You can’t take it with you! Or can you? Road Trip Preparedness
Planning a road trip? Can you hear the grumbling of stomachs and kids yet? One way to help combat those grumbles: prepare snacks at home to save money and time while driving (also saves shotgun passenger from having to pass back the food). Instead of taking the time while on the road to stop somewhere to buy food, spending money to buy it, then trying to divvy it up while in the car, plan ahead. Before leaving, make snack bags for each person in the car. Each person is then responsible to budget their snacks during the drive to that far off destination.
Things to remember when preparing snack bags: 1. prepare food so it is ready to pop into the mouth: wash, (peel) & slice fruits and veggies; open bags/packages that may be hard for younger kids to open by themselves; etc. 2. Only give food that you would want to possibly clean up when the trip is over. 3. Give instructions/ideas to passengers on how to budget their food during the trip.
Foods that work well for road trips: apple slices, orange/clementine slices, grape tomatoes, grapes, carrot sticks, celery sticks, trail mix, crackers, chocolate candy, nuts, marshmallows, dried fruits, slices of bread, for older kids/passengers: popcorn, granola bars
Now all you have to worry about is remembering the toothbrushes, right?
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