What makes me laugh/scratch my head is (and I’ve mentioned this before in other road trip topics), anywhere we’re driving, it’s between 6-7 hours for the day, tops. Once we get where we’re going, it’s officially Vacation Food Time, so that means restaurants.
For a 6-7 hour drive, that (to me, anyway) means an easy packed lunch of a sandwich, some chips/crisps, maybe some kind of “side,” like grapes/carrot sticks, some little treat, like a snack cake or bit of candy/chocolate, and a drink. Maybe throw in one or two things for boredom snacks along the way.
MrsT, however, packs like we’re going on an expedition and we need to be provisioned for a month, and keep in mind, she’s fully aware that as soon as we arrive 6-7 hours later, she’s not eating anything we packed. Any non-perishables will likely survive for the trip back, but any of the fresh stuff…nope, it’ll get tossed, and she’ll bring loads of fresh stuff - grapes, apples, bananas, celery sticks, carrot sticks, dairy-based dip, lunchmeat, cheese, hard-boiled eggs, as well as pickles and olives, much of which would be fine to hang out in the fridge for a week (it does at home, after all), but the night before, when we’re packing to come home…into the trash it goes - or worse, she fits it in somewhere, we bring it home…then into the trash it goes, “This stuff is old, get rid of it!”
It was so smooth, no bitter.