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Login Here Signup Here Signup using FacebookHi everyone. My husband and I are about to embark upon a 3 year cross world cycle trip. We are virtually raw and wanted to stay this way,but feel that it may be hard….Any ideas?
We’ve looked into the bike blender, but it is SO expensive. The only thing we can come up with is to stock up our oversized front racks with fruit when we can and carrying a nice big sharp knife and chopping board. Dehydrating and sending food parcels isn’t working out. We figure the delivery to West Africa might be a bit hit and miss, and the food may not last so well. We had a few spoilages even at home. Family think we’re crazy…with the eating style and choice of trip, so they won’t be willing to help out logistically.
This site is full of ingenious people. We’d love to hear you tips. And maybe even get to visit if you’re near our route!!??
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hi there – to introduce ourselves – we are 100% raw – and really love travelling – by bike. you can see photos from our recent bike trip from northern palestine to siwa in egypt and back – a lot of food pictures!
we actually found that traveling raw is a lot easier for us than traveling on cooked-vegan (with or without bikes). not just because we feel so much better (of course..), but also because we are not dependent anymore on restaurants and specialty items.. we are happy eating fruit all day and have a big salad at the end of the day. we forage a lot of food on the way – this is really helpful – and this is why we concentrate on relatively fertile areas. second choice is open markets – and if you go to interesting places (i.e. less developed and westernized areas) – those are really interesting and fun and abundant. after that there are still supermarkets and small stores..
i have yet to find a good and light multi-voltage blender.. in north america we once traveled with a very light oster blender with a plastic jug – but then it was useless in europe without a heavy adapter.
also i think that traveling is a good opportunity to take a break from heavily processed raw foods..
one thing that is useful – especially for making quick sweets and salad dressings and pates – is a small manual “poppy seed grinder”. you can buy them on the net for around $40 dollars (or in regular supermarkets in eastern europe for $10..) – and not only they grind – they actually press! which gives a lot better flavor than grinding (in a blender or otherwise) – for example, running cacao nibs through it tastes completely different (and better) than vitamixing them. so we find this useful for grinding seeds such as – sesame, sunflower, flax, poppy.. it turns them into paste which can be used with lemon, garlic, or other options into amazing salad dressings. or mixed with dates or other natural sweeteners to make energy balls. you can also make crackers like that – grind the flax, and having a flat and sharp grater doesn’t take much space or weight – making your a mush which you spread on banana leaves (instead of teflex). this is very good for salads – especially wild salads with greens that have strong flavors – with a good dressing i can eat a lot more of them – and there edible greens everywhere!
sprouts are also great for the salad and during the day – sprouting on bikes is easy – especially things that sprout quick like buckwheat of quinoa – you can turn any plastic bottle into a sprouter.. by making a few whole at the bottom for drainage and with bike tube pieces tying it to one of the racks or putting it in a bottle holder.
you can read more about our dated trip from some years ago – where we also transitioned into raw food – here
we are in palestine – come visit. i don’t check here often – so if you want to ask a question – do it by email. take care, ofek
Thanks Ofek…it’s really great to hear about others doing this sort of thing. Yes we’ve got sprouters..after a lot of trial we’ve found go-sprout sprouters work really well. One each and we’ll be burried in fresh greens. I have been looking for a grinder, but gave up. I could only find baby food grinders and they are so small, plastic and look rather weak. I’ll have a look for the ‘poppy seed grinder’in a minute. Also about to look at your pics. We are setting up a website to document our trip. Would love to visit you..not sure we’ll make it to palestine…then again I’m renound for changing my mind and route!!
When you mentioned carrying a sharp knife, I thought of the knives that Pampered Chef sells. They come with a sharpening case (that the knife rests in so it can’t cut anything until you want it to). They sell them in different sizes, but here’s the link for their bigger one if you want to see what they’re like:
http://www.pamperedchef.com/our_products/catalo…