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Carolyn Scott- Hamilton: Hi!
My name is Carolyn Scott Hamilton also known as the healthy voyager and I specialize in
vegan and special diet travel.
In the upcoming video, you are going to see a demo that I did, showcasing how you can
cook healthy vegan food while on the go.
I hope you enjoy it.
In this little class today, it is kind of figuring out how you can cook for yourself
while you are traveling especially in places that may not offer a lot of vegan items or
healthy items and there are few items that I want to talk to you about like that kind
of make my travel easier, some of my favorite products.
But as you can see, we are only going to be using the thing that you find in your hotel
room.
Coffee cup, an ice bucket and then a couple of things that you can pack that are really
light weight like this here; silicon, cutting work.
You can fold it right into your carry on or back pack.
So all you have a cutting board besides instead of using a wet nasty counter you might find
in a motel 6!
And always bring a little knife, put it in your carry on right in you check baggage.
I have a cutler knife and this looks like a regular butter knife but what I love about
it it’s super serrated so it just cuts right through really, so you do not need a giant
vegetable knife and you have a little sheet that you never have to worry about not having
a chopped knife or having to use a plastic knife.
Those are probably the only two ‘cookie’ kind of thing that you can put in your check
baggage and so you have that in case you are going.
To go away is also very great when you do not know about to go where recycled bamboo
utensils, comes with a nice versatile little case too.
You can always have utensils that are eco-friendly and you know where it’s been and you can
use it anywhere to help toss salad, to eat whatever it may be, wash it, keep it on
you so you’re never left without utensils and keeping them from messing up the landfills
with garbage.
So that is something that we are going to use later on as well.
I know for many of you are moms or travelling with kids, these are really good, they are
called for kids concern, but even just for yourself because you can put three containers
in one so it takes less space in your bag and you can cook in your hotel room or even
if you just get something when you are shopping, you can take it with you, but like hummus
in one and nuts in another one and then we are trying to just make that pack into each
other and go right back into your suitcase without taking a lot of space.
And they are stainless steels so they don’t need any chemicals and they are just fun to
just pack them.
Easy peasy and these little cups are good; they come in little packets.
You can put it in your coffee pot and in your hotel room which is pretty much every hotel
room has a coffee maker and if they don’t then just call down stairs and they always
have them and they won’t charge you extra.
They have them.
So this is a usual coffee pot you find in hotel room.
It’s something that you have just a cup and you can just eat stuff often here and
you can also use the bottom part or the heater part to toasting that you kind of bagel.
Put a base down there and it will toast you bagel in your hotel room.
So in that way you know, if you want to bring like a little alcohol wiper, whatever, just
clean it up, you can use it for toasting, you know.
And then you keep stuff up in here, it’s great for instant oat meals, and if you just
wanted a cup of water, put it in these little cups, that is really good.
To stay healthy, I always bring my water bottle and I always drink out of glass.
Obviously, I put it in my check bag and then I just fill up the water there.
And they didn’t have it in here and I forgot to bring in, but one of my favorite products
is called GoGreen and it looks a lot like this and I will show you the website where
you can get it.
It is the six servings of fruits and vegetables; whole grains, organic in one packet and then
you just dump it in eight ounces or twelve ounces of water and even how stronger you
like it and it actually takes like a jelly venture.
So it’s not gross tasting and it is good and you get your vegetable in one serving.
So if you happen to be sight seeing and whether or not you get any salads somewhere or really
healthy, at least you know you are getting your vitamins and minerals from that one packet.
You got your coffee pot and for any reason you think that your coffee pot is a little
nasty, you can always again ask down stairs, they might have alcohol or even hydrogen peroxide
and run half a cup full through one cycle of just hot water, clean up the pipes of the
actual pot itself so that you can cook in it.
You never really going to boil anything but it is good for heating up stuff.
So if you do get you know a can of beans, you get it nice and warm and you can mash
it and make a little hummus or anything like that of chickpeas.
So the coffee pot is definitely your friend when it comes to cooking in hotel room.
So, I am going to get started and I am going to do a tartine.
Tartines are open base sandwiches and they are super easy; again, you can make them with
pretty much anything that you can find at a grocery store nearby and as well as with
leftovers.
So we haven’t have a bag yet and this is all going to be a real time, nothing has been
pretty cut so just to kind of show you how you can do it like on your bathroom counter,
at the hotel or on the desk.
Just to show like how resting it can be.
So, probably if you do find a bag at a grocery store you can totally use that or like I said,
you can take the leftover breadrolls from the dinner the night before, don’t let those
go to waste; take them with you because you can make sandwiches out of them tomorrow morning
before you are going to your trip.
So bring your bag.
So you then put them on the side and depending on what you can find at the local grocery
store, if you are lucky enough to find cheese or anything like that, have add it, but I
am going to use just hummus which you can pretty much find anywhere.
If there isn’t a grocery store around, you can find it in Mediterranean restaurant, you
can get fresh hummus from there and for the most of restaurants, you just make it and
stuff like that.
Hummus is a pretty easy find worldwide I would say.
So if you do not find cheese, it is easier to go and use fresh hummus.
So you slither a little bit on the top as much as you like; if you like tons of hummus
then go nuts.
We are just going to slice up the avocado and if you have a leftover salad from the
day before, you can take lettuce from the salad and go ahead and just put it on, you
can just give it a little salt pepper which if you are not travelling with your own salt
pepper shaker like I said, any fast food place has those packets.
So you can just take a few salt pepper packets and have them with you, and have a nice quick
meal before leaving for the day or pack it up.
Those are your quick hotel room tartines.
If you want to try those, use your mini fridge; take all your booze out.
Use it to stuff up with veggies and just put it back in so that they do not charge you
back.
And then again you can always call down because you never know what they have done, anything
like a toaster oven that you can use.
I hope you enjoyed my cooking demo of how to cook in your hotel room and travel healthy
and vegan.
For more tips recipes and information like this about travel, be sure to check out healthyvoyager.com.
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