Business Travel Kit Recommendations On Usage
Daily Actions
- Minimize simple carbohydrates – don’t go to a meal starving
- Hydrate between meals
- Avoid bloat and constipation – encourage beneficial gut flora by consuming fiber, pre and probiotics, and (raw) ferments
- Stabilize blood sugar – eat complex carbohydrate breakfast and snacks
- Improve vitamin and mineral absorption by eating healthful fats such as cold-pressed coconut oil and pasture-raised ghee with meals
- Switch from sugars (including fructose) and manufactured sweeteners (such as sucralose) to very low / zero-calorie, naturally occurring sweeteners such as stevia and sugar alcohols (such as xylitol)
First Night
Each Kit includes one ready-to-heat entrée such as Mother India Organics Dal Tadka. Heat the entrée as directed: emptying the contents of the pouch into a mug and heating in the microwave, microwaving the pouch directly, or, if there’s no in-room microwave, by partially filling the coffeemaker carafe with hot water and placing the (sealed) pouch in the carafe on the heating element. Eat the entrée with the Minsley Cooked Quinoa or with the Engine 2 Organic Crispbread. For a lighter meal, heat the Minsley Cooked Quinoa and stir in some Carrington Farms Coconut Oil and top with some Beanus Red Miso Seasoning and Rhythm Superfoods Kale Chips.
Breakfast
In Your Room
In a mug or a self-serve container, add hot water to a grain and/or seed host cereal mix. Options: add coconut water or coconut water powder; 1 packet of xylitol; and/or dried or freeze-dried fruit. Add one spoonful of SCD Probiotic to a glass of water.
At the Hotel Buffet
Take a mug or a self-serve container of a grain and/or seed hot cereal mix, a tea bag, a xylitol packet, and the SCD Probiotic bottle to the buffet. Ask for two mugs of hot water. Place the tea bag in one mug and pour sufficient hot water from the other into the cereal mix container. Visit the buffet and select unsweetened fruit and/or yogurt. (Fresh fruit such as strawberries and grapefruit is a nice addition to hot cereal.) If available also select a glass of fresh-squeezed juice; otherwise obtain a glass of water. Eschew bakery items made from processed (i.e. non-whole grain) flours; meats, eggs, and dairy not specifically labeled Organic and Pasture-raised; and fried potato dishes. Add one spoonful of SCD Probiotic to the glass of fresh-squeezed juice or water. Add the xylitol packet to the cereal (if it’s unsweetened), tea, or yogurt.
Mid-morning
Take sufficient and appropriate hydrators to your morning activities to enable drinking at least two cups (16 fluid ounces) of water (not including coffee, which contains caffeine, a diuretic).
Avoid bakery items made from processed (i.e. non-whole grain) flours. If fresh fruit is offered, berries, apples, citrus, and cantaloupe (in season) are good options. If not, then bring a satiator such as the Peeled Snacks Cinnamon Apple Clusters or Barney Butter Cocoa + Coconut Almond Butter and Engine 2 Organic Crispbread.
Lunch
Use complementors such as the Beanus Red Miso Seasoning, yuzu vinegar, and garlic granules to enhance green salad, cooked vegetables, and soup. (Soup is usually a much better option than (simple carbohydrates) pasta, potato, or rice side dishes.) Add a Carrington Farms Flax and Chia Pak for fiber, texture, and flavor. The Pak is also nice stirred into cooked vegetables or (breakfast) yogurt. A savory satiator such as the Cruncha Ma-Me Freeze-dried Edamame Veggie Snack or the Rhythm Superfoods Kale Chips or a sweet fruit and seed satiator makes a nice salad addition.
If the centerpiece of lunch is make-your-own sandwich platters with white bread, meats and cheeses of unknown origin, iceberg lettuce, and anemic tomato slices; then double up on the satiators, have a mug of Edward & Sons Miso-cup Traditional with Tofu, and/or roll up satiators such as edamame or kale chips with other sandwich fixings and a drizzle of yuzu vinegar in a lettuce leaf.
Mid-afternoon
Repeat your Mid-morning routine with a hydrator such as the Numi Savory Tea and satiators such as the Go Raw Real Live Apricot Bar or the Barney Butter Raw + Chia Almond Butter and Engine 2 Organic Crispbread.
Dinner
To minimize overeating, at least 30 minutes before dinner eat a savory satiator and drink a glass of water.
Jumpstart your digestion (before appetizers!) with a bitter taste such as the yuzu vinegar on salad greens, a swig of SCD Probiotic, bitters (an aperitif), or a sour xylitol hard candy.
Repeat your Lunch routine: use complementors on green salad, cooked vegetables, and soup; and avoid simple carbohydrates. Go light on the proteins and caffeine – especially if you are within a few hours of going to sleep.
For dessert, have a hydrator such as the Numi Rooibos Chai or Numi Moroccan Mint Herbal Teasan and a small square of chocolate (assuming that you didn’t consume it Mid-afternoon).
Before Bed
Chamomile or mint herbal tea is very soothing to the digestion while a hydrator such as Numi Rooibos Chai or Numi Carrot Curry Savory Tea can cut snack cravings. Consuming a xylitol candy before going to sleep minimizes mouth odors caused by bacteria and reduces the incidence of dental caries, sore throat, and ear infections.