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Your best low-cal on-the-go vegan recipes...


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In a couple weeks, I'm taking a weekend trip.  This is the first time since being vegan and a "weight loser" that I'm going to be somewhere without a means to refrigerate or cook food.    I can possibly pack a cooler and refill it with ice to keep things cold but that will depend on how much space we have in the car. 

My requirements:  ready to eat, easy to pack (I'll do as much prepwork as I can before leaving home), lots of protein, low calorie. 

I do not eat:  animal products or nuts and seeds (digestion issues) but I can eat peanut butter - I just don't want to live on peanut butter all weekend.

Any ideas?

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I know my sister usually takes pop-tarts (unfrosted) and cereal with little cartons of shelf-stable soy milk when she's going somewhere sans refridgeration. Plus a lot of apples or other fruits of that nature. I imagine the same would work for veggies like carrots.

I would think a rice and veggie dish would hold up well, also. (Yeah, your stuff doesn't spoil like meat, haha!)

Probably a little late, but I thought I'd post since no one else has. =(

Do you have a little cooler or anything? Carrots hold up nicely without the cold, as do bananas, apples, most fruit. Today I pulled apart tortillas and ate them with hummus. At most restaurants you can get a baked potato with hummus which is AMAZING. I like to get that with a green salad. Kitchari is GREAT non refrigerated- it's an Ayurvedic rice and mung beans dish. I added a recipe on CC for it.

Many fruits hold up well without refigeration: clementines, apples, oranges, pears and bananas do well. Carrots do well out of refrigeration as long as they aren't those peeled and cut kinds---those would be good with peanut butter. Dried fruit travels well, too. If you have a healthfood store nearby, there are several brands of vacuum-packed vegan curries and even vacuum-packed basmati rice that have a great shelf life. Packets of dehydrated soups are light and would travel well. Aseptically-packaged rice or soy milk plus cereal or granola would work well, too.

also try granola.

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