Holli
11-24-2007, 04:52 PM
I've been on the "raw journery" about 4 months. Still consider myself a newbie and might for still awhile longer! I just wanted to share some ideas that have really helped me stay as raw as possible while I'm out and about.
I live in a rural area. The closest raw restaurant is 3 hours away (I'm going there next weekend-am SO excited!). My husband and I love to eat out and I've done extensive searching. There isn't even a place with a decent salad bar within 30 miles of us (unless you count Sizzler...which I SO don't-decent being the key word!).
Anyway, I know we are all at different levels of raw, but most places do have salads...unfortunately when the salad is your meal you want more than some iceberge lettuce and sad looking tomato slices! I've actually found that best places to eat out are pizza places (believe it or not). They almost always have salads of some sort and then I just look at their topping menu and ask them to add whatever they have- raw mushrooms, onions, bell pepper, tomato etc. This makes my husband very happy because he is not raw and loves pizza (he's been eating a lot of pizza lately!). Granted, it isn't organic and some of the dressings are questionable (but you can bring your own), but overall it has worked for me and is quite affordable as well.
The other places when I am really disorganized and find myself out and about are any deli-type place that makes sandwhiches. Same thing-they all have lettuce, sometimes even spinach, and I ask them to add a bunch of raw toppings. They can almost always accommodate and throw together a decent looking salad with a good amount of ingredients to fill me up.
Anyway, just wanted to share. Even when we are out, and not prepared, we can still stay raw, or pretty darn close!
Does anyone have any other tips for those of us who aren't fortunate to live around raw or even semi-remotely healthy eateries/stores and are on a budget?? (My nearest hfs is over 30 miles away...now they a nice salad bar, but it is pricey and out of the way.)
I live in a rural area. The closest raw restaurant is 3 hours away (I'm going there next weekend-am SO excited!). My husband and I love to eat out and I've done extensive searching. There isn't even a place with a decent salad bar within 30 miles of us (unless you count Sizzler...which I SO don't-decent being the key word!).
Anyway, I know we are all at different levels of raw, but most places do have salads...unfortunately when the salad is your meal you want more than some iceberge lettuce and sad looking tomato slices! I've actually found that best places to eat out are pizza places (believe it or not). They almost always have salads of some sort and then I just look at their topping menu and ask them to add whatever they have- raw mushrooms, onions, bell pepper, tomato etc. This makes my husband very happy because he is not raw and loves pizza (he's been eating a lot of pizza lately!). Granted, it isn't organic and some of the dressings are questionable (but you can bring your own), but overall it has worked for me and is quite affordable as well.
The other places when I am really disorganized and find myself out and about are any deli-type place that makes sandwhiches. Same thing-they all have lettuce, sometimes even spinach, and I ask them to add a bunch of raw toppings. They can almost always accommodate and throw together a decent looking salad with a good amount of ingredients to fill me up.
Anyway, just wanted to share. Even when we are out, and not prepared, we can still stay raw, or pretty darn close!
Does anyone have any other tips for those of us who aren't fortunate to live around raw or even semi-remotely healthy eateries/stores and are on a budget?? (My nearest hfs is over 30 miles away...now they a nice salad bar, but it is pricey and out of the way.)