Eating out

[Guest guest]

Hello vegetarian friends,

 

Please provide some tips on how to eat out. I spent the day at a tourist

trap delivering some products. I envisioned a quick tea and fruit for

breakfast and a nice vegetarian lunch. I didn't anticipate how hard this

would be to find...in fact, it was impossible. Each restaurant only had one

'vegetarian' item on the menu and these were smothered in or mixed with

cheese, served on white bread and/or had high refined sugar and filler

content. I wasn't even able to put together a meal of vegetable or fruit

side dishes that weren't flavored with ham, smothered in cheese, etc. Even

the salads were combined with meats and cheese. What is it with all the

cheese already? No wonder half the country has cramps and is constipated.

 

Do we have to take our own food everywhere we go? How do you handle dinner

invitations at someone's home? Business meals?

 

Thanks,

Heidi

www.candlebeefarm.com

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Heidi -

This site has some great tips for dining out as a vegetarian.

http://www.vegetarian-tips.com/PPF/id/7747/Cat.asp

"Heidi B. Sanner" wrote:

Hello vegetarian friends,

 

Please provide some tips on how to eat out.

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I recently flew to Alaska with several days supply of frozen Mung Beans

(Kitcheree) and carrot juice wrapped in and insulated by my sleeping

bag. I knew I'd be too busy havin fun to be trying to cook. Everything

arrived frozen rock hard even after 15 hours.

Eat Well, Feel Well,

Dharam

 

"Heidi B. Sanner" wrote:

 

> Hello vegetarian friends,

>

> Please provide some tips on how to eat out. I spent the day at a

> tourist

> trap delivering some products.

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Dear Heidi,

 

My tips are going to be preventative. Take your own food. Keep nuts and

dried fruit with you. Eat before you eat out and then you won't be hungry

and eat food that doesn't work for you. Take your own salad dressing to the

salad bar. The good news is that you will feel better and save money. And

you will have time for a walk instead of waiting in a restaurant. I hope

others will have better advise.

 

Sat Nam,

 

Gururattan Kaur

[Guest guest]

When I am on the road, I tend to stop at a large supermarket rather than a

restaurant. Many times they will have a salad bar. Even if they don't they

srill have many things that I can enjoy as baby carrots, cucumbers,and other

fruits & veg - bagels and other baked goods and sometimes things like humus,

taboli, baba ganoush and stuffed grape leaves.

Cheryl

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Dearest Heidi,

 

it's really not easy eating out if you are a vegeterian. People have to learn a

lot to serve you a good meal.

 

In Europe, especially in Germany, it is a little bit better now, but it needs

years, and the cheeseproblem is well known.

I can remember:

I asked to eat something without meat, then they suggest: You can have fish or

chicken. Do you want sausages?

I asked myself: Who is crazy here, I or they? Why do they say chicken is no

meat?

Everything what is red is meat, any other thing is no meat.

So, in most cases, we rested at home to eat. Over years!

 

Vegeterians must ask and ask and don't stop to ask and explain, what they want.

Then, after a while, some cooks will gave their best and can be very creative! -

and perhaps sometimes we can just make an exception and eat a little bit meat.

Sometimes - after nearly 20 years as a vegeterian, I feel, that meat, only a

small piece can give me some more power. Then I eat it and say Thank you to the

soul of this animal.

 

Blessings to you and all

 

Sonja

 

 

... smothered in or mixed with

>cheese, served on white bread and/or had high refined sugar and filler

>content. I wasn't even able to put together a meal of vegetable or fruit

>side dishes that weren't flavored with ham, smothered in cheese, etc. Even

>the salads were combined with meats and cheese. What is it with all the

>cheese already? No wonder half the country has cramps and is constipated.

>

>Do we have to take our own food everywhere we go? How do you handle dinner

>invitations at someone's home? Business meals?

>

>Thanks,

>Heidi

>www.candlebeefarm.com

[Guest guest]

Depending on the type of restaurant, you may just try asking them to

make something vegetarian for you. I've haven't been a vegatarian for

as long as you guys, and I still eat eggs and cheese, I just cut out

all meat. But when I've gone to restaurants that don't have any, or

only 1, non-meat dish, I'll order something and have them make it

without meat, or have them make a larger portion of an appetizer. The

one restaurant had crab stuffed portabello mushrooms for appetizers,

and not one non-meat dish on the menu. So I asked if I could have the

mushroom without the crab for a main entree. When she explained this

to the chef, he actually made me a wonderful 'custom' dish from the

mushroom that had a sweet/sour chile sauce on top of the mushroom --

it was DELICIOUS. And I really appreciated the extra effort. Not all

restaurants are that accomadating, but I now don't hesitate to ask.

Just a thought.

 

Christa

[Guest guest]

Eating out......

Sometimes it is easier to focus on what it is you DO want as opposed to what you

DON'T want. Instead of saying what do you have without meat? See what

vegetable dishes they have.... look at the side dishes - often you can get a

baked potato, the vegetable of the day, a side of cottage cheese with tomato

slices, rice, etc. Also most kids meals have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich

as a choice. Most restaurant menus weren't designed to please every single

person! I always seem to be requesting some change or another (dressing on the

side... lite on the oil...please don't use MSG etc. etc.)

 

Sonja Göppert-Bethge wrote:

Dearest Heidi,

 

it's really not easy eating out if you are a vegeterian. People have to learn a

lot to serve you a good meal.

 

In Europe, especially in Germany, it is a little bit better now, but it needs

years, and the cheeseproblem is well known.

I can remember:

I asked to eat something without meat, then they suggest: You can have fish or

chicken. Do you want sausages?

I asked myself: Who is crazy here, I or they? Why do they say chicken is no

meat?

Everything what is red is meat, any other thing is no meat.

So, in most cases, we rested at home to eat. Over years!

 

Vegeterians must ask and ask and don't stop to ask and explain, what they want.

Then, after a while, some cooks will gave their best and can be very creative! -

and perhaps sometimes we can just make an exception and eat a little bit meat.

Sometimes - after nearly 20 years as a vegeterian, I feel, that meat, only a

small piece can give me some more power. Then I eat it and say Thank you to the

soul of this animal.

 

Blessings to you and all

 

Sonja

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Gretchen wrote:

>

> Eating out......

> Sometimes it is easier to focus on what it is you DO want as opposed to what

you DON'T want.

 

My vegetarian kid orders a large salad, then pasta, or a baked potato

or when things are really difficult, just bread and butter. Some places

make really lovely salads, and that's all she eats.

 

She eats out for the company, and eats for real at home.

 

shoshana