Chickpea and cubed ham salad (a little lemon juice, olive oil, garlic, diced cukes or broc or green peppers, etc); pasta salad (veggies, kidney beans, black beans, cubed mozzarella cheese, Italian salad dressing); chicken salad (celery, pecans, grapes, 3:1 plain Greek yogurt:mayo); rolls and pre-assembled meat fillings (German bologna, pepperoni, salami, pastrami) and pre-sliced provolone, red onion, etc.; nuts, esp. cashews and almonds; string cheese; boiled eggs; individual Ritz crackers packs; Goldfish or Pringles; Pepperidge Farms cookies.
I know this does not check any âhealthyâ boxes :lol: but Mr HH and I always make pepperoni rolls for a long road trip. Super easy: store-bought bread dough portioned into small buns, wrap the dough around a stick of pepperoni (and you can add some cheese if you want) and bake. Very tasty, your fingers donât get messy, and it keeps very well over multiple days in a cooler.
I bet you could experiment with other (ie more healthy) fillings.
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Your post sent me to google âprep a cooler,â and I learned some things, so thank you!
Apparently it is not best practice to load a bunch of lukewarm things into a cooler, drive for an hour until you find a gas station, pour in a bag of cubes, and leave the cooler in the sunlight on the back seat. Who knew!! 
Actually it has been at least 15 years since I went on a road trip with a cooler, and even longer since I car-camped a bit in my 20s. Back then, my general cooking and housekeeping skills were nil at home, let alone on the road. I remember I ate a lot of peanut butter sandwiches when I traveled.
Iâm heading off to join some friends for horse camping next week, and will see how well I can prep my basic Coleman cooler!
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Hmm, my DH would love these for camping since they could go in the backpack for the day and not spoil. Any particular brand of dough that youâve works best?
theyâre not fussy. Just whatever your grocery store has in the frozen aisle.
I have been the queen of carry-in at the KHP functions.
I like salami/cheese in pita pockets. Same - no fuss no mess, less likely to spoil in a few hrs. I think the pepperoni dough stix sound wonderful. Red pepper humus with red pepper slices, carrot stix. And a noosh of red wine to go with. And nothing to carry âout!â
Just donât pull what someone did at a clinic.
After building everyoneâs expectations about something special, they had everyone wondering what delicious stuff they were going to have.
When it came time to eat, that meal was, barbecued goat?
Someone fished out of somewhere an old baked ham for those that tried that goat and found it lacking, practically everyone there.
I have to say that maybe goat is good cooked some other way, but that one, cooked as it was, very few finished their plate and no one had seconds.
Whatever someone is kind enough to fix, be sure it is something most anyone would, if not like, at least be able to eat.
Oddly barbecued goat is not that.
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You can buy an adapter to plug into an outlet.
LetItBe
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I âborrowedâ HHâs idea- sort of- for a clinic tomorrow. I bought pepperoni sticks, but instead of dough to bake I bought cheesy buns and Iâm going to push the pepperoni through the bun
And Iâm going to keep it in my travel fridge, which does have an adapter plug like @LetItBe posted, so I may keep it beside me in the stands 
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Yup I do! I already thought both of them were pretty cool but now I want to be parked next to them at a show! Lol
P.
I am absolutely terrible about recipes, because I mostly just open my fridge and say âhmmmm⊠what can I make out of this?â LOL. I made a really yummy blueberry muffin, but altered some of the ingredients, made a crumble topping, and cooked it in a loaf pan bc I forgot I threw out my older muffin tins⊠could I recreate it? Likely not. Friends have been asking me to start a blog for years!
My friend is over the moon with her âgourmet horse show experienceâ so I am pretty happy. I broke down the grocery bill into serving sizes or percentages on an excel sheet, so I only charged her for what I actually used, plus an extra 5$ for things i had already had in my kitchen (i made the muffins, protein balls, pasta salad and quinoa salad almost completely from items already in my pantry or fridge) She laughed at my A type personality and didnt respect the bill at all, put her own surcharge onto it, or tip. Whatever you want to call it.
I expect everyone here is jealous.
That must have been some fine dining and best, it was a good friend that made it.
