 guys welcome back to my channel it's been really long since I've filmed a sit-down video and it feels really really good to actually sit down and talk to you guys so off late I've been uploading a lot of travel videos I hope you guys have caught and watched all of those videos I'm traveling yet again I'm currently in Vietnam it's me and my husband here and we are here for about seven days so in this video I thought I will share with you how I take care of my health when I'm traveling so this video is especially for those people who love to travel but who are also very concerned about their health and really want to take care of their health for me the whole approach to taking care of my health when I'm traveling is always to sort of is always to sort of find that balance you know the balance between enjoying the local food and enjoying the local treats plus at the same time you know taking care of your health and sticking to some basic rituals so this video will have a lot of such information and I will share with you how I prepared for this trip from India what are the things that I carried from India and what are the things that I bought here so that I could take care of my health and my husband's health so let's get right into the video and let's start right away the first step I have for you is that to prepare beforehand so when you're doing your bookings make sure that you either book an Airbnb or you book a service apartment which has a kitchen and the reason for this is that when you have your own kitchen and in your own cooking space it kind of becomes easier to manage your health otherwise you will be eating out all the time so I'll just give you a quick tour of this place that we are in and I'm going to show you what are the things that I carry from India and what are the things that I bought here so this is where we are staying it's a pretty basic setup so you have a table here that's the bedroom but the part that I really wanted to show you guys is this so we make sure that you know there's some basic kitchen setup in place then we are staying for more than a week so here you can see that there is an induction top there's a fridge and there's a microwave which is pretty much enough to you know take care of your basic food I've just kept the basic staples which are carried from India so this is a poha this is I made this at home so this is basically like instant poha you add hot water and the poha is ready I leave link for this I leave the link for the recipe for this below I carried some rice with me because some days you know it's just nice to have plain rice and curd and also some dalya and of course a packet of instant noodles just in case of an emergency so these are the basic things which are carried from home apart from that what I do is whenever I visit a place I usually go to the supermarket the first day and stock up on some basics so I went to the supermarket yesterday and I got milk I got some yogurt and I also picked up some fruit so we are coming to a country where there are lots of fruits which are very very easily available so I got some pineapple and some mangoes so in this way it becomes really easy for me to plan both our meals and depending on my husband's schedule and my schedule for the day I know that these are the options that are available for me to eat at home and these are the options that I can go out and eat so when you have both the options with you it kind of becomes easier to balance out your meals and to plan your day tip that I try and follow when I'm traveling is to have a really light breakfast and the reason for this is that breakfast is usually the one meal when you're still in your Airbnb or when you're still in your apartment so this meal I try and keep it as light as possible breakfast I usually prefer having a fruit this is because when you're traveling you know you tend to forget to have fruits so it's good to get one serving of your fruit in first thing in the morning because then you get all your essential vitamins minerals and more importantly fiber which is I think something that we totally miss out when we're traveling so what I like doing is having breakfast in the house and keeping it really light by either having fruits or having some yogurt or having milk so in this way not only is it easy to prepare it's healthy but at the same time I'm making sure that I get at least one serving of fruit into my body the third tip that I follow when I'm traveling is to stick to my basic routines as much as possible so the routines that I'm talking about are things like drinking warm water in the morning taking my supplements having my apple cider vinegar in the night I know it's not easy and it's very tempting to just get lazy and to skip all this but I think that it does make a difference so I actually carried nimbu and apple cider vinegar from India because I know that if it is available with me I'm more likely to have it and if I do not even carry it there's no chance that I'm gonna go out buy these and you know stick to my routine and that's what even you can do so you might have different routines you might have a routine of you know say having maybe funny in the morning or you might have some other routine that you follow religiously when you're back home so when you're traveling as well try and make that little extra effort to carry your supplements and to carry the things that you leave with you so so that you can follow the same routines when you're traveling the fourth tip that I follow when I'm traveling is a very basic one but I think this is extremely important and that is to drink water now obviously when we are traveling water is expensive most of the times you need to buy water and we