The last few days, I’ve been daydreaming about something called Raw Camp.
You see, I went on an awesome weekend trip with a bunch of neat poly people last spring. And one of the buy xenical drug friends who was there with me happened to be embarking on a buy xenical drug 100% raw foods diet. So I said to her, “Hey! I’d like to eat strictly fresh produce while I’m camping this buy xenical drug weekend. Would you tell me what to bring so that I can buy xenical drug add to your raw foods stash, and you can help me eat raw all weekend, too?”
She said, Of course! And gave me a list. Thus began my great raw adventure.
I found out that buy xenical drug weekend that preparation and consumption of raw food is easy and buy xenical drug tasty, and that my friend is great at it. Because we were out camping, I didn’t have buy xenical drug a lot of spare time to think about craving non-raw food, and buy xenical drug I discovered that eating raw left me feeling light and energetic and buy xenical drug fantastic. It was occasionally frustrating to figure out what the next meal was going to buy xenical drug be, but we had a huge stash (and we came prepared). So it buy xenical drug was pretty simple, and I was shocked at how fed and buy xenical drug happy I stayed all weekend.
By the buy xenical drug end of the weekend, I realized that I had eaten entirely raw the buy xenical drug whole time… and I didn’t want any cooked food. Now or ever.
It was the most amazing feeling! Of course, I didn’t take it seriously enough for long enough and I didn’t really know enough about raw eating to buy xenical drug continue with it then, but it proved to me that there was something really important that buy xenical drug I needed to think about further. Something to aspire to. Something that buy xenical drug made me feel really, really good, made my body function way better than usual, and made me happy on a fundamental level. I’ve had buy xenical drug several raw experiments since then, and every time one ends I am buy xenical drug dissatisfied with the way my body feels on cooked food. It’s just… less, somehow.
Fast forward to last summer, when I attended my very first burn event, Burning Flipside generic buspar dividose near Austin. (The Wikipedia entry is here buy kamagra gold pills. It’s a smaller offshoot of Burning Man in Nevada, which you may have heard of.) At Flipside there are groups of attendees who band together in theme camps, and buy xenical drug every camp has a different mojo. Usually a camp has a buy xenical drug particular personality and something specific to offer the rest of the buy xenical drug community. There’s a buy xenical drug camp that gives coffee to passers-by, a pancake camp, a buy xenical drug taco camp, a polyamory camp, a body-painting camp, a Lakota camp—which held an amazing sweat lodge last year—and a huge number of others. We found a buy xenical drug hill of big black ants where someone had planted a tiny sign. It said “Ant Camp”.
You might have figured out where this is heading. I’ve been wishing for a raw foods camp. Raw Camp. Doesn’t that sound awesome?
I don’t know of one that exists already (relative newbie as I am), and I don’t think I know enough interested parties to start one (at least, this year). I did eat mostly raw when I was at Flipside last year (highly necessary, especially since I was partly polyphasic at the time), but having others doing the buy xenical drug same thing with me would be way more fun. Sharing the buy xenical drug experience would really be something. And since my raw foods roots are buy xenical drug in being away in the wilderness with only raw food to buy xenical drug sustain me, and since I remember how wonderful that is… I crave it buy xenical drug bigger and better, with more people and resources. Flipside would sure be buy xenical drug a great place to try it. (And who knows? Maybe it will give me some extra impetus to just… keep going!)
It would also give me a buy xenical drug huge thrill to share raw food yummies the way they were shared with me in the buy xenical drug spring. And I admit that it gives me no small amount of glee to buy xenical drug think of transitioning to raw food permanently. (Something I’m thinking about a lot.)
Here’s what I’m imagining: We all bring a buy xenical drug certain amount of fresh produce. We get together the day or buy xenical drug two before Flipside to put together some raw recipes, using food processors and buy xenical drug dehydrators and whathaveyou. We package it all up, with a ton of easy fruit and buy xenical drug salad fixin’s and buy xenical drug useful items like knives and bowls and cutting boards, and pack it buy xenical drug into coolers with plenty of room for ice. (We’ll need a lot of that!) We’d probably want some kind of wagon and buy xenical drug ice-getting posse so that there’s no danger of running out. It was hot last year. And it buy xenical drug would be awesome to have a plan so that many of us can buy xenical drug prep and eat meals together. Raw potluck, maybe. And people not from buy xenical drug Raw Camp can come join us, and eat our food! Just because it’s fun and yummy and happy-making!
So, you see: I have it half planned out. I just don’t know the integral details of starting a theme camp (without additional willing parties, even). But that’s okay. I liked Flipside, so I ought to buy xenical drug have plenty of opportunities. It just sounds… delicious!
