I travel a LOT. And I don’t mean only on airplanes.

I drive to my cabin and back almost every week. Sometimes I take road trips for Code Red-related business.

Before Code Red, I lived all over the place, and I traveled all over the world during my boxing career. I’ve also been to Europe eleven times.

And what I STILL find, even after all this time spent eating Code Red, is that whenever I travel, I wanna eat…even when I don’t NEED to eat. It’s crazy to me that I STILL feel like eating when I travel!

(Side note to add that thanks to including the Code Red Identity Shift Process to my routine, there have been times when I did not wanna eat while traveling! But more about that another time.)

Convenience stores and airports make it pretty easy to grab crap to eat, too. I’m not saying it’s “wrong” that food’s offered (although I’m not crazy about most of the options).

I’m saying that you’re already feeling like eating (for “no particular reason”), and now you’ve got mountains of junk food, soda, and alcohol being shoved in your face.

On my way back from Salt Lake City a while back, I was shaking my head over the fact I wanted to eat CONSTANTLY while traveling…and I got to wondering why that is.

The conclusion I came to is this:

Eating passes the time.

You just wanna get where you’re going, and if you spend most of the trip eating, it passes the time. It makes the trip more fun and less stressful, boring, and tedious.

That’s not to say you NEED to eat to make the trip more fun. It’s just super easy to do.

This is especially true if you don’t bring your Code Red food with you. It’s easier to justify grabbing the soda, sweets, and chips.

Whether it’s a long drive or a plane ride, bringing your own food is something I highly recommend.

See, when you don’t have to spend bandwidth figuring out what to eat, you’re less likely to grab the convenient crap, and instead stick with your Code Red-approved foods.

Cooking a lot of food at once, and just bringing that with you, is one of many strategies you can use to stay on track while traveling.

It’s just one reason why we’re such fans of simple, easy meal prep and planning on Code Red.

If you don’t know how to meal prep and need an affordable way to get started, go here to check out my Plan, Prep & Log Your Food w/Cristy workshop!