# Healthy snacks while driving? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Tags:** diet-weight-loss\ **Created:** [October 1, 2024, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/healthy-snacks-while-driving/1008321 "2024-10-01T09:55:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 21
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/healthy-snacks-while-driving/1008321/21 "2024-10-01T16:55:02Z")
Plenty of suggestions (some healthy, some not) in my recent thread: > [@Travel/Road food for car trip, 2024 Edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travel-road-food-for-car-trip-2024-edition/1007173): > > So, as I’ve mentioned in a couple of other threads, I’m planning a long (630ish mile) drive to visit my folks in a few weeks. No fun, but it’s a drive I’ve done several times before. Sadly, unlike 90% of such trips, my wife won’t be able to come with me, so no one to split the driving with. Now, we live in the future, so navigation and in car entertainment can be left to the various electronics I own, but being by myself means that snacking during the drive (I intend minimal stops) is a bit t… I -absolutely- understand the struggle to balance the eating because I’m bored and the eating because I’m hungry, as well as the battle with the aftereffects of junky food (heartburn, sugar rush/crash, etc). Just be wary of the corn-nut concussion! Oh, and long live the Trader Joe’s Peanut Butter Filled Pretzel Nugget Coalition! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/healthy-snacks-while-driving/1008321)._