Vegan Travelling

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Whether you are going to spend you Christmas Holidays travelling to Italy, France, Portugal, US or Canada, you can find today a great number of offers providing high class vegan and other special dietary travel needs. First of all check some research, doing a quick Google search for the city name and “vegan society” or “vegan association” and learn about the local vegan options you are going to visit to, choose a comprehensive list of vegetarian and vegan restaurants for all cities you want to be there.

Befor vegetarians and vegans can struggle to find decent food while travelling but today, vegan travel has become much easier as most of European are friendly for vegan travel providing vegetarian restaurants. You can be sure that today there are growing vegetarian communities almost in every large city, or in University town, then you can always find there vegan and vegetarian restaurants as well as health food and organic stores offering needed products.

Finally you always can cook for yourself as you do it at your home and that is also the right solution.

The three best Europe cities provided vegan travel are London (UK) with its various vegan options you can choose choose from; Barcelona (Spain) which also can offer a great number of vegan and vegetarian restaurants and many health food stores; Berlin (Germany) is pretty friendly for vegan travellers as well as being a large city with a growing proportion of young people; and Amsterdam (Netherlands) that is well known as the city which offers wide range of vegan restaurants, buffets, fast food, healthy food stores, yoga studios, juice bars and so on.

It’s still cold outside then the best dish now is soup! As a soups lover I collect different wegan recipes to make every day other soup during a cold season along. Ok, anyway I try to!:-) As far as all sorts of plant foods though it were fruit, vegetables, nuts, grains, seeds or fungi are mine ones I love to experiment with all of them.

Here is my recipe of pumpkin soup. This is a yummy!
pumpkin – 1 (small, peeled, diced )
batata – 2 (peeled, diced )
fenchel – 1 (peeled, diced )
2 tbs olive oil
vegetable stock
garlic – 2
1/2 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
1/2 tsp ground coriander or something you prefer
salt, etc by your taste

Heat oil, add onion and leek and cook for 2-3 minutes, until softened then add garlic and spices and cook, stirring, for 30 seconds then add pumpkin, batata and fenchel bring to the boil. Turn heat to low, cover and simmer for 30 minutes. Allow to cool slightly, then blend in batches.

Return soup to pan, stir through cream and reheat gently.

The holidays put a lot of pressure on most of us, and with busier schedules and more food around, many of us pile on pounds or become less healthy during the holiday season. Luckily, this is not inevitable. By stocking up on bulk nuts, bulk dried fruit, bulk trail mixes, and other healthy snacks from Nutstop.com, you can help make this holiday your healthiest season ever. Here’s how:

1) Keep moving. Exercise is important at this time of year, but you don’t have to try to fit in exercise if your schedule is already too full. Instead, try to fit in exercise where you can. Take the stairs instead of the elevator at home and at work. Do a few crunches at your office or meet a friend for a walk instead of drinks. Just twenty or thirty minutes of exercise can add up.

2) Drink water. The holidays usually include lots of calorie-laden and fatty holiday drinks, but staying hydrated with plenty of water can help you feel full and stay healthy.

3) Keep healthy snacks on hand. It can be tempting to eat all the holiday food that’s available now, so stock up on wholesale nuts, wholesale dried fruit, wholesale trail mixes, and other tasty foods from Nutstop.com now in order to ease the temptation. Carry your healthy snacks with you everywhere so that when you get a craving you have something healthy to eat.

4) Make your healthy snacks attractive. Many holiday treats are presented beautifully, which makes them all the more appealing. Make your own healthy snacks as attractive so that you can really enjoy eating them. Wrap bulk almonds in pretty packaging for a treat, for example, or choose a delicious and colorful wholesale trail mix from Nutstop.com that appeals to all your senses. Wholesale dried fruits, such as bulk dried blueberries and bulk dried mangoes, are also a great option because they are colorful and delicious.

5) Snack before big meals out. If you know you’re headed to an event where there will be lots of rich foods, eat a handful of bulk walnuts or some almonds from Nutstop.com before you go. If you’re not hungry, it will be easier to make smart food decisions.

6) Give yourself lots of variety in your healthy snacks. If you always snack on bulk almonds, treat yourself to a new wholesale trail mix from Nutstop.com or try a type of dried fruit you’ve never tried before. Variety keeps your taste buds happy and keeps you satisfied.

7) Exercise portion control. Even too much of a healthy snack is too much. It can be hard to keep track of how much you eat, so take advantage of the 100-calorie packs and snack packs from Nutstop.com. They allow you to enjoy bulk nuts, trail mixes, and dried fruit in portion-controlled sizes so that you can keep track of how much you eat.