Welcome to the Eat This, Not That Podcast, brought to you by Bob's Red Mill.

I'm John Hammond, and my counterpart, Megan Murphy, is off on a well-deserved vacation this week,

so it's just me.

Welcome aboard.

Speaking of vacations, you know, when I was a kid growing up, mine were always a road trip.

We'd pack up the family station wagon and, you know, to camp from

Port Jervis, New York, where I grew up to, you know, the Jersey Shore, Ocean City, Maryland.

And for the most part, especially through most of my younger years, Hershey Park, Pennsylvania,

which was always great. But road trips, when you're a kid, well, they pretty much suck. The car part

anyway. And this was brought to light for me very

recently because we took our first road trip as a family with my two young boys. I have a nine

year old and a five year old. And we had our first real road trip recently. We had to drive from our

home in Connecticut to a wedding in Youngstown, Ohio. So we got to experience the harsh reality of road boredom for

nine and five-year-old and, and for my wife and I, for Natalie and I, for the most part, up close and

personal. It's been a while for me, but thankfully, my wife was super prepared and she was prepared

for the way to best manage a road trip

and that's to make sure you have the right foods on hand because you're locked in your car

you're on a highway you don't know what to expect you don't know where you're going to hit

you don't know what kind of foods might be available and so you've got you've got to pack the car

smartly and that's not just like not

forgetting your underwear. It's making sure that you have a good, smart variety of snacks, not

just for myself, not just for her, but for a nine-year-old and a five-year-old whose tastes can

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