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Thankyou so much both of you guys. I think you are both right. It would be kinda stressful if I didn;t eat a little bit of cooked. I have been 100 percent raw for about 5 years so I am not new to raw but recently I fell off the wagon a bit and have been bout 90-95 percent raw or there abouts for a few months. I am not going to be fanatical about it and would prefer to have indian…raw style which was beautiful cuisine I tried in NY but I TOTALLY agree with you about the many many many people starving etc. That has TOTALLY put things into perspective for me. Many many many thankyous to you both.
You guys are the best!!!! Seriously I feel so so so grateful to have some lovely thoughts sent my way….I wish I had been ready for this on my raw journey earlier because its like you are helping me think!! I know it sounds funny, but its not my strong point :). Kristen Suzanne. Thanks for the great ideas…wish I could get hemp seeds in good ole oz, but I think its illegal. We only have hemp oil which isn;t for eating…only for skin. Green powder, packaged bars!!! Good idea.
Winona…will check out the two cuties you’re suggesting and Carmentina thankyou for your insigtful words and suggestion too.
Loads of love….
Thanks sweatpea….my favourite flower :) Yours too eh?
Well thankyou for your reply sweetpea….not sweatpea :) :) Well your boyfriend should call you that too don’t cha think? I am glad you think I will find nuts and seeds along the way. That is a great piece of information. Yes you are a lucky one to have hemp seeds etc. I mean I have contemplated just ordering them anyway to see what happens but I may get in trouble from customs or something and have them confiscated.
In regards to when I leave for India …well I think in a month or so. We are trying to organise things you see. This friend is a new addition to the lexi list of friends and he lives in Melbourne and I live in Perth. He is Indian himself and doesn;t know that I am raw yet so I don’t want to be a pain so would like to know some stuff before I go. We will stay with his family in Punjab. I guess the draw back is that I hope he KNOWS we are just friends, which I have been clear with because I want to have a good and uncomplicated time away in another very different culture and country. I am just a little wary of recieving gifts from anyone from past experience, but I like to TRUST and BELIEVE that good things come to good people. I try not to question why someone would be so kind in offering me a fully paid ticket and accomodation. I have been asking my mates what they reckon and some say DO IT and others say DON”T DO IT! I usually like to go with the flow even though it sometimes gets me into trouble because I lack skills to navigate myself in and out of situations that sometimes happen. Anyway. Its all a learning curve. I grow wiser and wiser with every set of circumstances that are not to my liking. I think I will have a GREAT time however. I will be there for a month I think? and be staying probably just inPunjab. I hope to do some Indian dancing and play sitar and sing a fair bit too. I am in love with Indian music and dance too.
Hi there Mr Rishi. I am so stoked by your comment..so much information!! Thankyou thankyou thankyou….I am going to Punjab too which is your home town no?
Sweetpea…..thankyou sweetheart. Cool message. Will jot down your email and touch base closer to when all is sorted out.
Eat the local food until you learn to haggle with street vendors from someone who lives there.
Try it cooked - I wouldn't eat much not cooked until I was really sure about the restaurant.
There are restaurants with entire menus of hundreds of vegetarian items! I've never seen so much!
Fresh juice and juice/milk smoothies are available on every street corner in the cities - always ask for no sugar (unless you want it, I suppose).
Butterfruit = avocado and butterfruit milk is good (I'll be adapting the nutmilk version when I return home!!!!!!!)
Its really worth it to try the food while you are there - make some local friends and have them show you veg restaurants that are good.
All my plans for being a healthy raw foodest went out the window when I first tried pao bhaji and had galoob jamoons.
Imagine... imagine a world where you can walk across the street and have someone give you fresh watermelon juice (oh, and its really a fresh watermelon), for 20 cents in your own money. Just twenty cents for a big heaping glass of pineapple juice - or mango juice... Mmmm.... Juices you haven't even heard of are there.
MOSQUITOS - Everyone here has something called 'odomos' which is non-viol smelling cream which makes mosquitos just leave you alone like magic. I don't know the chemical components but I know that it works, and that it causes me no ill side effects. The electric plugin mosquito things work great too. You could try to deal without these conveniences but I did just that last week and upon the poor decision of using a loofah I scratched the SEVEN HUNDRED MOSQUITO BITES on my right arm and had a huge red disgusting rash that still hasn't gone away.
Don't scratch your mosquito bites.
Wear long sleeves.
Do some research please.. on the 'indian head nod'. If you know that it exists when going in, your trip will be better.
On a side note - after having lived here two months I know that if I had a kitchen properly equipped with necessary utensils for cooking I would be 100% raw here and never have a single problem finding fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, seed or grains. Instead of a $100 grocery bill at home for fresh produce I would have an equivalent 20 dollar grocery bill here and the food would be fresher and experience better.
I'm moving here.
Bye.