Airport Strategy ✈️ - Pure or Pret?
Plus kombucha for electrolytes, avoiding kimchi in public, and prebiotics in sachets for digestive health when on the move this holiday season
I’m writing this from a café in the desert destination of Dahab in Egypt surrounded by digital nomads in flip flops tapping on laptops.
I’m visiting one of my children and it took a full day of travel to get here from London.
Which reminded me what an obstacle-course airports are and how the only way to eat well when exposed to them is to have a strategy!
Unfortunatley I was so busy, as is so often the case for us all, in the run up, my forward planning wasn’t really there.
I’ll share with you how I got myself and my microbiome here without resorting to ultra-processed food wraps, toasties, burgers, and Pringles all the way.
Plus what I had when I got here.
I hope this is useful for any of you travelling over the holiday period, and maybe with some pre-thought, some of you will avoid the traps, some of which I fell into.
I’m conscious that many of you are well-aware of gut-health principles - eating a wide variety of colourful plants and live food for a healthy microbiome which helps digestive function, and cross signals with our brain and immune system to operate well.
Having sufficient protein in meals is often a health goal too for many of us - for satiety and muscle mass.
Plus one needs to stay hydrated on the move. This is important for avoiding vacation constipation.
At home avoiding rubbish and eating well can be fairly easy.
But the difficult area for many of us is the IMPLEMENTATION when travelling!!!
I’ll describe my day coming here, what I ate and drank, what I was exposed to, what went well, what went not so well, and hope it helps you too if you are going anywhere soon.
