A little experimenting and you will find out what works well for you, even on the road.
For me, it’s a morning smoothie and my vitamins. I make the smoothie with whole milk yoghurt, a banana, fresh fruit in season (peaches & figs are great now) and sweeten with honey or a couple dates. toss in a few ice cubes to lighten and froth, and let it sit a couple minutes to lose some of the ice chill. On the road, there is always Odwalla and Naked Juice.
Instead of dressing on salad, get some meyer lemons and squeeze maybe a quarter lemon over the salad, no oil or vinegar, or just a half teaspoon of EVOO. On the road, get the dressing on the side. Ask for a lemon wedge and straight EVOO.
Have an afternoon snack of a cookie (isn’t this a great idea?) and some hot tea. It’s OK to put a little milk in the tea, but don’t sweeten it up like chai. A tiny bit of honey is OK… Be sure your cookie is delicious and nutritious. Make them yourself if you can, with oats and oat bran, wheat germ, crumbled unsweetened corn flakes – and you can put in chocolate chips, nuts – black walnuts if you can find them, pistachios are also yummy. You can carry them in a tin box in your luggage.
At night, a light dinner. A couple of ounces of fish, chicken, mushrooms… I don’t know if you’re vegetarian. Small amount of starch. Beets you make. Bright colored vegetables, and your drink can be water. My favorite water thing is to take a glass pitcher , put in layers of ice, herbs, and sliced lemon or lime. Add water, and drink it all through the meal. The nice fresh taste is a great complement to the food, tastes adult, and helps stay away from alcohol if that is your wish. Or, you can do that and have a short glass of wine – like 2- 3 ounces. I like to have the wine as a puddle in a really large glass. It tastes better and I tend to sip instead of drink it.
For the starch last night I nuked a potato, sliced it, sliced tomato over it, salt, pepper, a sprinkle of parmesan cheese, and baked it. Two people, one moderate potato, and there was still about a third of it left over. Tasty.
I’ve been struggling a lot with this eating thing, and you are right. On the road it is tough. Pretend the only thing on the menu is the salad for lunch and dinner, and bring along those cookies or pick up something as you go. They are great appetite quashers, with calories you can hold down by how you make them.
I get so flummoxed on the road with the chain restaurants and fried everything, everywhere you go. Sometimes you can just go off menu, and say “Can I have that grilled?”
