what's your problem? just eat same stuff as always, meat, fish,
vegetables etc.

vegetables do not go bad that quickly. so stock up on them and on
canned meat/fish perhaps.

I usually buy something to take with me to the airport/plane.

Usually I eat what I took to the plane. Maybe parts of the dinner
offered, as well.

just take food with you. cook it well and put it in ziploc bags while
it is still hot, refrigerate immediately and take it to the trip in
this form. It will survive 10 or so hours easily. Your mom should have
taught you that much.

you do not have to. Just take your food with you or buy it where you
are staying. Grocery stores abound.

it may never be a good time for just that.

The problem is not real but imaginary. Take food with you on the
flight from home, buy food at your destination, and buy some food for
yourself on the back flight. It is neither difficult, nor time
consuming and is likely cheaper than airport food.

i

I travel almost every week of the year and have be Low carbing for
that year.

In airports you can order the cheeseburgers and discard the bun or at
breakfast time order the bacon and eggs without the hashbrowns or
toast. Also if your careful you can eat the chinese food (e.g. beef &
broccoli).

In the restaurants you can order fish or meat and ask for a double
helping of vegetables instead of the mashed potatoes.

In some of the nicer restaurants, I have asked them to fix me a plate
of sauteed vegetables. You're at their mercy, however, when they price
it.

This NG has listed a number of major restaurants that are LC friendly.
I especially like Subway's chicken and bacon wrap for lunch.

You shouldn't have any problem staying on your WOE even when
traveling.

Roger

When flying, I usually take some nuts. (No, I don't mean my traveling
companions...) I've also taken mozzarella sticks, since cheese is fine
without refrigeration for quite a while. But I don't take cheese any more
- cheese and chocolate can generate "false positives" with bomb-detection
machines. See:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/29/national/main534615.shtml

At the airport, if there's no other choice, you can always get a sandwich
and just don't eat the bread.

I eat out at least 5x a week for either lunch or dinner, and always have -
even when still on Induction (and before any restaurants in my area were
offering LC-tailored meals).

What you do for food when eating out is the same as what you'd do at home -
eat allowable foods.  Most any restaurant is willing to make substitutions
for you - more veggies rather than a potato, etc.  And LC menus are
available at many chain restaurants (Ruby Tuesday, TGIFriday's, O'Charleys,
etc).  You can also get a good salad with grilled chicken at most fast food
places, plus some of them are also offering LC burgers wrapped in lettuce
instead of a bun (Burger King, Hardees, etc).

For on-plane snacks, I usually take nuts (cashews, macadamia, almonds).  You
have to be careful with that on Induction though, because nuts have more
carbs than meats and LC veggies, and are also _very_ easy to overconsume.
For a situation where you may have a couple of shorter flights strung
together (where they don't serve in-flight meals and without enough layover
between flights to grab something at the airport), I honestly would
recommend one of the LC bars over nuts, really.  Yes, there are sugar
alcohols in the bars, yes they are 'junk food', but you are also a lot less
likely to overconsume them without realizing that you have done so - and I
find that they keep hunger away (for me) longer than a comparable amount of
nuts will as well.  (However, if you haven't eaten anything with SA's in it
prior to now, I would *not* try them for the first time on an airplane, LOL.
Try one at home first and make sure it doesn't give you terrible gas or
diarrhea).

For the hotel, you will probably be eating out unless you're in a suite.
Don't be afraid of restaurants, just make good choices.  Ask them to leave
off the bread, pasta, starchy veggies, etc (or see if they'll sub for you
with acceptable alternatives).  If they won't leave them off or make
substitutions, then just don't eat them, <g>.  Most portion sizes in
restaurants are generous enough anyway that you can get a full meal even
without eating everything they bring you.

For breakfast I'd suggest trying to find a Waffle House, Denny's, or IHOP
(most of them are open 24 hours, so you can get breakfast if you can get
yourself up early enough for it, <g>) rather than trying to skip breakfast
or make do with the hotel's continental breakfast (which is usually nothing
but bread and pastry).  Just be careful at IHOP, because their omelettes are
made using pancake batter mixed with the eggs, unless you specifically ask
them not to or ask them to use egg substitute instead of real eggs (this
only applies to the omelettes, their plain eggs don't have batter mixed with
them).  It's not a huge amount anyway, but if you're on Induction it could
be enough to bring on cravings (and not knowing for sure how much they use,
it's also hard to count the carbs).

Chinese, Mexican and Italian places are probably the toughest when it comes
to finding something acceptable to eat, but it can be done.  Chinese beef
and broccoli is okay except for the sauce, and even with the sauce isn't
horribly off-plan.  Wonton soup (without eating the wontons - the soup stock
is essentially either beef broth or chicken broth) is good.  Most Chinese
buffets have salad bars as well.  Italian places often have steak on the
menu as well as all the pasta dishes, and also often have meal-sized salads
on the menu.  You can even have pizza and just eat the cheese and toppings
off the top.  Mexican, you can get fajitas and not eat the tortillas, or get
a chile relleno and scrape off the breading.  Or get a taco salad and don't
eat the tortilla shell (and ask them to leave off the beans if they are an
ingredient).  Most any other type of restaurant is easy, because most of the
rest have several beef, chicken, or seafood entree choices that are
acceptable - and broccoli is often one of the vegetable choices as well.

HTH!

Stargazer
Atkins since Apr '03
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