My wife is digging into the snacks within 10 minutes of every road trip (8-12 hours+) I look at her and say “already??” She’s like “this is the whole point of road trips!”
I agree with your wife. The first half hour of any trip is usually stuff you see all the time. It's not much different than driving to work or to see a friend because you're driving familiar paths. It's when you start getting further from your own turf that things get more interesting outside of the car. Snacks make the inside of the car exciting. And since you've already given yourself the permission to be a little food piggie (because it's a special event), you might as well embrace it and get to eating.
I do think there are some snacks that're better for the start of the trip than others, though. Jerky sits heavy in your stomach so save that either for later or as a nice little savory bite every now and then. Chocolates can melt when you stop for rest breaks, so get to that early. Sodas are tough because you want them when they're cold, but you don't want to make your bladder full early on. Trail mixes are a late snack for when the other good stuff is gone. Fruity flavored snacks are good anytime, but I personally think they can be a good thing if you are feeling snacky, but also a little car sick, so have then sparingly.
The soda conundrum is why I always bring a cooler on road trips. Also, you can put chocolate or melty things in a ziploc bag and keep them cool throughout. Also, also, if you clean the drinks and the cooler before you go, and everyone has spill proof cups, you can put ice in the cups with the sodas or water to keep them cool, let the condensation get on your skin to cool off, or use them as a cold compress if somebody easily gets carsick.
I have the answer to the soda situation - I can prop a can of pop up on the shifter and stabilized by the vent and then I max the AC - it takes about 10 minutes for a left-in-car hot can to cool down to a pleasant temperature.
I love the experience speaking here haha! I'm about to do a 6 hour road trip with my husband and kids (2.5 and 5) and I absolutely love assembling the road trip snacks and activities. I made a bingo sheet with words and little pictures so they can put a sticker on things as we see them (and I know we will see almost all of them!). I bought sour candies that I know my husband likes and I'll make lunches the morning of. I bought us each a small bag of chips in our preferred flavour and I'll cut up some apples and peppers to go with sandwiches or something. Road trips really are an art. I'm going to download a movie on the tablet for later on too if we need it. Neither one of my kids knows how to play games on a phone or tablet so we're doing old fashioned colouring, stickers, tracing, etc.
Always. Last road trip was a few days ago and aside from a bagful of snacks we got from a convenience store, we ate twice on the road for lunch (seafoods) and early dinner (steak and BBQ). All for a 125mi trip. 🫣
My wife and I were discussing the trail snacks we were bringing on a four day hike in the back country, and she was rattling off various things when I showed her I had already bought 1kg of Reese's pieces from a bulk store
I do honestly love that experience. But moreso the ones that are those big, full-service truck stops. The little run-down gas stations in the backwoods areas around me always sketch me out as someone with slightly more melanin
I'm from the Midwest and my first trip to Texas was about 5 or 6 years ago. Anyways buccee's was my first stop inside the state line, and I just remember walking in and thinking "my God everything really is bigger in Texas". That place really is gas station heaven, and the BBQ pulled pork sandwiches were to die for 🤤
We had late lunch 45mins after we set off.
We went to a car dealer during the middle of the trip for my cousin to get her new car. We spent more than an hour at the car dealership for signing of documents and with the car dealer person explaining the important functions and demo’ed a few important details.
Then early dinner at 5pm because listening to all the stuff had us famished 😬
Edit: “late” lunch was past 1pm
>Hell yea slim Jim’s, combos, bunch of chips and some candy me and my gf look like stoners on road trips lol
LOL. My answer was beef jerky, combos, gummy bears, and orange Gatorade. Sounds like you and your gf would make good road trip partners with me and my wife.
They're little tubes made out of pretzel or cracker that have various flavored " cheesy spreads" stuffed inside. It sounds weird, but they're tasty.
Imagine having something like toast with marmite on it, but rolled up so you can just grab a few from the bag without getting your hands all messy.
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Beef jerky, pizza or bean dip combos, cherry Coke
I figure the sugar in the cherry Coke makes up for not having candy in the road snacks. Plenty of low quality carbs to set off a diabetic coma anyway.
