Recipe: Shake To Go Concentrate (SCD/GAPS)

It’s a great idea to make smoothie/shake “concentrates”.

We do similarly with travel. We take any food that we don’t if we can get it where we’re going. I didn’t take ferments the last time, because we knew of a store that where we could Bubbies sauerkraut and pickles. Basically, anything we aren’t going to eat on the plane goes into a cooler (or two – all of us in our family are doing GAPS), and is checked. In order to meet the weight guidelines we only fill it half with food, and then we use pillows or something to fill the rest of the way. They also help to keep things from breaking from being jostled around. We have not flown outside the US, so I don’t know about those regulations. But within the US, any food is allowed in checked bags. You do need to follow the guidelines for carry-on, though, or lose the food. You can take small containers of “liquid” foods (such as yogurt, mayo, honey, nut butter) in your quart sized baggie, as declared liquids. We take a small, soft-sided cooler on board with us for food on the flight. Frozen food helps to keep it cold.

As for plastic, I totally agree about what we need to do to keep ourselves healthy while traveling. We try to get the safest plastics possible, though. We go for recycling codes 1, 2, and 5 (all three are BPA-free), but try mostly for 5. And on our most recent trip, we bought Nalgene bottles (now BPA-free) to pack our yogurt in. And since we raise our own chickens, we broke and whisked up dozens of eggs and poured them into stainless water bottles. When we went to use them, we just measured out 1/4 cup per egg we wanted. That worked very well. Whole raw eggs (not separated) have a substance that prevents bacterial growth for a good few days (they lasted a full week for us, but I don’t think I would use them past that). As they were not totally fresh when we used them, we only used them cooked (in cake, pancakes, and as scrambled eggs), not raw.

Nothing broke except a glass jar that we threw in at the last minute, not thinking about the glass (that also happened to be a cooler that the TSA went through, so the packing was different than we had left it). There were other glass jars that didn’t break. But we were worried about them breaking. We will be more prepared next trip, so that we don’t take glass at all.

Hehe, that got a bit long. This is on my mind, because we just returned from our most recent trip.