Vegetarian Student Exchange to France?
I'm 15 and am going to France this year on a student exchange. I will either go to Lyon or Marseille, then Paris. I am a vegetarian (no meat inc chicken and fish). I will be staying with a host family. Has anybody here done this? Will I have difficulty finding vegetarian food? in the school canteens? What was your family like?
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Well, for starters, notify the families where you'll be staying, send them a list of things you do not eat, so they will be prepared. Once they get it, they are really understanding. For example, they cooked rice with vegetables, and meat on the side, so you eat rice and vegetables, they eat rice, meat and vegetables, no one is hurt. Random people - this will be a little bit more difficult. For some reason, they think that "vegetarian" means a herbivore rodent, and I was proposed many a strange meals, like grated carrots with nothing, on a pretty plate to be my "dinner", a huge dish of fresh dandelion leaves, with nothing on them, they just picked them off, put them on a plate and expected me to eat them, and so on. They could not understand that I ate cooked meals (and loved them, too). School places must have alternative vegetarian meals, especially since you go to large cities. Get ready for a lot of beetroot - boiled beetroot and grated beetroot, they love beetroot. In ordinary cafes and restaurants I found it difficult to order vegetarian meals, they have these plates with everything on them - a piece of vegetable, a piece of meat and a some carbs (potatoes, rice). Very rarely I could find a salad and some main dish, served with no meat, and then the price was not worth the trouble. Special vegetarian places are pricey. Bread is very tasty.
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I agree with ny
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