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In July, I took a business trip to San Francisco. In reality, was a conference in San Jose, but I spent time in San Francisco for pleasure. I was about to experience the diabetic travel part of my diabetic life.

It had been a while since I took a flight to anywhere, so I did not know exactly what to expect from the air travel portion of the trip.

Since I am diabetic, I was determined to be as careful as I could about the food that I ate. I was only going to eat low-carb foods in moderate proportions. Well, my best laid plans were soon derailed.

There were some air fare bargains available and I took one. The trip from Philadelphia to San Jose was a one stop flight and the entire trip was supposed to take about 5 hours from beginning to end. What I didn’t count on was a late start from Philadelphia and a missed connection in Las Vegas.

Airline food, on the Las Vegas leg, consisted of pretzels and the beverage of your choice.  A short slip in meal schedule was something that I could deal with, but because of the delay leaving Philadelphia, I was now behind more than usual and did not when I would be able to get normal food. To make matters worse, I had a 4 hour layover while trying to get a connection out of Las Vegas. If you are in an airport and you’re hungry, you tend to eat what is available. Except for salads, there are usually not a lot of nutritional choices.

I am planning a trip to Las Vegas in October and I think I will prepare an emergency snack package.
I’ll include one or more of the following:

• Glucerna snack bars
  – either Fudge Graham or Caramel Nut
• Extend bars — Chocolate Delight or one of several other selections.
• Kay’s natural Non Gluten Kruncheeze — White Cheddar Cheese or one of several other selections.

There are times when the type of nutrition available is out of your control and you risk a detour from your low carb diet.
For those times, a little preparation can avoid the problems that you could be waiting to ruin your day.
Keep healthy diabetic snacks handy for those occasions.