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Vegan Crag List

• December 2013
• Simple Living Climb

Love you Steph! you have been a hero to me the last two years and I really give you so much love. If you ever need someone to talk to or share, just know you have friends you have never met….
….as vegan I would like to hear more about what your crag diet is, I understand to a degree, but would like to hear a level of buying for a week trip or longer trip is like, and yes, what do you do on a big wall?
Duncan

Hi Duncan, thanks for the kind thoughts.
When I go cragging, my food stash is often as simple as some Mojo Mixed Nuts bars and some of the Kit Cashew bars. I also really like dried apples and dried bananas (the soft ones, not the crunchy kind) and nuts. When I have a little time before leaving, my favorite crag snack is a plastic tupperware with simple kale salad in it–chopped up raw kale dressed with vinaigrette and sprinkled with sesame seeds and nutritional yeast. I love that when cragging, and it keeps just fine in the pack lid for a day outing. I also like crackers with almond butter and sliced up cucumbers and red bell pepper with hummus.

For big walls, I always bring a small stove rather than doing the can thing. That way I can have tea in the morning and can bring dehydrated things for dinner and there’s no hauling around hunks of aluminum. My food bag is pretty much the same for big walling as it is for alpine climbing, just different quantities. For breakfast, I bring muesli and powdered soymilk, which you can eat hot or cold. I bring lots of Traditional Medicinals Ginger Aid tea, because I am addicted to that, morning and evening. Snacks include everything mentioned above–don’t forget the almond butter! For dinners, I like dehydrated lentil soup more than anything, but will also eat brown rice ramen sometimes. I always bring nutritional yeast and red pepper flakes too which is really key for brown rice ramen–I drink all the broth first and then coat the noodles with yeast and red pepper which is quite yummy.

Although I get tired of them easily for some reason (and the rice ones are just never truly good, but they’re okay enough when mixed with something else), I do like the convenience of Tasty Bites, so I’ll usually bring a couple of those (the lentils, chickpea and kidney bean ones are my favorites, going for protein). They have the advantage of being eatable straight out of the package.

Just make sure you bring plenty of Mojo bars and almond butter, and also lots of dried fruit and nuts so you are able to snack after dinner if you want to, without cutting into your climbing food stash.
Enjoy! Steph