Car snacks?

Question

Tomorrow we're taking a 5 hour car ride with me (13) my parents, and my siblings (9, 6, 4, 2, and 2 month old twins). We will be eating breakfast and a morning snack in the car. Then stopping for lunch. What are some good ideas for breakfast and morning snack in the car? Preferably non-messy. And the twins are set. They have their bottles at 6:00am (still at the house), 9:00am, and 12:pm.

Answer 1

Cereal bars and individual juice boxes for breakfast. For a snack you could bring animal crackers or graham crackers.

Take some small bottles of water. For some reason kids drink more water on road trips.

Back before DVD players for the car and such I came up with some ideas that worked pretty good with small kids on a road trip. I got little brown sandwich bags and put little dollar store type toys in them. I set a mile limit and allowed the kids to have a suprise every so many miles. Like you may want to try every 100 miles. This kept the kids from asking for snacks so much, since they were looking forward to getting the next suprise.  I also made an audio tape of a couple of their favorite movies.  They listened, imagined the movie and quoted it with the tape all along the way.

In the bags at least once along the way, instead of a toy, their bag can contain their animal crackers and drink.

It really is a lot of fun and the point is that by the time they get bored with one toy they can start anticipating the next bag. Instead of hearing, "are we there yet?" a million times, they ask "how many more miles to the next suprise?"

It worked wonders with my kids. You sound like an incredible sister.

Answer 2

Car food

Pop tarts are always good.

Bananas

Honey nut Cherrios in a lided bowl.

I always eat a peanut butter sandwich when I'm in a hurry and if I feel like it I put banana slices.

Answer 3

For breakfast, granola bars, muffins, and some fruit.

Make sure they have bottled water for the trip.

For a snack, fruit, crackers, pretzels, granola bars, (keep a trash bag in the car for wrappers and cores/peels) and juice in a sippy cup for the two yr old and juice boxes for the older ones.

My parents bought a big box of granola bars at Sams before we went on a long trips, and thats all we had for snacks and breakfasts with bottled water even in  the hotel and we were pretty content.

Oh keep baby wipes with you, because the fruit will make their hands sticky.

Thanx for the Best Answer by the way!!!

Answer 4

chips for you and even the twins can usally eat chips as long as they arent hott or too hard. snack foods like the little debbie snacks or small brownies, cookies, small cheese cubes and cut up sausage or meat. pretzels and anything else thats a finger food.

Answer 5

Breakfast:

juice boxes

dry cereal in fingers (you can even pick everyone's favorite kind, then mix them in a big bowl and then put it in ziploc bags so each person has a bag of their own)

individual servings of milk

cereal straws

pop-tarts

grapes

bananas

snacks:

most of the same stuff

cheese and crackers (the kind in the little packages)

goldfish crackers

graham crackers

gummy bears

freeze capri-sun drinks, and they will still be cold most of the day

lunchables or something similar with crackers and cheese and meat and stuff

Answer 6

breakfast: bagels or muffins

snack: fruit (cut ahead of time in individual ziploc bags/tuperware. grapes, strawberries, blueberry are the least messy)

have fun and wear your seatbelt!