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Planning to ride from northeastern US to Ushuaia. How can I get salads? Clearly shouldn't have lettuce on street tacos.
What are my chances with a salad at a "good" restaurant? Can I clean salad greens well enough in camp?
Even riding in western Canada or walking in Europe, I get too much meat and not enough greens (for me).
I'll have to adapt my diet to what's available, what's safe, plus some local specialties. Balance needs to include salads.
I've ridden all over US and Canada and visited Europe but this is my first foray into Mexico and south. Been studying Spanish for over 2 years for this trip.
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Dukoral
For those not familiar with it, Dukoral, an oral vaccine, is not only aimed at cholera.
It's maker also markets it as preventing "diarrhea caused by heat-labile toxin producing enterotoxigenic E. Coli". Which would cover many cases of traveler's diarrhea not including those caused by viruses or parasites.
In any event, it's easy to get (over the counter in Canada) and I've used it on the basis that any reduction in the chances of getting sick is desirable.
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Originally Posted by DaveGetsLost
Planning to ride from northeastern US to Ushuaia. How can I get salads? Clearly shouldn't have lettuce on street tacos...
What are my chances with a salad at a "good" restaurant? Can I clean salad greens well enough in camp?
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I'll have to adapt my diet to what's available, what's safe, plus some local specialties. Balance needs to include salads.
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Totally agree it's hard to get enough greens.
Our experience has been that it's a crap shoot on getting good safe salads. Better the hotel the safer you are, but not certain. In a resort catering to tourists, they HAVE TO make it safe for tourists.
We bought greens etc in the local market and then always purified the water we used to rinse / wash veggies in a compact folding sink. And did it twice, mostly because of my known tricky belly.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveGetsLost
Planning to ride from northeastern US to Ushuaia. How can I get salads? Clearly shouldn't have lettuce on street tacos.
What are my chances with a salad at a "good" restaurant? Can I clean salad greens well enough in camp?
Even riding in western Canada or walking in Europe, I get too much meat and not enough greens (for me).
I'll have to adapt my diet to what's available, what's safe, plus some local specialties. Balance needs to include salads.
I've ridden all over US and Canada and visited Europe but this is my first foray into Mexico and south. Been studying Spanish for over 2 years for this trip.
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We've eaten salads in tiny roadside restaurants throughout Latin America with no problems. Businesses which do not take of hygiene go broke, and social security is less than adequate for the people running these places. I have noted that on the few occasions I've had minor stomach upsets (with one exception) it has been in restaurants in the USA, and not while travelling.
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