Thanksgiving Week Eating

One of my favorite things about traveling is being out of my normal routine. I love to see different places, take in new sights and try new foods. Even if it’s as non-exotic as trying your first McFlurry at a Connecticut rest area McDonalds. But since we have had C eating much, much better than he was a few months ago, I had a feeling that this recent New England Thanksgiving adventure would he hard on his eating schedule.

From home, I packed a bag of Goldfish, two bananas, several Fruitables Peach and Pear juice boxes (I usually just dump the juice in his juice cup, since he likes to squeeze the juice box, but he is learning how to drink from a box and those boxes have Elmo on them), a Tupperware of graham crackers, three things of applesauce, a few Plum Tots pouches, two extra snack traps, an extra juice cup, a milk cup, munchkin spoons, and three extra Gerber bowls with lids for storing leftovers. I put all this food in a reusable grocery bag, and we kept this in the backseat of the car with us. It was easy to have all the food together and accessible for snacking. I also packed some Kashi bars for myself and a bag of Parmesan goldfish for hubby... and of course a reusable water bottle!

That about covered us for snacks for the week. We were at Foxwoods the first night (and they do not have a grocery/convienience store/market on the property) I had to order C food from restaurants. He had a slice of pizza at the food court for lunch, and then some more pizza for dinner from CPK. In the morning, I bought him a bagel at Dunkin’ Donuts and he had some McFlurry when we stopped at a rest area.

When we arrived in Belfast, I was able to shop for him at the Hannaford’s. I bought him a four pack of YoBaby 3-in-1-meals yogurt, and some bread and cheese for grilled cheese sandwiches. And some more fruit. For breakfast he was able to enjoy toast and waffles from the Comfort Inn continental breakfast spread. Here we were also able to fill up his juice and milk cup each day. I made sure to have a fridge provided in each hotel room we stayed in, for storing the yogurt and any leftovers.

I had hoped C would try more things, but he did eat pizza, and have some McFlurry. In general, he did fairly well with eating, but we are still at a point where I feel we have to pack or grocery shop for him, and not rely on restaurants or him trying new stuff.