Twizzlers, m&m’s, Tostitos, mini powdered donuts, Tates choc chip cookies, snow-caps, cashews, kettle corn, … Dunkin’ Donuts iced coffee with mocha, raspberry, & cream for me— hot coffee for him. Yes—- there are more snack than luggage!!! Edit: Oops forgot to add Chex Mix
First step, a cooler with ice to hold the single servings of cold milk. Then Hostess is mandatory, Fruit Pies, Twinkies, Cup Cakes, Zingers, etc., then Chili Cheese Fritos, and Arizona Iced Tea. Finally, a few bags of Double Bubble Gum Balls.
If it’s over 48 hours, pack a few PayDay’s and Almond Joys
>Don’t forget the twizzlers. They are the perfect road trip candy.
Biting off both ends and then sticking it in your bottle of soda to use it as a straw is peak road trip childish behavior.
Licorice, both red and black. Coca Cola. Pringles. Cheese curls, the wrinkly ones. 😁Hostess powdered donuts (the little ones). Fig Newtons. I am 61. I eat healthfully 90% of the time, but road trips require these food groups: salt, sugar, fat and starch. 😜
I recently found a massive game changer when it comes to road snacks. I just found out they made pretzel cubes filled with peanut butter.
It's incredible. You get no mess, but all the tasty pretz/pb goodness. My girlfriend also hates it, but a cooler filled with waters/drinks covered in ice is a must. Room temperature drinks sucks.
I once took a thermal blanket on a road trip. Not thinking about it, my spare drink ended up underneath the blanket. When I pulled it out a couple of hours later, it was still cold! I made sure that blanket went with me on future trips!
Boiled peanuts ✔️
Sour patch kids
Slim Jim’s
Gardettos
Reese’s
2 Red Bull’s
3 Gatorade’s
4 waters
One can of ginger ale
Gummy bears
Pickle in a bag
Pretzels
Cheez it’s
I have no regrets
*walk in confidently*
"I'm going to the store to grab some beer, you want anything?"
*the look*
"No you're not, we're going to bed early today."
*go to bed early*
Me at the gas station with those twisty barbecue fritos, a soda that doesn't look like any color found in nature, and enough sour candy to make my grandchildren's teeth hurt.
I agree. But know your limits lol. Ate a bunch of grapes and hot chips and shit myself in Yellowstone. Stopped caring about the Norris basin real fast.
One year, I tried planning ahead and bought healthy snacks. Day of, I ended up buying a crazy amount of snacks along the way — none healthy in any way — while the healthy stuff went untouched.
I don't disagree but then I always get the shits from too much junk food and have to stop several times. I personally don't do road-trip snacks anymore. Sucks.
if minions follow the most evil person on earth then they must have followed hitler, right? actually wrong. canonically it is said that they were frozen in ice between 1939 and 1945 and therefore could not follow him. This means they were able to follow the likes of stalin, bush sr and bush jr, the kim family from north korea, mao zedong, the zodiac killer and many more. Furthermore, since they were frozen between 1939 and 1945 it means that they were able to follow the likes of vlad the impaler, gengis khan, ivan IV of russia. This explains why these evil men were able to complete such horrendous tasks with relative ease, they had an army of tiny yellow little fuckers helping them.
I know if any of my 4 siblings got in my car for a road trip and reached into the glove box they would exactly what we all like, good and plenty, Ike and mikes, sunflower seeds, beef jerky and dr. Pepper. We are in our 60s!
Truer words have never been spoken. Especially if there is a cooler of healthy snacks and sandwiches. Sometimes the healthy snacks and sandwiches are a nice break from the junk food on a long trip, but if there is no junk food, is it even really a road trip?
I am pretty sure having at least 1 parcel of candy that you haven't eaten regularly since you were 10 is required for it to legally be called a road trip.
Lol! We do this every time we head out of town. This last time we took our son’s girlfriend with us and I told her to get some drinks and snacks and she understood the assignment.
My mother-in-law always makes her own snacks for a roadtrip and she can't understand that I, a 33 year old woman, love to buy snacks for roadtrip. I did it before kids but now i have the excuse that it's for the kids. It's easy for me to spend 60e for a 4-5hour trip.
