You know, when you really want to eat but don't have the bandwidth to make something? I want to maintain an entirely plant-based diet, but times are tough. What are some go-tos
If you have the luxury of an all-vegan shop that isn't super expensive, definitely patronize that place over others. They can be rare.
If you're stuck finding vegan items from an omni shop:
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Falafel like others said
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Fries are the sad vegan backup option but you can do better. Also some places are jerks like McDonald's where the fries aren't even vegan.
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Burrito places will often do a great vegan option. Veggie burrito with rice and beans and guac.
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Del Taco has good beyond guac burritos and tacos. Keep in mind that Beyond stuff is questionably vegan because they do testing with animal products.
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A lot of Indian food classics can be made vegan if you ask for it that way. Chaat places will satisfy the fast food part
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Anglo-ized Vietnamese can be veganized easily. Banh mi, bun, pho.
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Certain Chinese dishes are accidentally vegan. Salt and pepper tofu, some noodle dishes (gotta make sure the noodles aren't made with egg), fried rice without egg or meat, vegetable dishes that don't have oyster sauce, green onion pancake, vinegar chili oil garlic cucumber, etc etc.
Also don't sleep on making big batches of freezable stuff so that you have easy food for lazy days. Chili, Indian bean dishes, frijoles negro are all very hearty and good for you and full of beans and freeze + reheat perfectly.
Vegans don't support animal murdering companies like del taco.
The premise of OP's question is about fast food and eating out. There are no vegan company options for that, at least not generally. Even a shop that uses only plant-based ingredients will usually be purchasing them from companies that are subsidiaries of meat industry companies or do animal research.
Rather than tell someone trying to go vegan that there are no options and that they must cook all of their own food and investigate all of their supply chains for those ingredients, I prefer a softer onboarding approach where I drop hints - and I did exactly that with Del Taco.
There are also mental health realities that mean many vegans will have to eat at an omni shop sometimes, which is why I framed it as, if you have to eat at an omni shop.
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your best bet is probably to check out happycow for places that are nearby. it shows places that are all plant-based and also places that arent entirely plant-based but have plant-based options
plant-based burgers are your most likely option based on whats around me, although i guess be careful as some will probably use beyond or impossible patties, which i think most people consider arent really vegan
Freeze some meals and you can defrost later or make something real easy like a pb&j
I think this might be for /c/food since this forum's got this:
No plant-based diet bullshit or promotion of plant-based capitalism. Veganism isn’t about you, it’s about historical materialist anti-speciesism, anti-racist animalization, and animal liberation. Ethical vegans only.
Assuming the whole thread gets nuked, in the US at least I can only think of the "Beyond" stuff, but there's tons of vegetarian and vegan (usually mianbao options at Asian restaurants usually vegan meat like miànjīn (麵筋) which I suspect is what a lot of the commercial frozen vegan meat products are basically made of? It's sort of like seitan.
If I'm eating vegan, I usually prefer the gluten-based meats at Chinese places over noodles and stuff because protein keeps me much more satiated. Take a look around, there might be a vegetarian Chinese place with vegan options, like this place NYC's Chinatown where everything was awesome: https://www.buddha-bodai.com/#
Beyond isn't vegan. They use corpses in their food testing.
Barking up the wrong tree. Veganism isn't a consumer identity.
Plus you're lucky if you find exclusively vegan restaurants while traveling. Eat food you brought.