This weekend I am going to attempt my first ever camping/climbing trip on the "raw until dinner" plan. While the more tempting option is clearly to subsist off of beer and Trader Joe's peanut butter cups for the entire weekend, I would have to change the blog title to "Feeling Like Shit, Throwing up in the Bushes" if I wanted to blog about that experience. I am a little worried about how the raw-ness will affect my ability to get enough calories/digestion/lead climbing ability, but I will play guinea pig and report back.
This is a good climbing trip to experiment because we may or may not even camp, and if we did, it would be car camping (bananas and bear bins would be a TOTAL disaster.) I am not going to entertain the possibility of going all raw for the weekend because a girl's gotta have a social life, and sitting in a corner chain gnawing on carrots while your friends make mac and cheese around the fire is NOT my idea of a Saturday night.
While I am also tempted to bring all the raw trail mix in the world ever as well as a portable apple tree, I am going to attempt to approach this somewhat more systematically. I hate approaching meals systematically. There is something so un fun and diet sounding about trying to plan out what you are going to eat. I'm much more of a live-in-the-moment kind of gal who grabs chocolate peanut butter bunnies at every opportunity.
Anyway, here is my rough plan. Let's see how much I will end up deviating from it.
-Breakfasts: Two bananas mushed up (cashew milk replacement) with some granola and raspberries.
-Lunches: raw flaxseed bread, ground up chickpeas (I suppose you could call that "hummus," but the last time I made it I just called it pathetic.), carrots and apples by the truckful.
(Flaxseed bread recipe here under 3C.)
-Snacks: blue raw revolution bars, Trader Joe's raw trek mix, Trader Joe's dried mango, probably more raw granola.
-Will I drink coffee? That is like asking "Am I a climber?" I tried the caffeine free deal for 4 days, wasn't digging it. With the way I have been sleeping lately, I am basically back to IV status.
In conclusion, can someone please please walk me through the process of homemade hummus?
This is a good climbing trip to experiment because we may or may not even camp, and if we did, it would be car camping (bananas and bear bins would be a TOTAL disaster.) I am not going to entertain the possibility of going all raw for the weekend because a girl's gotta have a social life, and sitting in a corner chain gnawing on carrots while your friends make mac and cheese around the fire is NOT my idea of a Saturday night.
While I am also tempted to bring all the raw trail mix in the world ever as well as a portable apple tree, I am going to attempt to approach this somewhat more systematically. I hate approaching meals systematically. There is something so un fun and diet sounding about trying to plan out what you are going to eat. I'm much more of a live-in-the-moment kind of gal who grabs chocolate peanut butter bunnies at every opportunity.
Anyway, here is my rough plan. Let's see how much I will end up deviating from it.
-Breakfasts: Two bananas mushed up (cashew milk replacement) with some granola and raspberries.
-Lunches: raw flaxseed bread, ground up chickpeas (I suppose you could call that "hummus," but the last time I made it I just called it pathetic.), carrots and apples by the truckful.
(Flaxseed bread recipe here under 3C.)
-Snacks: blue raw revolution bars, Trader Joe's raw trek mix, Trader Joe's dried mango, probably more raw granola.
-Will I drink coffee? That is like asking "Am I a climber?" I tried the caffeine free deal for 4 days, wasn't digging it. With the way I have been sleeping lately, I am basically back to IV status.
In conclusion, can someone please please walk me through the process of homemade hummus?
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