Confession: I have never struggled so much with being vegan as I have over these past two weeks! The wedding we went to had an all-vegan dinner which was amazing but it was my only sit-down meal that didn’t require a struggle. We are in a very quaint, quiet place in the south of France and since I normally never have any issues anywhere I go I didn’t prepare more than I would traveling any other place. Normally at restaurants I glance at the whole menu, and if there isn’t a vegan meal on it I check out what ingredients are used for other things - sides, veggies, that sort of thing... And I ask the kitchen to prepare me something. Or, I’ll modify an existing dish (remove the cheese, fish, meat etc). 9 times out of 10 people are super accommodating and in bigger cities there are always types of cuisine I can count on for vegan food (Japanese, Indian, Chinese, Libanese food... The BEST😍) but here in this part of France it’s all French food and restaurants are not very keen to modify anything🙈😅 The dishes are what they are and the menu is what it is - if you don’t like it, go elsewhere. We have had a kitchen in two of the places we’ve stayed but we were only there for two days so it didn’t make sense to stock up the fridge and then have to throw away all the food. There is one place here with a vegan lasagna and I’ve had it like seven times😂 And the restaurants here don’t do to-go food (so when it’s dinner time and we have to take baby home to sleep for the night we are shit out of luck altogether)💩 . The supermarket here is tiny, there is no hummus, no veggie spreads.. There are vegetables and fruits obvi so baby and I have basically lived off of berries, avocados, fresh (amazing) bread and local olive oil for two weeks. The first days were amazing but if I see one more baguette I’m going to smack someone on the head with it! We fly to Stockholm tomorrow and I’M SO READY! Big city food come at me😜🌮🌯🥗🍲🍚🥙🥞🍝🍜🥟 #hungry #vegan #travel #food #veganism #firstchallenge #feedme #france (at Maussane)
