Help me stay raw with the winter cold

[raweater]

Hi, I'm new to this forum (moved from rawfood/sunfood.com). I've been raw for over a year, in summer I can easily be 100% raw (but am actually about 95% due to going to restaurants), but when last winter came I gradually fell to maybe as low as 60% raw at some point.

Now that winter is comming again (I'm in Quebec, Canada by the way, so it gets very cold) my raw percentage started to fall again, I'm eating one cooked meal a day (but I normally have 6-10 meals a day so I'm still around 90% raw).

In summer I have a lot of smoothies, but I'm sure you can understand that when comming in from a below freezing temperature in winter, the last thing I want is a smoothie that's a hair above freezing temperature (I use frozen fruits).

Do you guys have any recipe ideas for cold winter days to help keep me over 90% raw? I have lots of raw recipe books, but I still have trouble not eating cooked food in winter. I know jalapeno can help so I'll try using more of it, a recipe with enough jalapeno can make me sweat on a freezing winter day.

Thanks

[halikatak]

One thing that I just started doing is putting my meal into the dehydrator for 30 minutes to take the "chill" off. It seems to be working so far.

Also - I'll drink a cup of warm tea. I know that it's not considered raw, but it helps me stay raw the other 99.9% of the time! ;)


Thanks for starting this thread! I'd be interested in hearing what others are saying...

[raweater]

I also sometimes warm meals in the dehydrator (or even in my convection oven for 3-5 minutes to make it faster), but I don't often eat the sort of raw meal that can be warmed up, as I said in summer sometimes 80% of my diet comes from smoothies. For soups I often put my soup bowl in another bowl filled with hot water to make it slightly warm.

I also do drink hot tea in winter even though it's not raw.

[subbacultcha]

I make big salads with ingredients that weirdly, make me feel warm: daikon radish, fennel and beetroot with garlic and ginger in the dressing. I wrap myself up in a blanket with a cup of tea and eat my big salad on the sofa. Maybe it's the comfort feeling that makes me feel warm!

I also like to drink a glass of cinnamon pecan milk when I get home from school all damp and cold. If there's anyone home I get them to put it in the dehydrator an hour or so before I get home so its nice and warm!

[EZ rider]

Here's a thread titled "I Am Freezing"

http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/showthread.php?t=34540

[raweater]

Here's a thread titled "I Am Freezing"

http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/showthread.php?t=34540

Thanks, but that's about being cold. I'm not cold, my issue is that I eat more cooked food when it's cold, even though I'm not myself cold. I want tricks to stay raw, not to stay warm, I have no problem with feeling cold.

[halikatak]

I'm not a big smoothie fan. I never have been and probably never will. I would try making other items to eat rather than cold smoothies.

Will power comes into play too...
Sometimes when I look in the cupboard and see a yummy can of soup that is my husband's I think "I could eat that and blow the past XX # of Raw days out the window" or I can move on and make something I know I love that's in the raw category.

Good luck to you! Take it one day at a time!
Check out Gone Raw (http://www.goneraw.com) for some of the best recipes I've found so far!

:cool:

[EZ rider]

This is my first winter all raw and so far so good. I have noticed myself having a lot more salads and smoothies with little or sometimes no ice also I am eating more fruits and veggies cut on the cutting board and eaten as is. I seem to be adjusting to all raw in the winter OK. Good luck and I hope you find what works for you.

[Barbie2]

I cinnamon pecan milk sounds yummy. Do you have a recipe? Curling up on the sofa with a blanket makes the salad sound comforting. It's chilly here today, so winter foods have been tempting me. This is the time of year when I use to bake alot, it was a tradition in my family. How do you cure that?

[halikatak]

This is the time of year when I use to bake alot, it was a tradition in my family. How do you cure that?


Chocolate and Gingerbread Men.... lots and lots of it!
I've made chocolate every day this week just trying different flavors and stuff. Everyone loves it!

:cool:

[Barbie2]

Right now I'm not sure if I can eat chocolate. :( I had that horrible rash and I was wondering if my love for chocolate caused my rash. I ate enormous amounts when I went back to working nightshift, like several candy bars each day. UGH! But it was milk chocolate, and before I found this site, so maybe raw cocoa is different?

I would hate it if I had to give up chocolate. We still aren't sure what I'm allergic to. I'm now "adjusted to nightshift", even though I'd rather work days. Maybe someday. I'm rambling.

Anyway Gingerbread men sounds like a great idea. Thanks!

Barb

[raweater]

Right now I'm not sure if I can eat chocolate. :( I had that horrible rash and I was wondering if my love for chocolate caused my rash. I ate enormous amounts when I went back to working nightshift, like several candy bars each day. UGH! But it was milk chocolate, and before I found this site, so maybe raw cocoa is different?

I would hate it if I had to give up chocolate. We still aren't sure what I'm allergic to. I'm now "adjusted to nightshift", even though I'd rather work days. Maybe someday. I'm rambling.

Anyway Gingerbread men sounds like a great idea. Thanks!

Barb

Dairy, especially cooked, is extremely dangerous to human health (it's a very powerful carcinogen, it causes heart disease by 3 different mecanisms at once, and causes a host of other terrible diseases). Commercial chocolat also has lead, another highly toxic substance. It's not the chocolate that made you sick, it's the dairy, lead, sugar, and all the other chemicals they add. If you buy raw chocolate cacao nibs, it will prevent cancer and heart disease rather than cause it.

[Yeshia]

Hi, I'm new to this forum (moved from rawfood/sunfood.com). I've been raw for over a year, in summer I can easily be 100% raw (but am actually about 95% due to going to restaurants), but when last winter came I gradually fell to maybe as low as 60% raw at some point.

Now that winter is comming again (I'm in Quebec, Canada by the way, so it gets very cold) my raw percentage started to fall again, I'm eating one cooked meal a day (but I normally have 6-10 meals a day so I'm still around 90% raw).

In summer I have a lot of smoothies, but I'm sure you can understand that when comming in from a below freezing temperature in winter, the last thing I want is a smoothie that's a hair above freezing temperature (I use frozen fruits).

Do you guys have any recipe ideas for cold winter days to help keep me over 90% raw? I have lots of raw recipe books, but I still have trouble not eating cooked food in winter. I know jalapeno can help so I'll try using more of it, a recipe with enough jalapeno can make me sweat on a freezing winter day.

Thanks

wow sorry I am from Quebec too lol and its still warm here . What will you do when the temperature actually drops he he

I am teasing, stay in doors , bundle up AND STAY RAW :eek:

mE TRES BAD OOPS :D

[Green Life]

When it's cold outside, I stay inside and enjoy an unpasturized miso soup with garlic, onions and hot peppers, and nut milk as a base. Keeps me warm.


Green Leaf

[Barbie2]

Raweater, you just turned me off to commercial chocolate. I didn't know there was lead in it. Ick! With dairy, lead and sugar, no wonder I broke out! I'm still fighting this stupid rash, it's almost gone, but now I have very dry skin and even this itches occasionally.

Sometimes this rash just gets me down. I have to go to work, and I wear my long sleeved uniform to hide the left over rash.

I'm just so frustrated lately. Nothing seems to work. I even have auguments with myself whether I should become 100% raw or go back to SAD.

[raweater]

You can search google for "lead chocolate" and it finds many results, this is only about commercial/processed chocolate I beleive.