25 Easy to Pack Travel Snacks

In our family, there is meal time, and there is snack time, and it often feels more importance is given to the latter. We have found that nothing satisfies a child (or adult) on the verge of a meltdown more than a quality snack. Here are some of our favorite choices for snacks on the go. Some of these work best if you have a cooler and don’t have to deal with TSA, others work well with any mode of transportation. Hopefully, even the pickiest of eaters and most food allergy sufferers will find something to satisfy them on this list.

12 Best Travel Apps to Take on Vacation

When I think back on my first trip abroad, I am amazed I even survived. There were no cell phones (we used calling cards), no e-mail (snail mail had to suffice), no fancy translators (I had to use phrasebooks and fancy hand signals to communicate), and I had to read paper maps! Travel today is delightful compared to twenty years ago, but we have become more dependent on technology as we travel the globe. I hate to think what would happen if we ever lost our phones on vacation, but I know the apps we have found help us on every step of our journey, and we would truly be lost without them!

Universal’s Islands of Adventures – The Other Orlando Theme Park

If your kids love Harry Potter and super heroes more than princesses and cartoon characters, Universal’s Islands of Adventure could be the place for you. People often overlook this Orlando attraction, but it actually delivers on some things where Disney falls short. However, it does fail in some rather important areas, namely rides suitable for the little ones and a lack of food allergy awareness, which is a problem for our family.

Universal Studios Islands of Adventure is a theme park that is easy to manage in a day. There are seven “islands”:

Walt Disney World – Know Before You Go

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Disney World is one of those vacation destinations people are magically drawn to over and over again. I happen to be one of those people and this past spring break we made our third trip to the Magical Kingdom in the last seven years. That makes me sound like we LOVE it. Let me be clear. I do not love it. I tolerate it. We spend boat loads of money to visit multiple theme parks, pull muscles we didn’t know existed, and suffer through endless lines and crowds of people.

This year however, was different. We had new companions on our adventure, my parents, Gamma and Papi. It was great to have reinforcements. In fact, every family should have them. A vacation to Disney World can be a lot of work, but a lot of fun happens along the way.

10 Things to Know Before You Go:

Traveling With Food Allergies – Challenging But Not Impossible

HOW TO BE PREPARED WHEN TRAVELING WITH FOOD ALLERGIES

Traveling when your child has allergies can be a scary proposition.  Each restaurant you enter is a potential threat to your child.  When you grab a snack, it is no longer an easy choice, you must carefully scan each label to make sure the product does not contain something that could cause your child to have a reaction.  For those of us who have children with allergies, this is the world we live in.  We can choose to be proactive, or we can stay at home and never leave again.  Believe me, in the beginning, I wanted to choose the latter.  It is a scary world out there for children with allergies, but after many hours of research and multiple discussions with doctors and other parents, I realized it was ok to take my child out into the world and let him taste it.

Here are some things we have learned about how to stay safe on the road when you have a child with food allergies: