Tell Soreen what your go-to car journey snacks are for the chance to win a £300 voucher! NOW CLOSED

[EmmaMumsnet]

It’s the season of holidays and day trips, and that means long car journeys where we have to keep the DC happy. One of the best ways to keep the DC as well as ourselves cheery on a long journey is to make sure we are armed with plenty of snacks. Whether you go for snacks that make the least mess or those that keep the little ones quiet for a while, Soreen would like to know your top snacks for long car journeys.

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So what are your tips for the snacks you take on car journeys? Do you chop up fruit and veg into small pots? Perhaps you have special treats just for car journeys? Or purely go for convenience? Whatever snacks you take with you, share them below and one Mumsnetter will win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck.

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Both my DC like salty snacks on the car if we are on a very long journey or some fruit . Anything else makes them feel sick though recently we've found the little malt loaves and my older one really likes the banana ones so sometimes those or rice cakes .

We don't really eat in the car due to not wanting to make a mess but if we do we stick to raisins and water.

We don't really tend to eat in the car- it seems a bit weird to be honest and we travelled a lot as kids! 3 hours in the car with my Dad after a night shift where we were not 'allowed' (dare not) make a sound and the idea of ripping into crisp packets or opening clippy boxes would have been like mental torture!

We do take water though, we each have a bottle- we never share and the bottles are about 1.5L. They last!!

Mainly raisins and breadsticks. Though I also take handy packs of biscuits as ds has a real sweet tooth. I will also take soreen lunchbox loaves with me - I think they fill ds up better than biscuits. Usually only take snacks on a long car journey though

Depends on the time of day/how long we were travelling. If over lunch I make the kids a little packed lunch in the insulated lunch bags. I would usually do a sandwich, crisps, frube type yogurt, babybel, a cake, a biscuit, cold pizza, quiche, cherry toms (cut up for the 2 year old), breadsticks and carrot sticks with dip, blueberries and a soreen individual banana loaf (honestly). For drinks I just buy a big bottle of water and one of those squeezy things and top up their drinks bottles. There's always enough food left that it can do the return journey as well. If they were travelling between meals a snack would be either peppers, carrots and cucumber sticks with a dip or a babybel or breadsticks with dip or rice cake spread with peanut butter or a piece of fruit or oatcakes with spready garlic cheese. No matter the length of the car journey I would always pack drinks. And always a flask of green tea for me so I can have a hot drink without having to bother with milk and without spending a fortune on coffee at service stations.

in small boxes I always pack sliced apples/grapes and a few lunch box sized snacks are in the gloves box (it is even perfect for me, when I got into a big traffic jam)

Bottle of water, bananas, nuts. not a big fan of snacking in the car.

Breadsticks & crackers - not mess free but at least dry, and savoury carbs rather than sugary. And water

Always have plenty of water and plain snacks that are not sticky or too rich. We usually stop at a service station but will always have snacks in the car too.

As the children got older it's got easier as they can wait longer if there's unexpected traffic and it's also easier to stop off and eat somewhere or they won't have fallen asleep if it's in the evening.
However I always pack drinks - nearly always water in case of an emergency in ahold up. I then grab whatever's in the cupboard but as I say we rarely need to use them now. But would be naked bars or 9 bars, bags of crisps if we have any and maybe washed fruit - grapes, apples etc.

We take fruits, toasts, cheese and dried fruits.

Each year we go to Cornwall for a weeks holiday. We pack a sort of packed lunch kind of thing with Ham sandwiches, Crisps, fruit bags, juice, orange, cocktail sausages. if we are just popping out in the car for few hours then we take buiscuits or cheese twists.

Nuts, crisps, flapjack (my fav) and a big juice bottle. Nothing remotely healthy sadly.

Throwback to what my grandparents gave me - Chocolate Eclair sweets (challenge to see who can make it last the longest - always me!) or Polo mints. The smell still reminds me of my Granddad!

I take a bag with fruit and the kids' water bottles. I'll take a packed lunch (when I'm properly organised) but I prefer to eat this when we've stopped for a break and stretch of the legs.

For a long drive we pack wraps - usually filled with houmous, avocado, grated carrot and falafel. Granny usually bakes us some cookies too, if it's a long trip.
Short trips I have a stock of Bear YoYos or those little packets they do of 'footprints', bananas, grapes.
And Hula Hoops.
I was paranoid about the choking risks too and DS was only allowed to eat in his seat when he was about four and a half, or an adult was in the back with him.

Crisps, crisps and more crisps.
And an apple.
Very little mess, if any.

To be honest I do try to go for 'less messy' options - One of our favourite is a big bowl of dried fruit that we pass around. We often play a game where we close our eyes and guess at the fruit pieces. Apart from that we do like to stop en-route and it is good to let the children out the car for a little while.

raisins are our fave

Oh we're bad parents and do car snacks! Usually pepper sticks, blueberries, oat bars and dry cereal.

We always pack some chopped fruit boxes to keep things somewhat healthy but then as a treat there is the good old pick n mix

If we are going on a journey of over an hour I make a picnic for the car. I take sandwiches, crisps, squeezy yoghurts and fruit bags and flavoured water. I tend to put my little girls in an animal pattern box with a little toy or bubbles so she feels like it's special

If going on a long car journey, I like to pack sandwiches, fruit and water to keep us going.

DS2 gets travel sick, so we try to break long journeys up with a few walks and small picnics, as this seems to help. A few small sausage rolls, crisps etc. We never eat in the car, but always make sure everyone has a bottle of water to hand throughout the journey.

I don't let them eat when we are actually on the move, just in case of accidents/choking - they just have a bottle of water to sip from to keep them hydrated. Carbs before hand to set their sensitive tummies up for the journey. Long journey's though I do stop after a couple of hours, get out of the car for some air and we would have a snack then - cheese & crackers, a little sandwich, some crisps or a snack bar being our main staples.