You may be asking yourself “How do I eat alkaline while on this 30 hour roadtrip?“.
Simply put, the answer is by planning in advance and taking the time to prepare.
The alkaline diet may just be the best diet I’ve ever eaten, but boy is it challenging to keep with while traveling. My childhood consisted of many 10-15 hour roadtrips that we would start before the sun was up. My parents would always take us to Cracker Barrel or somewhere for breakfast, then we would just have our roadtrip snacks for the day. If you’re eating the alkaline diet, you already know that what I just described was not alkaline in the slightest. This most recent trip was my first on the alkaline diet, and I learned a whole lot from it.
Prior to the start of our roadtrip, we knew that we would need to bring snacks that would be more alkaline than not, so we headed to our local health food store and shopped around. To snack, we brought bananas, apples, almond butter, macadamia nuts, these delicious brown rice snaps, and homemade guacamole. We brought plenty of water, including a big bottle of homemade lime water. You can read more about the benefits of lime water here.
Ten hours of driving later, I arrived in Oregon tired and hungry. We headed to a local health food store, Market of Choice. It may have been the best grocery store I’ve ever been to. Those who have visited Utah know that the healthy grocery store options are pretty limited, which can be hard if you’re traveling to Utah. Having to figure out food in a time crunch, I planned for Cowboy Caviar, a delicious mix of beans, avocados, tomatoes, onion, cilantro, and lime. You can add other ingredients like corn, bell peppers, jalapeño, or any other similar alkaline foods. I think for a sweet mix you could even add mango to it. I know everybody does Cowboy Caviar different, and it’s honestly what you make it. On the go, it’s one of the easiest things to make. All you need is a strainer and a can opener! My hotel ended up not having a can opener, but I was able to make do and get the cans of beans opened.
Plenty of almond butter and fresh produce later, I learned that it isn’t the easiest to travel on the alkaline diet. A big part of the American lifestyle is the simplicity of consumerism. When traveling, I learned that it is critical to stay in a place with kitchen access, whether it be a condo, Airbnb, or friends house. Kitchen access makes sticking to your lifestyle much easier and gives you access to a much wider range of possibilities.