Ready to eat snacks
There are a few companies that produce snack-type food we can eat. But it used to be that brands would stay pretty much the same year after year. Now however, products come and go in the blink of an eye. Companies merge, formulas change, brands disappear. Today an item has no preservatives or artificial ingredients. Tomorrow they decide to change the recipe and add bladder burners like monosodium glutamate or aspartame. That’s why I’m a little hesitant to name products… this article may be around long after the manufacturer has changed the recipe for the packaged food. So please check labels for ingredients your bladder can’t tolerate, no matter what I say here! Also bear in mind that everyone is a bit different, so these are just suggestions for products to take a look at. The items have been suggested by various IC patients and not everyone will be able to eat every one of these.
With that caveat, here are some packaged snack type foods that (for now at least) are good to take on trips:
- Triscuits; Original and Deli-Rye only
- Pringles Original potato crisps (in a red can)
- Potato chips; Kettle Chips natural gourmet potato chips, lightly salted only
- Pretzels; Snyders of Hanover, Old Tyme, regular
- Salted cashews; Costco’s Signature brand has no artificial ingredients added
- Marshmallows, plain white
- Carob-coated malt balls; from Whole Foods Markets
- Orville Redenbacher popping corn, plain (Comes as kernels in a jar. Not the microwave bag-type); prepared at home. Corn may bother a few who need low oxalate.
- Tostitos white corn restaurant style tortilla chips, plain. (Corn may bother a few who need low oxalate.)
- Corn Nuts, original flavor. (Corn may bother a few who need low oxalate.)
- Bubbie’s dill pickles (No acid, no preservatives. In the refrigerated section of the market)
- String cheese or mozzarella strips
- See’s candies; white coated cashew brittle (for those who can tolerate a little white chocolate)
We can also assemble some other nutritious snacks quickly. The veggies are good just dipped in a bit of salt, or with a dip (see recipe from my cookbook below): Black olives, carrot sticks, celery sticks, whole radishes, red bell pepper strips, whole roasted almonds, bananas, blueberries
