RawHeaven
11-07-2007, 11:51 PM
I have to share this story with you all. This evening my housemate invited our next door neighbor over for dinner. She heated up something from Trader Joe's for them, it actually looked pretty good and made some cooked spinach or something like that. I was in the middle of making one of my monster green salads with lots of colorful vegetables, greens and of course a sliced avocado. Yummy. I squeezed some lemons to make my dressing and she commented, "hmm that smells good" regarding the lemons. This was just the beginning.
Mr neighborhood guy (he's very nice actually, just keeping his name anonymous) arrives and he's a hardcore meat and potatoes person. We've had conversations about "my diet" before and I could see his eyes glazing over but he was always polite. I actually didn't know he was coming over until the last minute and so they invited me to join them. I was still chopping my veggies, so I told them to go ahead.
So when I arrived at the table with my big plate of greens, this guy's eyes almost popped out of his head. Just like a kid who wants something better. He said, wow, that's a great salad and then he looked down at his plate of baked processed xyz and back to my salad. hahaaaaha. I have to admit it was hands down, one of the most spectacular salads I've ever made and it was beautiful too, with lots of color so I can understand his reaction. Then my housemate told him that I also squeezed fresh lemons,etc for the dressing. He seemed very impressed and couldn't keep his eyes off of my salad. (That sounds like something else, but I don't feel like rewording it, lol). I asked him if he wanted some, but he declined twice. But he kept staring at it. Finally I scooped some of it onto his plate and he really liked it. According to him, it's been years since he's eaten a salad or greens. He then started asking me a lot of questions about what I eat and I could literally see the lightbulb turning on in this man. I had his full attention this time. He was sincerely interested in learning more about being Raw and this is someone who doesn't even really know what vegetarianism is all about. It was an amazing experience, to watch someone transform before my eyes like that.
For dessert they had chocolate ice cream bon bons. Of course they asked me if I wanted any and I politely declined. Somehow we got on the topic of raw desserts and I told him I'd make a raw chocolate cake one day so he could see what I was talkin about. He said, "oh, how do you make it, there's such a thing and can you make it next week? lol.
I guess my point of sharing this story is simply remaining true to yourself, doing your thing and living the raw lifestyle is enough. There is no need to preach or try to explain how you're living your life.
It's easy....when you build it (a heavenly salad ;) ), they will come! :D
Mr neighborhood guy (he's very nice actually, just keeping his name anonymous) arrives and he's a hardcore meat and potatoes person. We've had conversations about "my diet" before and I could see his eyes glazing over but he was always polite. I actually didn't know he was coming over until the last minute and so they invited me to join them. I was still chopping my veggies, so I told them to go ahead.
So when I arrived at the table with my big plate of greens, this guy's eyes almost popped out of his head. Just like a kid who wants something better. He said, wow, that's a great salad and then he looked down at his plate of baked processed xyz and back to my salad. hahaaaaha. I have to admit it was hands down, one of the most spectacular salads I've ever made and it was beautiful too, with lots of color so I can understand his reaction. Then my housemate told him that I also squeezed fresh lemons,etc for the dressing. He seemed very impressed and couldn't keep his eyes off of my salad. (That sounds like something else, but I don't feel like rewording it, lol). I asked him if he wanted some, but he declined twice. But he kept staring at it. Finally I scooped some of it onto his plate and he really liked it. According to him, it's been years since he's eaten a salad or greens. He then started asking me a lot of questions about what I eat and I could literally see the lightbulb turning on in this man. I had his full attention this time. He was sincerely interested in learning more about being Raw and this is someone who doesn't even really know what vegetarianism is all about. It was an amazing experience, to watch someone transform before my eyes like that.
For dessert they had chocolate ice cream bon bons. Of course they asked me if I wanted any and I politely declined. Somehow we got on the topic of raw desserts and I told him I'd make a raw chocolate cake one day so he could see what I was talkin about. He said, "oh, how do you make it, there's such a thing and can you make it next week? lol.
I guess my point of sharing this story is simply remaining true to yourself, doing your thing and living the raw lifestyle is enough. There is no need to preach or try to explain how you're living your life.
It's easy....when you build it (a heavenly salad ;) ), they will come! :D