Seven Days, Seven Salads

Since I am hitting the road this weekend (via car rather than running) and will be traveling for a good portion of next week, I thought it might be a good idea to challenge myself to eat at least one salad a day for the next seven days.  I don't know about you, but often when I travel I use it as an excuse to eat way too much junk food.  So for once I'm setting out with a plan, and instead of saying that I won't eat any french fries or jelly beans, I'm framing this as a positive goal.  I'm going to load up on seasonal veggies and/or fruits at least once a day in the form of a delicious salad. 

Since I had to go into campus this morning to run some errands and to have coffee with a faculty member in another department who had wanted to read my dissertation, I figured the easiest way to kick off this seven days, seven salads challenge was to have lunch at the Panera on campus.  I tried the Tomato, Mozarella and Basil Salad.  It was pretty good, although if I have that same salad in the future I'll skip or at least cut back on the croutons, as they constituted almost half of the calories and 1/3 of the fat grams in the salad.

Do you also tend to make more unhealthful food choices when you're traveling?  What are your tricks for getting in a variety of fruits and vegetables while on the road?