What to eat on the road?

Danye

Hi all,

I'm working a lot on building sites and if I'm not on site I'm in the jeep travelling to another site and my diet is taking a battering!

Before when I was more office based I could bring in the previous nights dinner and generally eat well. Now I don't have that luxury.

I'm sure I'm not the only one with this issue, so I'm looking for tips and it advice on what I could do, or healthy on the road alternatives other than the chicken fillet roll and bottle of Coke ( which I've had today)

Thanks.

Luckysasha

If I'm on the road then usually it's a tin of John West tuna with chilli and garlic or another flavour from that range. I usually stock up in Lidl on Monday with fruit for the week. Punnets of grapes and strawberries are a good filler. If I stop at the deli I will opt for a brown bread sandwich no butter with turkey lettuce tomato and onion. Try to bulk anything up anything you get from the deli with veg and you should be ok. I find the winter time really hard to stick to a plan as all you want is something warm at lunchtime.

ford2600

Food typically available on the road is very poor.

If you struggle with weight and good food choices subcontracting out food preparation (unless you want to pay a lot) is not a great idea.

I think you have two main choices (which you can combine);
1. Buy a small mobile fridge and prepare your own food.

2. Intermittent fasting and break it with a quality home prepared meal/decent cafe food.

I'm on road 3 days this week and will be fasted until probably 5 today (up since 6).

I'm not physically active as you in job, but I'll be fasted until about 3pm on Saturday with morning spent wrestling with a 560xp and ditto Sunday with 5hrs on bike.

If you decide to try fasted eating a proper meal (think 4 eggs omelette with bacon) is key followed by another proper one when hungry again.

Alf Veedersane

Danye wrote: »

Hi all,

I'm working a lot on building sites and if I'm not on site I'm in the jeep travelling to another site and my diet is taking a battering!

Before when I was more office based I could bring in the previous nights dinner and generally eat well. Now I don't have that luxury.

I'm sure I'm not the only one with this issue, so I'm looking for tips and it advice on what I could do, or healthy on the road alternatives other than the chicken fillet roll and bottle of Coke ( which I've had today)

Thanks.

Is it just for lunches or breakfast and/or dinner too?

For lunches I just used to have stuff like chicken or tuna salads. Bowl of salad from aldi/lidl. couple of chicken fillets or tin of tuna...maybe some hard boiled eggs.

When I was especially lazy, it might just be a few chicken fillets or pork chops eaten from the hand like a savage. Fruit as well.

Pat Mustard

Luckysasha wrote: »

If I'm on the road then usually it's a tin of John West tuna with chilli and garlic or another flavour from that range.

Also, there is this variation from John West:

Nutritional Info (Per 100G)
Energy kJ 418
Energy kCal 99
Protein(g) 7.5
Carbohydrate(g) 9.8
Sugars(g) 2.3
Fibre(g) 2.5
Fat(g) 2.8
of which saturates(g) 0.7
Polyunsaturates(g) -
Omega 3(g) -
Sodium(g) 0.3

Danye

Sorry I can't multi quote on the phone.

It's just for my two lunch breaks. I was bringing salads or whatever was left over from the previous nights dinner but the heat in the jeep is crazy the last few weeks and the food is luke warm which has left me going to garages / shops and getting a sandwich. Easier and more convenient, even though I know it's terrible for me.

Are there any decent bread alternatives out there that I could use to make my own sandwiches that I could bring with me? My job is physically demanding so I was thinking I would burn any excess calories off working?

Macy0161

Even cheap cooler bags and freezer blocks will keep things cool for a long time - certainly until lunch time anyway. I think I got the bags and freezer blocks in heatons. I've also got one of those foodkeepers/ food pods (I think also in Heatons) which claims to keep things cold for 6 plus I think, and hot for 4 hours. Never tested it to it's outer limits to be honest.

Personally I make my own salads with salad bags, and roasted chicken breasts, with something like sweet chilli on top. As a fall back/ lazy option I use the salad bags and the sliced turkey or chicken slices (not the deli style ones, the ones that look like meat). The latter is probably an expensive way of doing it, but still cheaper than an actual deli.

Calorie wise, there isn't a whole lot between a wrap, 2 slices of a white pan, 2 slices of wholegrain etc. Wholegrain does have other advantages obviously though, and will be more filling.

You could probably just swap the Chicken Fillet for something like turkey and/or ham and cheese and salad on brown bread though!