Those who have taken road trips with DC...

what snacks and stuff do you bring?

TIA!

Message edited 11/22/2008 1:50:55 PM.

Re: Those who have taken road trips with DC...

we drove to NY when miki was 16 months. We brought goldfish, fruit, water, juice, chips, etc

it was doable but not fun by any means

Re: Those who have taken road trips with DC...

we didn't take a road trip - but we flew to Italy with Jack.

I brought lots of fruit with us - since he's obsessed with fruit.

Puffs
Animal Cookies
Goldfish
cheerios
cereal bars
apple sauce - the single containers

Re: Those who have taken road trips with DC...

We drove to FL in March. DS was 14 months.'
We brought:
Goldfish Crackers
Cheerios
Yogurt Melts
Cereal Bars

We also brought:
Toys
Portable DVD Player

Re: Those who have taken road trips with DC...

Ummm...we brought every snack in the house!
Cheerios, raisins, cereal bars, animal crackers, banana, orange (peeled in a ziploc before we left)
Juice, water

I brought books, stuffed animals, a talking elmo book and a portable dvd player and we didn't use the dvd player - he liked to "find" things outside - like trucks and cars and we did colors etc.

Re: Those who have taken road trips with DC...

We've gone to Vermont (7 hrs) and to DC in a hurricane (8 hrs)

I brought her regular snacks (gold fish, animal crackers, cheerios), plus Pirate's Booty, rice cakes, and ...that's it I think. Just something different for the novelty, KWIM?

Stopped at Friednly's and Cracker Barrel (not places I would normally go to but figured they would have stuff she'd like and they did).

Re: Those who have taken road trips with DC...

We take a lot of trips and even drove to FL. We take a cooler with yogurt, sliced cheese (cause my kids will eat it in their hand) water, juiceboxes and whole milk for my littlest one. Then we pack a bag kept within reach of fruit(fresh or in cups), cheerios, goldfish, granola bars, chips, cookies, whole grain cinnamon raising bread or mini bagels. I often bring pbj.

For long car rides I definately use my portable dvd players, but keep an easy to reach bag of activites near my older one. That includes a new color wonders book, stenciling book, his leapster, sa couple of action figures or cars, a magnadoodle. I always try to take all of these things away a few weeks prior so that my ds is excited to see them again. I am also sure to pack new coloring books. I use these in restaurants on vacation too.

For my dd, I packed a whole bunch of little toys in a bag near me and handed them to her one at a time and basically prayed that they both would sleep. The trip to Fl was not too good with a six month old and we ended up doing the bulk of our driving through the night so that she would sleep. We are hoping for an easier time this Dec when we do it again!

Re: Those who have taken road trips with DC...

We took a 3-4 hour trip to penn. and brought lots of stuff. Although she slept for about an hour each way and was way better than expected so we didn't even need everything I brought.

Snacks:
Goldfish
cheese its
cut up cantelope
cup of milk and cup of juice
and we stopped for lunch at McDonalds

Plus we brought:
color wonder small book and markers
magnetic play board (from dollar tree)
reading books
movie for dvd player