I will have my first Raw Food Thanksgiving

[SekhemNefer]

I have not been eating raw foods since Summer. I work on Thanksgiving Day, which prevents me from spending time with my family, I was kind of sad by that and make jokes with a relative that I guess I will spend Thanksgiving at McDonalds and they were "No, don't that crap, because you are still fat and need to lose weight." And you know, they were right. I am off the day before the holiday, so I will buy my food processor and not wait for the Black Friday holiday sales. After that I will go grocery shopping. I am not even going to try to fix a raw food mock version of a traditional Thanksgiving meal. I can't be bothered, since I am going to treat Thanksgiving like any other day.

I don't have a car, but slowly over a few months, I will try to donate my stove and oven wares to the homeless shelter, so I won't be tempted to buy processed foods like ramen noodles when I am feeling lazy.

I am not going to claim to be 100% raw foodist, or be raw foodist for life, but I am more inspired to be hardcore about it for 3 to 6 months to give myself a fighting chance to lose weight for health reasons. Meaning, I will make efforts to take food to work from home, avoid eating at fast foods places, try to eat at home before visiting relatives and friends, but I may allow myself a healthy vegan cooked meal for special occassions and holidays, which wouldn't be too often anyways. The only stove item I am keeping is my kettle. I drink tea.

The only thing that terrifies me is doing this during the start of winter. So far, I am surprised that I am not complaining about needing hot comfort foods when I get home. Maybe 30 to 40 degrees is not cold enough where in my mind I would desire soup, hot chocolate. But I wonder how things will be at 30 degrees and colder, because hot tea wasn't working for me last year. But I will try to find a way to cope.

[SekhemNefer]

I will add, I think the only non-raw thing I may eat for a month or two is organic, no salt corn chips if I make guacomole or salsa. I do have a food dehydrator which I bought from this site, but this Summer I had a huge roach infestation in my kitchen, because my kitchen is behind the janitor's closet in the hallway of the floor I live on. The janitor didn't notify for months that the sink in the janitor's closet had a leaking faucet, which attracted a huge roach community with all the water and dampness. There was a small hole in my kitchen wall behind my gas stove where the gas pipe line shares the same wall as the janitor closet where the roaches traveled back in forth in my kitchen to that closet. I had my dehydrator in the kitchen and roaches were crawling around it.

They fixed the janitor closet, pulled my gas stove out and cemented the hole and have been exterminating my kitchen once every month. The roach Burning Man festivities died down, but once a month I see one stray roach crawl around. So I am highly scared if I try to dehydrate raw bread, crackers, or chips and I get a roach smelling the dehydrated food and crawl in the dehydrator and have a feast on my food.

Until I feel comfortable of my kitchen being absolutely roach free, I think organic corn chips from Whole Foods will be my only non-raw "in the house" food I eat when I am in a guacamole, salsa mood, which is rarely. I haven't had guac or salsa and chips in about two months now, so it shouldn't be huge thing with me anyways.

[Raw Angel Mom]

You got it, i love your first post. Congratulations and please know that you are not alone, ask for support and pray for support. You are worthy to be free and happy.

Enjoy the life from your food. Ditch all dead food and have no fear, you will be lead to freedom. All will be well and may i recommend Alissa dvd, she has great raw emergency recipes.

You can use cabbage instead of corn chip and make a delicious salsa yourself (raw). So much more economical anyway.


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