are so busy doing a lot of things that we just forget to drink water moreover most of the you know hotels or service apartments yeah will give you tiny bottles like this which are obviously you know they don't last long so you eventually run out of that so when I'm traveling what I like to do is that the first day when we are here like I mentioned I like visiting the supermarket to stock up on the basics and I also usually pick up a big keg of water like a 5 liter or a 6 liter keg of water this is because of two reasons number one is that it is obviously cheaper than buying multiple tiny bottles like this and of course you consume less plastic and the second reason is that once you buy a keg of 5 or 6 liter it's good enough to last you for at least two to three days depending on your family size but it makes sure that you have water available with you so that you see the water you're reminded to drink water so like doing is carrying water with me when I am stepping out of the house so whenever we are out so obviously when you're traveling you tend to be out almost the entire day so I usually carry a backpack with me and I make sure that I have at least two bottles of water filled and kept with me so just the sheer weight of having that bottles on my back is enough to remind me to continuously sip the water and the last tip I have for you is about striking now when you're traveling and you're moving around so much you tend to get hungry it's natural I am all pro for trying the local food and the local cuisine I love doing that but I also feel that it's good to come prepared with some of your own snacks from home so for this tree for example I'll just show you the snacks that I prepared and came from India so guys these are the snacks that I carried from India these are basic atta cookies salted ones makhana this has been made at home I carry some mixed nuts with me so in this I have mixed almond and walnut and I like you can see there's an entire packet of this and I also like carrying chickpea because chickpea something which gives you instant energy and it's also fun to eat so there are two types of chickpea and just for emergency I have a yoga bar now I do not like the taste of yoga bars to be very honest and I try not to eat them but this is just an emergency you know like if there's nothing available at all and we are starving then we can have yoga bar and one more very interesting thing which actually my mom made for me and which I usually carry when I'm traveling are these white fruit laddoos so these are basically laddoos made up of dates and mixed nuts they're extremely healthy they give you a lot of energy and they're so simple to carry when you're traveling so like you saw these are the snacks that I got from India and trust me it wasn't very difficult all it required was a little bit of planning and a little bit of time but it made the entire trip so much convenient right because I know that any time if my husband is hungry or if we are out the entire day and we do not find anything to eat especially if you're vegetarians it can happen that if you are in a country like Vietnam you know veg food isn't easy available so instead of just consuming anything or consuming bad food it's better that you consume the snacks that you got from home and which are made in your house so guys this was a video on how I take care of the health of me and my family when I'm traveling so in this video I just shared with you the basic things that I like to do when I'm traveling and like you and you must have realized that these are very very simple basic things nothing fancy nothing complicated about it and this is something which you too can implement extremely easily so just to give you a quick summary and a quick recap of what I spoke in this video basically I mentioned that when you're traveling plan your travel a little bit better so that you book either a service apartment or a Airbnb where there's a kitchen and a small cooking space easily available for you so that at least one meal a day if you can have at home if you want that is no compulsion if you feel like having a meal at home you can do that the second thing is to carry enough snacks with you so that in case food is not available or good food or good quality food is not available you're not starving and you do not end up eating anything which is not good for your health you always have your snacks with you the third tip is to drink enough water make sure that you stock up on water please do not rely on tiny bottles like this which are kept in the hotel rooms they're just not make sure that you buy a big keg of water with you and keep it with you in the room fourth tip is to consume at least one serving of fruit a day preferably for breakfast because breakfast is usually the time and you have more control over your meal and you are more likely to be in your apartment the last one was to maintain simple basic health routines that you follow back home like drinking lime water drinking your apple cider vinegar and taking your supplements so I hope you found this video useful if you have any more routines or any more tips that you implement when you travel please share that with me in the comment section below it would help me out and it would also be good to have a discussion on what more we can do to take care of your health that's all for today's video thank you so much for watching please remember to hit the subscribe button if you haven't done that give it a thumbs up and of course hit the bell icon so that the next time I upload a video be it on travel minimalism or productivity you are notified of that all right signing off for now thank you so much for watching I'll see you in the next one bye