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How to Love Traveling Without Sacrificing Your Diet: Our Essential Guide
How to Love Traveling Without Sacrificing Your Diet: Our Essential Guide
All summer we’ve been addressing common misconceptions about traveling with certain health limitations. But perhaps one of the hardest hit health issues when traveling is diet.
It's challenging to follow a healthy diet on vacation, but when you have a dietary restriction finding food that fits into your guidelines seems impossible! You’re removed from your local grocery store, regular restaurants, and maybe even the language you use to convey your dietary needs. Traveling to a foreign place can seem out of reach if you don’t know how you’re going to survive two weeks without your regular foods.
We have a few tried and true tips for surviving on that dreamy summer vacation. If you can’t have dairy, gluten, meat, sodium, or any other food limitation, read our 4 top tips for surviving the journey when you have a dietary restriction.
Plan Ahead
While you’re researching the museums you want to see, take a quick look at the eateries surrounding those must-see destinations. If you can, call ahead and see if you can get a copy of the menu, or at least ask what type of allergens or restrictions they can serve. If you gather a list of a few, you’re sure to have plenty of eating options.
For even more preparation, bring some diet approved snacks to keep you full you’re out and enjoying your vacation spot.
Cook for Yourself
It might be easiest to book accommodations that have a kitchen and hit the local grocery store. Cooking all your own meals is the only surefire way you won’t consume food you shouldn’t have. If you’re dictating the menu, you won’t have to do any of that restaurant research, or risk going to a restaurant where you can’t eat.
Learn the Language
Traveling somewhere that speaks a different language
Bring Medications
Life happens, and there is no avoiding that. If you are allergic to a particular food and you accidentally consume it, don’t let it ruin your trip. Make sure you to have whatever counteracting medication you use with you at all times. Remember, medications are okay on the plane if you are traveling by air.
At ExpressMed, we want anyone to be able to experience the joys of going somewhere new. Because you are living with a dietary restriction, you should not be excluded from that. These tips are sure to make the trip a little less stressful and a lot more memorable for all the right reasons.
Don’t forget to share with us the best vacation you’ve taken and how a dietary restriction didn’t hold you back!
By Express Med
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