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Vegan Food during Travel (beehaw.org)

submitted 6 months ago by Sas@beehaw.org to c/vegan@slrpnk.net

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Hey y'all. Idk if this is the community for this because it seems mostly link posts, but here goes:

How do you go about finding food in a country you don't speak the language of? I've just came back from an Italy hiking "vacation" that caused me two meltdowns in just 4 days. It was a really rough hike and I've been the weakest of the group and didn't make it to the top. I don't want to go into details but i had a really rough time and food usually is my comfort zone helping me reset from the shitty stuff.

Now the problem was that i don't speak Italian and we went to a bunch of cool looking places only to see the menu was not translated and didn't have vegan or not labels on it so i caused everyone to not go there. So instead of comfort, food search was more anxiety inducing and I'd like to avoid that in the future. It's been the first time for me to visit a foreign country since going vegan and I was shocked by the lack of consideration for vegans in a lot of places.

So yeah how do you prep for tours where you don't know which part of which town you're on every day?

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[–] Sas@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I've had cold chilli sin carne one day actually but every food to be consumed at base camp would need to be carried up 150m height worth of stairs which was the first thing that completely destroyed me that vacation

[–] memfree@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If youhave water and a cookpot setup, there's stuff like this:

Edit: here's a site that reviewed such insta meals: https://gearjunkie.com/outdoor/backpacking/best-vegan-backpacking-meals

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

That sucks. Anywhere where potatoes feature would probably have them on hand and be happy to just roast some if you could had the language to ask? Might be a generalised approach from hot chips as the backup in olive oil Europe anyway. Butter Europe would not necessarily be vegan.

When I have travelled I've usually been in sea and because of Buddhism it's been easier, although sometimes there's confusion about prawns.