Food away from home
Food away from home does NOT have to be an issue when you eat fresh raw food. Or should I say when you refuse to eat processed crap.....I was just having a conversation today with someone and they asked how difficult it was to stay raw. My answer was "you eat what's in the kitchen". Seriously, when I'm hungry for a snack, the only food I have to choose from is good food because that's all I purchase! Food away from home for us means packing our cooler with food from our kitchen. So again, we eat what we have. Lunch is the same thing. I work 15 minutes from our home. Damon (who works at home) often will meet me 1/2 way between our home and my work for lunch, which happens to be a beautiful spot on the Eel River. We have seen a bald eagle and watched salmon swim upstream this year! He packs a cooler with "stuff" from the fridge and we make lunch. You never know what combination of veggies there will be, but it is always fresh and yummy. You'll have to excuse the photos, they were taken with a cell phone, they are NOT up to our usual standards, but it's all we had.....
This is homemade Kimchee, Mung bean sprouts and veggies on top.
I also go to my Mom's once a month. Mom does have good food, but not my usual diet so I either bring a cooler full of fresh veggies from home or shop for fresh veggies to make some good food while I am away from home. The last weekend I spent away from home I was lucky enough to have Damon with me (that doesn't happen very often) to help with meal time. We ended up shopping because there wasn't much left at home, but we took all the food home with us so there was no extra expense. Being creative helps incredibly! We fashioned some veggies into Mexican taco and lettuce wrap and we ate like kings!
These purple cabbage tacos were served with a simple salsa and guacamole. Check out the chips. They are actually fresh zucchini that we sliced with a curve (like a Frito scoop) to pick up our dips. It was a small zucchini so they were firm.
The other meal we made away from home was the lettuce wraps. Again, using all the same veggies but switching up the ingredients we had an entirely different meal. These lettuce wraps featured our homemade sauerkraut and alfalfa sprouts from home. Sometimes it's all we have available, but it's better than nothing!
Notice the fresh sprouts. We make our own. It's SO easy, anyone can do it. My first advise is, you don't have to buy "sprouting" seeds. Any seeds (as long as they are not roasted, toasted, salted, irradiated or pasteurized) will work. Rinse them 2 times a day and watch them grow! How easy is that?
Do you do your own sprouts? Do you know how easy it is? Did you know that sprouts are more nutritious then the plants they produce? We recently found french lentils (we call them frentils) they are stocked in the bulk section of our local organic market, cost pennies to buy and make great sprouts! Do you have a favorite sprout?
This is homemade Kimchee, Mung bean sprouts and veggies on top.
I also go to my Mom's once a month. Mom does have good food, but not my usual diet so I either bring a cooler full of fresh veggies from home or shop for fresh veggies to make some good food while I am away from home. The last weekend I spent away from home I was lucky enough to have Damon with me (that doesn't happen very often) to help with meal time. We ended up shopping because there wasn't much left at home, but we took all the food home with us so there was no extra expense. Being creative helps incredibly! We fashioned some veggies into Mexican taco and lettuce wrap and we ate like kings!
These purple cabbage tacos were served with a simple salsa and guacamole. Check out the chips. They are actually fresh zucchini that we sliced with a curve (like a Frito scoop) to pick up our dips. It was a small zucchini so they were firm.
The other meal we made away from home was the lettuce wraps. Again, using all the same veggies but switching up the ingredients we had an entirely different meal. These lettuce wraps featured our homemade sauerkraut and alfalfa sprouts from home. Sometimes it's all we have available, but it's better than nothing!
Notice the fresh sprouts. We make our own. It's SO easy, anyone can do it. My first advise is, you don't have to buy "sprouting" seeds. Any seeds (as long as they are not roasted, toasted, salted, irradiated or pasteurized) will work. Rinse them 2 times a day and watch them grow! How easy is that?
Do you do your own sprouts? Do you know how easy it is? Did you know that sprouts are more nutritious then the plants they produce? We recently found french lentils (we call them frentils) they are stocked in the bulk section of our local organic market, cost pennies to buy and make great sprouts! Do you have a favorite sprout?
Posted by Toni at 1/6/2010 10:14 PM 
Categories: Recipes,Raw Diet Info
Tags: Food to go cabbage tacos lettuce wraps eating raw away from home sprouts eating on the road bald eagle raw diet on the road fresh vegetables sprouting kimchee
Categories: Recipes,Raw Diet Info
Tags: Food to go cabbage tacos lettuce wraps eating raw away from home sprouts eating on the road bald eagle raw diet on the road fresh vegetables sprouting kimchee
Thanks for the inspiration. My partner and I are about to do a world travel and we have been having similar discussions. Generally, we're pretty excited to not have to worry a whole lot about food poisoning given we will be sticking to fruit and veg. It's very wonderful having blogs such as yours as reminders that there is definitely support and inspiration out there for times when our creativity gets spent elsewhere that day. Much appreciated and please keep it up. We're like you in a way too and only use other recipes as inspiration, normally modifying the ingredients to suit. It has been an exciting journey going raw and I look forward to the worldly travels being an opportunity to prove that it can be done while travelling. Who knows, maybe we will end up writing a book about it! All we have to figure out is how to get our wonderful body products that we will never go without shipped to us at various stops along the way!
Thanks again,
Ashley
- Australia
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Thank you for the gracious comment.
Our best suggestion for traveling is to take along a Cai Bao (see the bottom of the page on that link). This handy little tool helps slice and dice any veggie. I think it will pass in your luggage, but probably not if you put it in a carry on (if you are traveling by air). We don't go anywhere without it!
Good luck on your travels, a book sounds like a good idea, keep in touch! Keep checking on our site for more inspiration and let us know how you are doing, we can always use good ideas from our readers.
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