Thursday, May 31, 2012

Crushable Travel Snacks

In the interest of not eating excessive salt on a transatlantic flight coming up, I've decided to take granola with me to snack on.

Usually I take a plastic Baggie, but those can get torn in the tumbling around of my carryon bag and I'd rather not dig my hands into the food if there is a possibility that I might be sharing my snack with someone else.

I'm drinking juice from a 10 oz hard plastic bottle that seems fairly crush-proof and would make a good shaker for my crumbly snacks, so I'm planning to wash it and repurpose it for food when I finish. I may put a mixture of purchased and amended granola in there.

And then I can just toss the bottle when empty. I think it'll work fine.

Heaven knows I get irritated when a bag of candy tears open to the point that I can't close it without a gaping hole in the side spilling everything out.

Epilogue: This worked great! I mixed M&Ms in with "heart healthy" Planters trail mix and just tossed it into my bag. It was a lot less awkward shaking out a little at a time than dealing with an opened bag. It'll be great to carry my unsalted almonds traveling.

I saw a girl in our travel group who was carrying around sketching pencils in a recycled water bottle. Thumbs up!