<p>Yes, for OP’s criteria, I think all the options I would recommend have been covered. Hard-boiled eggs, nuts, cheese, dried meat, perhaps some protein bars or shakes…</p>
<p>The canned seafood aisle has a few things that work, if you travel with a pocket knife and a spoon and fork or spork from a camping store. The little cans of tuna, which sometimes come with a packet of mayo can be mixed and eaten with a spoon. Or scoop with celery sticks or bell pepper slices. </p>
<p>My favorite camping lunch is an avocado, cut in half, and fill the center with sardines flavored with mustard sauce. One avocado, one can, works out about right. Can you eat this inconspicuously? Well…no. </p>
<p>If you have a mini fridge, hummus works well, with veggie dip. </p>
<p>There are new crackers on the market, made by Blue Diamond, using nuts as the base rather than grains. Cheeses can be your splurge and if you’re willing to spend some money, can be a great deal of fun. </p>
<p>Also with that pocket knife, cut up apples or pears, and eat with cheeses or nut butters. A little, or a lot of cheve on a slightly firm pear is rather heavenly. </p>
<p>Trader Joe’s has a rather great variety of pre sliced cheeses. </p>
<p>That old and yummy midwestern staple, Summer sausage, needs no refrigeration until cut. </p>
<p>D and I on a budget trip in France, bought bowls, salad dressing, cheese, sausage, pre washed greens, tomatoes, and had picnics or dinners in our room most nights. She had bread in great quantity, and I avoided it, more or less. </p>
<p>One Tupperware container with a solid lid can be used very creatively. </p>
<p>If you have the can opener on that pocket knife, and expand your low carb to include beans, a can of garbanzos could be brought along for a salad and kept in a mini fridge. Chop tomatoes, cukes, beans or whatever in the bottom of that Tupperware bowl with dressing, put the greens on top, toss and you have dinner. I also like fake crab or canned fish for this sort of easy meal. </p>
<p>Cut a sponge in half to bring along for washing the dishes with hotel shampoo.</p>
<p>When I was on a low-carb diet, breakfast was really hard for me because I don’t like eggs. I ate the Atkins brand meal replacement bars every morning and actually looked forward to them. I always kept one in my purse for those times when I was stuck at some function with few low-carb options.</p>
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<p>Ditto. I love eggs, and the berry dish you mention sounds awesome. Low carb is easiest for me to do at breakfast. </p>
<p>Lunch is harder, because I like sandwiches, and meat deposited into a lettuce wrap is NOT a sandwich, lol. Lately at work, I’ve just been bringing leftovers from dinner. I’m not one to raid the bread basket at the restaurant, but I do enjoy sandwiches and buttered toast. I can walk right by the dessert, but show me a loaded baked potato, and I’m in major torment. </p>
<p>Thoughts of my family history of diabetes and the consequences of it usually keep me focused, though.</p>
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<p>I eat breakfast at 5:00 am before work, and I might not get lunch until 1:30 pm, depending on the schedule at my facility. I’ve started bringing along an atkins shake for those times when I feel faint from hunger. Easy to grab and drink quickly, and I don’t get a sugar crash later. I try to stick to whole foods and not “products,” but those bars and shakes can really help when you’re in a pinch.</p>
<p>Good things that you can typically get at the airport are chef salads, and sandwiches. If you eat just the contents of the sandwich and not the bread, that’s usually pretty low carb.</p>
<p>Anyone know how long the pre-packaged cold cuts will last without being in the fridge?</p>
<p>I have a neoprene lunch tote that is wonderful for travel. It weighs almost nothing, and folds almost flat when it’s empty, but stretches to hold a lot of food. My experience with the TSA is that ice is okay, but any of the melted water has to be discarded before going through security. Even if the TSA confiscates your baggie o’ice, at least it will have kept the food cold up to that point, and you can probably get more ice airside (pack an empty zip lock in case the TSA takes your ice). Of course, you can always pack food and frozen ice packs in your checked luggage.</p>
<p>Anyone know how long the pre-packaged cold cuts will last without being in the fridge?</p>
<p>If they are anything like a Mcd hamburger- two years?
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<p>Better than beef jerky.
