There's no nutritional reason why you need to be 100% raw. I think most people need to up their raw food intake, but it doesn't need to be absolute. It's not the same as veganism (where even a little bacon hurts the pig).
The foods you're eating, though, don't sound great - just starchy foods and mock meats? Maybe you could prepare and take some things that have more variety and include more vegetables (cooked and/or raw).
It would kind of insult my mom a little bit, I think, if I brought my own food with me. It's only two of the three meals I have over there the whole week, is it really that harmful?
My mom's very proud of her cooking, bringing my own food or preparing one just for myself (even if I mask it as a kind of my little bit in the family meal and end up eting only it) it'll be a little insulting to her.
What about salads? Aren't those a normal, raw part of a meal? Does your mom have any good salad recipes with non-cream dressings or choose your own dressings? Can you either offer to make a salad for the whole family or ask your mom for a special one of hers? Or you could bring pick-up veggies and a vegan dip.
If she's proud of her cooking she'll be flattered if you ask. She should also understand if you tell her she's a great cook and passed those genes on to you, and you'd like to participate in feeding the family and prove you are following in her footsteps.
dinner w/the folkslatika_radhaMarch 15 2010, 19:19:14 UTC
hey. I have been vegan for a few years now, but have only just started trying to incorporate more raw foods in my diet. At first it seemed daunting, but there are actually a lot of different things to eat. I really, really don't want to sound cliché, but what about just having a salad when you go over to visit the folks? What about veggie sticks? There are also raw soups, and vegetable dips that can be made rather quickly, or even ahead of time, and brought with you. (If the intent is to sit or share a meal with them, it shouldn’t matter too much that what is on your plate differs from what is on their plates
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From what I understand, the idea of a "high raw" diet is 80% raw foods, 20% cooked foods. Up to 20% of your diet being cooked foods doesn´t put your body into leukocytosis- where your body starts producing large amounts of white blood cells as an immune response. That´s kind of the reason eating raw food is good- our bodies recognize it as food and don´t fight against it.
So do the math. A person generally eats 3 meals a day x 7 days in a week, so 21 meals a week. Three of those cooked by your mom so if 19 out of 21 meals are actually really good healthy stuff, then your at about 90%.
You may find yourself feeling so great after the raw foods and so shit after the heavy seitan and whatnot that you have to re-negotiate all of it. But just chill out about it and do what feels right to you.
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The foods you're eating, though, don't sound great - just starchy foods and mock meats? Maybe you could prepare and take some things that have more variety and include more vegetables (cooked and/or raw).
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If she's proud of her cooking she'll be flattered if you ask. She should also understand if you tell her she's a great cook and passed those genes on to you, and you'd like to participate in feeding the family and prove you are following in her footsteps.
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So do the math. A person generally eats 3 meals a day x 7 days in a week, so 21 meals a week. Three of those cooked by your mom so if 19 out of 21 meals are actually really good healthy stuff, then your at about 90%.
You may find yourself feeling so great after the raw foods and so shit after the heavy seitan and whatnot that you have to re-negotiate all of it. But just chill out about it and do what feels right to you.
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