On Friday I leave for 9 days to teach a field-trip class about Colorado Plateau geology to a group of 10th graders. As this trip is paid for by fancy oil company money, it is not your typical geology field-trip of camping and outdoor cooking. On this trip we will be on a luxury bus, staying at hotels for a week (a different one each night) and having breakfast, lunch, and dinner either catered or bought for us. Most of our breakfasts are listed as "continental breakfasts" at our 2 and 3 star hotels (read: store bought muffins, cereal, and juice), most lunches are Subway sandwiches picked up by our trail-driver and brought to us at a field-trip stop, and dinners are typically at road side diners and restaurants (i.e. Denny's, Applebees, etc.) from limited, pre-selected menu of available items to make serving our party or 50 easy on the restaurant. The kids love it, naturally.
For snacks, we're bringing what the trip-coordinator described to me as "bins and bins of snack foods for the kids." He specifically mentioned Oreos, Goldfish, granola bars and cookies. The idea is that the students aren't allowed to go into the convenience marts when we stop for gas because sending 40-ish students into a gas station to buy snacks would be a nightmare. But this will also make it difficult for me to run into these stores as well.
(The fact that I am incredibly uncomfortable with supplying these snacks in such quantities to impressionable high school students goes without saying. Unfortunately, this aspect of the trip is out of my hands. I figure the best I can do is set an example by not eating all that crap and making better choices.)
By now you're seeing my predicament: What the heck am I supposed to eat for a week?! I am extremely concerned about my ability to stick to keto based on my will-power alone in the presence of all this carby snack food, and I am very worried that I won't manage to find much to eat at all for keto at meal times. I need to stick to keto. I have been back on the wagon for a little over a month now. I have lost the weight I gained back by laziness and outright cheating. As of this morning I am officially less than 10 pounds away from being "Normal weight" and 23-ish pounds away from what I think my goal weight should be. But will power, especially in the presence of snacks is not my super-human power.
So this is what I need: What are your suggestions for non-refrigerated keto snacks and meals? I plan on stuffing my second checked bag (Thanks Southwest!) with keto goodies. I will have unreliable access to a refrigerator or microwave, even at the hotels. I will only seldom be able to skip into a convenience mart for foods. I cannot eat aspartame in any quantity, and have to severly limit Splenda and stevia. But I know I can't live on Almonds and Atkins bars for a week!
Here's what I am planning on bringing so far: - Almonds - Starbucks VIA instant coffee (because who know's where/when I'll get coffee) - Mini-Moos half-and-half pods - Atkins bars - Relatively low-carb Beef jerky (if I can find any, sheesh!!) - Avocados (but I am worried about their ability to not get squished) - Maybe so unsweetened iced teas or fizzy waters - ... and that's it.
See why I need help?! Thanks ladies! KCKO.
Submitted June 09, 2015 at 02:19AM by TourmalineTart http://ift.tt/1KXGugD xxketo
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