Hi Felicia,

As a vegie, I certainly agree with you that a vegie option should be available. However, speaking from experience, I can tell you that on most days of a bike tour, most of the people who didn't order the veggie lunch will hit the lunch stop and decide that they don't want anything too heavy and grab a vegie meal. The carnivores eat up the vegetarian meals before most of us get to eat. On the Tour de Virginias, they even gave us wrist bands by color to denote a vegetarian meal option but it did little to solve the problem. Most of the people who didn't order the vegie meal wanted one when they got to the lunch stop on a hot day and had the choice between a greasey ham sandwich/fish plate or the vegie option of a veggie pita wrap, chips and a cookie. Unfortunately, people are often too self-centered to care or to realize that someone didn't get the lunch they paid for because someone else ate it!