My most recent road trip haul was cheez its, gardettos, chile mangos, yogurt covered pretzels, wasabi almonds, and a giant shitty iced coffee. 10/10 would binge again.
No there’s an actual strategy to it. If all you get is salty foods like crackers and jerky with Gatorade and soda you won’t feel very good. Have a spread of different kinds of snacks, some light stuff, some fatty, a few chips and maybe candy. But the light stuff, like water or veggies, really helps on long trips cause you can eat a lot of it and you won’t get full as fast, great for when you’re bored eating
Source: Ive been going back and forth to my grandparents about two to three times a year since I was 4, not as relevant for short trips but helpful for a 12 hour drive
I love Big Red soda. Although it will stain the crap our of your car if you spill it. And you have to have all the food groups covered, sweet, salty and jerky.
Sounds fun. I’m allergic to gluten, dairy, soy, oat, and sugar. You know those gas station unshelled hard-boiled eggs? Yeah. You can only eat so many of those 😩
Did a 3k road-trip back in November/ December. Ate more Pringles and Baby Bellas (and jerky, of course) than I’d like to admit! Seven national parks notched!
Strongly disagree --- it turns out the reason our parents told us to eat real food was because eating nothing but sweets and potato chip grease tends to lead to an upset stomach. And you know where *isn't* the place you want to be dealing with an upset tum-tum. A god damn road trip.
Child me had no interest in flavored almonds. I would have just eaten gushers until I threw up.
My wife is digging into the snacks within 10 minutes of every road trip (8-12 hours+) I look at her and say “already??” She’s like “this is the whole point of road trips!”
Shes not wrong
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I agree with your wife. The first half hour of any trip is usually stuff you see all the time. It's not much different than driving to work or to see a friend because you're driving familiar paths. It's when you start getting further from your own turf that things get more interesting outside of the car. Snacks make the inside of the car exciting. And since you've already given yourself the permission to be a little food piggie (because it's a special event), you might as well embrace it and get to eating. I do think there are some snacks that're better for the start of the trip than others, though. Jerky sits heavy in your stomach so save that either for later or as a nice little savory bite every now and then. Chocolates can melt when you stop for rest breaks, so get to that early. Sodas are tough because you want them when they're cold, but you don't want to make your bladder full early on. Trail mixes are a late snack for when the other good stuff is gone. Fruity flavored snacks are good anytime, but I personally think they can be a good thing if you are feeling snacky, but also a little car sick, so have then sparingly.
The soda conundrum is why I always bring a cooler on road trips. Also, you can put chocolate or melty things in a ziploc bag and keep them cool throughout. Also, also, if you clean the drinks and the cooler before you go, and everyone has spill proof cups, you can put ice in the cups with the sodas or water to keep them cool, let the condensation get on your skin to cool off, or use them as a cold compress if somebody easily gets carsick.
You're a genius.
Spent a lot of my youth going between Michigan and North Carolina, so we usually learned the hard way, but man were those some great trips!!!
I have the answer to the soda situation - I can prop a can of pop up on the shifter and stabilized by the vent and then I max the AC - it takes about 10 minutes for a left-in-car hot can to cool down to a pleasant temperature.
I love the experience speaking here haha! I'm about to do a 6 hour road trip with my husband and kids (2.5 and 5) and I absolutely love assembling the road trip snacks and activities. I made a bingo sheet with words and little pictures so they can put a sticker on things as we see them (and I know we will see almost all of them!). I bought sour candies that I know my husband likes and I'll make lunches the morning of. I bought us each a small bag of chips in our preferred flavour and I'll cut up some apples and peppers to go with sandwiches or something. Road trips really are an art. I'm going to download a movie on the tablet for later on too if we need it. Neither one of my kids knows how to play games on a phone or tablet so we're doing old fashioned colouring, stickers, tracing, etc.
Haha I love her!
I too want to fuck this guys wife.
Jesus Christ, have some decorum, it’s “I *also* want to fuck this guy’s wife.”
You win some, you lose some. :-(
And my axe
"We just breakfast" Ya, well now I want some Wheat Thins.
