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Vegan At Sea: My Top 10 Tips!

You know how to be vegan at home. You’ve learned what you like, found a local farmer’s market, frequent your favourite restaurants and have a routine. So what happens when everything gets shaken up? Maintaining a vegan diet in restrictive circumstances can be difficult, something I know all too well from working on cruise ships!

I have spent a cumulative 7 months at sea, and I can tell you it hasn’t always been easy. I hope that my top ten tips for maintaining a vegan diet at sea (or wherever you may find yourself) can help you on your journey. Let’s get started!

Plant Based Diet, VeganElizabeth TurnbullApril 30, 2016vegan at sea, tips for going vegan, tips for vegans, vegan on vacation, traveling as a vegan, cruising as a vegan, guide to eating veganComment

The Vegan Food Pyramid

What do vegans actually eat? That's a question I hear more often than you'd think. And the answer is very simple.

Vegans eat plants!

Now obviously there are lots of ways to achieve that. High or low carb, raw or cooked, whole foods or junk foods, vegans eat it all.

Me? I like to eat a whole foods high carb nutrient dense plant based diet. Bit of a mouthful, right? (Pun intended.)

So what does that actually look like?

Let me show you!

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Should You Stop Drinking Coffee?

Hi. My name is Elizabeth, and I'm a coffeeholic.

It's not just one thing, but the whole that makes coffee so irresistible. The heavenly aroma, the slightly bitter toasty taste, the warm fuzzies, the kick of energy... Basically, coffee is damn good. But is it good FOR you? I'm on a mission to find out.

Why don't you come along?

Why You Need To Get More Fibre

The Standard American Diet is dangerously low in fibre, and yet no one seems to be too concerned. They should be. Learn all about fibre and why YOU (yes, you) need to be eating more of it in today's blog post!

Nutrition, Plant Based Diet, HealthElizabeth TurnbullFebruary 10, 2016why do we need fibre, why do we need to eat fibre, how much fibre do we need, fibre and colorectal cancer, fibre and heart disease, fibre and diabetes, fibre and IBS, how much fibre do we really need, how much fibre is too much, how fibre prevents cancer, does fibre prevent cancer Comments