It was inevitable. Smack in the middle of not one, but two books about food (good vs. evil, french fries vs. carrots), I'm stuck in a car with nothing but a Bob Evans and a Cracker Barrel in spitting distance. I've always felt, though, that one is absolved of eating catastrophes on roadtrips — if ever it's okay to eat a couple of McNuggets, it's in a rest stop on I-95. I'll be honest, I usually start out a road trip with a bag full of virtue: apples, string cheese, seltzer, the Economist. But at the first sign of a service area, my mouth waters, and before I know it, I'm picking sunflower seeds out of the seat , slurping a Red Bull, and reading People. Full disclosure: on the way to Pittsburgh this weekend, I had the pleasure of a diet that included:

3 Peanut Butter Buckeyes
1 Bag Jelly Belly jellybeans
1 order Chicken and Dumplings
2 tumblers of Raspberry Lemonade
1 Biscuit with Butter
1 InStyle Magazine

Feel free to share what you're eating in the car on your summer vacation... and consider yourself absolved. If the trip's more then 100 miles, it doesn't count!