My family and another family are going on vacation for 5 days together but the family is vegan

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Going vegan” doesn’t require anyone to eat a single thing they don’t find appealing or morally acceptable. I would expect that the vegan family has a plan for making meals work already and it won’t require changes to OPs diet but you people who cannot imagine meals without meat or dairy must be the most boring cooks in the world.

To me, boring cooking is restricting the ingredients I can use.

[Anonymous]

Please let us know how it shakes out OP. I would have never agreed to this trip based on my own stereotypes about vegans but would so would love to hear what happens. Thinking if they haven't said anything they are not going to ask you to also go vegan as well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:“Going vegan” doesn’t require anyone to eat a single thing they don’t find appealing or morally acceptable. I would expect that the vegan family has a plan for making meals work already and it won’t require changes to OPs diet but you people who cannot imagine meals without meat or dairy must be the most boring cooks in the world.

To me, boring cooking is restricting the ingredients I can use.

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[Anonymous]

Hey, this may sound crazy… But if they can afford to go on vacation, they’re probably grown-up enough to figure out how to eat away from home. Just spit balling.

[Anonymous]

We’ve been on vacation with vegans! It’s really no big deal. Just like with any vacation with another family we coordinated a few meals (taco night; pasta with roasted veggies with a garlic shrimp mix in for us; veggies, starch and grilled tofu or chicken; stir fry with tofu, which my family likes a lot, etc). My family ate out a couple times, they didn’t. Sometimes we grabbed ice cream without them. We had cones and sorbet at the house, which everyone loved.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can't you just eat vegan for a week?

The point of a vacation is to have fun, and not being able to have ice cream, seafood, grilled meats, etc. is no fun.

Sorbet is awesome, you can grill tons of veggies as well as some fruits, and you can grill tofu. Surely you can't be so stupid as to think vegan people don't have fun on vacations.

Apologies, I should have ended my post with "to me." Doing without those food is no fun TO ME. Therefore I would never "just eat vegan for a week." Also tofu is just wretched.

I'm not the PP, but if I said "vacation isn't fun to me without alcohol" most people would stay that is disordered. If you cannot enjoy a vacation without ice cream, seafood, and grilled meat, that sounds like a you issue that you should maybe work on, rather than a pronouncement about what is and is not fun for other people.

I'm not a fan of tofu myself, but it's absolutely ridiculous to suggest that there are no fun foods that don't involve animal products. Are you honestly sitting here saying that you do not enjoy ANY food that doesn't contain animal products? None? Zero?

NP - I enjoy plenty of foods that don't involve animal products. However, I am a very good cook, I (and my family) love to eat, and having meals we really enjoy is an integral part of vacation. When we go somewhere with a vibrant food culture, literally the first thing I do is figure out where and what we eat. When we go to a beach or ski house, I make means that we all like.

So no, I'm not eating salads and tofu for my whole vacation. Could I? Sure. Will I? Absolutely not. I deserve to enjoy my vacation too.

I agree with the PP, this is the dumbest post on this thread (and possibly imaginable).

I’m skeptical that you are such a foodie and yet apparently boil down vegan food to salad and tofu. Great cooks should be able to come up with a couple non meat and non dairy meals that are delicious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Going vegan” doesn’t require anyone to eat a single thing they don’t find appealing or morally acceptable. I would expect that the vegan family has a plan for making meals work already and it won’t require changes to OPs diet but you people who cannot imagine meals without meat or dairy must be the most boring cooks in the world.

Former vegan again. No it doesn't require them to eat something they dont find appealing, but it does require them to not eat foods they want. Which is selfish and controlling of the vegans. Yeah, there are tons of delicious vegan options but calling someone boring because they don't want to go vegan on their vacation is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why can't you just eat vegan for a week?

I don’t know about the OP’s family, but my family gets headaches from legumes - so no peanut butter, beans, tofu……. And that makes eating vegan very difficult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why can't you just eat vegan for a week?

Because they don't want to? I, for one, am not giving up my morning yoghurt. Not sure why OP's family has to be the one to shoulder most of the discomfort when it's the other family that has the more extreme diet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why can't you just eat vegan for a week?

Why can't they just eat meat for a week?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why can't you just eat vegan for a week?

I don’t know about the OP’s family, but my family gets headaches from legumes - so no peanut butter, beans, tofu……. And that makes eating vegan very difficult.

There are still other alternatives.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why can't you just eat vegan for a week?

Because they don't want to? I, for one, am not giving up my morning yoghurt. Not sure why OP's family has to be the one to shoulder most of the discomfort when it's the other family that has the more extreme diet.

There are vegan yoghurts.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can't you just eat vegan for a week?

I don’t know about the OP’s family, but my family gets headaches from legumes - so no peanut butter, beans, tofu……. And that makes eating vegan very difficult.

There are still other alternatives.

which are…….. (no nuts either )

[Anonymous]

Where are you going OP? Somewhere in the US? Elsewhere? City or remote? It can be difficult to find vegan food beyond salads in certain places. I hope you are not staying together. Some vegans cannot handle the smell of meat...and will complain. Also, are they preachy about being vegan?

I rarely eat meat, but my vegan only + celiac friends can really be too much sometime.

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Because they don't want to? I, for one, am not giving up my morning yoghurt. Not sure why OP's family has to be the one to shoulder most of the discomfort when it's the other family that has the more extreme diet.


There are vegan yoghurts.

Just no. I don't want to eat vegan yoghurts on my vacation. Happy to do a few vegan meals with the other family, but they need to understand that we will also be eating some non-vegan meals (either on our own, or they can join and ask for modifications or side dishes that are vegan). If they are up for doing it that way, the vacation will be fun. If not, it won't work out.