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A little bit.
All that punching.
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Hey everyone!
Kristen here and I am with my beautiful friend, Candice, from The Edge Veg.
Hello!
She has a delicious Youtube channel I wish I could just go through the screen and eat
it sometimes.
Is that weird?
No.
That is not weird.
Do you want to tell us a little more about your channel?
Yeah!
So, over on my channel I make vegan/vegetarian, well, it is vegan.
I say vegetarian to include everyone.
It's vegetarian comfort food.
We do junk food, copycat recipes, we do vegan lifestyle, what I eat in a day videos, that
sort of thing.
I am actually at a point now where I have been vegetarian for the past four years.
I will try cultural dishes that have meat once if I am in a country but generally my
diet is vegetarian and now I am going over to vegan.
It is a personal choice for several reasons.
Maybe I will do another video on that.
Welcome to the dark side.
Thank you!
I am really excited and I feel good.
I have been doing it for about a month straight now and I feel good.
When it comes to travel and going to specific countries or certain countries specifically,
I should say, it and be really difficult to find vegan meals.
Yep!
We are going to be talking about that in this video; tips on how to be vegan when you are
travelling.
So the first tip is to research ahead of time.
There are so many different countries that you can visit that are vegan and vegetarian
friendly.
Oh absolutely!
There is India that I have been to which actually turned me into a vegetarian.
What has been the number one place you visited?
Anything in central or south America, I find.
Anywhere that uses a lot of burritos and beans and rice.
I find that it is still super filling but you can remove the meat and it's delicious.
Use salsa and guacamole.
Any of those countries always work for me when I travel there.
I also would say Thailand or places in South East Asia like Singapore.
There are a lot of incredible fruits.
Israel is a really good one as well as Ethiopia.
There are tons of vegetarian and vegan friendly countries that you can go to.
Another great thing to research is where the vegan or vegetarian friendly restaurants are.
They don't have to be 100% vegan but maybe a restaurant that has a lot of really great
vegan options and there are all kind of restaurant apps where you can look that up.
Then you can plan where you are staying or plan the activities based on where you can
eat which a lot of the time, I find, makes the trip a lot more enjoyable.
Absolutely.
When you know, oh I can go two blocks this way and get a coffee with almond milk or I
can get a quick sandwich here or a really great breakfast here.
It makes the trip a little more enjoyable.
Yeah because you do not have to be spending hours looking for food or for that morning
coffee.
You already know where it is and you can go do that ten-minute walk and then get on with
your day and go do something.
Yeah and then you are not always relying on having snacks.
Yeah.
You actually have food around that you can consume.
Real food.
I just got on vacation to eat.
Food is such a big part of a cultural experience.
Oh absolutely!
Absolutely.
And you can research what are the cultural foods and then where the vegan versions of
those cultural foods are.
If you're like me and like to just eat on your vacation.
I just travel and eat.
That is it.
Tip number two!
This one is really big for airplanes or just travelling in general or if you are just going
on day trips even around your own city.
I always carry snacks.
I always always have some sort of meal bar in my bag, in my purse.
That way if I'm getting a little bit hangry or James is getting a little bit hangry, my
fiance, then he has something to give me or me to give him.
I also carry protein powders and these nut butter packets.
Those are so good.
I have mentioned these in another video before.
They just give you that boost of energy you need, you know?
Absolutely and coconut oil.
I find a lot of European countries are very bread heavy and they use butter on everything
and they cook with butter and I so I have this.
I always carry hot sauce packets or soy sauce packets so if you are at a restaurant and
literally the only thing you can have is rice...
I see that happening probably very often so it is nice to have a little bit of flavoring.
I also bring snacks too with me.
My favorite ones right now are hemp heart bites.
So they are just hemp seeds with coconut oil.
They are so good!
They are delicious.
Chocolate, original, really good.
Another thing you can do is when you are looking for accommodations; you can stay in hostels
or Airbnb because then you have access to a kitchen where you can cool your own food.
So you can use local ingredients and take them and use them in the kitchen to create
something using the local ingredients so you are not missing out on that experience.
