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It’s really tempting to hit the fast food joints when you’re traveling. Hit the mom and pop sandwich places, diners, or soup and salad places instead. You’ll be paying the same amount, but you’ll have more healthy choices.

If you can, plan ahead and bring healthy, inexpensive snacks as well,. (If you’re traveling by air, make sure to contact the airlines and see what kind of snacks and drinks you can bring with you.)

Here are some travel snack ideas:

• cheese and crackers
• string cheese
• precut pieces of fruit and veggies, grapes work well too
• small yogurt cups (avoid the icky, kid yogurt with its staining dyes - try organic or healthy yogurt brands instead)
• peanut butter sandwiches (jam may make bread soggy)
• trail mix
• dried fruit
• nuts
• beef jerky
• bottled water or juice boxes (forget the soda - stick with 100% juice)
• hard boiled eggs
• dried cereal
• veggie chips
• pretzels
• fig newtons, graham or animal crackers
• fruit and granola bars
• good chocolate for the occasional treat

Suite 101 has some healthy kid snack ideas. FamilyTravelGuides.com has some ideas for traveling on the road with some good tips on what to do when traveling in foreign countries. Great suggestions at FamilyFun.com too, including this recipe:

Cranberry Nut Snack Mix

Ingredients:

1. 2 cups sunflower seeds, raw
2. 1 cup pine nuts
3. 1 cup pumpkin seeds, raw
4. 1 cup cranberries, dried and sweetened
5. 1 cup raisins

Directions:

1. Measure all of the ingredients into a mixing bowl and stir with a wooden spoon until well combined.
2. Put into baggies or small plastic containers.

Don’t forget to bring extra baggies, a roll of paper towels, and lots of wet wipes, too!

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