Eating healthy while traveling

I'm not sure how often you travel, but my hubby and I travel all over the country for his job and sometimes we are in a specific place for months at a time and sometimes we are just there for a few weeks and when you have health issues and need to eat a certain way, it gets a bit complicated as to where and what you eat on a daily basis.

I have a few things that I like to carry around with us when we travel to and from jobs that helps me to stay true to the way I like to eat, because I don't know about you, but I would rather have my own cooking than to eat out all the time. Don't get me wrong, I love to eat and eating out all the time would be great, but alas...my body does not feel good when I do that and lets me know in a huge way that it does not like certain foods, so I've had to come up with a way to eat well while traveling and food that is also good for me while we travel.

I carry with me a really good crock pot, a George foreman grill, and a couple of pots and pansthat aren't too big and bulky to carry around. I also bring my nutri bullet with me everywhere because we all need a smoothie, right?  I love my smoothies because they get into me things that I really need more of, like fruits and veggies and supplements that help my body to feel better.

The places we usually stay have kitchens in them, not full sized kitchens, but you know, a couple of burners, a fridge, and a microwave and they never have ovens, so another little miracle I drag along is my toaster over...I like to call it my easy bake oven, it's more fun that way and sometimes we need to bake up some goodies, right?

I have quite a few recipes that I'm going to share in the next post and also, if you can, get out to a farmer's market and buy up what you can of your favorite veggies and fruits, they can be chopped and frozen for later use. I try to buy organic whole foods so that I know exactly what I am putting in my body and I try to keep it simple, but delicious. It doesn't have to be a complicated meal in order for it to be good. I try to make everything from scratch and id I can't, I usually just go with the healthiest alternative that I can find, I'm still new at this a learning as I go, but it is the most important thing to me, other than my kids and grand kids, that I eat as healthy as I can. It is daunting just trying to figure out how to deal with all the health issues that I have and to just feel human most days. So until next time, I hope I've helped in some way and have made some sense..I'll be posting some of my favorite recipes to use on the road and I'll be traveling again soon and adding that into my posts as well. Go out and be the sunshine in someone's day!

Here is a pic of beautiful Oregon Coast, which is where we are now!

Thank you Lord for giving me a sense of humor!

Whew! It's been a bit since I've been here to post anything...my life, once again, has taken a turn for the crazy! I've been so sick for the last two months with bronchitis and pneumonia...again...for the umpteenth time and I am rally getting sick of it...no pun intended. I have now had an added illness of Intrinsic Asthma, as if I needed another one, but yes, two months of tests, doctors and medications and here I am, still unable to breathe well and still trying to get well and feel good.

I really do thank the Lord everyday that I was blessed with a really good sense of humor, otherwise, I would probably be dead or in prison. I have to laugh at myself and my life in order to keep from jumping off a bridge or killing people when my hormones are out of control, but really, I do feel blessed, I have a great hubby that supports me, even when he doesn't understand what's going on in y body, and I have beautiful kids and even more beautiful grand children that are the light of my life, so no...death or prison just won't work.  They all give me something to keep on keeping on and for that, I am truly grateful.

I have decided that this new thing that has me down, for now, but not out, will just have to get over itself and I plan to fight it all the way, just as I do with everything else, and get myself healthy again through good food and exercise...this post is short, but just wanted to say that no matter what life throws at you, you can still have a great life and you can still fight it with everything you have. Stay true to yourself and be good to your body and good things will happen. Remember, life is short, shorter than we realize and we have to just choose to be happy and move forward, no matter what this bitch we call life does to us!