Traveling Raw

In my last post I mentioned the great results I have seen from this diet. This is not the first lifestyle diet I have tried. I have also tried The Zone Diet and Eating for Your Blood Type. However, this is the first lifestyle diet that I have seen such quick results from. Unfortunately, those quick results come at a cost. This dietary style is by far the most challenging.

Case in point: I had to travel last week for work. I spent 3 days in Peach Springs, AZ the only town located on the Hualapai Indian Reservation. Despite the fact that they have the Skywalk (the glass bottom, horseshoe shaped, walkway over the Grand Canyon) and the 3rd busiest airport in AZ (all Grand Canyon tours out of Las Vegas go in/out of the Tribe's airport) the Reservation is remote and has few facilities. As a matter of fact that is why we are working out there!

The few culinary options included tourist oriented cafe's out at Grand Canyon West where the airport and Skywalk are located, and one restaurant in the hotel in Peach Springs. The majority have no options for eating raw. The rest offer only a house salad you have to order without cheese and limit the use of the obviously not raw dressing options.

I figured I could make the salads work for lunches and dinners but who eats salad for breakfast? The thought of going 72 hours eating nothing but salads was very unappealing so I had to take some items with me including raw oats, dates, almonds, raw food bars and my food processor. (fyi - my favorite raw breakfast is raw oatmeal made when the above items are soaked over night and then blended with a banana, cinnamon, honey or agave nectar and anything else that sounds good.) I've never felt so silly in my life. I wasn't even sure if they would allow passengers to have food processors in their checked luggage. I had images of a quarantined aircraft and runway as the SWAT team and dogs were brought in. And of course I imagined myself being hauled away in handcuffs being interrogated on what I planned to do with the food processor once I got to Vegas. I feel ashamed just thinking about it...

I also purchased fruit in the last major town we drove through on our way from Vegas to Peach Springs (which has only a very small grocery store) for snacks and meal additions. After that it went pretty smoothly but I still wonder what the people in the hotel rooms next to mine thought when they heard the sound of a food processor going at 7:00 am :)