How to Stay Healthy While Traveling

Not to mention, bringing healthy snacks for the flight will prevent you from having to purchase airplane food (cheap budget flights with a menu of snacks like chips and junk) or a flight with no food offerings at all, which will result in you having to find something to eat at the airport after your flight.

It would be quite beneficial for you to bring some fruits and vegetables from your local market in reusable containers. Food containers for travel made of stainless steel, such as the EcoLunchbox, are leak-proof, environmentally friendly, reusable, and plastic-free food storage alternatives for long journeys.

Prepare meals in advance of your trip to save time and hassle.

After mentioning the fact that we prepare a lot of meals, we’ll explain how we do it.

We prioritize having a kitchen in our accommodations while doing our search.
The presence of a kitchen is essential for us, therefore we prioritize this feature whether looking for Airbnb flats, listings on Booking.com, or hostels on the internet. If necessary, we will contact an Airbnb host directly to inquire about the kitchen’s components, such as if there is a burner or a stovetop. There’s no such thing as a rice cooker. If so, are there any culinary utensils?

Then we search for the location of the closest market so that we can get started with our purchases.
When we were in Mexico, it was really difficult for us to avoid eating tacos (Becca) and tortas (Dan) for three meals a day, but we made an effort to visit the local market and buy fresh veggies whenever we could.

In Mexico City’s center, traditional vegetable markets were simple to come by. But in the Condesa neighborhood, which was more trendy and did not have these sorts of markets as easily accessible to us, they were less common. As a result, we were forced to shop at the contemporary supermarket that was the closest.

Check to see whether you need any more cooking equipment.

Take stock of your kitchen and determine whether or not you need anything. Getting a cutting board and some spoons was a must for us in Hanoi. A fair selection of kitchen products was available at most of the establishments we visited.

It’s important to make informed decisions when it comes to your cooking oils and seasonings.
You have more control over your oil, salt, and sugar intake when you cook at home. Although we prefer to use olive oil for health reasons, when we are in a location where we cannot get olive oil, we use the second-healthiest cooking oil available.

Each of us has our own favorite seasonings, which we both use. Using salt and other flavors is Dan’s preferred method of cooking, but Becca wants to forgo salt and instead use pepper and chile peppers. As spicy sauce, salsa, and chili sauce are favorites of both of us, we purchase these goods (in plastic bottles if feasible) and bring them with us when we travel by bus or train to a new destination.

Rather of snacking on chips or street meat, go for fresh fruits and vegetables instead.
From New York to Vietnam, you may find sellers that sell fruit on the streets in almost every location. Comparing warmer regions such as Central and Andean South America, as well as Southeast Asia, to colder regions such as Europe, this seems to be far more widespread.

Our administration agrees that the street foods are excellent, in fact, they are exceptional. If you get into the habit of grabbing a few fast snacks during the day, you may find yourself in an unhealthy scenario!

When purchasing fruit from the street, we bear in mind that there may be a coating of pollution or dust on the produce. In order to avoid contamination, we wait until we get home before washing fruit picked up on the street.

Farmers markets may be found in a number of cities, towns, and villages. See whether there is a farmers market in your area by looking it up online or asking friends and family.

Beyond the expense of flying, we prefer to eat fresh fruits and vegetables rather than chips and other processed foods. In most countries, you can find cut-up fruit in a convenience store or grocery store if you are unable to locate a street vendor selling fruits or vegetables. Eating fruits and vegetables feels better and aids digestion, and you can usually find cut-up fruit in a convenience store or supermarket if you are unable to locate a street vendor selling fruits or vegetables.

The mangoes and dragonfruit in Colombia, the guavas in Mexico City, and the granadinas in Peru are some of our favorite fruits from the countries we’ve been to.

Shopping for food takes place at local markets and supermarkets.

Markets and grocery shops are among of our favorite places to shop. We like seeing how people buy in various countries, and we consider this to be one of the most interesting aspects of international travel.

There was no produce market in our area of El Poblado in Medellin, so we would shop at Carulla, a local grocery store chain that was owned by a Colombian family. We didn’t have any issues with this, though, since the produce area was enormous, and we were always able to choose the freshest fruits and vegetables in massive quantities.

As soon as we “moved” across town to Selina Mexico City Downtown, we found ourselves right across the street from Mercado San Juan Arcos de Belen, where we spent so much time that we became acquainted with the proprietors, a mother and son who sold dried fruit, nuts, and freshly squeezed orange juice. They were familiar with us as a result of our frequent visits.

During our travels, we make it a point to keep hydrated.

