Travel Hacks - Snacks and Options

(Niko Neko) #1

What is your ultimate, non-perishable road trip or emergency stash snack? The one thing you never leave the house without?

(Well, maybe you can go check the mail without it…but you know, extended trips :smiley: haha)

This topic gets discussed a lot, but looking back on the forum looks like it’s been a few years. I have a long, long, long trip to take in about six months. I can’t bring meat into Japan and I’m traveling to a rural area on the first leg of the trip - so - it’s going to be hard on my body so I’m trying to get fit, lose weight, and figure it out way ahead of time.

If you have no ideas on that, can anyone tell me how long a boiled egg lasts? I’m getting suspicious of the ones in my fridge, haha (I did an experiment with a raccoon and a boiled egg - it figured it out and loved it! ) :+1:

#2

Pack of salted roasted almonds for me.

(Bob M) #3

If you can’t take meat, that’s tough. Here’s a site with low carb tips for Japan:

There are a few other websites, some devoted to keto, for Japan.

I’d try some natto, if you can handle it. I like it. (Making some tonight.) If you’re going to look at it as pure carbs, it’s probably higher, but it’s just fermented soybeans plus whatever they add, and not many soybeans.

(Rebecca ) #4

Plain salted pork rinds, Fatty meat sticks (less ingredients) & Flock chicken skins. I will often times take hard cooked eggs and hard cheese if I can keep them cold.

(Edith) #5

Can you bring meat if it is commercially packaged and not food cooked at home?

(Niko Neko) #6

You’re making your own Natto? That is next level! I would never think to do that. I’m Carnivore and haven’t tried Natto, but respect for knowing how to make it. It’s full of K2 which helps utilize vitamin D and is fantastic for longevity and brain health. That texture though…I might get brave enough to try it one of these days. I do have a Japanese market not too far from me that sells it :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

I will look into it, but I doubt it because they have a lot of agricultural controls so that diseases and problems aren’t introduced from abroad.

I’ll look into Flock chicken skins, that sounds interesting!

(Edith) #7

Well, if you can bring prepackaged food, including meat sticks, I would definitely bring meat sticks. Flock chicken skins or pork rinds would also be good, but technically, wouldn’t those also be considered meat? There are bars out there such as IQ Bars, that aren’t perfect, but they do have low net carbs, and could do in a pinch. Macadamia nuts are very fatty.

(Bean) #8

Macadamia nuts, sustainable palm shortening (spectrum), packets of olive oil in the liquids ziplock. I’ve taken tallow through TSA, no problem, but not international. Protein would need to be purchased there. We did canned fish and cheese in central Europe. I would think seafood options would be plentiful.