Quick Food Ideas for Traveling on the GAPS Diet

Okay, I promised last week I would share the information I got from asking the list what would I eat while on vacation:

• grilled chicken/steak/pork chop option with vegetables or salad from a “decent” restaurant
• Larabars
• peanut butter
• apples cut up
• carrot and celery sticks
• (the above) dipped in peanut butter (or almond or any nut butter)
• freeze meat and take it out right before heading to the airport. Butter, ghee, VCO or some fat in a container and carry it along with the meat.
• Beef jerky
• hard boiled eggs
• raw zuccinni
• Liver
• Properly soaked nuts
• avocado – cut in half, put back together
• find the nearest Whole Foods (kraut, salad and other things)
• Many restaurants will also work with special orders if you tell them you have food allergies.
• Houlihans
• Outback (Order the meat without the special seasoning and substitute additional steamed veggies (without the seasoning) for anything not GAPS-legal. Also any other steak and seafood place generally works.)
• Chipotle- Order a carnitas bowl (no rice or beans) with the tomato salsa, lettuce and guacamole.
• Jamba Juice- They have a few all fruit smoothies that are OK.
• Hamburgers with just lettuce and tomato. If you get stuck you can always do that. In-n-out would probably be the safest of the fast foods. Make sure to tell them no seasoning.
• Order things without spices and without butter if not currently on butter. Most restaurants are pretty accommodating.
• cooking up some meat, chicken, etc., freezing it, bringing it in your suitcase and when you go out just order a plain salad, bring some olive oil, and throw on your own protein?
• Hamburgers.
• McDonald’s ¼ pounder is 100% beef.
• Five Guys burgers also has 100% beef patties.
• Easier to eat at real restaurants (i.e., not chains, not fast food).   The chains get their food shipped to them already semi-prepared so it’s tough for them to take sauces and ingredients away.

So, with those ideas in mind, I started drying some fruit and made the beef jerky.   We will look for a Whole Foods, but there is also a Safeway grocery store right around the corner.  Hubby likes those baked chickens that the stores offer, and I can get avocados and olives.

I think I am going to be okay, especially with the suggestions for the hamburgers with lettuce at the couple of places if we get in a desperate situation to eat. I will be bringing the crispy almonds, crispy walnuts, dried banana chips, blueberries and apple slices everywhere we go, so I shouldn’t go hungry. Although eating the fruit will make me feel more hungry.

I am sure I am going to come home and plow through a potful of vegetables with butter as soon as I possibly can. I may even ask my son to steam me a potful so they will be ready when I get home.

Thank you to all the people who shared great suggestions.  I am feeling much less apprehensive about taking this trip and staying on GAPS!! Yeah!

UPDATE:  As it turns out our room had a “full kitchen” which I had presumed meant tiny fridge, microwave and coffee maker when I booked the room.  Boy, was I wrong!  It was a real full sized kitchen with a regular sized fridge and 2 burner gas stove.

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