Individual Oatmeal Packets Can Stave Off Travel Hunger Pangs

You can’t count on having food on your flight, and if you do have it, there’s no telling about the quality or cost.  Hotel mini-bars usually have crappy food at outrageous costs.  And room service is sky high as well.

If you’re hungry you don’t have a lot of options, unless you bring along something with you.  And with all the baggage restrictions and costs these days, packing food can be both impractical and expensive!

While I can’t control most things about my travel schedule, I’ve found that my tucking away a few individual packets of Quaker Instant Oatmeal, I know that I will always have something hot and relatively healthy at hand.

The individual single serving packets come in a box of 12, and can be made with boiling water, or by adding water and microwaving to the boiling point.  If you can get water hot enough for tea, you can get water hot enough to make the oatmeal, even though it technically isn’t at the boiling point.  I’ve made oatmeal by getting hot water on the plane, as well as by heating water in a coffee pot in my hotel room.

Tuck a few packets into your carry on bag (or purse) and you can keep hunger pangs at bay – at least for a little while – as well as avoiding junk food choices.  Great for kids and adults.

Available at your local supermarket in a variety of flavors.  (The maple and brown sugar is my favorite.)

Image credit:  Quaker Oatmeal