My mind is boggled after someone's attempt at trying a raw recipe I shared

[raweater]

Someone contacted me through youtube after seeing I was cured of Crohn's disease and asked me for a healthy alternative recipe for stir fired rice. I gave him Ani Phyo's recipe for raw mexican rice made of squash and typed it into a message.

Firstly, this is the recipe:
1 acorn squash, peeled, seeded, cubed and processed into rice like bits
1 tomato, shopped
2 T onion, chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
1/4 cup cilantro, chopped
1 tsp salt

Mix ingredients and serve.

Today he tells me something like "I remember you like to eat vegetables raw, do you not stir fry all those ingredients? Your recipe just says to mix them". Then he tells me he stir fried all that in oil :thud:

Then he tells me "I'm not used to adding raw vegetables into fried rice like that" :thud:, then I just had to ask him "do you mean you also added fried rice into the recipe? And you guessed it, he added fried rice!

I guess this was so different to him that he had assumed those were vegetables I was recommending to add to fried rice that would make it healthier, he didn't understand that I had given him the complete recipe, and I had not left out a part about frying the vegetables or adding them to fried rice!

I thought it was clear when I said it's a raw recipe that nothing else was to be done to it than the recipe I sent.

Has anyone else ever ran into such a situation? This literally boggled my mind!

[adobegirl]

I once had someone tell me that they eat a lot of raw. But I found out that they considered bread raw because it's not cooked (as in toast, I guess). There were a lot of things like that, that they considered to be "raw." No amount of explaining helped them realize. I think until someone has awareness (or maybe the potential to have awareness), there isn't much anyone can do.

I remember when I didn't have much awareness about a lot of things. I even remember people talking about things and I thought, wow, that's kind of weird. And now, I think nothing of doing the same things because I have awareness about them. I just have to laugh at myself sometimes and my ignorance, un-wareness, etc, and be thankful that at least I have a tiny bit now.

I wish I had gotten some awareness when I was younger. What a difference a lot of things in my life would have been. :heart :heart

[raweater]

Not to sound dumb, but had you explained that anything that exceeds 48 Celsius/118 Fahrenheit is no longer raw and that bread is cooked at a few hundred degrees?

At least this person I'm talking about understood the mistakes as soon as I explained it and said he'll try it again the proper way.

My aunt once said "you can have cheesecake it's not cooked", not realizing that even though they don't cook it, every ingredient is already cooked by itself, such as sugar, pasteurized dairy, etc.

Anyone the person I'm talking to does want to make changes but it's all new to him, but I still find what he did rather mind boggling.

[walnutty]

Great story!

[adobegirl]

Not to sound dumb, but had you explained that anything that exceeds 48 Celsius/118 Fahrenheit is no longer raw and that bread is cooked at a few hundred degrees?

At least this person I'm talking about understood the mistakes as soon as I explained it and said he'll try it again the proper way.

My aunt once said "you can have cheesecake it's not cooked", not realizing that even though they don't cook it, every ingredient is already cooked by itself, such as sugar, pasteurized dairy, etc.

Anyone the person I'm talking to does want to make changes but it's all new to him, but I still find what he did rather mind boggling.

Yeah, they just didn't really get it. I explained about temperatures and the processes (the fact that things are BAKED in the oven, etc...) I think some people just have come to their own conclusions about things sometimes and aren't even open to listening. I don't really even tell people about my journey much any more unless they ask (which is probably how it should be anyway). :) The difference, I think, is the people who really want change. They are the ones open enough to hear what is being said.

[Queen Bean]

Literally??? A literally boggled mind boggles my mind. ;)

[MysticTree]

Literally??? A literally boggled mind boggles my mind. ;)

mine too. :o)

[Traceyraw]

That is funny. People need exact directions.

[iwuvmydoggy]

LOL wow... bless you for being able to tolerate it. i suppose you'd have to show people recipes on youtube, that way they can SEE how you do it. some people have difficulties reading/listening. i don't know what it is, but there's people that just can't follow instructions and can't think outside their little boxes... it can be very frustrating.

i once went to a weight loss class that my chiropractor was giving (he also taught anatomy at the local college & is into natural cures & things).. anyway.. he was saying that we need to avoid eating things like bread, crackers, etc.. you'd think that you'd get the gist of what he was saying just by that.. but there was this one lady who kept raising her hand & asking him "what about wheat thins?" "what about this kind of cracker and that kind of bread and this kind of snack mix?" my chiropractor was getting annoyed after like the 10th thing she mentioned & finally said that "you CAN eat those, but i wouldn't waste the calories on it. there's so many other things you could eat besides that, that it doesn't make sense to eat them." she finally zipped it once she realized everyone in the class was getting irritated, impatient and giving her the "evil eye".. lol i mean everyone was looking at her like "you can't REALLY be that dumb, can you?" lol she just couldn't grasp the concept that bread & basically wheat/gluten products were bad for you. i felt bad for her, but also could see why everyone was frustrated... :/

anyway.. yep.. it's mind boggling what people will do and read into what you say. lol you have to REALLY break it down for some folks.. xD

[climbing]

I have never experienced more opposition to ANY idea than the idea that gluten is bad for you. People just cannot understand it. Seriously, it's easier to promote drugs and abortions to right wing conservatives than it is to get people off the gluten, lol.