Hustling and bustling from sea to shore, it’s easy to get sucked in by the convenience store junk that thrusts itself into your peripheral vision as you’re speedwalking from gate A1 to A11. And plane peanuts will no doubt cost $15 per package as the airlines get ever more miserly. So why not do yourself and the environment a favor, and BYORG (Bring Your Own Road Grub)?
Ingredients:
- One huge bag of organic, grass-fed beef jerky (substitutions: turkey, buffalo jerky, elk jerky, tofu jerky, soy jerky.) Keep refrigerated. Remove a handful, and place carefully inside a plastic sandwich bag.
- Several huge bags of dried fruit (pineapples, mangoes, apples, apricots and bananas tend to taste the best.) Crack ‘em all open, then mix them up in a big stainless steel bowl, then dump into an organic storage container. Keep refrigerated. Remove a handful, and place carefully inside a plastic sandwich bag (separate from the jerky.)
- One fat sack of mixed nuts, salted, unsalted or partially salted. Remove a handful, and place carefully inside a plastic sandwich bag (separate from the jerky and dried fruit — though the nuts can make for some tasty combos if you’re feeling experimental.)
Snacks properly assembled, store the baggies in your glove box for road trips or long commutes, or just wait ’til you’ve got a specific mission coming up that might warrant a snackertwo. You save cash because it’s usually cheaper to buy stuff in bulk, and you save the planet because you didn’t contribute to ridiculously excessive packaging that’s too often paired with the “convenient” snacks you might find in an airport or gas station.
