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.

Here's what Soreen has to say: “Our Lunchbox Loaves - or ‘Glovebox Loaves’ - are individually wrapped, healthy and best of all they don’t make crumbs! So are ideal for in-car snacking whether you’re heading to the countryside or the zoo. Available in Malt and Banana flavour with a satisfyingly squidgy texture, Lunchbox Loaves are individually wrapped, low in fat, contain only 95 calories and provide a source of fibre.”

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.

MNHQ

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My DD (10) will throw up every six miles if not supplied with tic tacs or mint imperials. So we take them.

Also water.

I am not a fan of kids eating in the car due to all the mess, but we do pack a picnic in case of breakdown or delays. Usually I pack water, canned soft drinks, crisps, cookies and something easy to eat and not too perishable like brioche rolls or croissants. Last week we set off on a 2.5hr journey up to visit my parents and the clutch went on the minibus after just over an hour into it. The picnic stash really came into its own while waiting for the AA. We had been saving all the room for a big Chinese buffet at a restaurant near my parents so everyone was very hungry too. I love Soreen so I will definitely look into packing some next time!

No snacks on the move as we have two DC prone to car sickness but we usually have bribery of a snack when we stop. Anything individually wrapped is always easy to pack.

I don't have in car snacks. Stop on the journey often to fill up.

We like to keep it healthy so goji berries, pumpkin seeds and banana chips.

I haven't thought about Soreen for a long time but you've reminded of how much I love it. Shall stock up!

we do a lot of traveling in the car from Scotland to Devon with our 3 boys aged 4,2 and 1.
The car trip can take a good 12 hours and apart from juice or milk we tend not to have food in the car for the kids, id rather stop some where and let them out of the car to eat.
The other half and myself will have a coffee when we stop so the only thing you would find in our car is maybe the off mint or toffee for us adults.

On long car journeys we tend to travel at night so as not to need snacks but for those times we do have to travel through the day we tend to opt for bananas and cheerios

water and crisps

Always pack good variety but space them out during the journey generally getting sweeter and naughtier as the journey goes!

We start with things like breadsticks and frozen yoghurt tubes/pouches serve well at suppressing thirst and cooling things down.

Crisps and sweets appear later on in the journey when they are getting really bored!

Non messy is the first requirement! No chocolate or anything with too many crumbs. Bear yoyos are good, mini bags of breadsticks, aldi do individually wrapped brioche. I hate cleaning my car, so snacks are reserved for emergencies!

On a long journey reaching a particular place is traditionally marked by packets of crisps

Whenever I wave my niece and nephew off I always sort them out there special boxes - in them goes a handfull of raisins a small bunch of grapes - strawberries for my niece and popcorn for my nephew - its something I started when they were very small and its become kind of tradition.

It depends how long the journey. I liekd the kids to pick out their fave bits bt sometimes we will do a treat stop!

My snacks for car journeys are : wafers, fruit bars, bananas, crisps, gingerbread men -for the travel sickness and cheese sticks. As long as it's quick and soft, not easy to choke on, It works in the car.

We don't have snacks in the car to eat on the journey because of safety and mess concerns, also we don't snack full stop. But Soreen makes it into our picnic bag in the car... does that count?!

From a young age, my girls have always loved a car picnic and they enjoy a mixture of ready-made snacks like Dairylea Dunkers and boxes of raisins to fruit. Once, I even bought a ready made tray of sandwiches and scones which went down a treat!

It needs to be non messy and not a choking hazard! I used to think little boxes of raisins were great until I attended a paediatric first aid course and became aware of the choking hazard they pose! So I tend to opt for things such as little pots of dry cereal like cheerios.

we tend to take a variety, sandwiches, crisps, fruit, chocolate, sweets and water.

Individual little bags of cookies, bananas, water, goodies bars.

Full on pack up/picnic, here as we tend only to use the car for longer journeys.

So, sandwiches, or whole loaves of bread, hunks torn off and wiped in the butter, hard boiled eggs, fruit, treats (chocolate,flapjacks, cheese strings/babybel (yup, really), sweets, water/squash/juice.

Bugger healthy - it's very much a rare treat.

Whatever my son wants - normally water and maybe a little sandwich - I'd rather give him the choice of what he actually wants to eat

bricohe :)

We have fruit and nut bags nothing stinky as sometimes they get dropped

Small sandwiches, fruit salad in small tubs and bottled water.

Mine have always suffered from travel sickness, so it is boring dry biscuits and water. Couldn't risk anything else.