Travelling is the most exciting thing to do but maintaining a proper diet while travelling can be really difficult. Food basically plays an important role during travelling. One just need to ensure that a stomach upset should not ruin one’s travelling plans. So maintaining a proper diet and consuming healthy food becomes really important while travelling. Sometimes one may be really hungry and decide to try the airport food court but it is nearly impossible to determine which menu options are the healthiest bets. So let us check a few food stuffs which can be really healthy and can be easily consumed while travelling.
Lets start with healthy foods first.
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Dunkin’ Donuts Egg White Veggie Flatbread
Grab a delicious Veggie egg white omelette with a slice of reduced fat cheddar cheese, served on a multigrain flatbread. It’s less than 300 calories, and a great way to start your day. The food stuff is rich in protein which will make one feel satisfied throughout the day.
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Starbucks Hearty Blueberry Whole-Grain Oatmeal
With a breakfast this good, your day is bound to be amazing. Starbucks reinvented oatmeal features a hearty blend of rolled and whole grain steel-cut oats with blueberries, a medley of fruit, nuts and sweet and a sweet touch of agave syrup.
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McDonald’s southwest Salad with Grilled Chicken
Slices of 100% grilled chicken breast filet seasoned to perfection with ingredients like salt, garlic and parsley. The southwest salad is made with crisp chopped romaine, baby spinach and baby kale with veggies like fire roasted corn, savory black beans, oven roasted tomatoes and poblano peppers. This is really healthy and highly nutritious.
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Starbucks Protein Bistro Box
Enter Starbuck’s Protein Bistro Box, an energizing combo of fruit, peanut butter, a hard cooked egg and multigrain muesli bread. Together these deliver the perfect balance of protein, complex carbs and healthy fats to help you power through your morning.
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Chili’s “Lighter Choice” Margarita Grilled Chicken
This one comes with delicious black beans, rice and pico de gallo. One can get 190 calories and 31 grams of protein which sounds very healthy and can be a very good choice in airports.
Lets have a look on unhealthy foods.
6. Sugar-Free Drinks, Starbucks
One wants to be skinny in the vacation, so you opt to order something sugar-free from Starbucks before takeoff. Unfortunately they use a lot of artificial sweetener sucralose in most of its sugar-free drinks which can cause bloating and gas for people who don’t process artificial sweetener well.
7. Jersey Dog, Smashburger
Jersey Dog which is a foodstuff of food chain Smashburger has excessive sodium around 1650 mg, tons of fat including 20 grams of saturated fat. Moreover it is topped with stinky sauerkraut and onions which can be miserable during travelling.
8. Cheese Danish, Starbucks
Starbuck’s Cheese Danish has 16 grams of saturated fat which can constrict blood flow which can put flyers at an even higher risk for deep vein thrombosis (DVT).
9. Volcano Nachos, Taco Bell
The dish has 990 calories, 59 grams of fat and 1840 mg of sodium and the spicy “cheesy molten hot lava sauce” and jalapenos cause heartburn and it is highly dangerous for nervous flyers. The nachos are topped with beans whose gas causing ability can create a lot of woes during travelling.
10. Large Dr Pepper, McDonald’s
It contains a lot of sodium which is not advisable to consume while travelling. It has a lot of sugar content which is not at all healthy to consume.