and take a spoon and a napkin along. If possible I sprinkle the top with sugar free Muesli (Rude Health). And Voila!
Chopped veggie finger foods are good.
You can make your own sandwiches too, using lettuce or cabbage leaves or cheese slices for bread. Use your imagination, there is no limit. You can also make cakes and things in advance using a low carb recipe, eg, sweetener instead of sugar and almond flour instead of wheat flour etc, etc,

Good luck and have a nice holiday
Margotsylvia

Nuts.
Biltong (or jerky).
Fruit (especially if it's from a roadside stall, always tastes better). Oh, if you're low carb, maybe you don't do fruit?
Avos, keep a knife, teaspoon and salt handy, and just eat it straight out the skin. (again, not sure what they are like carb count?)

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Use lettuce leaves as your bread. Wrap ham, cheese, prawns in them. Boiled eggs are always a great filler. Berries, low sugar jelly, gherkins, picked onions. Walnuts, almonds. Tuna. Bake off loads of streaky bacon and keep in the fridge for handy snacking. Make ratatouille. Full fat Greek yoghurt with almost over ripe berries yummm.

Great ideas, thanks everyone! I shall pop out and do some shopping soon.

I have invested in a 9 litre insulated cool bag (£12) in which I pop a frozen block, bottle of filtered water, apple, bag of nuts (almonds or macadamias), box of salad with fork or cheese in lettuce leaf sandwich. Works well at staying fresh for around 5 hours it seems.

I have no other suggestions to add to the excellent ones already made but can I say how envious I am of your 7 week holiday?! Hope it's fab

For the cool bag, freeze the water bottles, they will keep the food cool and still be chilled 5 hours later.

We use this a lot as it saves carrying the frozen, then unfrozen, cool blocks. But don't forget to leave an expansion gap at the top of the bottles, or you will have a wet bag when the bottle splits! (Experience speaking .)

Can you buy those mozarella sticks encased completely in plastic? They can be carried around without refrigeration for a day and make a very nice 100 calorie snack. I used to keep them in my purse when I was eating very low carb.

I also used to make my own protein bars with whey protein and peanut butter, and then roll them in unsweetened flaked coconut to keep them from sticking to things. Just mix up a serving of the protein and a half tablespoon of peanut butter with a tiny sprinkle of water. The mixture is extremely satisfying and would keep me from being hungry.

If you are near grocery stores that serve them, the rotisserie chickens make a nice no carb snack if you avoid the ones with honey coatings.

I would not use the soy protein as a) it tastes pretty nasty and b) there is quite a bit of evidence that soy proteins contain compounds that damage our intestinal linings in ways that lead to "leaky gut syndrome" which lets large proteins into our blood stream where they provoke immune attacks and allergies.

If you are getting takeaway how about:
Kebab place- today I asked for chicken with salad, they had salsa as well as pickled red cabbage so I asked for that too with some mint yoghurt dressing and hommus. They looked at me like I was crazy " what no bread???" It was absolutely divine. Not cheap at $12 but as I only had half it was really only $6 for a totally satisfying meal where I felt great after instead of loaded down as I would have if I'd had a bread kebab. And I've leftovers for lunch tomorrow!
Yesterday we were celebrating my 15 year old hungry son getting his braces off. He wanted subway. Not my favorite but not my choice. He had a foot long pizza sub and a brownie! I had a meatball salad with sweet onion dressing. As I eat when I'm hungry employing an eating window it was around 3.30 pm and my first meal of the day and quite satisfying ( but not as good as my home made meatballs but you can't be too picky when traveling) otherwise if you can cook in the caravan I would bulk cook baked pumpkin/ beetroot /cauliflower/fennel nice to eat cold with walnuts,fetta and avacado.
Have a fantastic trip!!!
Xxx