How to stay raw while out having fun
Friday, November 30th, 2007 at 10:10 am
…you have goji berries permanently stuck (petrified, really) onto your hard wood or linoleum floors! Ahhh! I can’t get the darn things off. I need to buy a flat edged razor next time I’m at Target. I keep forgetting that one.
Anyways…I realize that I’ve digressed a bit from how to stay raw in the city. If there’s one thing I’ve mastered in the raw foods lifestyle, it’s definitely that. Just last week I went downtown with some friends to watch the annual lighting ceremony of the Chicago x-mas tree. The rendezvous was at 4pm and I knew I wouldn’t be back home until 1am or so that night (we had a lot planned for that day) so I had to think a bit ahead about what I was going to do when I got hungry.
I used to just pack some nuts or flax crackers and maybe some dried fruit and bring that along and plan on supplementing a salad with that (or only eat that) but now I’ve learned to just bring a salad too because I just never know where I’m going to end up (AND because I need my greens in order to feel satisfied and grounded in the evening). My friends aren’t the healthiest of eaters ever and they’re perfectly fine eating food at a bar or pub (bars and pubs have THE WORST salads ever-seriously). And I am the type of person who just likes to go with the flow and not make a big fuss over food-nobody else seems to! So what’s KEY on days like this is 1) to plan ahead and 2) to not give a rip about what other people think about you (friends, restaurant servers, or otherwise). I recommended getting a couple packaged of Gladware disposable containers so you won’t mind throwing them away. There are cute little salad dressing sized ones too that you can buy for salads or desserts (1-2 TBS of cacao nibs with a dallop of raw honey fit perfectly in them!). Don’t worry about bringing a cooler or anything (salads will be fine for a couple hours, especially in the winter weather). You don’t want to be carrying that thing around all night anyway.
So last weekend I just busted out the salad at the bar last Saturday. It was pretty funny. I’m wasn’t drinking beer or anything with my salad, just water (alcohol inhibits digestion). I had two glasses of wine at a live music bar we went to but that was later ;)
So how to be raw and have a life…It’s just no fun to be tied to your home all the time when meal-time comes around, right? But I’m telling you, it’s definitely possible. I’m working on a green-smoothie-juice-bar business as we speak so hopefully one day I can tell you just try to be around one of those when hunger strikes. If you aren’t gusty enough as I am to do that those LONG days away from home, I would recommend packing some baggies of flax crackers, raw trail mix, dried fruit, sea veggies (dulse is my favorite), and/or Lara bars with you though. You can easily supplement any salad with these and feel satisfied. No problem. Easy as raw blueberry pie.
For more on how to dine out at a regular food restaurant if you’re a raw foodist, see this post.
I’ll be posting more recipes like the kale chips one I did the other day so stay tuned. I just need to start taking more pictures of the yummy concoctions…
Happy Friday and happy holidays,
~L
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