I'm enjoying New Orleans while here at a conference. Great city, great weather, fantastic food - unless you are vegan. This is a challenging city to find vegan options. I am not opposed to eating seafood when that is my only nonplantstrong option and when in great seafood cities. NOLA would qualify as a seafood city!
But the seafood here is fried, covered in sauce, and nary a vegetable in sight. But with a little creativity, a vegan can survive and eat well :)
Salad is essential. Fortunately, even the finest restaurants will have a dinner salad.
NOLA has wonderful red beans and rice. It may have been cooked with ham or bacon grease, but you can avoid the sausage. Tonight at a great seafood place, I had red beans hummus for appetizer!
Breakfast in New Orleans are killer - cheese grits, steak and eggs, fried eggs on top of pancakes. Yikes! But I found a great little place this morning and had breakfast potatoes, fresh fruit, and fresh orange juice. And of course, wonderful coffee. Sides can be a great menu option and cheaper than the giant omelet meal with cheese, eggs, and sausage...My breakfast bill was $7.00. There was no main entre course on the menu under $8.00.
I've had catfish, fried oysters, crab fingers, and lump crab, but otherwise - plantstrong.
I searched for vegan or vegetarian restaurants on my Veg Out phone app, but there was nothing! That qualifies NOLA as a nonvegan friendly city. But if you scour the menu and get creative, you can find some good options to keep you on your path without too much deviation.
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