Five Easy Healthy Snack Ideas For Travel

29 August 2022

Whether travelling for work or pleasure or visiting friends and relatives, bringing a healthy homemade snack to munch on for the journey will not only save you money but will provide an energy boost between meals when you are travelling on long journeys.

Whatever your reasons for travel, eating healthily while travelling will help you avoid indulging in high-calorie, sugary and fatty foods. Packing your own healthy portable snacks will help you resist the temptation to reach for that calorie-packed burger at the airport, or a garage-bought sandwich on your car journey.

So, when your stomach is growling in the airport, on the train, or in the car, why not snack on some fresh or dried fruit, or indulge in Greek yoghurt? As well as your sun lotion and sandals, why not add healthy snacks to your packing list?

With this in mind, we’ve created five healthy snack ideas for when you’re on the go – they’re simple to pack, easy to carry and quick to eat – using some of our staple ingredients found in-store.

Honey Coconut-Oat Homemade Granola Bars Recipe

Using our Hilltop Clear Honey, why not make your own high-packed energy bars without the high sugar content found in commercial energy bars?

As a good healthy snack is hard to find in an airport, these energy balls will keep hunger at bay until your destination and will easily make it past airport security.

Ingredients

1 cup rolled oats
1 cup flour
2/3 cup shredded unsweetened coconut
½ cup brown sugar
½ cup butter
3 tbsp Hilltop Clear Honey
1 tbsp water
½ tsp baking powder

Instructions

Preheat oven.
Grease a cake tin.
Combine oats, flour, coconut and brown sugar and set aside
In a saucepan over medium heat, stir the butter, Hilltop Clear Honey and water until melted. Remove from heat and stir in the baking soda.
Add the butter mixture to the rolled oats mixture and mix well. Transfer the batter to the prepared greased tin and press down.
Bake for 20-25 mins.
Cool before cutting into bars.

Coconut Fat Bombs Recipe

Using our Full Moon coconut milk, these are a perfect finger-food treat for sugar cravers and great for children. Rich, creamy and smooth, coconut milk is a versatile pantry staple used by both vegans and omnivores alike. This recipe is keto, paleo and vegan-friendly and is an ideal snack on that long road trip in the car.

Ingredients

½ cup (approx. 5 oz.) full moon coconut milk
½ tsp vanilla bean powder

Instructions

Mix the coconut milk and vanilla bean powder in a bowl.
Carefully scoop the coconut cream mixture into each mould. This recipe makes enough to fill 15 cubes of the silicon moulds.
Place the mould in the freezer for around 1-2 hours until the coconut fat bombs are solid.
When the fat bombs are ready, simply pop them out of the mould and store them in an airtight container in the freezer. If you have a difficult time popping these out of the moulds, run the bottom of the tray under warm water. This will help them pop out with ease!

Healthy Savoury Muffins Recipe

Bake healthier savoury muffins using our British Free Range 6 pack of Eggs. Made with bacon and cheese, these muffins are also perfect for freezing and will keep in an airtight container to take on any journey.

Don’t have time for breakfast at home? These muffins are the perfect on-the-go breakfast to eat at your own leisure on your journey.

Instead of traditional white flour, this savoury muffin recipe uses a mix of oat flour and almond meal. It also has olive oil instead of inflammatory vegetable oil, perfect for the health-conscious traveller.

Ingredients

1 cup oat flour
1 cup almond meal
2 eggs from our free-range eggs in-store
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
½ cup milk of your choice
¼ cup oil - olive or coconut
3 rashers lean bacon, cooked and diced
1 large tomato, chopped
½ red onion, diced and cooked
2/3 cup grated cheese

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 180? and line a muffin tray with patty pans or grease well.
Finely chop the onion and cook it in a non-stick pan with the bacon. Dice the bacon once cooled and set aside.
In a large bowl, combine the oat flour, almond meal, baking powder and salt.
Lightly whisk the eggs in a medium-sized bowl and mix in the milk and oil.
Fold the wet ingredients into the dry and lightly combine. Add the cheese, tomato, onion and bacon, and mix.
Pour the mixture evenly into the muffin tray and bake for 15-20 minutes until golden brown on top or a skewer comes out clean.
Cool on a cooling rack and enjoy.

Easy Three-Ingredient Fruit Cocktail Cake Recipe

Trying to get your 5 a day can be difficult, but you can eat fresh, frozen or canned fruit with juice to ensure you get yours.

Our prince's fruit cocktail with juice is a perfect store cupboard ingredient for this upside-down fruit salad cake with only three ingredients.

This cake is unbelievably simple to make with a tinned fruit cocktail. It’s tasty, vegan, fat-free and fuss-free. After the end of a long drive, it is perfect for a picnic.

Ingredients

Canned mixed fruit (in juice) Princess fruit cocktail
Self-raising flour
Caster sugar

Instructions

The cake needs to go into a hot oven, so it’s important to wait for it to reach the correct temperature before you start work.
Open a can of Princes fruit cocktail in juice and strain it over a bowl, reserving the juice.
Line a cake tin with baking paper (grease-proof paper or baking parchment) and lightly oil the top of the paper.
Arrange the fruit in the cake tin, and mix the flour and sugar together.
Fold in the fruit juice with two tablespoons of water.
The batter should be thick but add a little more water to loosen it if needed.
Pour the batter over the fruit.
Gently shake the cake pan from side to side to spread the batter out.
Place the cake in the oven immediately, and bake for 35 minutes. Serve and enjoy.

Baked Tuna Meatballs Recipe

These are healthy seafood alternatives to your average meatballs, using our John West Tuna Chunks. They’re easy to make with a few cans of our tuna fish and are perfect for a low-carb snack.

These savoury bites are made with canned tuna fish, fresh vegetables, and savoury herbs. They’re light in flavour and are perfect for those children who are picky eaters. They are juicy, tender and filling as your typical meatball, and great for an on-the-go snack that’s packed with vitamins and minerals.

Ingredients

olive oil
garlic
onion
spinach
tuna
almond flour
1 egg
mayonnaise
lemon Juice
fresh Parsley & Dill
salt and pepper

Instructions

Sauté some of the vegetables in a pan.
Add a couple of minced garlic cloves for savoury goodness.
Meanwhile, sauté the onion so it’s mellow and not pungent.
Put a few cups of cooked spinach into the mix.
Spoon in the Princes canned tuna or fresh, cooked and cooled.
Add the mixture to a bowl, along with the egg to bind it together and begin to introduce a little almond flour to create a paste for the meatballs.
Spoon a small amount of mayonnaise to keep the meatballs moist.
Add a splash of lemon juice for flavour.
Put in some fresh parsley and dill.
Get your hands dirty and create a meatball shape.
Bake the meatballs in the oven to save you a few calories.

As well as the above products, we have other items for healthy snacking when travelling, including chocolate Slimfast shakes, John West tuna salad, Canderel sweetener, Soreen malt loaf, microwavable soup mug and Skinny Whip snack bars.

Travelling is plenty of fun, but it does come with its own challenges. Keeping everyone full and happy is a bit of a task when you’re on the road, so try out one of these snacks to make the journey a little bit easier.

Let us know where you’re heading off to and the snacks you’re taking with you by getting in touch with the B&M Community on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram.

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