Can I take vegan products into Spain?

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I have an extremely hard to feed daughter who is vegan. I know historically that even being vegetarian in the EU was a challenge. Veganism takes this to new levels.

Do you think I can take her usual vegan cheese with us? I can see her only eating bread for a week otherwise. I'd normally cook from scratch but I need a blender and the right ingredients to make this work.

Have fellow vegans been to Spain and tell me how easy it was to cater? The thought of her not coping for a week is filling me with dread. She's autistic and won't eat vegetables.

After brexit you can't bring meat or dairy into the EU. I'm not sure how that applies to vegan cheese.

There's a section on the gov.uk website that lists everything you can and can't bring.

I think you can from reading the du commission guidelines, but there are now vegan sections in Spanish supermarkets just in case you can’t. Nothing is cheap, and there’s not much choice, but it is there and it didn’t use to be. Bigger towns will have a vegan restaurant now too.

You can get vegan products in several supermarkets in Spain. Oat milk, soya milk, Alpro yogurts etc. Not sure about vegan cheese because I only eat the Mail order cheeses.

One supermarket called Pepe Le Sal used to be quite good, also Mercadona.

In the touristy areas lots of restaurants also have vegan options now.

Where are you going?

We are going to Coin. Near Malaga.

She'll eat bread and olives and drinks vegan wine (she's 18).

Thank you all for your help.

I have never seen vegan wine in Spain. I live in Spain and have a few vegan friends so it’s obviously doable, but not as easy as in the uk.

does she eat tofu or seitan? There’s lots of that in supermarkets, along with falafel type things too.

I make white sauces with fortified yeast and cashew nuts puréed in a blender.

It's a very beige soft diet. It's unlikely I'll get her to eat anything she's not familiar with.

I'm debating taking my smaller blender with us along with fortified yeast.

Interesting about the wine.

My husband says we can use Google translate to read labels, I'm hoping that might help.

Carrefour have loads of vegan cheese etc you will have no problem getting it call in on your way from airport to the one at la Canada before you go up the hill if you can.
I've brought vegan cheese over the border the other way from Gibraltar and it's been fine just no animal products