Eating on the Road

August 15, 2010 ↓ Comments (0)

Real food

I’m currently in a motel after the first day of a long distance bicycle ride to protest the BP oil disaster. When I asked the front desk attendant about where to get some food within walking distance (I’m tired of biking and I have a flat), she directed me to the “pretty decent” food mart at the Texaco across the street.

I went across the street but every single item they had for sale was pre-packaged junk food products. They did have a few sandwiches but they were microwavable long-shelf-life kinds of scary things.

I asked the cashier if there was a deli nearby. She looked at me and repeated, “Deli?” I said, “A place with sandwiches and stuff.” She directed me to the Quick Mart (I think it’s called) located inside the gas station at the bottom of the hill where she said they serve nice sandwiches and a salad bar.

The Quick Mart did have some natural foods. The salad bar looked like the condiments selection of a Subway sandwich shop but was really neat was the fried food display. They had all kinds of brown, crispy things including egg rolls, chicken and corn dogs! There were also FIVE machines for making flavored, sweetened ice drinks.

I ended up with two hardboiled eggs, carrot and celery sticks (didn’t touch the Ranch) as well as a small bag of potato chips and some potato salad. Mayonaise often has added sugar or HFCS which I didn’t even consider until tasting it.

It’s always a chore to not eat sugar on the road.