Forums: September 2011 Kickstart Forum: Travel
Created on: 09/08/11 09:14 AM Views: 690 Replies: 5
susan3032 Joined: 09/08/11 Posts: 1	Travel Posted Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 9:14 AM I've been eating a vegan - oops, whole foods, plant based - diet for 2 years, and I will never go back. That being said, one of the biggest challanges I have is when my husband and I travel - especially on vacation. What I have to do is #1) find veg friendly restaurants, #2 )keep a bag of nuts,fruit, crackers etc. for snacking and #3) try to focus on the people and places were are visiting and not the food, which is not always easy. A few months ago, I pretty much lived on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (yuck) while we traveled around Yellowstone Park. Vegan options were very scarce, but we did manage to find fresh (albiet not organic) fruit at several places. Salad, pasta and grilled veggies are always a standby option, but it gets old really fast. We also found one restaurant in Cooke City that made an interesting vegan dinner for us. There were a few really cute places in Jackson Hole, just south of Yellowstone that offered vegan plates. In a few days, we'll be leaving for Greece. I'll try to record of where I ate, what I ate and at the very least, share some stories. Oh, if there's anything that anyone can add, I'd really appreciate it.
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LaniMuelrath Joined: 12/30/09 Location: California Posts: 561	RE: Travel Posted Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 9:39 AM susan3032 wrote: I've been eating a vegan - oops, whole foods, plant based - diet for 2 years, and I will never go back. That being said, one of the biggest challanges I have is when my husband and I travel - especially on vacation. What I have to do is #1) find veg friendly restaurants, #2 )keep a bag of nuts,fruit, crackers etc. for snacking and #3) try to focus on the people and places were are visiting and not the food, which is not always easy. A few months ago, I pretty much lived on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (yuck) while we traveled around Yellowstone Park. Vegan options were very scarce, but we did manage to find fresh (albiet not organic) fruit at several places. Salad, pasta and grilled veggies are always a standby option, but it gets old really fast. We also found one restaurant in Cooke City that made an interesting vegan dinner for us. There were a few really cute places in Jackson Hole, just south of Yellowstone that offered vegan plates. In a few days, we'll be leaving for Greece. I'll try to record of where I ate, what I ate and at the very least, share some stories. Oh, if there's anything that anyone can add, I'd really appreciate it. Hi Susan, Greece! Yellowstone! What fun. Tell you what, we travel a lot to places quite remote so I have a lot of experience with this one! Even in Greece, depending on where you are staying, you should be able to find even an open market with vegetables and fruits. Potatoes and carrots. Are you staying where there is a fridge? If not, you could even pick up a cheapie cooler while there. will you have a kitchen while there? Even a hotplate? Take a lb of brown rice with you. Wholegrain pasta travels well too. You should also be able to find some lentils or beans to cook, or travel with a starter supply. Cruise the dried foods section at your natty foods store. You can pick up the dried low sodium McDougall instant soup cups where make a great grain, potato, or veggie sauce as well as quick meal on their own. Take some rolled oats with you - even soaked this can be a hearty brekkie, toss in some fruit and you're there. For emergency ration fruit, take some dried. Take a vegetable peeler with you for the carrots - I've gotten a lot of mileage out of having carrots on hand as veggie. For starters! Lani Facebook Celebrity Tips Page Lani Muelrath, M.A. CGFI, CPBN the Plant-Based Fitness Expert McDougall Health & Medical Center Author of Fit Quickies: 5 Minute Workouts www
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mollyhorn Joined: 03/03/10 Location: Fort Worth, TX Posts: 582	RE: Travel Posted Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 10:26 AM I've also found shelf-stable packs of hummus, soymilk, soy jerky, and soy nuts available at natural food stores and larger grocery stores. These don't take up much room in luggage and are a good standby option. Also, there's a travel site called Minimus.biz that sells travel-size versions of hundreds of products. http://www.minimus.biz/ Molly Horn
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Bugsmom Joined: 09/13/10 Posts: 2087	RE: Travel Posted Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 11:13 AM mollyhorn wrote: I've also found shelf-stable packs of hummus, soymilk, soy jerky, and soy nuts available at natural food stores and larger grocery stores. These don't take up much room in luggage and are a good standby option. Also, there's a travel site called Minimus.biz that sells travel-size versions of hundreds of products. http://www.minimus.biz/ We've done that and made use of the hotel room's ice bucket to keep things cool for a day or two once opened. We also bring along some flour tortillas or bagels (homemade whole wheat both) as easy to transport shelf stable platforms for anything we can find - hummus, nut butter, jam, veggies, whatever - we've even simply nibbled on them as-is in a pinch. --Deb R
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Dobby Joined: 09/04/10 Posts: 113	RE: Travel Posted Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 11:14 AM Yellowstone (my favorite place on the planet) is a tough place to find vegan options...altho the moose and elk seem to do pretty well! Definitely a place where a cooler of food is a necessity. Pam
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sis11 Joined: 08/17/11 Posts: 30	RE: Travel Posted Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 11:21 AM Hi Susan -- Sounds like you have a ton of great strategies already. Thanks for the tips! Before I get on a plane, I freeze some seasoned beans-grains-greens -- by the time I need dinner, it's thawed, so even if there are no real meals, I have something besides my nuts and fruit. Also airplanes usually have hot water and will give you a cup so you can make a McDougall soup cup. My spouse and I just took a long-awaited trip to France and Italy -- where we ate amazing vegan food everywhere we went (yes, there are a number of dreamy plant-based restaurants in Paris!) because we'd found the places ahead of time on the Happy Cow website, marked them on our map, and so could eat vegan fairly easily almost everywhere. It's harder in small towns, but Happy Cow has some info for those as well. Happy Cow lists vegan, vegetarian, and veg-friendly restaurants, and also health food stores and groceries, in the U.S. and quite a few other places around the world. Here's one for Athens: http://www.happycow.net/europe/greece/athens/ (okay, Athens isn't going to be the biggest challenge, but just as a start) Sarah Sarah Animals-Planet-Health
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