(p.s. I’ve got a TON of GLUTEN-FREE TRAVEL TIPS in my NEW Cookbook Eating Clean: The 21-Day Plan to Detox, Fight Inflammation, and Reset Your Body)
Looking for an easy way to travel when you are gluten-free? I hear ya. There is gluten everywhere from the airport to the rest stop and it’s important to know what to have on hand just in case your tummy starts rumbling and you are in need of healthy food – because we surely don’t want to rely on any vending machines. You can find numerous products on Vitacost.com which I love and order from at least once a month – I stock up on foods that are easy to travel with such as nuts, seeds, gluten-free nut bars and vitamins!
If you are staying in a hotel, be sure to request an empty fridge in your room as well as a list of local food stores. I always ask for the nearest Whole Foods Market or health food store so that I can purchase organic vegetables and snacks for my room. I’m known for traveling with numerous bags of food on airplanes and on road trips! It’s hysterical and I’m like a little kid when I travel because I have enough food to last me a week – but hey, I’d rather have more than not enough… just in case my flight is delayed or I can’t get to a food store right away when my plane lands.
Here are a few of my gluten-free snacks that I packed on a recent trip that you can use when you’re traveling on a gluten-free diet.
The below recipe ideas are more easy travel snacks that you can make right in your home and bring with you when traveling.
- Blood Orange Kale Chips with Caramelized Grape Onions
- Zucchini chips
- Apple chips
- Garlic Sweet Potato Chips
- Banana chips
- Chili Kale Chips
- Coconut Cinnamon Popcorn
- Dark Chocolate Covered Almonds
- Gluten-Free Orange Cranberry Oatmeal Muffins
- Bob’s Red Mill gluten-free muesli
- Cinnamon Spiced Nuts
- Individual serving size of almond milk
- 4 Healthy Gluten-Free Snacks
- Gluten-Free No Bake Almond Oaty Bars
- Salad in a jar (Chop salad ingredients and toss into a jar or container)
- Balsamic Bean Spread
- Homemade Golden Muesli
- Raw, organic nuts & seeds (pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, almonds, cashews, brazil nuts)
- 4 Easy Traveling Snack Ideas
- Sesame Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
- Nut butter
- Sunflower seed butter
- Grain-Free Flax Granola
- Fresh organic fruit (apples, oranges, bananas, pears, grapes)
- Zucchini and Avocado Hummus
- Fresh organic vegetables from Earthbound Farms (celery, carrots, zucchini, cherry tomatoes)
- Ripe avocados
- Zucchini Fries
- “Clean & healthy” raw energy bars (Vega, Larabar, ALT, Raw Rev, GoMacro, Pure Organic, Organic Food Bar)
- Sweet Roasted Chickpeas
- Homemade Gluten-Free Granola Bars
- Sabra Hhummus
- Quinoa Bites
- Mini Egg Bites
- 4 Healthy Snack Ideas
- Guacamole with gluten-free crackers
- Honey Cilantro Soaked Quinoa
- Wild or brown rice
- Wild or brown rice cakes such as Lundberg Farms
- Homemade Salsa
- Artichoke Cashew Spread
- Organic Turkey and Hummus Wrapped Pears
- Organic dried fruit
- Apple n’ Parsnip Crunchy Fries
- Air-popped popcorn
- Lemon Coconut Eggplant Fries
- Sweet potato fries
- Dry gluten-free oatmeal
- Wasabi peas
- Creamy Pistachio Millet
- Annie Chun’s Seaweed Snacks
- Spiced roasted nuts
- Roasted Balsamic Lime n’ Avocado Pumpkin Seeds
- Ground hemp seeds & chia seeds
- Fiesta Pasta Salad
- Whole grain gluten-free tortillas rolled up with nut butter
- Baked homemade tortilla chips
- Nut n’ Seed Bars with Almond Butter Sauce
- Chili n’ Lime Roasted Peanuts
- Almond Quinoa Sundae
- Gluten-free toast with mashed avocado
- Chocolate Chip Chili Cookies
- Gluten-free toast with nut butter, cinnamon & banana slices
- Herbal tea bags
- Baked Balsamic Eggplant Fries
- Fresh organic lemon (for tea)
- Vega protein powder (GF, DF, vegan, soy-free)
It is essential to work with a nutritionist and an Integrative M.D. because I am sharing general information that is not intended to be medical advice. This information is only given for informational purposes.
My mom and I are cooking our way through the 2 week plan in the book, and then I bought the three month inflammation plan for after. I’ve been GF for many years now and I was already eating pretty clean…but not necessarily healthy. I’m excited that this plan is helping me expand my go to recipes and get away from the packaged GF snacks and “healthy” microwave meals I was eating. I’m trying to teach my friends that just because Whole Foods sells something, it doesn’t make it automatically healthy.
Thank you so much Sarah! Lovely to hear from you and thank you for your kind words. This made me smile. Happy New Year! xx
I’m so excited to start cooking your recipes. Loving your book 🙂
Thank you Hilary! That makes me so happy. Hope you are loving them! And so glad you’re enjoying my book!