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Best option when travelling

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I drive from Cornwall to London every week and before being diagnosed I was rubbish eating stuff from petrol stations (pasty, chocolate etc) so now I am trying to work out the best options while driving.

I have tried having carrot sticks, fruit etc but still end up wanting something else. I want to keep out of the petrol stations and I assume KFC is no good but there are a couple of Subways on route.

Is there a least worst option anyone would recommend?
 
I believe subway does salads which are quite substantial - but you could get KFC - chicken and coleslaw, peel the chicken. No chips of course, but they do diet drinks. Do you need to eat on the way though?
I find that now I am fully into the low carb way of eating I can eat breakfast and then go all day with just a mug of creamy coffee and eat in the evening - I have driven up to Birmingham and back home the same day twice in the last month from the south coast, three hours each way, and found that it was no problem.
However - carrot sticks and fruit are a poor choice for a type two diabetic - they are carby foods and so guaranteed to make you hungry.
You could have a sandwich with protein bread, meat, salad, tomato, with some celery and soft/cream cheese and then coffee to follow - the really thick double cream is ideal for transport as it doesn't spill - you could take it as a packed lunch and pull up in a pleasant spot to eat it.
 
You need to test with a meter, and find out what foods affect your BG.
Unfortunately it will be worse as you are sitting down, and not exercising at all after eating.
 
Thank you.

I do the drive twice a week and it is 4.5 hours minimum and therefore I tend to miss a meal which is not a bad thing. To be honest I would like to find some sort of snack to nibble on during the journey if I can but its early days for me still.
 
Richard65 said:
Thank you.

I do the drive twice a week and it is 4.5 hours minimum and therefore I tend to miss a meal which is not a bad thing. To be honest I would like to find some sort of snack to nibble on during the journey if I can but its early days for me still.
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If you know you have to make the trip, and when, then you can always choose to prepare and take "stuff" with you. You could take cooked chicken drummers, hard boiled eggs, low carb scotch eggs, ready cubed cheese, or baby bel portions, cooked quality chipolatas or sausages, olives, cooked bacon, cherry tomatoes, fritata, pork scratchings. Think tapas.

Most of those things could be prepared in batches - roast a load of chicken drummers, or thighs, then freeze them, and remove them from the freezer to take with you. If you freeze them in foil, your fingers needn't even get too greasy. Similarly with sausages/chipolatas. By the time you come to eat them, they will have defrosted.

I've just looked on the Tesco website, a tray of 1kg chicken thighs (much more meat on there) is £2, and from the image it showed 8 thighs, which isn't a bad average.
 
With the colder weather coming you could take a flask of soup and pull off the road for a few minutes or into a service area to have it.
 
Actually KFC is allegedly ok for BG.
I didn't eat it as it was high fat.

Pre cooked food wouldn't work for me, it would have gone off in the car, and I would either have forgotten to get it ready, or left it in the fridge.
Or eaten it on the move, and finished up in a mess of bits.

If there is an M&S (or similar) at the service stations, try there for some reasonable food.
 
I was going to suggest along the lines of what @AndBreathe suggested...
there are tons of recipes of low carb stuff you can make at home and pack in small tupper wares, finger food....
I wouldn't go for KFC or similar because even though it can be allowed related to blood sugar, it has a lot of salt....
Like @travellor said, M&S maybe a lot better to find reasonable stuff... but I found that making the stuff myself I know exactly the amount of sugars/carbs & salt
 
travellor said:
Actually KFC is allegedly ok for BG.
I didn't eat it as it was high fat.

Pre cooked food wouldn't work for me, it would have gone off in the car, and I would either have forgotten to get it ready, or left it in the fridge.
Or eaten it on the move, and finished up in a mess of bits.

If there is an M&S (or similar) at the service stations, try there for some reasonable food.
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A small efficient cool bag is easy for both transporting and keeping food cool. If food is removed from the freezer in the morning, for eating at lunchtime, it'd likely still be pretty cool at lunchtime.

Whilst I agree M&S has some great options, and indeed, I had some pork crackling straws yesterday when I was a bit delayed on a mission away from home, but many of the tapas style options are 2 for £6 or £7, it could become get to be costly if done on a twice weekly basis, and if the OP has a hearty appetite.
 
AndBreathe said:
A small efficient cool bag is easy for both transporting and keeping food cool. If food is removed from the freezer in the morning, for eating at lunchtime, it'd likely still be pretty cool at lunchtime.

Whilst I agree M&S has some great options, and indeed, I had some pork crackling straws yesterday when I was a bit delayed on a mission away from home, but many of the tapas style options are 2 for £6 or £7, it could become get to be costly if done on a twice weekly basis, and if the OP has a hearty appetite.
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Can you really ever put a cost on your health?

(And please say you chucked the dip?)
 
travellor said:
Can you really ever put a cost on your health?

(And please say you chucked the dip?)
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My crackling straws were dip-free both when purchased and eaten.
 
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