I'm beginning this new blog to record my adventures and experiences as I adopt a 100% raw diet. I've been high raw for a long time ( years) but have only just decided that now, with my children almost grown and my teaching of rawism expanding, is the right time to move to being raw every day. So far its been great. My challenges in the past have been many and I'll blog about how I deal with different aspect of them over the coming blogs. So here's today's challenge.
Being tempted by the food I cook for others ( family). This is an issue for many people who are trying to adopt a raw diet while living amongst 'normal' people, and its not only the smell and familiarity of cooked food that can tempt us.
- There is the emotional aspect to consider, food is for many people a symbol of love and nurturing and others may feel rejected if we turn away their offerings. An example ( after all this is about real life stuff, not someones theory of how it should all work out)- my daughter is studying 'Food' at school(although to be honest how they get away with calling most of what they are asked to prepare as food I don't know- but that's for another post!). All of what she prepares is vegan- the teacher calls it her 'restricted diet', cheeky woman!- and some of it is raw, however she did create and cook a recipe that was vegan but not raw, she was very proud of it and desperately wanted the opinion of all her family. This was a couple of months before I went 100% so it wasn't too much of a problem to taste it. the question is, what would I have done this week? I have explained to both my children the reasons behind my rawism,and they are both supportive and eat mostly raw at home. What would you have done?? I guess some people probably need to have their feelings a little hurt!, but sometimes a genuine offering of love needs careful handling.
- The temptations of smell- sometimes that meal we prepare for others ( or that they prepare in our space) smells so tempting that we can convince ourselves that a little bit wont hurt. Ive found that the best thing to do is to prepare my meal first so that its not too bothersome afterwards, and having lots of motivational writings posted on the fridge etc remind me why its so important to heal myself of all unhealthy addictions
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