161. Traveling With Kids Made Easier: Food, Road Trips & Screen-Free Activities

Traveling with kids can feel overwhelming, especially when you’re trying to keep everyone fed, entertained, and happy without relying entirely on screens or fast food.

In this episode of Beyond the Crops, Jena and Mary Pat are talking about their best healthy travel and road trip hacks for families. They share tips for packing food through airport security, traveling with kids, keeping road-trip meals simple, and finding ways to entertain kids without handing them an iPad for the entire trip.

They also chat about 75 Hard, healthy eating, protein goals, canning salsa, farm life, and the realities of keeping up with healthy habits during a busy summer.

Whether you're heading out for a family road trip, flying with kids, or just looking for easier ways to keep your family fed while traveling, this episode is full of practical ideas you can actually use.

In this episode:

•  Healthy foods and snacks to pack when flying 
•  TSA rules for traveling with food, ice packs, and breast milk 
•  Easy road trip meals for families 
•  Road trip organization and reducing car messes 
•  Screen-free travel activities for kids 
•  Travel scavenger hunts, books, podcasts, and Yoto players 
•  How to keep kids entertained without constant screen time 
•  75 Hard and creating healthier habits 
•  Canning salsa and preparing for harvest season

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Thank you to the sponsor of this episode, Fieldview. Both Jena and MP have used Fieldview on their farms for the past several years and it's been an integral data and decision making tool for their operations. 

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