In short, food safety is very easy to find, and we feel good!
Both myself and my running buddy are gluten free/dairy free, and I have a few other things I have to avoid as well. Travelling with a limited diet can be challenging, but with careful planning it can be done! It helped to have a friend looking for the same restaurants as I was. We started out at Margaritaville in downtown Nashville, where they had advertised a gluten free menu. The service was marginal, the food was worse and the prices were astronomical! I was hoping to at least get a good margarita out of the deal, but it was a yucky, corn-syrupy blend that mostly tasted like water. Not the best way to start out a trip. We were able to find a great Mexican restaurant called the Rose Pepper in East Nashville where we enjoyed some delicious gluten free veggie fajitas. We cooked our own pre-race pasta party complete with rice noodles, shrimp and veggies. It was great to have a house with a kitchen to cook in while we were there! Out post-race meal was Chipotle, and we topped off our restaurant hopping with an awesome little place called “The Pfunky Griddle”. They had gluten free pancake batter, and a celiac safe griddle for us to use at our table! Our entire group had a great time cooking our own customized pancake breakfast. Besides restaurant eating, I had packed my traveling staples: breakfast cookies, sunflower seeds, Enjoy Life Sunbutter bars, homemade power bars and some protein muffins. Of course we brought our ritual pre-race breakfast of protein pancakes as well. All in all, safe food was easy to find and we felt great!
We’re losing the war against obesity in the US
We’re losing the war against obesity in the US. It’s sad, but true. Our kids are growing up overweight and malnourished from a diet of processed foods, and today’s children will be the first generation ever to live shorter lives than their parents. It’s time for change. It’s time for a Food Revolution.
“Since I’ve been working in America, I’ve been overwhelmed by the number of people who have come out to support the Food Revolution. More than 630,000 people have signed the petition, over 300,000 of you subscribe to our newsletter and thousands of you have written to me. The only message I keep hearing is that you believe your kids need better food, and that you want help to keep cooking skills alive. That’s why this Food Revolution matters.” ~Jamie Oliver