Eating raw while I travel

I have been traveling often lately due to work.

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What work we do?

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The problem with eating more raw food while traveling is the how to? Since I’m very busy, I often don’t have time to visit the supermarket where I’m at, and my bag is so heavy, I really don’t like to carry a blender, like some raw foodist do. Also, there’s no raw food restaurants in Malaysia and Singapore as I know of.

So, I do have to compromise when I travel. Lucky for me, there’s plenty of restaurants, coffee shops (Starbucks, take note!) and food stalls that sell freshly squeezed or freshly blended fruit juices at very reasonable prices.

But fruit juices have very high sugar content, so if you are up to it, while traveling in these neck of the woods, you can carry some fresh organic vegetables, like spinach or salad lettuce in your carry bag and just pass it to the guy who makes the fruit juice at the stall to blend the fruit juice together with the vegetables. Most of them are very accommodating.

I also get munchies when I am on the go. Most raw foodies carry raw nuts, but I don’t really like to eat too much nuts. I have this hang up, since I was a kid, about nuts getting stuck between my teeth. Instead, I carry lots of fruits and maybe some raw, fresh Egyptian dates.

The latest box of Egyptian dates I bought

Anyways, while I was in Beijing, I stayed in this cool B&B place, and they planted lots of mint and some other herbs all over the garden. So, mint was my daily green while I was there. Should have taken a picture of the garden to show. It was fab! I just plucked the mint, washed it and chewed it for some greens and to freshen my breathe (not that it wasn’t awesome in the first place!).

Plus, you know, there’s always salads at restaurants. Speaking of fruits, you can generally find fruit stands all over the place, like at shopping centers, food courts and at busy streets so it’s easy for me as I don’t have to specially run to the supermarket everyday.

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See what fruit I ate in Beijing

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What’s your challenge when you are on the go?

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