Hotel Healthy

It's incredibly easy to control what we eat when we cook at home, because we just don't buy bad ingredients! But when we travel, it's another story. We go out to eat a lot, either because we don't have the option of cooking in our room, we're being social, or because we just want to experience the area we're visiting! And food is definitely a part of the experience!

Fortunately, on the West coast people are more health-conscious and earth-friendly, so we can usually find lots of options that fit within our diet. We've already found dozens of vegan restaurants for our fun weekend planned in Seattle and Vancouver this weekend!

But most of the week we've been making food in our room. Matt stocked up on hummus, apples, pears, spinach, tomatoes, bananas, oatmeal, raw honey, sprouts and pita before I got here. A lot of hotel rooms have refrigerators, so this is something we can do anywhere. I've been making my oatmeal for breakfast and Matt comes back to meet me for lunch. Today's lunch is a simple sandwich on flat whole wheat rolls with avocado, spinach, alfalfa sprouts, cherry tomatoes (sliced), and hummus. I stacked it in that order so that the avocado holds the spinach in place, the alfalfa sprouts act as a bed for the tomatoes, and the hummus holds the tomatoes on there. Yum! Served with a side of carrots, it's a yummy and light lunch!