12 Foods To Keep In Your Car At All Times

12 Foods To Keep In Your Car At All Times Keeping food in your car can also help out with a number of other emergency and semi-emergency situations, such as low blood sugar, heat exhaustion and just low energy. Soit really makes sense to keep food in the car, even if you’re not thinking bug out or getting stranded. Now the only question is, what to keep? Here are the types of things I find useful to keep in mine. WATER I always start out by putting a couple of gallons of water in the car. I know some people prefer to use bottles, but I find that I can carry more waterin less space, if I use gallons. If I need to drink that water, I can easily pour it into water bottles; but if I need to use it for the car, gallons are more convenient. The water bottle in this picture is aluminum. Ialways use metal water bottles, because they can be put in the fire. So, I can use this water bottle to purify water, to heat up water for coffee and to heat up water for soup. That’s a whole lot better than using a plastic water bottle and needing to havesomething extra for heating up water. GATORADE POWDER I live in a hot part of the country, so it’s not unusual to overheat and become dehydrated from sweating too much. Many people deal with that hereby drinking copious amounts of Gatorade. Carrying liquid Gatorade in bottles is one option, but it takes up space. Since I’m carrying water anyway, I tend to carry the powdered Gatorade, rather than the bottles. JERKY My favorite snack food is jerky. Nutritious, low calorie and it is meat; what more could you ask for? The American Indians made jerky as survival food andour early ancestors learned that from them. While there are other places in the world which make something similar, our jerky tradition goes back to those early Indians. Jerkyalso provides you with something that you can make a meal out of. Mix it with Ramen noodles and come dried veggies and you’ve got a fairly decent soup; something that can keep you going and warm you up on a cold night. Justremember that you will need to replace your jerky periodically, if you don’t eat it. Heat will draw the oils out of it, drying it even farther. RAMEN & DRIED VEGETABLES Good old Ramen is the college staple. I think every college student goes through a time when they live off of it. It’s a great source of carbohydratesto give you energy to keep you going. Mix it with some cut up jerky and some dehydrated vegetables and you can have a much heartier soup. DRY FRUIT Speaking of carbohydrates, fruit is another excellent source for them. If you have someone with low blood sugar, giving them fruit is much safer thangiving them a candy bar. The natural fructose sugar is much easier for the body to digest and won’t shock their system like candy will. Dried fruit also provides you with something that’s easy to take along, if you haveto leave your car for any reason; whether due to emergency, taking a hike or for work. A bag of dried fruit in your pocket can keep away hunger pains for the whole afternoon. CANNED FRUIT Canned fruit, like dried fruit, is a great source of carbohydrates and sugar. Some people prefer it. I wouldn’t want to carry this around in a backpack,due to the extra weight; but last I checked, that much weight isn’t going to bother anyone’s car. These mandarin oranges and applesauce are “canned” in plastic cups, with foil lids. That works well for short-term canning;but not for long-term. Canned fruit can be much more refreshing than dried when you need something to eat. GRANOLA BARS I’m almost as big a fan of granola bars for emergency food as I am of jerky. It’s worth spending the money to buy the better brands, even though theyare considerably more expensive. But the amount of nutrition you get from those better brands makes them worth the money. Granola bars are great, in that they are an ideal pick-me-up sort of snack, packing a lot of carbohydratesinto a small amount of food. Watch out for the ones with chocolate or yoghurt, as those ingredients can melt, making a mess for you to deal with. NUTS & SUNFLOWER SEEDS Nuts are a good source of both fats and protein. Of all the nutrients we eat, protein is one of the most important, as the body can’t really synthesizeit well, without having consumed proteins to break down into amino acids. Fats digest slower than carbohydrates, providing you with long-term energy to burn. Eating a combination of fats and carbohydrates together will keep you going for hours. I always keep sunflower seeds on hand, as well. Like nuts, they provide you with protein and fats, but they also do something else; they help keepyou awake. If you’re driving long distances, especially at night, eating sunflower seeds while you are driving will keep you active! HARD CANDIES & GUM These might be a bit surprising, but I have good reason for keeping them in my car. First of all, hard candies are great for that quick burst of sugar,when you need some energy. They’re a whole lot safer to eat than taking energy drinks too. Peppermint is also useful for settling an upset stomach or relieving pain. Peppermint essential oil is one of the best ways torelieve headaches there is. So if you’re in pain, have a headache or have indigestion, mints are nice to have. The gum isn’t as much for use as candy, as it is for relieving the pressure in your ears, when changing altitudequickly. If you’ve spent any time traveling by air or in the mountains, you’re familiar with the need to pop your ears every once in a while. Chewing gum helps with that. It can also help to keep you awake while driving at night, just like the sunflower seeds. BREAKFAST CEREAL This is for the kiddies. If you have small children, breakfast cereals, especially sweet breakfast cereals are one of the easiest ways of quietingthem down, when they are hungry. Not only do they like the taste, but they like eating the cereal out of these cool little containers. Yeah, you can put it in baggies too; but for the price, these are worth it. DORITOS Many people have touted Doritos as a fire starter. Actually, what they are is a good tinder for a fire. The combinationof the dried corn and the oils they are cooked in, make the chips burn well. You can even ignite the with a spark, let alone using a flame to get them going. If you don’t need them for a fire, I suppose you can alwayseat them. Doritos, like any other chips, are a good source of carbohydrates. Being made of corn, rather than potato, they probably digest a little slower; so they’ll help you feel full longer, than if you were just eatingpotato chips. SPICES This is another one that you might think is a bit strange; but there is good reason for it. Whether you’re in an actual survival situation or you’re just stranded somewhere, there’s a goodchance that you’ll end up eating things that you might otherwise not want to eat. But when you’re hungry, you go for what’s available, right?Rather, bring some spices with you, sothat you can make it more appealing. It’s amazing what you can do with just a few spices, especially if they are stronger flavors that you like. HTTP://PROPHECY-WATCHER-WEEKLY-NEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM