Serious Help Needed ASAP!!!!

[peachy_pie]

Hi there everyone! Firstly can I say that this is the BEST raw forum on the web. It is awesome! And now... down to business. The raw thing is very new for me, at the moment I am trying to incorporate 60-70% raw foods. However, I'm going away this weekend to visit my boyfriend's family, which includes two mums and two brothers. Their food of choice when I've been up there before consists of lots of white bread, tea and coffee and sometimes a bbq chicken... sometimes pizza. While I cooked when I was up there last and made a relatively healthy vegie pasta bake, I have a much greater challenge this time... two days of trying to incorporate raw foods. I will definately offer to make dinner on the sunday night, so that will incorporate a large salad and some cooked food. I need advice though. Food for the train ride up? Food that appeals to SAD eaters but incorporates raw? Maybe salad sandwiches for lunch, open faced with mostly salad? the biggest thing is i want to feel like i'm doing the right thing without being like a stressed out hippie freak :eek: because that will annoy his family!!! SO...........

[Nurse in the Raw]

I am also going to spend the weekend at a huge family BBQ 6 hours away, so I will be bringing my own food. I am taking all produce because it is easy to carry and easy preparation. I am also bringing a few of my favorite things (Nori rolls) so I am not tempted by what everyone else is eating.

[Beckla]

Fruit.
Fruit.
Fruit.

Almond butter and crushed fruit "wraps" -- pb&j!

Raw nuts to nibble on.

Almond butter with apple slices.

Raw hummus (do a search on here - zucchini hummus is awesome!) with fresh veggies/fruit.

Fudge balls - trick them all into thinking you're eating SAD food. So easy, so good.


A fav meal of mine is this: (had it for dinner tonight)... take a bunch of your favorite things... for me, tonight, it was: sliced mushrooms, tomatoes, avacado, green, yellow, and red pepper, scallions, zucchini, and fresh corn carved off the cob... make a mix of extra virgin olive oil and raw balsamic or raw red wine vinegar with select spices... heaven. And it you serve that on a plate over a bed of fresh spinach and maybe with some sliced raw almonds or other nuts of your choice... heck, they'll want what you're having!!

If they're bbqing, go with a Kabab - really! - of onion, red and green pepper, (and any other color, of course), mushroom, tomato, and pineapple. Marinade it in 1/2 raw honey or 1/4 c agave and 1/4 C balasamic vinegar, 1/4 C extra virgin olive oil. Serve - as you would a grilled kebab ... with fresh, raw corn on the cob. (avacado "butter" with garlic and/or sea salt and/or pepper optional).

Viola!

They'll envy YOU.

[Random Violin Guy]

Applesauce is a good one. Just be prepared for when they attack you for the recipe, because this stuff is GOOD :p http://www.hishealingways.com/applesauce/applesauce.html

You could also do blender soups. I'm sure they'd be perfectly happy with a cream of tomato soup or something like that. They could even soak it up with their white bread and have tea alongside it.

There's no real need to tell them that the food you're making is different because it's raw. If you tell them it's different, they'll be more inclined to poke at it and think it's weird hippie food. If you don't tell them, then they'll just think it's really good - colorful and tasty... two things that come naturally to raw foods, but not so much to cooked.

For the trip up, you could make a raw trail mix out of raisins, sunflower seeds, almonds, whatever else... maybe some dried apple bits and some dates. Be creative, have fun. Fresh fruits are also nice; you could take along some apples and bananas, or an avocado with some salt sprinkled on top.

Oh, and for dinner with them, you could serve fresh fruit as part of the meal. Set out a bowl of grapes or something like that... maybe some orange slices or chop up an apple. You get the idea.

Have fun, and best of luck with the bf's family!

[dahlila]

Fruit.


Almond butter and crushed fruit "wraps" -- pb&j!

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beckla-
how do you "wrap' in crushed fruit?

[snowdrop]

she probably crushed the fruit & made fruit leather by dehydrating in sheets.
cut w/ a pizza cutter and yummmmm.
just guessing....