Vegan Packing List & Grocery Shopping List for Colombia

Things to pack:

If you are coming to Colombia for a long time, will have access to a kitchen, and can bring food with you, these are my suggestions...

1. Ground flax seeds. Use as egg replacer.
2. Ener-G Egg replacer
3. Real Vanilla (okay, everyone should bring this...)
4. Protein bars or powder, although you can find both here
5. Vital Wheat Gluten flour. Use to make seitan, chickpea cutlets, vegan sausage, etc.
6. Peanut butter or other nut butters, and a lot of it!
7. Any of your favorite vegan "crave" foods that might be difficult to find. For me, it was dried cranberries.
8. Spices! Chili powder, fennel, red pepper flakes... these tend to be hard to find.

Grocery locations:

These places are where I find most of my groceries in Pereira...
1. Tofu-Exito, vegetarian restaurants with weird hours downtown
2. Soymilk- Silk at Exito, Ades at all other stores
3. Protein powder- Soy Plus, all well-stocked supermarkets
4. Veggies and Produce- the best variety is usually found at La 14. Carrefour is the cheapest but runs out faster.
5. Organic amazing fresh basil-Carrefour
6. Canned chickpeas-Exito, La 14
7. Fat free refried Old El Paso pinto beans: Exito
8. Spices: La 14
9. Fresh bread: bakeries at Carrefour and Exito
10. Lee Kum Kee Terriyaki Sauce: La 14 and Carrefour
11. Low sodium, high quality soy sauce: Carrefour
12. Other vegan canned beans: La 14
13. Santander chocolate: La 14, Exito, sometimes Carrefour
14. Wine: Alkosto (cheap)
15. Peanut butter--Carrefour, but it is massively and prohibitively expensive to be a regular grocery item

For good beer, only Carrefour has European brews. Warren wanted everyone to know...