Emergency trip = eating on the road = total crap for 3 days. Yes, I know salads are available but I needed fast. I did get in some fruit but the rest of it was ick. I'm paying for it too.

Planning is just needed. Your bag, baby's bag. (Mommies first, remember?)

We have some good tricks. Subway has the oat bread and of course you can customize. The BEST McD diabetic meal-- it happens!-- has been the 4-pct Chicken McNuggets Happy Meal (no sauce), with Apple Dippers (no sauce) and unsweet iced tea. Purists crack off the breading. For lo-sugar moments, we split the oatmeal cookies. Sweet, but 1/2-cookie is about right (and we put the rest away where we cannot see them). (McD does not care how old the Happy Meal consumer may be, and you get a car toy!)

When I travel, I stop to stretch the legs and grab fresh fruit to go with the non-refrig-type tofu on board. It keeps about 6 hours after you open it and can be sprinkled with ramen noodle packets. I also carry Chicken a la King (it's in a poptop) and eat it as a dip, with rice cakes-- it has fat and protein but little/no carb. No cookem's.

Hardi's preferred staple is a thick PB san on oat, cut and squished and buried in a backpack-- ziploc w/ 4 dry, bar-shaped mouthfuls.

~S~