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<p>You can buy smoked salmon vacuum packed and then keep it iced in your room. I usually bring a couple of ziplocs to make icing easier. (I either use the ice bucket or pack a collapsable cooler bag.) Trader Joe makes salmon jerky. (At least they used to.) I just ordered these [Quest</a> Low Carb Gluten Free Protein Bars - Official Site](<a href=“http://www.questproteinbar.com/]Quest”>http://www.questproteinbar.com/) from Amazon. Haven’t received them yet. I also take hard boiled eggs.</p>
<p>If I were on a low carb (not possible, love fruits and veggies too much), I would not eat some meals if they are a problem. Just do not eat that breakfast, if breakfast is a problem instead of stuffing yourself with the food that you do not like and actually is not that good at all. Those shakes and jerkies are nothing but junk food. Consume them as much as you want but telling yourself that they are better for you than fruits/veggies or even half a bagel is not telling yourself a truth, there is nothing good about shakes / jerkies, nothing at all, unless you are dying from starvation, then they will save you.</p>
<p>MD, if skipping meals works for you, that’s great. It doesn’t work for me. </p>
<p>That’s why I try to always try to keep food with me in case I get stuck in some situation where I don’t like the choices. </p>
<p>But I don’t see what the big problem is with jerky. It is just dried meat with some seasoning–human beings have been preserving food this way for millenia and here are plenty of brands out there without preservatives and chemicals. </p>
<p>I don’t care for it much, although I have never tried salmon but I will now. Another good idea from this thread!</p>
<p>I am not a low carb eater but I think it’s better to start the day with a good dose of protein and maybe some fruit. A lot of starchy carbs in the a.m. leave me sluggish. I can’t imagine skipping breakfast all together.</p>
<p>MD you’re using a pretty broad paint brush there. It does not take a lot of effort to find products without preservatives or chemicals. The one problem with a lot of dried meat products is the salt.</p>
<p>I travel quite a bit and it’s challenging. I’m not religious about low carb, but I do follow a general low carb/slow carb regimen. Protein bars (read the labels, many are packed with carbs and sugars) are the easiest emergency solution.</p>
<p>When I choose my hotel, I try to stay at places where the “free” breakfast includes eggs. If not, I bite the bullet and pay for 'em. One pitfall - hotels often have a buffet breakfast as their fastest choice, so one has to run the gauntlet of tempting pastries (“Hey, it’s included, one little cinnamon roll can’t hurt, right?”) to get to the protein.</p>
<p>Often, there are places convenient to the hotel where you can score inexpensive, protein-rich meals (coffee shops, McDonalds, etc.) or drugstores where you can buy protein shakes and other diet-friendly items.</p>
<p>Airport shops are doing a lot better with food items to carry on the plane - I see lots of wraps and salads now, which are much better than the limited selection you can get on the plane.</p>
<p>For me, the biggest challenge is the lure of unique food in great restaurants. If you are in a renowned eatery in Manhattan or San Francisco, do you really want to stick to a dry salad and plain piece of fish? (My answer is usually “no” - occasional hedonistic deviations can be offset with a couple of days of being extra-careful!)</p>
<p>I do not believe in packaged food much, I do not care what ingredients. Packaged food is very very processed food that has lost most natural nutrients (where it was not that much to begin with as our soil is way too depleted). Yes, there are vitamins and I myself use the heavy dosage ones, but I still try to stick to more natural food than shakes, bars and jerky. Not big fan of bread, pasta, rice, potatoes at all, they are also highly processed foods, but given limited choices these are still much healthier in my mind than shakes, bars and jerky.</p>
<p>OK, MiamiDAP,</p>
<p>Did you have any other LOW CARB solutions for OP that are easy to pack and carry when traveling? Just wondering.</p>
<p>Most of us know that fresh food is best. That’s actually the challenge here. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>She could just stay home. ;)</p>
<p>Miami definitely has some beef with jerky ;)</p>
<p>Miami, there is no conflict between a diet high in veggies and a low-carb diet. I eat TONS of green, leafy vegetables, and non-starchy ones such as zucchini, eggplant, and caulifower. Small servings of fruit are also fine, although questionable in the AM.</p>
<p>The problem is that it can be very difficult to find an option that includes a lot of leafy greens when travelling, especially at breakfast, especially at places where the refreshments on offer are an array of pure carbs, as they are at many conferences and meetings.</p>
<p>OP, individual servings of cottage cheese are another option, and I have no doubt that they would be fine overnight in a reasonably cool hotel room. A 100gm apple–a small one–has about 15 gms of carb. I happen to be very fond of an apple cut up and mixed into cottage cheese. :)</p>
<p>Re: cold cuts. Hard salami is often sold in small pieces - without refrigeration.</p>
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<p>I feel lucky to have just survived a couple of weeks of eating un-refrigerated cheeses made with unpasteurized goat milk, un-refrigerated charcuterie, un-refrigerated lentil/zucchini/etc salads, and similarly toxic foods guaranteed to send everyone directly to the ER. :rolleyes: </p>
<p>Now I need to find a place in the US that makes these:</p>
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<p>“Did you have any other LOW CARB solutions for OP that are easy to pack and carry when traveling? Just wondering.”
-aside from starving yourself, my suggestion is ton of not salty nuts. I do not have any other suggestion, because my diet is very very high carbs, I consume primarily carbs with very small amount of protein food, which I just do not care about taste wise. Out of the protein food that I consume, the only non-perishable would be nuts. I do not know any other one. Salads are NOT protein food, they are carbs and so are most veggies and all fruits. Even if salad some lentil, lentil is still ton of carbs and some protein. I would not eat un-refrigerated for few days salad, I rather not eat anything for few days. I am not big on tolerating stomach problems, especially on a trip, although I always have all kind of drugs that normally help if I happen to have a problem being not very careful. Can you eat enough cheese to fill yourself up, I do not see how. I can imagine hips of un-fregirated cheese that do not apeal too much to me. I am very happy that I do not follow any restrictive diet, neither does my H. who have diabetese (that BTW is mainly controled by controling the weight in addition to oral drugs, not so much by certain diet. Not in his case)</p>
<p>MiamiDAP,</p>
<p>Even though salad and vegetables are not protein, that does not necessarily make them high in carbohydrate. Green leafy vegetables and the ones that Consolation listed, in addition to berries are relatively low in carbohydrate and are no problem at all for someone on a low-carb diet.</p>