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Possible to visit Alaska as a preservative-free vegan?

 
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Just thought I'd throw this out there.  DW has always dreamed of touring Alaska, but she has medical issues with preservatives and is more recently a vegan.

This may be a total stereotype (apologies for that), but I'm imagining Alaskans survive mostly on fish and canned goods.

Is there a way to visit and still maintain the diet, or is this just a dream that needs to stay a dream?
 
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How will you be touring Alaska?

Will you do a cruise? A car trip? Or will you fly?

Will you use a tour company?

This too is a dream of my dear hubby so the above questions are questions we have.

If doing a cruise ask for the ship's menu.

If other forms of transportation look at restaurant menus for the cities you will be stopping at.

I ask Mr Google and came up with a variety of foods.

You might even call some of the places you might want to dine at and ask.

Another suggestion if doing a car trip is bring your own food and plan to make grocery store shopping trips.
 
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Depends on where you are going and whether you are going to stock up. Fairbanks and Anchorage both have a pretty wide and varied food scene, thats your best bets for actual restaurants.. You will probably want to carry food if headed to outlying places or check ahead.  Otherwise, there are grocery stores in the bigger towns, just like in the lower 48 with fresh foods and an ever widening variety of other foods.
 
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Lived there twice. First ever trip rented a Beauty Van (seen it in the AK mag) and myself and my 2 kids travelled around camping in the van that came equipped with the gear. May have to take or send some stuff up prior to going up and then pick up (general deliver? call and ask first.)
 
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I bet its possible, but difficult and will require planning, and much more doable in summer. Very good reasons exist for why vegetarian cultures tend to be equatorial, with meat and dairy being more necessary and integral in human diets closer to the poles. Animals evolved with plants in beneficial feedback loops that essentially make us eukaryotic endothermic ambulators the ecosystems’ energy and nutrient storage and transport devices. The harsher the winters, the more important this is to the ecosystem’s, and therefore human cultures’, function.
 
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https://www.ohwy.com/ak/b/beauvans.htm
 
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I'm an almost decade long vegetarian/vegan in Florida, living a life that I hate, even though I'm vegan.

Got a one way plane ticket to Alaska in June.

Will be eating plenty of clean and pure fish that I catch and quickly dispatch. Better than being disconnected from my food sources and being a GSV (grocery store vegan).
 
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