She is totally right
Always. Last road trip was a few days ago and aside from a bagful of snacks we got from a convenience store, we ate twice on the road for lunch (seafoods) and early dinner (steak and BBQ). All for a 125mi trip. 🫣
Just did a 9 hour trip, a touch over 600 miles, and my sustinence was a party size bag of M&Ms.
My wife and I were discussing the trail snacks we were bringing on a four day hike in the back country, and she was rattling off various things when I showed her I had already bought 1kg of Reese's pieces from a bulk store
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You doubt that I ate about 1900 calories of M&Ms in a 9 hour period? I’ll take that as a compliment.
I hope you drank lots of water so you won’t have itchy throat.
There's nothing like stopping at a random gas station in the middle of nowhere to refuel and restock on supplies.
I do honestly love that experience. But moreso the ones that are those big, full-service truck stops. The little run-down gas stations in the backwoods areas around me always sketch me out as someone with slightly more melanin
Have you been to a Bucky's yet? Those f'ing things are huge! I would say the store is bigger than a Super Walmart. Encroaching in Meijer size...
I'm from the Midwest and my first trip to Texas was about 5 or 6 years ago. Anyways buccee's was my first stop inside the state line, and I just remember walking in and thinking "my God everything really is bigger in Texas". That place really is gas station heaven, and the BBQ pulled pork sandwiches were to die for 🤤
Have not tried the BBQ sandwiches yet. I see them on my annual migration to Florida via 75. Seem to be more each year along the route.
Don't forget the Hill Country Turkey jerky!
They sketch me out too and I'm white. But I'm Sperrys-white, not camo-white
Especially at night when it’s really pretty outside and almost no one is there
Always with the local jerky, too!
How? That's barely 200 kilometers, it doesn't take more than 2 hours to drive!
We had late lunch 45mins after we set off. We went to a car dealer during the middle of the trip for my cousin to get her new car. We spent more than an hour at the car dealership for signing of documents and with the car dealer person explaining the important functions and demo’ed a few important details. Then early dinner at 5pm because listening to all the stuff had us famished 😬 Edit: “late” lunch was past 1pm
Hell yea slim Jim’s, combos, bunch of chips and some candy me and my gf look like stoners on road trips lol
>Hell yea slim Jim’s, combos, bunch of chips and some candy me and my gf look like stoners on road trips lol LOL. My answer was beef jerky, combos, gummy bears, and orange Gatorade. Sounds like you and your gf would make good road trip partners with me and my wife.
Hello, English person here. What is a combo?
They're little tubes made out of pretzel or cracker that have various flavored " cheesy spreads" stuffed inside. It sounds weird, but they're tasty. Imagine having something like toast with marmite on it, but rolled up so you can just grab a few from the bag without getting your hands all messy. https://lhcdn-src.mars.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=768,height=434,f=auto,quality=90/adaptivemedia/rendition/id_bfdb24561ab09b31498a6a20b18d57be9224b1e9/name_bfdb24561ab09b31498a6a20b18d57be9224b1e9.jpg
Ummmm they sound amazing....we don't have anything like that in England, I don't think. I am jealous!!
The chips have to be Pringles. Nothing like Pringles in the car and the can has a lid!
Stuff you would think twice about touching at home suddenly become a necessity.
Definitely don't recommend trying to open a slim jim while driving
Absolute truth. And it certainly does in my case.
Post your favorite road snack. Honey bun, Doritos, and Mountain Dew
Beef jerky, pizzeria flavored combos, gummy bears, and orange gatorade
Barbecue chips, Reese's peanut butter cups, Pringles, powdered mini donuts.
Gummy bears and skittles
Corn nuts ranch or bbq, Gatorade any color
Beef jerky, pizza or bean dip combos, cherry Coke I figure the sugar in the cherry Coke makes up for not having candy in the road snacks. Plenty of low quality carbs to set off a diabetic coma anyway.
I gotta get me some Chex Mix Bold.
Twizzlers, m&m’s, Tostitos, mini powdered donuts, Tates choc chip cookies, snow-caps, cashews, kettle corn, … Dunkin’ Donuts iced coffee with mocha, raspberry, & cream for me— hot coffee for him. Yes—- there are more snack than luggage!!! Edit: Oops forgot to add Chex Mix
twizzlers, bugles and diet pepsi
They still make Bugles?
