Guest guest Posted May 29, 2006 Report Share Posted May 29, 2006 Anyone have any good ideas for kid-friendly snacks for in the car? We do an awful lot of driving, and I'm having trouble thinking of replacements to crackers and chips.... Thanks! Ellen day 2 of SCD for 8 y/o dd who has Crohn's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 29, 2006 Report Share Posted May 29, 2006 Hi Ellen, We to spend a lot of time in the car as we do most of our groc. shopping and any other shopping in a town 20 mils one way or 30 miles the other. I am not sure just where you are in the diet but some of the things I do is: applesauce(home made) in a little snack cup(don't forget the spoon), if you can have dairy cheese slices, cold meat(roast beef, turkey breast, chicken), SCD cookies, SCD muffin. Basically we take a small cooler with us almost any time we leave town and I pack it with some of these goodies and bottles of water. I always over pack as when we first got started when we would go to a store Tobias was emediately hungry. I would tell him that as soon as we got to the car we would have a snack. Many times I will give them a snack just before we get into town so they have something fresh in their tummies. Sandy M. Whole family SCD in support of 5 yr old who raged. > > Anyone have any good ideas for kid-friendly snacks for in the car? We do an awful lot of driving, and I'm having trouble thinking of replacements to crackers and chips.... > > Thanks! > > Ellen > day 2 of SCD for 8 y/o dd who has Crohn's > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 29, 2006 Report Share Posted May 29, 2006 www.digestivewellness.com and jgourmet have snacks and biscotti... yummy. Agape, ZagorskyGoldberg wrote: Anyone have any good ideas for kid-friendly snacks for in the car? We do an awful lot of driving, and I'm having trouble thinking of replacements to crackers and chips.... Thanks! Ellen day 2 of SCD for 8 y/o dd who has Crohn's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 30, 2006 Report Share Posted May 30, 2006 > > Anyone have any good ideas for kid-friendly snacks for in the car? We do an awful lot of driving, and I'm having trouble thinking of replacements to crackers and chips.... > Ellen Fruit leather is a cinch to make Using nuts? Make some honey and nut bars. My favorite snack is Prosciutto rolled up in a cheese slice or Pizza crackers: Add spices and a little tomato juice to small squares of Swiss cheese and bake on parchment paper until lightly browned and cool. Carol F. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 30, 2006 Report Share Posted May 30, 2006 " Anyone have any good ideas for kid-friendly snacks for in the car? We do an awful lot of driving, and I'm having trouble thinking of replacements to crackers and chips... " I am sure that my idea will not be well-liked, but here it is anyway. No snacks in the car. I know that many kids are allowed to graze constantly, but I do not promote this. I think it is better to serve 5/6 meals snacks per day for younger kids and 4 meals/snacks per day for the older kids. Most schools do not allow grazing and most jobs do not allow people to eat whenever they feel like it. I think eating is best done as a family at a table in a home (or possibly park/restaurant). I am not in favor of allowing children to eat " kid food " whenever and wherever they want. So, I would feed young children breakfast, a mid-morning snack, lunch, mid-afternoon snack, dinner and possibly a bedtime snack. If the car ride is during one of the scheduled times, then I would either feed the snack before leaving or upon arriving at the destination. I think that family meals provide an important social interaction that is missing in many lives these days. I think that food is a source of nourishment, not a form of entertainment. Meal time provides an excellent time to engage children in conversation and to learn appropriate manners. Sorry if this has offfended anyone. Jody mom to -7 and -9 SCD 1/03 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 30, 2006 Report Share Posted May 30, 2006 > " Anyone have any good ideas for kid-friendly snacks for in the car? > We do an awful lot of driving, and I'm having trouble thinking of > replacements to crackers and chips... " > > > I am sure that my idea will not be well-liked, but here it is anyway. > > No snacks in the car. Perhaps this parent will us the portable snacks that could be eaten at a rest stop for a car trip. > Â > Â Carol F. Toronto, celiac, SCD 6 years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 30, 2006 Report Share Posted May 30, 2006 Snacks that Joe likes that I pack in his lunchbox for snacktime at school: PB Brownie bites (sparingly) - recipe in BTVC PB Squash muffins (mini muffins) -recipe online substituting squash for bananas. watermelon - cubed pineapple (fresh) - cubed cantalope -cubed pears - sliced and peeled (cooked at first, honey and ghee sauteed tastes delicious if the little one uses a fork well) apples - same as above, but sparingly for yeast. grapes and raisins, very sparingly until well tolerated .... the options are endless . - Gotta run ... hope this helps a little bit... - Carol / Froggypeach > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 30, 2006 Report Share Posted May 30, 2006 If my child were not on SCD, I would not allow them to eat in the car, on SCD they are not allowed to eat in the car (with exception of a long road tripping vacation). One reason, the mess, another reason, when out in public darting to and fro, I seriously question what the hands have touched. I also think some schedule of meal consumption is a good idea for the digestive system. What I do take with me, if I think I am going to be gone for a long time in the car, I pack my backpack cooler with our foods and snacks and water, and that way we are prepared if we need to pull over and eat in the park, even in an establishment. For this, I would pack what we would normally eat, sometimes a whole avocado, pieces of baked meat like pork, chicken, beef, lamb or recent addition of buffalo, maybe a hard boiled egg or a home-made chicken salad like Jody H's chicken and avocado salad, some water, maybe some bone marrow broth, some steamed then chilled veggies, a little applesauce for supplements, etc. In my little backpack cooler, foods stay cold for over a day, so we are set. Summer Summer's Family, SCD 08/04 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/openblooms/ --------------------------------- Sneak preview the all-new Yahoo.com. It's not radically different. Just radically better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 30, 2006 Report Share Posted May 30, 2006 It has been brought to my attention that I did not actually answer the question about travelling snacks. I apologize for my soap-box rant about kids not eating proper meals. Anyway, for snacks to take when travelling, consider getting a nice, small, well-insulated cooler and some refreezable ice packs. Also, buy some nice stainless steel Thermos brand thermoses. You can pack the foods that need refrigerated in the cooler with the ice packs or in the Thermoses and you can pack the foods that need to be kept hot in the Thermoses. Target had some really nice backpack/coolers. The top part was not insulated and could hold plates, non-refrigerated items and the Thermoses. The bottom section was a well-insulated cooler where refrigerated foods could be packed. They were around $15, I think. Jody mom to -7 and -9 SCD 1/03 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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