Stephanie907
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- 1st walk (2016)
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Primarily eggs, with some potatoes, onion, and pimiento, and likely a good dose of lard! Meat may be added.it contains eggs
Hi Maria, I certainly hope so! I leave SJPP Sept. 13.Inbar,
I´m also a vegan (from Finland) and starting in September (exact date yet to be decided) in SJPDPMight encounter some challenges with the diet along the way but, hey, wouldn´t do it any other way!
I think tortilla is out of question, as far as I know it contains eggs.
Maybe our paths cross at some point!
Nope, olive oil, onion, potatoes and eggs. Optional is chorizo. No lard, no pimiento.Primarily eggs, with some potatoes, onion, and pimiento, and likely a good dose of lard! Meat may be added.
vegans are very slim and light weight.
Hey Stephanie, the link vegetarian albergues which Mspath mentioned has a lot of info for vegetarians. I compiled a list there but it's about two years old now. I'll try to update it. But if you read that thread you'll get some good info. Also, getting together with a few pilgrims and sharing a meal is a wonderful way to go. It's also much less expensive. As a vegetarian, I would try to carry a couple of carrots, apple, orange, banana and dried fruit & nuts as I trekked. I would cook a small potato or two (sweet potatoes are better) to carry during my trek.Hello all. I will be traveling with a vegetarian next year and I am wondering if there will be any availability of pilgrim menus for her or if we should plan on making other eating arrangements. Also, does anyone have tips/hints/advice for vegetarians traveling the Camino? Thanks all!
Hi all. I've been RAW VEGAN for 8 years (the healthiest I've ever been). I figure August being harvest month and so I'll revel in fresh fruits and salads (they do have salads, don't they?) . Also, if worst comes to worst, when in Rome etc.
(There are fruit shops on the way, yes?)
The vegetarian Albergue just short of Sarria is Paloma y Lena at San Mahmed. There is a lovely shared vegetarian meal. It was lentil soup followed by tortilla and /or quiche and salad, plus fruit and Santiago cake for postre plus red wine and water. It is a very relaxing place to stay, lovely garden with hammocks, children playing, chickens running around, spacious small dormitories with plenty of showers etc. I totally recommend this Albergue. This is not the only veggie Albergue. There are quite a few actually and all those I was able to stay at were very good!!If you work you can find what you need, and a few of albergues are very vegetarian friendly (there is one just short of Sarria that ONLY serves vegetarian).
But also beware, Spaniards are mostly not used to this and may mistakenly give you things cooked with meat or even mean in it. It used to be widely true (and still is sometimes true) that if you tell a Spaniard you don't eat meat, or are a vegetarian, they'll go OK! No problem. My cousin doesn't eat beef either! Then proceed to serve you chorizo, chicken, and pork belly.
That albegue is great and the people nice but I can't speak to the food we walked back up the road for seafood paella. I've had a lot of good vegetarianfood in my life, but at that point in the Camino we were desperate for at least seafood if it had been earlier, we would have eaten thereThe vegetarian Albergue just short of Sarria is Paloma y Lena at San Mahmed. There is a lovely shared vegetarian meal. It was lentil soup followed by tortilla and /or quiche and salad, plus fruit and Santiago cake for postre plus red wine and water. It is a very relaxing place to stay, lovely garden with hammocks, children playing, chickens running around, spacious small dormitories with plenty of showers etc. I totally recommend this Albergue. This is not the only veggie Albergue. There are quite a few actually and all those I was able to stay at were very good!!
There are quite a few vegetarian Albergues. I tried to stay at as many as possible although some were too close together so could not manage all of them. There are also vegetarian restaurants in Pamplona and Leon. It is possible to get veggie food at many of the other Albergues sometimes just by asking and sometimes you can have two first plates such as Mixed Salad and Pasta with Tomato sauce. It's also possible in many cafes too. There are lists on this forum if you search on vegetarian as someone else has suggested. I do the research before I went and took a list of places to try to go to and then found others when I was there. It was a lot easier than I had expected.Hello all. I will be traveling with a vegetarian next year and I am wondering if there will be any availability of pilgrim menus for her or if we should plan on making other eating arrangements. Also, does anyone have tips/hints/advice for vegetarians traveling the Camino? Thanks all!
While walking the Le Puy this year with some vegetarian Americans friends, they found it hard to stay vegetarian. So they just changed for the duration of the walk and ate whatever was put in front of them.[/QU
Thanks for mentioning Spain's reputation relative to salads. The URL below states that 19 European countries have said no to genetically modified food substances ("GMOs"), but Spain is not among them. I think I will avoid the corn during my trek on the Camino Frances. Recently I noted that a U.S. doctor issued a pamphlet on how to avoid GMOs, and in it, mentioned that GMOs are linked to cancer risk.Oh, gosh, no, Spain is (in)famous for its lack of good salads, especially in non-metro areas (the typical Spanish salad = iceberg lettuce, tomato, onion. Possibly corn and/or tuna.) Summer produce in Spain is insanely cheap and flavorful, so you can eat GREAT salads if you're willing to prepare them yourself in the albergues -- just don't hold out much hope for local eateries.
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