How To Make Your Meals Last On The Road
We often associate traveling with high calorie airplane food, but when it comes down to it, traveling makes it harder to come by a meal. Instead of stuffing yourself after starving yourself for hours while touring around a city, make your meals last longer by adding a few small ingredients to them.
Peanut Butter
Include a teaspoon of peanut butter with your breakfast to slow down the digestion of carbohydrates by an average of two hours. Most sugars, like bread and orange juice, break down in around 20 minutes and give you a short energy boost. The oils in peanut butter slow down this process so these foods will slowly power you until your next meal.
Additional Tips:
- Select commercial, non-organic brands of peanut butter to carry with you, since they don’t require refrigeration and will last up to 6 months.
- Peanut butter can be used to shift your body clock to avoid jet lag.
- Almond, cashew, and hazelnut butter also have a similar effect but are runnier and generally require refrigeration after opening.
Water
Dieters know the benefits (outside of hydration) that come with drinking lots of water. When you find a source of clean water (in many countries bottled is the only way) drink twice as much as you think you’ll need to quench your thirst. Water not only acts as a digestion buffer, causing other foods in your stomach to break down slower and last longer, but staying hydrated dilutes your blood sending less signals to the region of your brain (hypothalamus) that controls hunger.
