FREE Fortnightly Recipes and Tips
Published April 9, 2012 | 
Damn duty free shops, they shouldn’t be allowed or at least we shouldn’t be forced to walk through them to get out of the immigration area. 
Here I am home again, holidays over and getting into the daily routine of life. Routine helps us get back on track sets the boundaries and life flows smoothly onwards. Geoff and I went past the supermarket and I stocked up on my staples: tomatoes, cucumbers, red capsicum and leafy greens – cos lettuce or bok choy, English spinach.
Unless you have experienced the incredible lightness of being with a high raw diet, it’s hard to describe it to you – the flat tummy feeling, the energy levels, the juicy refreshing delicious dishes. It’s like looking at life through clean clear lenses. 
Lots to catch up throughout the day, the usual holiday return stuff, piles of mail to open, washing to do, unpacking. Buzzing around happily getting in order and feeling productive. Night time draws near, the computer calls with so many things to action for my business, the raw food groups, friends and family. I have had dinner, I am full, truly. 8pm and am leaning towards having a ‘little something’, just a snack which could be dates or nuts but wait….
Duty free. Damn duty free. I know it’s in the cupboard, behind closed doors where I put it. Why did I buy it? Well because it’s a good price, tax free and nice to have now and then. And the toblerone was buy 3 get 1 free, mini toblerone white, milk and dark choccies sitting in the cupboard right next to me. Who can I blame, there must be someone I can point a finger at after I have drunk a healthy triple tot of Southern Comfort and ingested a few mini choccies.
Scene of the crime – empty glass and chocolate papers strewn across desk.
If the government didn’t charge such hefty import taxes on some commodities then there wouldn’t be duty free shops and we wouldn’t feel almost compelled to enjoy the cheaper prices. So I am blaming the government for my night time weakness!
bok choy, cos lettuce, English spinach, flat tummy, high raw diet, Southern ComfortPublished March 12, 2012 | My raw goodies have run out! For a lot of the committed raw vegans out there, a solution is always at hand including wild edibles. So far I have not ventured far into any paddocks to see if there are dandelions, purslane and other weeds. Lacking in experience I’m not sure what is edible or not.
(Photo of us in one of the camper van communal kitchens, each of us preparing our own food!)
I know that is a cop out and this holiday is about attempting to stay on my high raw diet while travelling with a die hard meat eating, cooked food diet person especially if we plan to live together one day. Breakfast is easy, fresh fruit and organic muesli. By mid morning my ‘time for a little something’ is kicking in and the ‘I want a cappuccino’ trigger takes over. An emotional trigger which I have refused to deal with over the last 6 years of eating raw. Geoff is usually hungry by then because he only has coffee and cigarettes for his breakfast.
Next best thing is to buy a gluten free option but that usually contains dairy. Lunch is taken in a picturesque location overlooking either the ocean, rivers or mountains, cosy little café’s and restaurants that offer tempting cooked food options and sweet white fizzy wines. Cold weather = warm hot meals. So as you can gather my resolve has slipped. I have had some dinners that were salads with cooked potatoes, not too bad and a magnificent veggie wrap. The quality of food offered in restaurants has been impressive.
Geoff is surveying every lake we drive alongside, we stop at lay byes and he casts an experienced eye over the water and gets excited when he see the tell-tale splash which means FISH! After throwing the line out a few times he has had no luck, the fish have had a look and decided ‘Nah, not interested.’ Smart. Greens and blues of the countryside and waterways, so clean and unspoilt.
Tomorrow is another day to start fresh with living foods, after all that is what I encourage people at my raw food workshops to do. If you have a bad day, start again tomorrow. The benefits are huge and Geoff knows this, he commented on my cough that has returned (from gluten and lactose). When I eat high raw, I glow with good health.
Photo of my delicious veggie wrap looking so fresh and alive, plate next to it Geoff’s with the cooked meal. Spot the nutrients!
Besides the raw ‘n cooked food differences we have, the Campervan life is going fairly smoothly but more about that next time….
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