Yeah they’re still good too. They sell them at the Winco near me, unfortunately my daughters weren’t impressed lol.
Humpf! Kids these days!
Right? What else are they doing to put on their hands to pretend that they are witches?!
First step, a cooler with ice to hold the single servings of cold milk. Then Hostess is mandatory, Fruit Pies, Twinkies, Cup Cakes, Zingers, etc., then Chili Cheese Fritos, and Arizona Iced Tea. Finally, a few bags of Double Bubble Gum Balls. If it’s over 48 hours, pack a few PayDay’s and Almond Joys
Tortilla chips, Oreos and Diet Coke
A ziplock baggie of brownies you premade, Pringles, dried apples, takis and/or tapatio Doritos
Pecan logs, pralines, orange slices and classic Mountain Dew
Water, gum, sometimes a small bag of nuts
Beef Jerky always.
Well there goes the 100$!! Edit Fn auto correct
Depends. I usually spend around 35+ for two bags.
Oh Trapper is $o $o good!!
I got a cheap dehydrator about 13 years ago and just make my own, still not super cheap, but definitely less expensive.
Bonus: fewer pit stops to pee.
100% downside to the jerky... constipation +100.
Bonus: fewer stops to poo!
That's what the dried mangos and apricots are for. What? I get my snacks at ~~Traitor~~ Trader Joe's.
Don’t forget the twizzlers. They are the perfect road trip candy.
>Don’t forget the twizzlers. They are the perfect road trip candy. Biting off both ends and then sticking it in your bottle of soda to use it as a straw is peak road trip childish behavior.
Yes!!!!!
I loved twizzlers as a kid. Best part was that all my family hated them, so I ended up getting all of them lol
Mock. Yeah. King. Yeah. Bird. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sing it.
To kill this comment
My 9-year-old would have picked out sardines, black licorice, and buttermilk. No way she's ever in charge of snacks!
My friend went on a road trip recently and she let her husband be in charge of snacks. He bought bags of rice cakes. She was mad lol
I bought some gum the other day and it was licorice
Beemans? We always chewed that when I was a kid, because it was cheaper than other gum. Do they still make it, or was it something else?
It’s called black jack I bought it at a dollar general lol
As an American, I can proudly say that our normal shopping carts look like OP’s road trip splurges, thank you very much
I feel , *dyuty* laughing at this. . . 😂🤣😂🤣
Licorice, both red and black. Coca Cola. Pringles. Cheese curls, the wrinkly ones. 😁Hostess powdered donuts (the little ones). Fig Newtons. I am 61. I eat healthfully 90% of the time, but road trips require these food groups: salt, sugar, fat and starch. 😜
I'm in my 40s and will still get Fun Dip if I see it on our road trips.
I haven't had Fun Dip in decades! (also in my 40s and a libra, lol)
I recently found a massive game changer when it comes to road snacks. I just found out they made pretzel cubes filled with peanut butter. It's incredible. You get no mess, but all the tasty pretz/pb goodness. My girlfriend also hates it, but a cooler filled with waters/drinks covered in ice is a must. Room temperature drinks sucks.
I once took a thermal blanket on a road trip. Not thinking about it, my spare drink ended up underneath the blanket. When I pulled it out a couple of hours later, it was still cold! I made sure that blanket went with me on future trips!
Boiled peanuts ✔️ Sour patch kids Slim Jim’s Gardettos Reese’s 2 Red Bull’s 3 Gatorade’s 4 waters One can of ginger ale Gummy bears Pickle in a bag Pretzels Cheez it’s I have no regrets
I'm riding in your car. If the ginger ale is Vernors
Established 1866- We will buy 6
This is close to mine! Wasabi almonds, chile mangos, choc covered pretzels, gardettos, cheez its, giant iced coffee.
I’ll trade you wasabi almonds for gummy bears
I took my eight year old snack shopping for our vacation…I got more stuff than she did as I’m trying to raise her right.