Hydration is essential for maintaining a healthy system. It is critical for our bodies to have enough fluids intake, especially in hot temperatures. This is when drinking enough of water and eating fruits and vegetables that are rich in water content come in useful.

For those of us who consume large amounts of coffee and tea, it is critical to maintain a healthy level of hydration in order to offset the effects of the caffeine. How do we go from this point on?

Because we don’t know when we’ll be able to find a clean water source again, we always have water bottles with us and refill them whenever we can. To avoid purchasing plastic bottles as much as possible (see our sustainable travel advice! ), we always carry our water bottles with us throughout the day.

While traveling, we try to get eight hours of sleep every night.

Despite the fact that we need varying amounts of sleep to operate well, we tend to sleep on average for eight hours, which is a healthy and suggested length of time to be in bed each night. Some factors contribute to our ability to get the necessary quantity of sleep.

Using blackout shades or curtains might help you sleep better.

Thank your lucky stars if you are able to get a hostel bed, hotel room, or apartment rental that has blackout shades. Sleeping through the night is most likely in your future.

If you like being awakened up by the sun, it’s a good idea to keep an eye on the time the sun will rise each day to avoid getting surprised. In various seasons, dawn timings in different cities throughout the globe will change. What this will mean to you may be calculated.

It is necessary to use a sleeping mask when sleeping.

While traveling by air, train, or bus, Becca utilizes a sleep mask to keep the light out of her eyes while sleeping in a room without curtains.

It was in Estonia, where we were traveling on the ‘longest day of the year,’ that we found the sleep mask to be very useful. It was approximately 3:30 or 4:00 in the morning when the sun would come up, and our room would be filled with light far before we wanted to be awake. With a sleep mask on every night, Becca could sleep as long as she wanted while blocking out the light.

Earplugs

When we were discussing travel, we quickly became friends over the need of earplugs. Because Becca sleeps lighter than Dan, we have varied reactions to sounds. When we’re at a hostel or any sort of property where there is noise coming from above, below, or outdoors, we both require earplugs to protect our ears from the noise.

When we were living on the first floor of an apartment in Mexico City, the noise was the most difficult thing to cope with. Some merchants would start rolling through the streets about daybreak in addition to the nighttime work and pavement repaving that took place. I could hear everything clearly! Ear plugs might assist to block out this sort of unwelcome distraction from entering your head space.

While traveling or working from home, make an effort to schedule time to rest and recharge.
Working at any time of day becomes possible when one is not confined to an office atmosphere. Because of the time differences between Asia and the United States, we often find ourselves working on projects in the morning, again in the afternoon, and then at night when our colleagues and customers in the United States log on..

In a way, it’s as though nothing is stopping. We use these remote work and travel techniques to get over the hurdles of remote work and take a little time off to recharge our batteries after a long day.

For activities such as touring, catching up with friends, cooking, and relaxing, we schedule time aside for them in our calendars. Even if it seems to be difficult, since our laptops serve as our workplaces, we may easily get entangled in various sorts of work the moment we connect to the internet.

Going for runs, going on photo expeditions to new locations, sitting down to a new sort of meal, and cooking for each other are some of our favorite ways to take time for ourselves outside of work.

Your questions have been addressed!

In this section, you can find some frequently asked questions and answers on staying healthy while traveling.

Exercise in hot regions may be difficult. What do you do?

The sweltering temperature in Cartagena and Santa Marta absolutely depleted our energy. Spending time outside in the scorching heat and in weather that has a real-feel temperature of 90 degrees Fahrenheit with high humidity is taxing. We walked as far as we could before becoming sluggish, and we were fortunate enough to have a pool to cool down in after that stroll. We

Do you have any tips for staying healthy?

We make every effort to be healthy as much as possible, yet illnesses sometimes occur for a variety of causes, sometimes beyond our control. This may happen to anybody going anywhere in the world, therefore we take a few steps to avoid it from happening.

In order to determine whether or not we may drink the tap water, During our first few days in a new area, we avoid eating fruits and vegetables that have been washed with tap water.

Final point: we’ve learnt to avoid eating fish and seafood in certain situations. For example, in Colombia, we were told that we shouldn’t eat fish after midday since it is less fresh and the likelihood of becoming ill is greater.

Was wondering what you were going to do with all the fresh food and tap water.
We were strongly cautioned not to wash our fruits and veggies in Mexico City with tap water, but it proved out to be perfectly safe for both of us in the long run. We ate the majority of our veggies prepared, but we would wash carrots and tomatoes in the sink and eat them raw sometimes.