Healthy Travelling Snacks

Looking for healthy, fitness-friendly snacks to eat during road trips or plane rides? Here are a few good travel-food suggestions from WeightWatchers...

(WeightWatchers.com) - Whether you're traveling alone, with your significant other, or the kids, these snack ideas are designed for easy access, and most importantly, to steer you away from the fast food stops along the road. We suggest you bring along a small cooler to keep your healthy snacks fresher for longer.

- Grape tomatoes – Actually a fruit, these miniature tomatoes, when ripe, make a delicious snack. This is a no-mess, grab-and-go snack, and one you can reach your hand in the bag for over and over.

- Quaker® Crispy Minis: These delicious snacks come in a variety of flavours and can satisfy even the most stubborn sweet or salty craving.

- Summer berries are in abundance! Throw together blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, or any mix of berries in a plastic container. This snack can get messy, so unless you've got a bunch of napkins tucked away in your glove compartment, leave this one for the rest stop.

- Popcorn sprinkled with low-fat Parmesan cheese or hot chili peppers.

- Open the lid of your yogurt and toss in some crushed cereal or granola for a little extra crunch. This will give you a solid dose of calcium, and although a little more challenging to eat in the car, you can make it work by placing the yogurt in your cup holder.

- Cheese and crackers: Decorate some whole wheat crackers with your favorite low-fat cheese, and portion them out in plastic bags for easy access. You can use string cheese and snack on it by itself too!

- Core an apple and cut it into pieces. Throw it in a plastic container. Bring along a jar of reduced fat peanut butter, and a plastic knife. If you're not driving, smoothe peanut butter onto the apple pieces and enjoy! This is one for the whole family.

- Mini Pita Snackwiches. Hummus is full of protein and can help keep your hunger at bay until you reach your destination. Put some between mini-pitas. These mini hummus sandwiches make the perfect portable snack that the kids will love too!

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