Vegans, Diabetics, and Dieters
Most restaurants , and practically all hotels, simply pretend there are no such things as diabetics and people on a diet. And if you’re Vegan, they might have just one or two dishes to mollify you (but they taste terrible).
Plantation Bay is the resort for YOU.
Vegans!
- Kilimanjaro Kafe has an entire section, Healthy Meals, with 7 delicious Vegan options such as Spicy Deep-Fried (in coconut oil) Tofu, Grilled Mixed Vegetables with Pesto, and Indian Dal.
- Fiji restaurant has Vegetable Masala, Samosas, Seared Broccoli with Nuts and Dates, and more.
- Palermo offers Roasted Sweet Peppers, Marcona Almonds, Pasta Puttanesca (advise server to omit the anchovy), Pasta Primavera, two Vegan salads, and Shirataki Garlic Rice. (Our pastas are made with egg yolk; if that doesn’t work for you, order your Italian pastas with Shirataki rice as substitute. With our expertly-made Vegan sauce choices, you’ll hardly taste any difference!)
- Even our American Diner, Route 66, has Chopped Spinach with Garlic, Kimchi, and Home-Made French Fries.
- Four of our home-made ice creams are not only dairy-free (made from coconut milk), but also sugar-free (sweetened with Allulose), and just as delicious as our regular home-made ice creams made with full cream. Our ice cream also has egg yolk.
Diabetic or Dieting?
- Cut all the carbs and 90% of the calories! Shirataki Rice is offered in all our restaurants. Prepared with flair and imagination, Shirataki makes an excellent garlic fried rice substitute (come taste ours, and we’ll share our secret), and a quite passable alternative for pasta (if your sauce is as good as ours). It’s not so good as a stand-alone replacement for steamed rice, but we can serve you that, too.
- Cut out all the sugar! We have a line of drinks and desserts sweetened with Allulose, the perfect sugar substitute since it is a naturally-occurring sugar, but with just 10% the calories and hardly any glycemic effect.
- All regular rice in Plantation Bay is twice-cooked, once frozen, to create Resistant Starch, lessening the effective calories and providing prebiotic food for your gut.
- Our Healthy Meals in Kilimanjaro Kafe (and similar dishes in the other outlets) will satisfy your hunger without spiking insulin or costing much by way of calories.
- In lieu of fries as a side, in all restaurants you can request Garlic Spinach instead. (But have a few of our fries anyway — experienced travelers rate them highly, and at 6-8 calories apiece, they’re not so bad. Just swipe some from your children.)
- To help you feel full and improve your digestion, our Fruity Fibrous Finish is available in all restaurants, and some of our drinks are spiked with chia seeds and/or inulin (a soluble fiber derived from chicory).
- Plantation Bay is developing an 8-day Weight Management All-Inclusive Package. Please fill out the simple form on the link below, and we’ll email you when it’s available (expected January 2026).
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