If you really want to go raw, now is the best time to do it.
Why? Because summer's here!
Festival of Fruit
There's no doubt about it: summer time is the absolute best time of year to be a raw foodist. There are just so many delicious fruits available! Here are a few of the fruits that are ripe right now in my neck of the woods:
- musk melon
- watermelon
- honeydew melon
- mangoes
- peaches
- blueberries
- cherries
- raspberries
- blackberries
- tomatoes
- cucumber
- zucchini squash
- yellow squash
Make sure to source out all of your local farmers markets and pick-your-own farms so you can get the best quality produce (not to mention deals).
Speaking of deals...
Cheap
I always spend less money on produce during the summer months. That's because I shop in season and buy the vast majority of my produce at farmers markets and local farms. And because I visit the markets and farms so regularly, I often get substantial discounts, too. :)
In fact, the only fruit I buy in an actual store are bananas and mangoes!
Even if I did not visit farmers markets and farms and only shopped at nearby grocery stores, I would still be spending less money on food. I can find delicious seasonal fruits like muskmelon for $1.50 per pound, peaches for $1.40 per pound, and ataulfo mangoes for $.91 each at my local supermarkets.
During the colder months, the only inexpensive fruits around are bananas and oranges. Everything else - grapes, persimmon, kiwi - are usually over $2 per pound.
Warm Weather
The cold weather of the fall/winter months can make going raw during that time pretty difficult.
I should know. I first went raw in November 2007!
If you grew up eating cooked food like 99.9999% of us, cold weather = hot comfort foods. The first thing you want on a cold winter's day is a big bowl of steamy soup and some warm bread. The last thing you want is cold (or at best room temperature) fruit.
During the summer, eating raw is easy. Having a big bowl of mangoes or a whole musk melon or some blended bananas is just so refreshing.
The last thing you want is sweat-inducing cooked food. And actually spending time in the kitchen to prepare it? Not thanks!
That's why summertime rawks for going raw!
Stress
This may be idiosyncratic, but I find summertime to be much less stressful than the rest of the year. It may just be all the warm weather and sunshine, but I generally am more good-natured and less stressed during the summer.
Must be something special in all those peaches I'm eating. ;)
Go raw RIGHT NOW and be fit,
Swayze
