Healthy eating on the road – tips from complementary medicine practitioners.

By
Marina Lando
Published: January 6, 2010Posted in: FoodTags: , , ,
Healthy eating on the road – tips from complementary medicine practitioners.

How many of us suffered from poor quality food we have to eat on the road? Sometimes it is almost impossible to find a restaurant that serves something more than over processed meals. More and more people are concerned about genetically modified food and pesticides laden fruits and vegetables. The food industry is changing but not as fast as we want.

So what can you do to get something healthy on the road? Hear are a few tips from people who made wellness their profession.

Planning ahead will help.  Know your weakness and prepare for it.

Solution #1: Pack your own food.

  • Fruits: apples, prunes, grapes, grapefruits, figs (great iron source)
  • Soaked and home roasted nuts
  • Hard boiled eggs
  • Vegetables: Sliced carrots, broccoli sticks, celery
  • Cheese sticks.
  • Protein and vitamin powdered drinks
  • Home made muesli, with a large number of nuts, dried fruits
  • Home made trail mix (nuts, dried fruit, pumpkin or sunflower seeds, and carob chips)

Don’t forget to have something to boost your immunity:

  • EmergnC packets
  • Green Food packets, mix together each morning
  • Vitamin D3 2000iu daily
  • Digestive enzymes
  • Probiotics
  • And keep some Activated Vegetarian Charcoal tabs around in case you come across Montezuma’s Revenge (2 tabs immediately then another 3 hours later usually do the trick) and for the party lovers 2 before bed helps ward off hangovers

Solution #2: Eating out.

  • You are not required to order meals as they appear on the menu. Just pick various foods described in the meals and create your own dinner.
    • Choose salads
    • Order smaller wild caught fish. Smaller fish are preferred because exposure to mercury is lessened, and wild caught fish are preferred because fish farmed in a self-contained system are treated with antibiotics and chemicals.
    • Never eat shrimp from a foreign country, as they are farmed and treated with antibiotics and chemicals that are illegal in the United States
    • Order salad dressings on the side: vinaigrette, not creamy.
    • Order romaine, baby greens, etc. not iceberg lettuce.
    • Order omelet or other egg item with butter on the side
    • Order proteins, baked, broiled or grilled, not fried.
    • Order sauces and gravies on the side.
    • Get vegetables du jour, not potatoes or order potato and veggies and salad and forget the meat.
    • Ask for whole grain breads and rolls.  If whole grain breads are not available, skip them.
    • Ask for real butter and never settle for margarine.
    • Unless eating at an organic restaurant, any meats will have hormones and antibiotics, which raise numerous health concerns and should be avoided. Of all meats, conventional hamburger (as opposed to organic, free-range) should be absolutely avoided. Hamburger recalls are almost a monthly event.
  • Sushi restaurant comes on the top of the list.
  • Choose ethnic restaurants
  • Ask the locals about good vegetarian or Indian restaurants
  • Do some research on many of the larger chain restaurants to see what the calorie counts and nutritional content of the foods on their menus are. Choose 2 things that are low fat and low calorie from each restaurant and keep a list with you. Just order one of the things on your card.
  • Once you get your food, bless it and eat it knowing you did the best you could with what you had.  Your effort will be honored and you will feel great.

And don’t forget to ask the locals.  They always know the best restaurants.  People like to be helpful and love to tell you where to go.

If you are on the road a lot: invest in “The Healthy Highways”, a total guide to all the healthy eateries and stores in the USA – on sale at Harmony Farms (Raleigh, NC).

And sometimes you just have to make concessions and eat stuff you don’t normally eat.

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About the Author

Marina Lando, the owner of Harmony Life and a co-founder of Healthy Connections Professional Club and Publication and a memeber of American Holistic medical Association, is a Complimentary Medicine Journalist, full-time professional Spiritual Healer and Certified Raindrop Practitioner. She does Reiki and Aromatherapy. She can be reached at 919-469-1505; http://www.surchange.com/HarmonyLife/