Food along the way

[andywild]

I'm a bit concerned about eating in albegues in the evenings, will I have to eat vegetables? I tried them once and they didn't agree with me. I only eat traditional English food like chicken madras and Donner kebabs.. maybe a chicken chow mein if I'm feeling adventurous.

 

[RJM]

?????
You can eat whatever you want while walking the Camino.
Not all albergues offer dinner/evening meals. Actually, most do not. Many have kitchen areas where you can prepare your meals, or prepare one as a group, and again what you or the group decides to eat is completely by choice and what is available at the local market.
If you do not like veggies, do not eat veggies. It is not a Dickens novel.
but you must eat your gruel in the morning! lol

 

[mvanert]

I'm a bit concerned about eating in albegues in the evenings, will I have to eat vegetables? I tried them once and they didn't agree with me. I only eat traditional English food like chicken madras and Donner kebabs.. maybe a chicken chow mein if I'm feeling adventurous.

I have a feeling this is not a serious thread.

 

[Stephen]

One food I sorely missed on my Caminos was gruel/porridge. When next I walk I'll take a kilo of oats.

 

[andywild]

I have a feeling this is not a serious thread. Am I correct?

You most definitely are..

 

[Turga]

I understand you – but don’t miss the Pimientos de Padron, they are delicious. They are veggies, but just pretend they are big green juicy caterpillars, and you’ll be fine…

 

[Kurt5280]

If you are walking the Camino Frances...please set your food expectations very low...I mean if you have ever lived on military MREs (Meals Ready to Barf) for a month...you will think that you that Camino food is as good as home cooking...and I savored the few times I actually got to eat good American fast food on the Camino.

 

[Iriebabel]

How about? A la pamplona

 

[naplesdon]

You are in luck, you will find numerous doner kebab shops. In fact there is one across the street from the Gare in Bayonne. You could load up and carry some with you for the crossing of the Pyrenees.

 

[Iriebabel]

If you are walking the Camino Frances...please set your food expectations very low...I mean if you have ever lived on military MREs (Meals Ready to Barf) for a month...you will think that you that Camino food is as good as home cooking...and I savored the few times I actually got to good eat American fast food on the Camino.

As long as the tobasco was included with the MRE’s it was edible .

 

[celinehenriette]

Yes, you have to eat vegetables, or no dessert and you have to go to bed without your socks on!

 

[andywild]

Yes, you have to eat vegetables, or no dessert and you have to go to bed without your socks on!

Wow that's harsh.. no socks? That's uncivilised !!

 

[celinehenriette]

Wow that's harsh.. no socks? That's uncivilised !!

I thought the no dessert thing would get that reaction but ok

 

[Irish Bernie]

You will also need to get rid of that silly beard !!!!!!

 

[andywild]

I thought the no dessert thing would get that reaction but ok

I'd just sneak a crème brulé in when you weren't looking

 

[andywild]

You will also need to get rid of that silly beard !!!!!!

I use the beard to store chicken nuggets.. it's surprising what I can get in there

 

[Kurt5280]

As long as the tobasco was included with the MRE’s it was edible .

When I got home every meal for a month included...eggs...green chile sauce...and peanut butter...you would think that a modern country like Spain you could at least import peanut butter.

 

[naplesdon]

As long as the tobasco was included with the MRE’s it was edible .

When you spend a month or more on MRE's because there is nothing else to eat, they become "happy meals" for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The ones with Tabasco are memorable, I still have a tiny bottle of the Green Tabasco.
The food in Spain is incredible.

 

[Irish Bernie]

I use the beard to store chicken nuggets.. it's surprising what I can get in there

You will be stripped searched by the veggi security and beaten with rhubarb if found to have any nuggets or like,YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED !!!!

 

[andywild]

You will be stripped searched by the veggi security and beaten with rhubarb if found to have any nuggets or like,YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED !!!!

They'll never find my secret hotdog stash !!

 

[amocatnerak]

They'll never find my secret hotdog stash !!

I thought this was a "family friendly" site...

 

[Tincatinker]

@andywild, relax. Vegetables do not feature in the famous ' Menu Peregrino' which consists of 'sopa', 'pollo' and 'flan'. None of these dishes contain vegetables. Vegetables are only produced for display purposes in Mercados. The one exception to this rule is if you request the 'menu peregrino vegeteranio' which will contain Ham. The rest, obviously, can be discarded

 

[Purky]

They'll never find my secret hotdog stash !!

 

[andywild]

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Now that is a truly wonderful image...

 

[Irish Bernie]

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A proper 6 pack

 

[Iriebabel]

@andywild you are truly hilarious. Thanks for the visual I had a good chuckle

 

[LesR]

I understand you – but don’t miss the Pimientos de Padron, they are delicious. They are veggies, but just pretend they are big green juicy caterpillars, and you’ll be fine…

I strongly recommend that you pass on the padron pimentos - they are vegetables after all... (and the lees of them that you eat, the more for me!)

 

[MichelleElynHogan]

I'm a bit concerned about eating in albegues in the evenings, will I have to eat vegetables? I tried them once and they didn't agree with me. I only eat traditional English food like chicken madras and Donner kebabs.. maybe a chicken chow mein if I'm feeling adventurous.

