I traveled for almost a decade so I understand I've had to make things happen under all kinds of conditions and I hate having to cheat because then I get cravings and I don't feel as well. Sometimes craving lead to bad habits that I have to break all over again....
Have you figured out what you want/need and maybe gone online to order?
www.RawFoodWorld.com is my fave. I just spent two weeks living out of a hotel room and ziploc baggies with nothing but bottled spring water, a coffee machine and boxes of salads but I did surprisingly well.
I went through the whole, Gotta make a fantastic recipe phase and be like Sarma, into, Let's just make this simple and get what I need first and then I can splurge, now I'm even going deeper and trying to go into all live, sprouted, fermented and wild foods but finding this even the easiest part with one problem I'm in the middle of NYC and I was in raw food heaven if I was living in the middle of nowhere. LOL Funny how the wheatgrass is always greener on the other side I guess. :-)
You can definitely go raw right where you are. I am sure of it. Markus Rothkranz has a video on free food. I really want to get it~!!! it's about foraging and he lives in Vegas where it's tough to grow anything but he made me realize all that supermarket organic food is still not LIVING food. It's dead. I love my sprouter
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One box of organic seeds for $7 lasts months and I have fresh grown food in nyc all the time. I buy a head of cabbage, shred it, put it in jars with sea salt on my counter and have sauerkraut available all the time. I mix that into everything I eat and it gets addicting and it's great for your gut bacteria. Spirulina, and chlorella, MSM, goji, chia seeds, seaweeds, hemp seeds, maca & cacao are dry products I buy in bulk ~ just add water. Boxes of organic green salads from the regular grocery stores I buy by the case and eat one a day with the spirulina, chorella, hempseed oil, avocado etc and maybe sea salt. Soy free miso I make not too hot and add sea weed kelp noodles I order online, add sprouts, and whatever else I have sometimes grated tumeric and ginger and hemp seeds.
Frozen blueberries in the Xtra large bag from Maine that are wildcrafted.
I make my own medicinal tea blends from Mountain Rose Herbs they are cheaper and have lots of organic and wildcrafted.
I find it hard to buy organics to juice with believe it or not. Whole Foods does not have as many organics as say Stop and Shop in the Bronx! I have to taxi it to LifeThyme in the village and that costs more money and I want fresh stuff every day. Veggies only really last a few days. Coconuts are harder to come by. I used to be Macrobiotic so I try to eat for the season and locally. If you are into bananas I think the grocery store can order Dole organics by the case for you and maybe even dates.
I'm lucky to have so many raw food restaurants here but now I just want my own food. I'm so tired of celebrity chefs and overpriced crap like $10 tiny moon pie which is really a single dallup of coconut cream on smashed almonds with chocolate agave drizzled all over...okay sounds yummy but I can get a quicker fix in my kitchen 10 feet away with raw cacao, xylitol and water and make a chocolate mouse with nothing but a spoon and cup by whipping it and letting it bubble. Or add vanilla and maca or peppermint oil.
Annette Larkins is amazing at 70! She does all this stuff in her suburban home in Miami and looks about 30 maybe 25 some people have said. What part of the country do you live in?
Sorry this is scattered all over the place, I'm very tired...nice to meet a another raw foodist!
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