Oh totally.
And it is definitely a cheaper way to feed yourself on vacation as well.
I was in LA about a month ago and I went to Whole Foods and I bought a bunch of stuff
that I can not get here that I wanted to bring back but also to keep the cost down so that
we could eat in the room and make food in the room and we asked for a mini fridge because
out hotel room did not come with a mini fridge and they asked if it was for a medical reason
and I said yes.
Ahh!
Sneaky.
And then I got the fridge for free.
So it was like 30 dollars a night to have the fridge in your room but if it is for a
medical reason then they give it to you for free so there is a quick tip for you!
That is a great tip!
Another thing is to learn some key phrases specifically when it comes to food so that
you can tell your server that you cannot eat specific foods.
So to go more into detail about this, you want to be very specific.
I have been to countries where I said I am vegetarian or I do not eat meat and they are
like chicken?
And I am like no, no meat.
And they say okay chicken!
Like...
no that is also meat.
That is also meat.
I find it is really easy if you learn how to say I am vegan or I am vegetarian and then
you also learn how to say the foods that you cannot have.
So then you learn how to say no chicken, no fish.
Just learn all those words and then no.
No cheese, no butter.
Not just like no meat, no dairy, but be specific.
Yeah, absolutely.
And also if you can learn how to say I have an allergy then they will take it more seriously.
Number five!
If you are like me and you are travelling mostly to eat food, learn what the local dishes
are and find out what is in them and also learn the words for those but also learn the
words for substitutions.
So a lot of the Asian countries use fish sauce, right?
So I would learn how to say fish sauce and don't use fish sauce but then I also would
learn how to say soy sauce instead.
So give them substitutions to work with.
I find then you don't get kicked to the curb from the restaurant.
Does that make sense?
Absolutely!
Great idea.
And you do not have to memorize it.
You can bring a print out and just have that with you.
Yeah.
Have it in your phone, have a print out, a little guide book, and you can point to it
if you don't know how to say it.
Yeah and app that I love to use is Google Translate and it translates text and it translates
if someone is speaking.
But that is really cool about it is you can put it over a menu and it will actually translate
the text right then and there to any language or from any language to English.
Like it reads the menu through your camera?
Yes.
And then you can screen grab it.
No.
Yeah.
Something I want to point out because I am sure many of you might be thinking, okay if
I am going to eat vegetarian or vegan but I am traveling so am I not supposed to be
staying away from fresh vegetables and fruit?
I get that.
Yeah.
People think that.
I used to think that but actually, I used to get sick on almost every trip when I ate
meat.
As soon as I went vegetarian, I have never been sick.
Really?!
Yes!
Well there you have it!
The myth has been busted!
If you're still worried, if you can peel it then you are good to eat it.
And also...
when in doubt...
Candice: French fries!
Always always your friend.
Always French fries.
She taught me that.
Yeah.
We were at Disneyland together.
Yeah and she was like we should get french fries because that's probably the best option
and I was like I need french fries and we went on a hunt for like an hour and now I
am hooked on french fries.
And it was great because it was so hot and the salt!
I mean it is not like the best salt in the world, it probably was not, but for electrolytes...
yeah.
French fries.
So good.
Buffalo sauce.
Ahhh!
All right you guys!
Those are some of our vegan tips so when you travel you can live a move vegan lifestyle
if you choose to and before you go anywhere don't forget to subscribe to my channel if
you have not already and head on over to Candice's channel because we did a video there.
What did we do?
We did a video on what is in our carry on.
What do we put in our carry on?
It's food based!
Vegan edition!
So you should watch it.
Go over to her channel, it's awesome.
Subscribe to her.
She is amazing.
And subscribe to you!
And subscribe to me!
Because she is amazing!
And we will see you guys later.
Happy travels!
Bye!
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Verbal verbal...
Speaking?
Speaking!
Verbal communication?
Which I'm not good at.
Something you are having a hard time with right now?
An app that I love to use that helps, um... an app that I love to use.
What is wrong with me?
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