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Traditions

Raven4346Raven4346
in Being Raw

Food has the ability to make us feel safe and secure~ for example, that special dish your mom always made~ and also just a celebration of the home and a persons culture~ how do you hold onto that when you regect the foods that stimulate those feelings? Somethings are hard to substitute for~ I would like to know your thoughts~

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  • devittlesdevittles Raw Newbie

    why not just eat those foods when you feel like its important to do so?

    i have been vegan for 8 years, vegetarian for 17 and i have come to believe that the humans in my life and my own feeling of connectedness is as important as my diet. i eat raw and vegan all the time so, when i am at a family gathering or a grandmas house and someone has prepared a special ancestral food, i eat a small bit of it. it makes me feel more connected to everyone, and it makes it easier for them to relate to me.

    at home i am always trying to recreate those foods in the vegan raw style. when i succeed, i bring them and share them with my non vegan family.

    are you early on your path? when i first started, i did feel like it was necessary to be really strict.

  • StacieStacie

    I can relate. First I started celebrating hanukkah and abandoned Christmas celebrations with my family and now I am going raw. They are going to disown me for sure!!!

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