Food for travel

[indigo_rose99]

As a low-carb eater, finding food while traveling is often a challenge.  When we arrived in France, T's reaction when I unpacked my checked suitcase's food contents onto the mini bar was, "Dear, I think you went overboard on the food bars." 

A bit of math...

3 long flights (I often eat two per trip, because they don't serve anything I can digest, but we'll be conservative.) -- 3

18 breakfasts (sometimes I can eat hotel breakfasts, but I cannot count on it in a unexplored hotel) -- 18

10 lunches while at work (sometimes I can eat in the caf but (1) I hate eating alone and (2) most of the food that I can eat is less appetizing than an food bar.  Yes, bleh.) -- 10

About 1/2 of my work evenings, I will be too tired to find a restaurant to eat or interact with wait staff -- 5

This assumes that I never get peckish at 2am (Hello?  Jet lag?  Happens.) and that I eat out lunch and dinner on the weekends.  Overly optimistic.
3+18+10+5 = 36

By my rough count this morning, I think I brought about 26 food bars.  Oops.  I should have done this calculation before packing.  I separated the food into two piles when I arrived:  food for Scotland, food I can eat in France.  I'm down to 6 food bars left for France.  I have four more days here.  Even supplementing with fruit from a stand I found, I'm going through it more quickly than I packed. 

Yeah.  Overboard with the food bars.  *sigh*

Comments

[pamwheatfree.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you can eat it or not. But you should try the yogurt in France. That is the first place I ever had walnut yogurt and it was so good that I look for it every place I go now. I thought you could eat eggs and meat, traditional breakfast food in most places.

[indigo-rose99.livejournal.com]

I saw some intriguing looking things at the tiny shops with fresh fruit, but I cannot read the ingredients. Anything I cannot read the ingredients on is pretty much out. I'm sure somewhere there is an international grocery, but I haven't found it.

I can eat eggs and meat. In Ireland and China, this works out well. The hotels I stay in have hot breakfasts. However, this hotel in France and likely my next hotel in Scotland do not claim to have hot breakfast, or even breakfast at all. I asked about the breakfast when I first arrived in France, and they gave me a tour. I recognized bread, cake, bread, still more cake, sweet breads, milky stuff that could have been milk or custard or yogurt in five different colors of packaging. My guide's English was questionable, so I didn't push it on the ingredients, figuring I would put her beyond her patience. No eggs. No sausage. No bacon. No omelets. *sigh*

[pamwheatfree.livejournal.com]

The important words for you are "sucre" for sugar and "farine" which is used before other words to tell you it is flour made out of that substance. So farine de ble is wheat flour. There is an accent on the e in ble. Mais is corn and riz is rice. Yogurt always comes in little plastic containers. You could just open one up and try it. If it has too much sugar you can just throw it away.