vegan eats on tour

[Roddy]

I'm planning to do a 2/3 week trip round the scottish highlands in august and tying to figure out what i'll need to eat each day to keep me goin (never done touring before)

whats the tips? stove or no stove? pasta? lentils? bread and peanut butter?? what do you folks do??

[GY Jon]

If you're going to the Scottish ighlands in August, eat Citronella sauce with everything.

A lot of the local shops in the remote places are well stocked with veg and the basics, but I would recommend a stove as otherwise it might be fairly long distances between hot vegan eats. Cous cous is good one as it's very quick to cook, 1KG doesn't take up a lot of space and is quite high in protein so you won't have to bother with lentils, vegeburger mixes are great for protein. If you can carry a few basic spices and garlic don't bother with pre-flavoured packet rice/cous cous as the portions are too small. After a hard day on the bike, my "treat" is to fry up vegeburger mix in splats add a tin of baked beans and a tin of spuds, a few spices, it tastes wonderful in the mountain air.

[Roddy]

cheers bud, so is granola sosmix stuff deff vegan again??

[baldy]

doughnuts from scotmid?

[vCLaW]

Yes, I would also recommend a stove if touring for much more than a couple of days. Otherwise, you'll probably get fed up with just eating bread. Also with a stove, you can take dried food, which is lighter weight/less bulky.

+1 for cous-cous. Also instant noodles and instant mashed potatoes are good for being lightweight and quick cooking.
I've never bothered with lentils when camping, I think they'd take too long to cook. I often take dried soya mince, you can get stuff that cooks in about 5 minutes, so easy to mix up in a tomato sauce etc. Or sausage mix / burger mix. I think the Granose sausage mix is now vegan, or there are a few other similar brands.

[Roddy]

doughnuts from scotmid?

much as I like the odd donut, I think 9 donuts probably have more fat in them than I have on my body

cheers for al the tips