Healthy Meal Tips for Vacations

[Cover Image via Pexels]

Summer is here and that means it’s time for summer vacations. When you’re off work and relaxing, it can be hard to remember to eat healthy. That’s why this blog is all about easy and healthy meals you can prepare on vacation.

To start off your vacation strong, focus on the car-ride there. If you start your vacation with junk-food to snack on while you drive to your destination you’ve already told yourself eating healthy comes secondary. Instead, prepare some healthy snacks like fruit or celery sticks. If you really need something sweet to start your journey, try a fruit parfait. Even a homemade muffin is healthier than something you can get from a convenience store.

Once you get to your destination head to the grocery store and focus on foods that are natural. It can be easy to go for the chips and cookies when you’re on vacation, but if you only buy healthy food that’s all you will have to eat. Recipe’s like this Summer Chicken Salad or Crock Pot Pork Adobo are delicious and won’t break your calorie budget.

Once you’ve gotten all your food from the grocery store, it’s finally time to kick back, relax, and get into vacation mode. If you drink alcohol, this might start with your choice of cocktail. To make your cocktail healthier try using sparkling water as a mixer instead of your usual soda or juice. Sparkling water has no calories and mixes well with most clear liquors. A surprising healthy cocktail tip is adding hot sauce to your cocktails. Drinking alcohol increases your likelihood of eating more and hot sauce increases your metabolism and speeds digestion, making your cocktail have less of an adverse effect. Last, try incorporating fruit, like watermelon, into your cocktail. Fruits have fiber and lots of antioxidants to help your digestion.

Our last tip has to do with sweets and desserts. Just because you’re trying to eat healthy doesn’t mean you don’t deserve a sweet treat. One healthy dessert is banana ice cream. That’s right, you can make ice cream from bananas, cocoa powder, and vanilla. Just freeze bananas and blend them. Then add your favorite toppings like normal ice cream! Click here to check out this recipe for banana ice cream here.

In short, vacation is meant to be fun and relaxed but that doesn’t mean you can’t eat healthy as well. With these tips you’re sure to have a fun vacation that won’t leave you with added pounds.