Here's a scenario....what do you do!? <Cue spy music>
You have only 5 minutes to prepare breakfast to eat on the road. You have no access to heat while driving. It will be 4 or more hours before your next meal, so you also need a snack.
What do you take that will fill you up and is nutritious?
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A pouch of salmon mixed with black beans and leftover vegggies if available. A little red chile and cheese and a minute or two in the microwave and you're good to go. On the road, half a turkey sandwich and a piece of fruit.
I'd go with a sandwich, too... maybe PB&J (natural PB and low-sugar jam), or PB and banana (if I've got the time to slice it up). And I'd get some water microwaving to make a travel mug of tea, but that's just me.
Is the snack going to be eaten while driving, too? If so, I'd bring a string cheese or a serving of turkey pepperoni, and some fruit... the only portable fruits I have at home right now are grapes and bananas, but there are lots of other things that would be easy to eat on the road.
Cut-up apple in a zipper bag, 1 slice bread with peanut butter and jelly (folded over) in another zipper bag, three lowfat string cheeses, two South Beach Living Hi-Protein bars, two small (12 oz) bottles of water, two dozen almonds in a zipper bag.
They're for my husband. He's a truck driver who gets up usually around 4 am to hit the road every day. He's not hungry then, but around 6 he wants something to eat. His go-to breakfast for a while has been sugar-laden breakfast bars, so we're trying to think of things that are portable, healthy AND will fill him up better.
He's wanting to lose some weight (or a lot of weight), and trying to wrap his brain around changes. Right now he's 6 ft. 2 in. tall and weighs 275 pounds...all the calculators say he should weigh WAY less...more like 190 (though we both think he'd be entirely too thin at that weight).
Thanks for the help! It's given ME some ideas too!
String cheese is a fallback of mine when I'm starving and don't have time to eat I also have ready to eat hard boiled eggs, I like to let them warm up to room temp when I pull them out of the fridge- you can boil them in advance and keep them for up to a week
Wow! I thought you were talking about yourself! For a man that large, double or triple the PBJ sandwiches, toss in a whole package of string cheese, put in two or three apples... you get the idea!
Well, since you know about this in advance, there are lots of things you can cook up ahead of time. You or he could assemble and freeze breakfast sandwiches and microwave on the way out the door, or make high-fiber muffins (sweet or savory), or bake healthier breakfast bars (some people make cereal/granola bars with protein powder mixed in, that would be filling!). In fact, those are ALL things you can cook enough for a few weeks at a time and freeze, if you've got the space.
WW Low carb tortilla, spread with natural PB, wrapped around a banana. One or two of those and you're full, have had some protein, fiber, and healthy fat, and are good to go!
how about homemade breakfast bars? you can make these ahead of time, cut them wrap in plastic wrap, freeze them.
this is one recipe I made a few times and they come out really good, a bit high in calorie to have around all the time, but for your husband it'll help fill in the calories he needs.
Meal impossible?
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