Favorite Snacks on the Go

During the week I am always on the go. I regularly drive 60 miles a day, sometimes I drive 100 miles a day. That means if I don't have time to get in a meal because I am gone for too long, (and now you can see why I drink a smoothie as a meal nearly every day!) I have to rely on portable snacks to get me through.

Portable snacks are tough because nearly everything we considered snack food was made of grains, and fruit is just too full of carbs. This is my new snack stash.

String cheese, beef jerky and nuts. I made the beef jerky myself and soaked and dried the nuts as mentioned earlier. All are good sources of protein and fat and very low in carbs.

However, even with the best planning sometimes we are stuck and someone (usually one of the kids, but occasionally me) is just starving. I keep a stash of these in my glove box at all times:

All Larabars are grain free and they come in a dozen flavors. Looking at the label, they do differ significantly in protein/fats/carbs, and they all are mostly carbs because of the large amount of dates in them. However, they are completely grain and all grain byproducts free, and they pack a whopping 200+ calories, so they do the trick in a pinch. And best of all, they keep in the glove box quite nicely!

Any paleo snack tricks you'd like to share?