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Good Morning Pineapples.🍍
So I've seen a few people do videos where they eat from a convenience store for 24 hours
I thought this would be a pretty interesting
idea to try for two reasons: one being that I live in Japan and the convenience stores here are pretty awesome
and two being that I'm vegetarian, and a lot of people ask me what they can eat in Japan as a vegetarian
and I know how important convenience food can
Be when you're traveling like sometimes you just don't have any way to cook
and you need to be able to find vegetarian stuff
So I wanted to be able to show you guys what you can eat from a convenience store
Today, I'm going to be eating exclusively from
7-eleven, but if you'd like to see me try another
convenience store like Family Mart or Lawson
just be sure to hit the like button so that I know that you enjoyed this video and
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now one thing that might surprise you about Japanese convenience store food or just
packaged food here in general is that
it very often has some kind of meat in it
whether it's like chicken extract or
pork or something like that very very often.
It is in there. I'm talking like salad dressing
Potato chips
things you really wouldn't expect to have chicken in
often do
another thing before we get started is that Japanese convenient stores have amazing
Bento or Japanese lunch boxes
So they're like these little packaged lunch boxes with a full lunch in it. That's very reasonably priced
It is very rare that any of these lunch boxes will be vegetarian friendly.
I don't think I've ever seen a vegan one
So if you're coming to Japan
sometimes even if something looks
totally vegetarian
if you read the ingredients It often won't be so maybe
have Google Translate on your phone so that you can check over the ingredients
Anyways, I'm gonna get going and see what delicious convenience store food. I can find today
For breakfast. I picked up these four items
I meant to grab an iced coffee on my way out, but I completely forgot. I've got this mildly terrifying
Clear latte for my morning coffee
this smoothie looks really good it's cacao almond
since I'm working from home today
I might need to snack on something while I'm at my computer
So I picked up some cut apple
just a normal old banana
It was a little expensive a hundred yen for one but you know, it's convenient.
So you pay a little more
For snacks I picked up some apple mango just frozen mango here and
Obviously if you're on the go you might not be able to pick up frozen mango
But since I'm working for home, I can just pop it in the freezer and some frozen grape These are pretty delicious
I've also got some nuts and fruits and finally Japanese convinient stores are so
dangerous because you go in there and you end up seeing something incredible looking and buying it
This is mint sorbet chocolate with peppermint in it, and it looks so good
So for, I will snack on this today
First off coffee. I'm going to give this clear latte a try and see how delicious it is
D: Oh, you got one of those creepy ones? M: Yeah.
Oh my gosh. It really tastes like a latte
Despite looking like water. This is incredible
smells like coffee tastes like coffee, but is it really coffee? We will never know.
I really...
Oh, oh, oh, I made a big mistake guys.
This doesn't have any caffeine in it.
D: Oh you're done for.
Oh, I'm gonna have to go down the road to 7-eleven again. I'm gonna have to go get a nice coffee Oh
Such an idiot
Well moving along honking it. I'm gonna have some of this smoothie. It looks amazing.
Now that's really really really good. It's got 14 different types of vegetables, three fruits
cacao and
Almond and I think I found my new favorite smoothie. It's really good.
I'm betting
this tastes like a banana
looks like a banana
feels like a banana
tastes like...
D: Talks like a banana
Mmm I have to get to work now, but I've got these apple slices to snack on
So I'm pretty excited
They're New Zealand apples guys
Almost never find New Zealand apples here. I hope this is a trend
I hope New Zealand apples are gonna catch on because they're so good
Okay, guys I'm having one of those days where I need a little pick-me-up and to be honest
I'm feeling pretty sleepy without my morning dose of caffeine
The clear stuff I put it away in the fridge for later because it's not doing anything for me
Anyway, let's open up this
they all come packaged individually, which is pretty common in Japan and
Looks good
Hmm oh my god. It was delicious. It's got quite a strong peppermint taste
Mmm chewy and gooey
All these are neither dangerously delicious
Okay, it is lunchtime and I am craving a coffee. So I'm gonna head out and get some iced coffee
I don't usually drink coffee this late in the day, but
The girl's gotta get her work done somehow guys
I need my coffee
That clear stuff just wasn't cutting it
I'm also gonna pick up some batteries for the camera mic cuz
we ran out of batteries and you can pick those up at the convenience store. Very handy
It's time for lunch and finally oh
I have my iced coffee
it's a regular size that I'm kind of regretting not getting a bigger size, but
Mmm, okay. It's time for a lunch and I have the main star of the meal
Natto Maki, natto are fermented beans and this is like
kind of like
Rice roll with seaweed on the outside and fermented beans on the inside. I personally really like it. It's
Packed full of good stuff. It's good for you. It's healthy
I didn't really like not to when I first moved to Japan, but it won me over
So at least give it a try if you're in Japan,
I've got a nice
salad here. I forgot to buy dressing but you can buy single serve dressing in the convenience store
Just be careful because I think maybe only one of them is vegetarian.
