Sugar Free Traveling
Alex and I went to Southern Ohio this past weekend for a family reunion. It was so much fun spending time with my parents plus my extended family! It was also a great excuse to test out my selfie stick for the first time.
Maybe a little blurry but I’d call it a success.
Alex and I decided to keep up our little sugar free experiment through the weekend and I definitely learned a few things about traveling sugar free:
Nuts were my new best friend. We packed almonds, pistachios, cashews, and peanut butter with us and we ate these often. They’re portable, tasty, and actually kept us full. (They were also one of the few healthy snacks that didn’t require refrigeration.)
It’s easy to eat too much salt. Any snack that isn’t sweet is probably pretty salty. We ate a lot of popcorn. We also snacked on pretzels… which are basically empty carbs and probably not much better than sugar. Whoops! We did eat a few clementines and things like that, but we were trying to keep our fructose low so it meant we ate lots of salty snacks.
Eating out is impossible. Ok, not impossible. If we were in Brooklyn or San Fransisco, they’d probably have some paleo cafe with quinoa, kale, and no added sugar but when you’re in the middle of no where in Ohio, your options are limited. Sometimes pizza was our only vegetarian option and there was probably a bit of sugar in the dough and sauce but I wasn’t about to interrogate the server. We had to make some unintentional compromises but we avoided sugar when possible.
I turned down a lot of sugar. Cookies, cake, milkshakes, chocolate, crackers…. And I also realized that I don’t even care for things like french fries if I can’t have ketchup, so I ended up making healthier choices because of that, too. It made me realize how often we’re offered sugar!
I think we’re going to keep this sugar free experiment up a little longer but we’ve already learned a lot about sugar free grocery shopping and sugar free cooking!
Sugar or no sugar, this weekend was awesome! Not only did we have fun catching up with family, but one of my cousins had a surprise wedding! They set up a simple ceremony and my great uncle performed the wedding. It was awesome! Definitely a fun weekend! For more sugar free posts, check out these:
- The documentary that inspired our sugar free experiment
- Our sugar free grocery list
- A day of sugar free meals part 1
- A day of sugar free meals part 2
I can imagine it is SO hard to stay sugar free when you travel, especially being a vegetarian. Pizza or pasta are usually the only options we can find when we’re not near a larger city. But honestly, I have a hard time avoiding sugar no matter where I’m at. I have a major sweet tooth. 🙂
It sounds like you guys did a great job though. And I love that last picture of you two. You look amazing!
At least you are in it together! Family aways means food I think – because we all want to feed our families.
That wedding sounds lovely, I think keeping it simple and about the couple and their close loved ones is the essential thing. Avoid the hassle and stress and focus on what’s most important 🙂
Awesome trip 🙂 It’s so true you never realize how much of anything (weather salt, sugar, carbs, etc). is around especially during the summer or holidays! Keep the posts coming, love to see your sugar-free progress!
Love that last pic of you and Alex! Kudos on keeping up the sugar-free efforts. I was completely out of character this weekend and made an ice cream sundae, so….guess I need me own sugar detox, haha.
i didnt realize the whole deal about fries..i feel the same way about fries.
I saw this popcorn recipe earlier. I think it’d work perfect for an evening snack or even made into some sort of trail mix with nuts. Here’s the link: http://www.howdoesshe.com/easy-and-delicious-coconut-oil-popcorn/
Way to keep at it! I bet it’s nice to have an accountability parter- so nice!
I am so impressed by your will power! You don’t even want to know how much sugar I consumed this weekend. I seriously need a sugar cleanse in order to break myself from this habit.
Your hair looks seriously amazing in that last picture too!
The last picture is definitely frame-worthy! That must have been awesome to find out you were at a secret wedding.
Great job sticking to it. I’m sure having a partner helps. And speaking of partner, that’s a great photo of you two!