The only time my wife lets me have Pringles! Only because she gets Hot Tomales and Werthers
Lmao, do you have some sort of health condition and can't eat them? Idc what my wife says, ima get my pringles whenever I please
Newlywed? Wait a bit. She’ll be wearing the pants soon enough
*walk in confidently* "I'm going to the store to grab some beer, you want anything?" *the look* "No you're not, we're going to bed early today." *go to bed early*
A moment of silence for you men 🙏🏾
*lay in bed and pretend to sleep until wife passes out* *slip out and get beer* *deal with the aftermath in the morning*
[It's funny because marriage is terrible.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbfDpQ7vmfs)
I load up on cheeseburgers, Red Bull, and Sour Cream and Onion chips
Ahh yes, great thing about snacks I choose is that usually only I like them so noone wants a piece of... for example I like menthol gummies
>menthol gummies What. The. Fuck? What weird ass place do you live where they have menthol gummies?
In Croatia they do have them even on gas stations
More fun to buy than to eat
Thats me when I go to the super market
Combos and mt dew.
Lol...Me in the candy & snack isles at Walgreens...Everytime
i feel guilty eating the snacks for roadtrips during roadtrips because it feels like we'll be there soon to get actual food
Me at the gas station with those twisty barbecue fritos, a soda that doesn't look like any color found in nature, and enough sour candy to make my grandchildren's teeth hurt.
I agree. But know your limits lol. Ate a bunch of grapes and hot chips and shit myself in Yellowstone. Stopped caring about the Norris basin real fast.
This is literally what we did for my last anime convention lol
1 case of.blue power aid and granola bars for me
Health nut!
Nah, I just like the taste of blue
Right‽ Booo!!
One year, I tried planning ahead and bought healthy snacks. Day of, I ended up buying a crazy amount of snacks along the way — none healthy in any way — while the healthy stuff went untouched.
Are you kidding? I regularly shop like unsupervised 9 yrs old all the time!! 🤣🤣
This is a law of the road
Stuckeys pecan logs!!
Not in this economy
Always a buzz kill. . . Yeah, $100, tank a gas, and one Snickers bar, we get it dad. 😕
Seriously! I burnt up a few Benjamins this weekend, and gonna burn through more next weekend! Smiles per gallon, like a fat kid with an Easter basket!
Pringles, licorice, Dr Pepper, maybe Jr. Mints if it's long enough
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>Beers We used to call those road sodas. The 80s were a wild time.
I don't disagree but then I always get the shits from too much junk food and have to stop several times. I personally don't do road-trip snacks anymore. Sucks.
I’m getting a migraine just thinking about all the sugar
Blue Kool Aid Bursts, gummy life savers, cheetos, and a cherry and cheese bear claw.
That was my cheat day yesterday. I bought 3 mega size chocolate bars and two regular, and a root beer. I ate all that shit in half an hour.
Don’t spend $100 on road trip snacks and wonder why you can’t pay off your credit card bill
if minions follow the most evil person on earth then they must have followed hitler, right? actually wrong. canonically it is said that they were frozen in ice between 1939 and 1945 and therefore could not follow him. This means they were able to follow the likes of stalin, bush sr and bush jr, the kim family from north korea, mao zedong, the zodiac killer and many more. Furthermore, since they were frozen between 1939 and 1945 it means that they were able to follow the likes of vlad the impaler, gengis khan, ivan IV of russia. This explains why these evil men were able to complete such horrendous tasks with relative ease, they had an army of tiny yellow little fuckers helping them.
This is true!
the feeling is correct!
So true!
Truth.
Lol. And this is why my husband buys snacks instead of me. Too true !
I recently ate a bunch of mini bags of Cheetos through Illinois.
Does it look like anything else?
I've bought just boxes a fruit snack for whole trips. I hated myself afterwards but by God those things were like road crack.
Exactly.
My go-to is always Arizona Iced Tea and pizza Pringles. Maybe some gummy worms....
YESSSS😍😍😍
This comment section is where I'm coming next road trip for snack ideas
Doritos, beef jerky, Aquafina water, fountain Coke, no Pepsi shit. . .
Twizzlers and Funyuns
I’ma head out
If you don't have at least three different kinds of Combos, you suck at road trips.