I think the wafu one is vegetarian
D: Depending on, the convenience store. You can have Caesar dressing
but most of them have like anchovy sauce
and I think FamilyMart Caesar dressing is fine
Okay, so FamilyMart Caesar dressing
7-eleven I'm pretty sure it's the wafu dressing but
watch out for those ingredients because there might be some anchovies in there or whatnot
anyway
I'm having it without dressing still gonna be good because it's salad and lastly kind of for dessert
I have some frozen mango actually, maybe I'll have one right now
Mm-hmm
If it's your first time having one of these you might be a little confused
But it's not really that difficult and if you screw it up. Hey, no one's judging you. It's your first time
Anyway here it says Hiku and it has the number one.
Hiku means to pull so we're gonna pull on the number one
there are little illustrations on the side too that you can follow
so you don't need to be able to read Japanese
and then two
Here we're gonna roll the roll. So we're pulling off this one and
Then opening. Oh and I just like to
roll it
And there you have it
I'm ready for some Natto
Salad is just a basic salad
Salad is super crunchy and super fresh. I think it's good even without dressing and it's healthy
Frozen fruit is one of my favorite things to snack on. So I love that they sell it in convenience stores
Obviously fruit in Japan can get pretty pricey, especially something like mango, but I really love that
You can buy it in convenience store in these little packs. It's just like a great serving size for one person
It's a lovely snack. I just really like fruit guys
Okay, it's time for dinner
and I do feel like this one is kind of cheating because while it is a
Vegetarian thing you can find in the convenience store.
It isn't something you can just pick up and eat like the ready-made meals
However, there were no
Ready-made meals that I could pick up and eat
and I already had salad for lunch
and I already had Natto Maki
Of course you can have Shio onigiri
which is a rice bowl made up of salt and rice just salt and rice
no extras
You can also have kombu onigiri which is a seaweed rice bowl
And you can have ume onigiri which is pickled plum inside a rice bowl
They're all delicious, but it's not really a meal. I had the hardest time finding something for dinner because
Pretty much eaten most of the vegetarian stuff in this store already. I found this for cheese margherita pizza
Doesn't look that appetizing based on the picture, but I guess we'll see I've never tried this before
That's gonna be my dinner. Looks like you can either cook it in the oven or in a toaster oven so
Look at that that actually looks really good.
Oh no. Oh, no, it's broken
Broken poor little pizza
You know what? It still looks really good
I'm gonna pop it in. It's a perfect fit
And I'm gonna start off doing it for five minutes just in case the toaster oven is too hot
Yeah, it needs more than five minutes that's for sure
this is what the pizza looks like after eight minutes in my toaster oven
I'm pretty sure it's done because I could smell burning.
I've never tried this before and
here goes nothing. I think I have two pieces here, but you only live once
Let's try this monster
Okay, the cheese is pretty delicious I guess because there are four types of cheese in this
Whoops. I just dropped some of it. Hmm. Actually, you know what it really hits the spot like the pizza spot, you know
Like the I want to eat something greasy and and calorific spot that you know
You just you just gotta have something like this once in a while or maybe even more than once in a while
It's just good.
I hope you guys enjoyed the video
I hope that maybe it could have been just a teeny bit helpful to anyone
who's living or traveling in Japan as a vegetarian
I wish I could have been more helpful, but the options at
7-eleven are pretty limited
So maybe I should try FamilyMart next
let me know in the comments and I hope to see you in my next video
I pineapple you🍍❤
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