So just how healthy are we going to be this Thanksgiving?  Well, we did go to the special grocery store down the road this morning to pick up a roasted turkey roll that came from a free-range, non-hormoned, not pumped up with solutions bird.  Does that count for healthy?  Oh, and does buying an already cooked roast help classify us as being green as well?

Not really but we’d like to think so.  We are also going to do the pumpkin cheesecake, the candied yams, the sausage-cornbread stuffing with oysters and turkey gravy and that’s all going to have to be heated up somehow.  This may not be a good example of healthy living. But it has to be healthy–we are leaving out the mashed potatoes and all that butter!!!

Well if you aren’t going to have the healthiest of feasts this Thanksgiving, then opt for a great and healthy travel day.

For all of you out there who are traveling this holiday to see family and friends, one of the best travel trips we can suggest is to take some healthy nibble food along because today is one of the worst (longest travel day, mostly late flights and crowded roadways) travel days of the year.  The only day worse might be the Sunday after Thanksgiving because it’s also the start of Hunting Season in many states as well as a major travel day.  Don’t be on the Pennsylvania Turnpike after 12:00pm noon that day if you want to get where you are going.

Now what do we mean by healthy nibble food?  Something we like to do besides take organic fruit is put really raw almonds (not the pasteurized ones), organic raisins and coconut chips, unsalted/raw sunflower seeds – all thrown together to give yourself a great trail mix.  This mix is a good way to curb hunger while flying and driving. 

There are also some great raw cacao bars being made these days (we plan to do a product review soon) that give you so many health benefits (read up on anything by David Wolfe) plus they taste great, impart that wonderful theobromine feeling of being in love and help maintain a high energy level.  Who would have thought there were healthy chocolate bars?  And I just heard about a new product–raw cacao brittle.  Have some of this on order – will let you know how it tastes after Dec. 15th.

And to get you through a long travel day, say your money and remain hydrated.  Checkout our earlier blog on how to have inexpensive and healthy water while in the airport (Click here).  Grab your filtering water bottle, your lemon or grapefruit essential oil and your liquid minerals and off you go.

So healthy flying or healthy driving and enjoy that maybe not so healthy Thanksgiving feast,

Mel

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Hello Everyone – Just got word from Jim at JDD Publishing www.bizweb2000.com that this website was being featured in his newsletter about his coaching clients who are completely new to doing business online.  Yes we are newbies when it comes to this website and blogging but we have been receiving great coaching support from him. 

As Jim mentioned in his eGazette, this site was built over the course of about a month using the WordPress Blog Template “Patagonia” and then it was rebuilt in about 5 days for a niche change (we decided to broaden our scope to both Healthy Living and Travel Tips).  Thank goodness for WP because I don’t think we could have pulled off the 2nd rebuild without this template and the techies at Hostgator.  

Has anyone out there gone through this, especially in your first few weeks online?

We have an Opt-in form that is still under construction – Aweber went live yesterday with their new Web Form Generator, so some of that re-build we did this past week, had to be completely re-done again.  So bear with us if things don’t appear quite like you would expect them to be. 

In fact, please leave us a comment below so we can fix anything that looks amiss.  And if you like what you see, tell us that too, so we can include more posts on those subjects.  Our posts here are somewhat long we know but that’s because there’s so much to talk about when it comes to healthy living and you already know that I am a Road Warrior traveling full-time both domestically and internationally.

So with all the stress of this site’s construction, we are taking the weekend off.  We need to return to a Healthy Body and a Healthy Mind(set).  I have been challenged to write about the Top 10 Tips for Road Warriors so we will be doing some thinking while we relax.

Drop us a comment or two on how you are de-stressing this weekend and what’s your best travel tip.

Thanks,

Mel

What do you think? 

For me I just experienced another incident where travel ended up being more difficult because I did not make an attempt to bring along healthy snacks prior to departing.  I thought I was saving myself some effort and going for easy travel.  But the result of that decision was being faced with bad and even worse choices for food and drinks. 

Why did I decide to make the trip easy or what I thought was going to be easy?  Well, quite simply, it’s a hassle to have to bring along another bag which is what I would have needed to do to bring food.  Even with my spinner luggage, another bag means something else has to be carted or slung over the shoulder.  I already had a small carryon, my spinner and my laptop case.  I really didn’t want a 4th bag which meant checking in at least two so on this trip, no healthy food came along. 

But this decision actually made the whole trip more difficult.  Upon arrival in Dallas, I used a shuttle service to take me from the airport to my hotel downtown so I was not the master of my ability to stop at a grocery store and buy food.  The hotel had a restaurant but it was expensive, so I ended up buying snacks and drinks from the hotel gift shop part of the time that were so far from healthy you would laugh.  (Can you spell PRINGLES?)   Not a single orange or apple in sight. 

And my options last night trying to get home from Dallas were  not much better.  It can be particularly difficult to find healthy food once you go through security but each airport is different.  What I found last night after security at DFW was candy, salted nuts and chips, dried fruits with sulfites and sugar, sugared soft drinks and diet soft drinks with artificial sweetners and bottled water. 

I could find no fresh fruit or yogurt other than frozen yogurt because I was running late and didn’t have time to investigate beyond my gate.   There actually is healthier food at DFW, just not where I was.  So that easy travel was not and my energy throughout the trip suffered for it.  Maybe I will bring another bag  next time . . .