Road trip meal ideas

I love granola bars, home made cookies or, cold pancakes (yum!), Cheese sticks, pretzels, fruit!, Lots of water

I do a thing I call "Quinoa Qrunch". It's quinoa, chicken tenders, shredded cheese, chopped up carrots, cherry tomatoes and sliced bell peppers. I pack it in those plastic square containers that are supposed to be disposable but everyone reuses them. The drawback is that you do need forks!
If the kids aren't interested in eating quinoa you could probably try cold noodles, I'm gluten free so I haven't tried that. I'm also allergic to legumes so I don't put peas or beans in, but that could be a good change too.

We take bread rolls, fruit, vegetables, cracker biscuits, rice cakes, sandwich meats, cheese slices and an assortment of nuts. Peanut butter can work well (assuming you aren't allergic to it like my daughter). Cereal that can be eaten as snack food while being reasonably low in sugar is another thing we always pack. Each morning we would all have a zip lock bag of goodies which contain said cereal, nuts and fruit to nibble on as we are travelling.

I have found out that eating oily fatty foods and sweet foods too much when travelling seem to leave you feeling unwell. The kids are more prone to car sickness at it is harder to stay alert. These are convenient but not ideal.