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Vegan-Friendly Las Vegas, Who Knew?VegeNation And More

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I never would have thought my new favorite vegan restaurant would be in sin city! Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest . Las Vegas Has Certainly Changed Years ago, when I worked for IBM, I attended a Head-Disk Media show in Las Vegas every year. And later, as a CEO, I held sales events there. It's a great place for that sort of thing. But I really hated the place. The smoke, the rich food, and the constant "ding ding ding" of the casinos drove me nuts. But after taking a 10 year break, Doug and I decided to go there for a 4-night, 5 day mini vacation. Boy were we surprised! First of all, we managed to find a lovely hotel called The Mandarin Oriental that does not allow smoking and does not have a casino. How great is that! The wonderful food options in Las Vegas were even more surprising. Vegan Las Vegas When you go to a place like Las Vegas, you surely don't expect to find healthy, plant-based meals. But to my surprise, there were lots of options ava...

Looking For A Healthy Vegan Meal At The LA Airport? Try Real Food Daily In Terminal 4

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Real Food Daily is a lifesaver for vegan's flying through LA. Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest . Eating and Flying If you have food allergies or strong food preferences, getting a decent meal while traveling can be really difficult. I always end up bringing along Kind bars, nuts and fruit just so I don't starve to death. But with the demise of most free airline meals, more and more restaurants are popping up in airports. And some of them are quite good! I remember telling you how surprised I was to find Chelsea's Kitchen in the Phoenix airport last October - their Kale and Quinoa salad was so good it inspired a blog post. We flew through LA (terminal 4) on our way to Buenos Aires last month and on our way back from Rio last week. Both times I stopped at Real Food Daily. I was so happy to find a healthy, organic, non-GMO plant-based restaurant, that I could hardly wait to tell you about it.  Real Food Daily On the way there, we had breakfast. Doug got a ...