It's a little slower than fast food, but worth the wait!
A lot of times, we are on the go. Time and time again we travel long distances, and often we get hungry on the way. Fast food is one of the most common travel food choices for many, but we are trying to avoid it more and more these days. There is only so many times that you can end up watching people dissect Chicken McNuggets on YouTube at 3 am before you really start to wonder...
ATTEMPTING A BETTER OPTION!
As you can tell from this photo, the fast food options were readily available on our trip to pick up Rosemary, our new dog yesterday. For those of you who only use "old speak," the businesses labelled as "Mc D's" and "T Bell" in the photo above are McDonald's and Taco Bell... for some reason entire words, even short words like "taco," are getting more difficult for newer generations to pronounce. Anyway, there was also a grocery store nearby, so we opted to try to find something a little healthier to eat.
These days I really prefer food that we grow or raise ourselves, but that can be difficult, especially when travelling. Rather than purchasing the over-priced pre-made salads at the the store, we opted to make some salad wraps. For one, we would save money by assembling them ourselves. Moreover, they would hopefully be better for us than any fast food would have picked up at the drive-thru and they should also save us some money. Finally, by making them into wraps, they would be much easier for the @little-peppers to enjoy in the vehicle without making a mess.
After laying out the wraps, I added some ranch dressing. Assembling these in the parking lot of the grocery store did take a little more time than going through a drive-thru, but it was still easier for me to make up some for all of us while we were stopped rather than trying to have @mama-pepper assemble them while I was driving down the road.
After the ranch dressing can the meat. I used sliced turkey meat rather than chopped and grilled chicken breast. The lunch meat style turkey meat would do a much better job remaining in the wrap as we ate them, which again reduces the potential for a mess, especially when young children are involved.
After that all that was left was the salad. The chopped iceberg lettuce, carrots, and cabbage may not exactly even be the best salad blend, but it was still probably better for us than a McNugget. Since our @little-peppers will eat just about anything, we figure we might as well present them with better options.
You may have noticed that I only made four wraps to start with, even though we have seven people in our family. Well, @mama-pepper gets a whole one, just like I do, and the four biggest @little-peppers each get a half. Since little Buddy-Pepper is only one, he just gets pieces of Moms rather than having his own to hold onto.
This is just one simple meal idea to think about when travelling. The time has probably come for many of us to seek better options for food anyway, and we are certainly trying to take steps in that direction. It may not always work out, but we think it's worth the effort.
As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:
proof-of-an-attempt-at-a-healthier-option
Until next time…
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