What kind of food to pack for the beach
Anything but hot foods to eat in the heat. You can pack about anything you like and pack with ice packs. Smoothies in personal 2 - 3 oz cups with lids will work, fresh fruits, chopped carrot sticks, simple sandwiches, sandwich spreads (chicken or tuna salad) cut in 4's. There's all sorts of things you can do. If you are doing an overnighter, you may want to make some kabobs ahead of time and you can put them on the fire while at the beach.
I pack an ice chest with beer, fruit juice, sandwiches, and chips.
Can you be more specific? For an afternoon at the beach? For an all day at the beach? For grown ups? For toddlers? For teens? For a week or 2 hours? What beach and what are the amenities there?
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For what it's worth, we live about 20 minutes from the beach. We normally only go for a few hours at a time. I take a small cooler bag with ice/packs, and peanut butter cracker packs, peanuts (shelled, individual serving bags), goldfish crackers, and bottled water. 2 each... one for on the beach, one for in the car on the ride home, and when the kids were small, one for rinsing the salt out of eyes when they'd come grab a snack after swimming.
Many people take sliced watermelon. It's like drinking water. ;)
But if you are going for an all day, or 4-6 hour afternoon, I would pack light sandwiches, extra drinks (including an electrolyte beverage each), and a full sized cooler with lots of ice.
Food for the beach should be easy to access. Make sure you also take a cooler to keep it in, as well as a garbage bag to hold the trash. Another good thing to take is a bottle of baby powder. Nothing worse that trying to eat something and getting grains of sand as well. Even though we would rinse our hands in the water, we still have grains of sand so we use the baby powder to get it off.
Whatever food you like that is portable. We always take chicken fingers (easy to eat and still taste good cold), sandwich ingredients (make them when you want to eat or they get soggy), apples and grapes, go-gurts, fruit cups, pudding cups, chips, crackers and cookies. Tons of soda and bottled water and water flavorings. Also a pack of baby wipes and baby powder will get the sand off your hands and feet. If you are there at night you can roast hot dogs over the fire. Good luck.
If you don't want to deal with much in the way of ice packs, these things keep well:
- PB&J sandwiches or wraps, turkey/cheese/cucumber matchsticks and spinach wraps
- string cheese
- pre-cut cheese cubes/slices and crackers
- veggies & hummus (carrots, cucumber slices, celery, green/red pepper slices all scoop up hummus well, cherry tomatoes are easy to eat in one bite).
- peanut butter in celery sticks.
- apples cut with 4 cuts so that it looks like a tic-tac-toe board from the top. The core will be in the center "square". Reassemble the apple and wrap or even just hold it back together with a rubber band, and it won't turn brown. You can also put peanut butter or any nut butter in place of the center core.
-grapes
-watermelon wedges
-orange wedges (provide juice and fiber). Kids are used to those because they serve them at the soccer games, track meets and so on.
- water in sturdy, reusable stainless steel (not plastic!) bottles. We either put ice cubes in it, or if we plan ahead, we freeze a few inches of water in it (about 1/4 to 1/3 of the way up). Then we top it off with cold water when we are ready to leave, and the bottles serve as ice packs we can then drink! They can also be refilled at the water fountains at the beach. You could also do this with juice, although we find the sugar makes everyone thirstier. You might mix some juice (frozen at the bottom and then top with plain seltzer if kids like something carbonated.
We don't take any chips/crackers in little snack bags, and we don't take sandwiches in ziploc bags - the bags end up all over the beach and the seagulls sometimes get them stuck on their beaks. We use plastic containers with lids (with several sandwiches in one, for example), and we stack the empties to come home or use a few for things like apple cores and orange peels. Some of the beaches we go to have ZERO trash cans, on purpose - they give you a plastic grocery bag when you pay the parking fee, and you have to take all your trash home with you. Keeps the beaches very clean, with no overflowing trash cans.
Um, whatever you like to eat?
Pretty vague question.
Are you talking about a day trip to the beach and snacks to take to the beach?
Are you talking about overnight trip to the beach and food you make in your hotel or condo?
Pretty simple, just choose healthy snacks and fruits and have an ice chest or access to refreshments.
If you are talking about the latter, make sandwiches, utilize the hotel microwave and fridge for snacks.
Fruit/fruit salad, crackers n cheese, water of course :-),light sandwiches.
Cold stuff in a cooler that won't spoil if it's near or at room temperature but better cold than tepic.
crackers, fruit snacks, grapes, juice boxes, water bottles, carrots, PB&J sammies, cheese sticks, go gurt, apples, protein bars, and any other snack item that my kids are favoring at the time of the trip.
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Lots of drinking water - we always get very thirsty at the beach or on the boat.
-sandwiches
-chips
-fruit (apples, bananas & cut up fruit)
-carrots/celery & ranch
-lots of bottled water
-you can keep tubs of cole slaw & potato salad cold in an ice chest
-sliced salami, sliced cheese & crackers
-cookies or brownies,
-green salad
-bring bowls, paper plates, plastic utensils, napkins, beach towels, blankets &
umbrellas to sit under, life vests for little kiddos
Usually a cooler with veggies smoothies and fruit, crackers, and an endless supply of drinking water.
We like corn on the cob, watermelon wedges and cherries. Cheese cucumber olives cherry tomatoes and rustic bread. Water with lemon. Tabouli hummus and carrot sticks