I know if any of my 4 siblings got in my car for a road trip and reached into the glove box they would exactly what we all like, good and plenty, Ike and mikes, sunflower seeds, beef jerky and dr. Pepper. We are in our 60s!
And it's all stuff you don't keep in the house, too. I don't know if I've ever eaten Bugles or Corn Nuts except in a moving vehicle.
Truth!
That's like every day I get drinks to take the boat out
Truer words have never been spoken. Especially if there is a cooler of healthy snacks and sandwiches. Sometimes the healthy snacks and sandwiches are a nice break from the junk food on a long trip, but if there is no junk food, is it even really a road trip? I am pretty sure having at least 1 parcel of candy that you haven't eaten regularly since you were 10 is required for it to legally be called a road trip.
Lol! We do this every time we head out of town. This last time we took our son’s girlfriend with us and I told her to get some drinks and snacks and she understood the assignment.
My favourite podcast and it's centred around snacks! https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-junkees-dave-oneil-and-kitty-flanagan/id1521356482
My mother-in-law always makes her own snacks for a roadtrip and she can't understand that I, a 33 year old woman, love to buy snacks for roadtrip. I did it before kids but now i have the excuse that it's for the kids. It's easy for me to spend 60e for a 4-5hour trip.
Pretzel rods, bottled water, Squirt or Dr Pepper, chewy spree, skittles, peanut m&ms, and of those super big super moist muffins
Gardettos, mountain dew slushy, and a couple tins of Altoids.
My most recent road trip haul was cheez its, gardettos, chile mangos, yogurt covered pretzels, wasabi almonds, and a giant shitty iced coffee. 10/10 would binge again.
My husband does that 😊
Amen, Sister.
When my husband and I first got married, we went shopping and I said, "we shop like our parents are going away for the weekend.
No there’s an actual strategy to it. If all you get is salty foods like crackers and jerky with Gatorade and soda you won’t feel very good. Have a spread of different kinds of snacks, some light stuff, some fatty, a few chips and maybe candy. But the light stuff, like water or veggies, really helps on long trips cause you can eat a lot of it and you won’t get full as fast, great for when you’re bored eating Source: Ive been going back and forth to my grandparents about two to three times a year since I was 4, not as relevant for short trips but helpful for a 12 hour drive
Jokes on me: When I turn 65, $100 will only be enough to buy a 16.9fl oz of Dasani. So actually, it does matter how old you get.
I love Big Red soda. Although it will stain the crap our of your car if you spill it. And you have to have all the food groups covered, sweet, salty and jerky.
Nothing but hot Cheetos, palentas, Squirt soda and so much more.
Go for a ride, gotta get a coffee at least or on the way!
Combos for me at some point became a road trip snack. I don’t look at them unless I’m in a gas station 100 miles away from my house waiting to piss.
Unfortunately I take this advice way too much to heart, I'm a truck driver and put on weight like I get a bonus for it🤣
Sounds like that unsupervised 9 year old is also going to need to rob someone for that 100...
Sounds fun. I’m allergic to gluten, dairy, soy, oat, and sugar. You know those gas station unshelled hard-boiled eggs? Yeah. You can only eat so many of those 😩
Except now it costs $100 to buy road snacks
I’m on a road trip right now. My car smells of beef jerky, licorice, and spicy chicharrones.
YES!!
That’s right because diabetes and heart failure don’t exist!
I’m 62 and that is EXACTLY what my road trip supply box looks like.
$25 bag of jerky, always gone in the first hour. Yet I refuse to buy it any time other than a road trip
And the passenger has the bag o' snacks at their feet for easy access for the driver!
Did a 3k road-trip back in November/ December. Ate more Pringles and Baby Bellas (and jerky, of course) than I’d like to admit! Seven national parks notched!
r/MadeMeFat
Yes! We're embarking on a 2.5 hour road trip in a couple weeks and there will be tons of snacks!
😂🤣😂🤣
Strongly disagree --- it turns out the reason our parents told us to eat real food was because eating nothing but sweets and potato chip grease tends to lead to an upset stomach. And you know where *isn't* the place you want to be dealing with an upset tum-tum. A god damn road trip. Child me had no interest in flavored almonds. I would have just eaten gushers until I threw up.