Now, that will depend on the amount of time spent walking on trails and how much on roads..... See, if more time is spent on roads, it is true, the chances of getting hit and killed does go up, but, ROADKILL!!!! Skin it, fry it up or make your own bocadillo out of it, YUMMMM. The only problem with this is there is a fair amount of competition out there, not just peregrinos. Natural scavengers, you know.
lease sir, may I have more???

 

[LesR]

good eat American fast food

I don't think so.... give me slow cooked local food any day. Loved the tripe and potatoes/chick peas!

 

[Deleted member 67185]

If you are walking the Camino Frances...please set your food expectations very low...I mean if you have ever lived on military MREs (Meals Ready to Barf) for a month...you will think that you that Camino food is as good as home cooking...and I savored the few times I actually got to good eat American fast food on the Camino.

<Snorts of derision> MREs are nirvana compared to having to live of off C-Rations.

 

[RJM]

<Snorts of derision> MREs are nirvana compared to having to live of off C-Rations.

Snakes and chicken butchering/cooking at jungle warfare school.
To this day I can still process one up pretty quick for the fire, lol.

 

[Dorpie]

I feel we are sympatico in this regard, so here is my Chubby Englishman's Camino Diet Guide.

Breakfast will be either; Ham and eggs and chips, Tortilla, possibly the best foodstuff known to man or, as one enters Galicia, Tarta de Santiago, all washed down with cafe con leche and a Kas Naraja, or if you want to be healthy a Kas Limon. Oh, and Churros con chocolate, lots and lots of that.

Lunch will be a handmade bocadillo featuring chorizo or jamon, queso and perhaps in circumstances of extreme dehydation a bit of tomato, but purely for water content, not because in Spain they're delicious. To be washed down with cerveza grande and an ice cream.

Dinner shall be menu peregrinos. Beware offers of fruit for desert, there'll always be flan lurking somewhere.

Visit Pulperia Ezequiel in Melide for the best octopus ever and Bar O 46 in SdC for the best pimentos padron (permissable as they're more oil than vegetable), pig's ears and genuinely scary Spanish ladies.

 

[andywild]

I feel we are sypatico in this regard, so here is my Chubby Englishman's Camino Diet Guide.

Breakfast will be either; Ham and eggs and chips, Tortilla, possibly the best foodstuff known to man or as one enters Galicia Tarta de Santiago, all washed down with cafe con leche and a Kas Naraja, or if you want to be healthy a Kas Limon. Oh, and Churros con chocolate, lots and lots of that.

Lunch will be a handmade bocadillo featuring chorizo or jamon, queso and perhaps in circumstances of extreme dehydation a bit of tomato, but purely for water content, not because in Spain they're delicious. To be washed down with cerveza grande and an ice cream.

Dinner shall be menu peregrinos. Beware offers of fruit for desert, there'll always be flan lurking somewhere.

Visit Pulperia Ezequiel in Melide for the best octopus ever and Bar O 46 in SdC for the best pimentos padron (permissable as they're more oil than vegetable), pig's ears and genuinely scary Spanish ladies.

I agree with 98% of what you say.. but a tomato?? Really?? Next you'll be suggesting I don't pick all the onion out of my cheese and onion pie !!

 

[4blossom]

?????
You can eat whatever you want while walking the Camino.
Not all albergues offer dinner/evening meals. Actually, most do not. Many have kitchen areas where you can prepare your meals, or prepare one as a group, and again what you or the group decides to eat is completely by choice and what is available at the local market.
If you do not like veggies, do not eat veggies. It is not a Dickens novel.
but you must eat your gruel in the morning! lol

Gruel, that’s cruel............ sorry, but someone had to say it!

 

[4blossom]

They'll never find my secret hotdog stash !!

That made me feel a little bit sick!

 

[LesR]

Gruel, that’s cruel............ sorry, but someone had to say it!

Is true - saw very little cereals for breakfast on CF Sept/Oct 2018.... But then breakfasts offered were seldom more that cafe con lechie and toasted slices of baguette or croissant

 

[Deleted member 67185]

Snakes and chicken butchering/cooking at jungle warfare school.
To this day I can still process one up pretty quick for the fire, lol.

We weren't called Snake Eaters for nothing. My 18 year old self definitely lost its entitlement attitude and pickiness toward food.

 

[mistermac]

No need to fear vegetables. My first few pilgrim menu meals on the CF had me seriously concerned I might develop scurvy.

 

[easygoing]

I'm a bit concerned about eating in albegues in the evenings, will I have to eat vegetables? I tried them once and they didn't agree with me. I only eat traditional English food like chicken madras and Donner kebabs.. maybe a chicken chow mein if I'm feeling adventurous.

You are safe from vegetables in Spain. A typical first is pasta, second meat and fries. Dessert ice cream bar, rice pudding, flan or fruit. I had to go to a grocery store for veggies which I missed alot. Even salad is iceberg lettuce with tomato, white asparagus, tuna and olives

 

[Walking Lover]

I'm a bit concerned about eating in albegues in the evenings, will I have to eat vegetables? I tried them once and they didn't agree with me. I only eat traditional English food like chicken madras and Donner kebabs.. maybe a chicken chow mein if I'm feeling adventurous.

Google Pilgrim's Menu. All are about the same and delicious. The bars serve great breakfasts.

 

[mousehog]

I am a Keto eater. My Camino is not quite Keto. Tortillas, pork (any cured or fried form), eggs, and Americanos galore. Also dark chocolate. Also nuts. I have 2-3 Tortillas every day.