Jetting off for weekend getaway or planning and end of summer road trip? Hit your local CVS Pharmacy before you go and pack some no-mess and no-fuss travel snacks to curb your hunger, and keep you energized! Lucky for me, a box of travel snacks from CVS arrived for me to review just before our beach road trip last month.
When you are on the road and it hits you – the powerful hunger of a snack attack – you want to be prepared. When I travel by plane, I seem to always be cutting it close. There is never time to stop for a (over-priced) bite to eat at the airport, so I always keep a bag of trail mix or dried fruit in my purse. There is nothing worse than arriving to a hotel at 9pm feeling jet lagged AND hungry.
Packing for a family vacation or weekend getaway can be such a chore. I am always worried that I have packed too much or not enough. God forbid should I forget to pack a cell phone charger or somebody’s tablet. I even had to pack for the dogs for our beach trip. I think the dogs had more gear in the car than the humans. So, being able to grab some no-fuss snacks is a real time saver and one less thing to worry about.
For our beach road trip we had a delicious variety of CVS Gold Emblem Snacks, including:
Gold Emblem Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers (a favorite of our 2 traveling dogs!)
Gold Emblem Cheese Sandwich Crackers
Gold Emblem Mountain Blend Trail Mix (Becca’s favorite!)
Gold Emblem Asian Blend Trail Mix
Gold Emblem Greek-Style Yogurt Coated Cranberries (deee-lish!)
Gold Emblem Wasabi Peas (Grandma Laura’s favorite!)
Gold Emblem Banana Chips
Gold Emblem Virginia Stadium Peanuts
Gold Emblem California Raisins
Our 3.5 hour road trip with kids and dogs might have felt more like 10 hours, if it hadn’t been for these delicious snacks that kept everyone happy. My best tip for packing travel snacks is to keep it simple. Stop into CVS for some delicious and filling snacks such as trail mix, cracker and dried fruit then place them in a small plastic bin for easy access on the road.
CVS has everything you need to satisfy your family’s hunger while traveling. The #ExtraSavings you get when shopping at CVS can’t be beat. When you stop in to CVS for some travel snacks, be sure to shop with your CVS ExtraCare Card and earn 2 percent back in ExtraBucks on all your everyday purchases. I shared a bit more about the CVS ExtraCare Program on the blog last year, if you missed it.
Happy travels!
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Do you have a favorite travel snack? How do you keep the family happy on the road?
One lucky About A Mom reader will win a delicious CVS Gold Emblem Travel Snacks Prize Package, including all the Gold Emblem products you see featured here in this blog post! Giveaway is open to the US and ends on August 13, 2014 at 11:59pm EST. Good luck!
We like popcorn, cheese sticks, crackers and fresh fruit as travel snacks.
i like to pack candy
We like to pack cookies and chips. Because we often get a craving for something sweet, we pack fruity snacks like skittles or starbursts.
we love carrot sticks on the road. not messy!
We really like to take dried fruit and nuts on the road.
I love popcorn on a road trip
Trail mix is one of the best car snacks I think, there are so many kinds and they have lots of protien to fill you up.
i love bringing bags of cherrios and trailmix
We pack grapes and nuts. Easy and better for you;)
I love to bring jerky and crackers on a road trip.