My husband and I go to Arizona every spring and stay for a week. It's a 6 hour drive, but we pack a lot of our own food for the trip so we won't have to eat every meal out. We usually freeze water bottles and start off with some frozen food in the cooler. When we get to the hotel, we put as many of the water bottles as we can in the freezer of the little hotel fridge. We also bring big ziplock bags that we can fill with ice.

We bring almonds, protein powder in individual servings in ziplock snack bags, yam cakes (see recipe section), grilled meat (yam cakes and grilled meat we usually freeze beforehand so they can help keep the cooler cold) cheese sticks. Then we buy other things we need wherever we are staying. We will buy deli meat, rotisserie chicken (if you belong to Costco or Sam's Club they have good rotisserie chicken), cukes, carrots, celery etc. We only stay at places that have a refrigerator and a microwave in the room. I eat gluten free bread, so I usually pack my own bread. For breakfast, I do a combo of a simple shake and the complementary breakfast. We make and pack a lunch because we're often out hiking and want to be able to just sit down somewhere outside and eat. Then we usually go out to dinner.
Allison

: Any suggestions on what food to pack
: on a very long road trip? Will be
: driving from So Cal all the way to
: Maine. We will be staying in
: motels. I find if I eat more than
: one meal out in restaurants per
: day I don't do well. I will be
: taking things I can zap in the
: microwave as most rooms seem to
: have them these days. Like
: potatoes and sweet potatoes. Also
: I will be bringing avocados and
: bananas. Cans of tuna and salmon.
: Have you ever done a long trip?
: What did you pack? Thanks!