While searching for ideas for vegan munchies and meals on the road, I encountered two specific problems: most blogs talk about international travel, and most travelers talk about airplane noshing. I grant that airport safety brings in special issues for day travelers. However, the milveg crowd has other issues when it's time to PCS. It often takes more than one day to get to get to the new duty station, and we usually have to drive our family car(s) to the new casa. How do you prepare for two or more days on the road, in hotels, driving through America in all its greasy fast-food splendor?
This blog will concentrate on being vegan in America when there's travel to be done. I'll offer suggestions I've used for airline travel in the past, but now that I'm more interested in avoiding TSA and airports, I'll be offering more options for the road trippers. Also, with two wee sprogs who, bless their hearts, tend not to enjoy meat and milk, I have the opportunity to test drive sprog-friendly vegan snacks and meals. In the car. In America.
And yes, we're driving through Texas on our upcoming cross-country PCS. Yee haw! Even better, we're staying with my father-in-law in a tiny, vehemently carnivorous little town in Arkansas where if a dish does not have some kind of animal product, it is not real food. Did I mention yee haw?
What do you do about hotels that don't even offer a vegetarian selection for room service, much less vegan? When I asked one hotel in Atlanta what they had for vegetarians, I was told they had a lovely fish dish. Ah...didn't know that fish was a vegetable. :-)
ReplyDeleteStephanie St.Clair
Good question, Stephanie! I'll cover what I've done in the past in a separate post, but in short: very explicit directions for a salad. If you're not too concerned about accidentally getting dairy or egg in a bread product, you can also ask for a sandwich with grilled, sauteed, or raw veggies. Most of these restaurants offer mushrooms on the menu, which are great for protein.
ReplyDeleteThat said, when I've attempted this, I ended up going down to the restaurant to make the order in person. Chain hotels aren't so good at figuring this out, and I even had some trouble with a fancy schmancy hotel in San Diego.
But as I said, I'll cover what I've done in the past and what I do next month as we start our cross-country trek. :)