Culinary Adventure Preparation

Before embarking on any adventure, it helps to have some travel guides. Here’s a list of mine:

• Green for Life, by Victoria Boutenko (www.greenforlife.com)
• Eating in the Raw, by Carole Alt (www.carolalt.com)
• Raw Food Detox Diet, by Natalia Rose (www.detoxtheworld.com)
• The Eat Clean Diet for Family and Kids, by Tosca Reno (www.eatcleandiet.com)
• The pH Miracle, by Robert Young
• Kirsten’s Raw
• Green Smoothie Queen
• Green Smoothie Girl

Next, I needed to gather my travel equipment:

• a high-speed blender (I’m using a basic Osterizer)
• an immersion hand-held blender (also an Oster)
• vegetable peeler
• sharpened kitchen knife
• storage containers in a variety of sizes

Because this is a special trip, I decided to indulge in a couple of items for traveling comfort:

• A Green Smoothie Queen Jug (it’s in the mail)
• An Oxo Good Grips Julienne Peeler

“Packing” for the trip also involved a trip to the grocery store. Here’s my basic packing list (note that while I’m choosing organic as much as the budget will allow, I do not consider the following a local and sustainable or even in-season shopping list):

• bananas
• lemons
• kale
• parsley
• raw almonds
• other raw nuts (Trader Joe’s is my local affordable resource)
• apples
• frozen fruit
• dried fruit (mostly raisins)
• flax seeds
• carrots
• other fruits, vegetables and leafy greens
• Ezekiel Bread

Recommended additional “packing” items based on recipes from my travel guides (choosing raw versions where the budget allows):

• olive oil
• apple cider vinegar
• tahini
• almond butter
• quinoa
• hummus
• yogurt
• honey
• dates
• maple syrup
• 72% or more chocolate

Note: in the spirit of full disclosure, yes, if you follow the Amazon links above and make a purchase, I would get a small % $ benefit. I include the links primarily for illustrative purchases and as always, I encourage you to check out your local library!

Stay tuned for some of the recipes that I tried out this week. If you have any recommendations, I’d love to read them. Thanks!