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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina, from 'Raw Food Diet - Day 2' When you go vegan but not raw, it’s easy to eat substitutes for all the old foods you’re familiar with. |
... unless you live in Australia.
Seriously though, while you can get "some" off that stuff in Australia, it's pretty hard to find, most of it is pretty expensive compared to to the non-vegan alternatives, and when you first go vegan it kind of feels like you're entering into a new world where no-one supports your diet in any shape or form.
Granted, I personally didn't prepare as much as I could have for the transition to veganism, but you honestly don't think you have to from the perspective of a non-vegan, or at least, from someone who hasn't ventured too far away from the mainstream diet. You say, "pfft, not eating animal products can't be hard. Ha!
I actually think it'd be much easier going raw foodist, since fruit and veg are readily available and since your diet is so crazy-restrictive anyway, you just resign yourself to eating what you have instead of wishing that you could find some <insert "vegan substitute to a non-vegan product that America has in 4 different varieties but is nowhere to be found in Australia" here>.
Fruit and veg are also not too bad price-wise, since (A) unlike vegan substitutes, there is a big demand for those things so they can be sold a little cheaper, and (B) if you're smart about how you buy, you can get some pretty cheap fruit in Australia. For example, just today I got a tray of 22 mango's for approx. $0.80 AUD. That's a good deal! And they were juicy and delicious to boot!
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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina, from 'Raw Food Diet - Day 2' Before I made my lunch, I saw Erin in the kitchen preparing a vegan chick’n burger with lettuce and tomato. I said to her, “Mmmm… that looks good.” She said something like, “Awww… too bad you can’t have it.” I replied, “I was referring to the lettuce.”
Of course her whole meal looked delicious to me, and if not for this trial, I’d have joined her in a second. It’s only 30 days, right? |
Hehehe.
I think that, should raw foodism work out for you, the optimal diet (in terms of convenience, health, pallet, etc) will probably be a mostly raw, whole foods diet with some occasional standard (ie. maybe cooked) vegan fare to make things interesting and a little less crazy in terms of not really being able to eat anything (or at least, have much available to you) when you eat out and having to do lots of preparation all the time.
But forget I said that, Steve. It's only 30 days, right?
<looks at Steve's raw food diet day 2 breakfast>
“Mmmm… that looks good.”
Damn you and your tasty winter fruits!
(It's a sweltering summer here in Australia, FYI.)
PS. I also love the creative meal pictures.