HOME Travel Guide Common Sense Travel
decorative font style
    Travel >> Holiday Travel >  >> Travel Notes

9 Wholesome Real Food Snacks for Road Trips and Travel

9 Wholesome Real Food Snacks for Road Trips and Travel

Do any of these scenarios sound familiar?
1) Dashing through the airport, looking for breakfast but ending up with airplane pretzels.
2) Driving on an unfamiliar highway debating the merits of lunch at Cinnabon or Roy Rogers.
3) Eating a somewhat unidentifiable meal in a foreign country and going to bed hungry. 

We've been there! Out of our element and in need of a healthy, wholesome snack to power us through the day. Which is why we're constantly searching for new foods to stash in our back pockets.

This week, Team Fathom sampled snacks from new "real food" brands and picked our favorites. These are the Fathom-approved bars, mushroom tonics, and roasted bean snacks we'll be toting in our carry-ons.


Travel Notes
  • Melissa Clark s Essential Airplane Snacks: Food for Every Journey

    Melissa Clark, best-selling New York Times food columnist and author of the new cookbook Dinner: Changing the Game has probably never had a bad meal. And that includes when shes 3,000 in the air. Heres what she packs for the journey. Closer to earth, you can eat like Melissa and cook her Dinner recipe for Turkish lamb chops.I have my strategies when it comes to eating on planes, and they change depending how long the flight is and who Im tr

  • Craft the Ultimate Road Trip Mixtape: Expert Tips & Personal Stories

    My grandfather showed me how to play Harry Belafonte on his Electrohome record player at age three (it was a suped-up console and it was beautiful); my brother tricked me into listening to Dolly Parton (all ten albums he owned at the time) with him at age ten; and Ive been crafting mix CDs for boyfriends and precious friends since I was a teen.Im also into rituals. My friend Steph and I make an annual trip (a friendship honeymoon of sorts)

  • Love Notes: FATHOM s Ultimate Road Trip Mixtape on Romance and Heartache

    Is there a greater symbol of modern love than a carefully crafted mixtape? With each track noting the beautiful imperfections and, at times, impossible pursuits of romance? The latest FATHOM mix, Love Notes, reads like an indulgent old country tune, shuffling together themes of love, loss, redemption, and sweet action — as fitting for Valentines Day with a new paramour as a road trip with an old flame.