Traveling Overseas Vegan-Style

You may have noticed that I've switched gears a little bit this year -- less frequent posting and mostly restaurant reviews. Why? I've been traveling for skydiving and BASE jumping A LOT! Most recently, I traveled overseas to a remote island off Panama where it was rumored there'd be no vegan food! Yes, seriously. We are talking a remote island two hours by boat from Panama where there are few restaurants and lots of fish.

How did I survive? Just to be safe, I brought a ton of food! I thought it would be helpful to share some tips.

First, I rented a villa. That's a house with a kitchen. That way if there weren't any restaurants to eat at, I could make my own food. Second, I contacted the local chef beforehand to let him know there'd be a vegan staying there for a week. As a result, he had bought Field Roast sausages, Hilary's burgers, vegan cheese, and more and was ready to cook when I arrived!

What kind of food did I bring? Here's some ideas of stuff you could bring while traveling.

No cook:

• Purely Elizabeth cereal with almond milk
• Raw Revolution bars with almond butter
• Almond butter (good protein)
• Trail mix
• Mary's Gone Crackers pretzels
• Go Macro protein bars
• Dried mango 
• Tastybite Indian Meals: ready to eat out of the pouch

Cook:

• Instant oatmeal
• Whole wheat pasta
• Fig Food Co. soups: ready to eat out of pouch, but better when warm
• Rice
• Daiya cheesy mac (not that great)
• Modern Table pasta meal
• Lots of fresh veggies to make fajitas with salsa and tortillas
• Asparagus

And on that, I survived. It was a great trip. Don't get stuck overseas without back-up food. As long as you have bars and trail mix, you'll survive!!