DOES THE ECONOMY AFFECT A RAWFOODIE LIKE ME ?

I live in Wisconsin. It is pretty cold right now and all I see is a snow. Nice – winter is here.

If you go through Green Bay, you can see that something has changed since last winter. Almost every third store is closed temporary or for good. The places ran out of business. Sometimes you might see three stores in a row with empty display windows.

Does it scare me?

It feels not too comfortable to drive through town like this.
It seems like a bomb exploded and all the people left to look for the happiness somewhere else.

Now – tell me how does your city / town look like and if these people who escaped found their place at your station.

So, Green Bay sort of sucks.

I hear the stories about down economy everywhere. Even my mom in Poland repeats it for me in every call I make.

First of all – if I would live in some warmer climate I would not worry about food, because I would grow it. Low cost as you see.

But because it is snowy and freaking freezing out here ( although I like the winter ) I don’t really have an opportunity to grow.

What can I do for myself ?

I can make my small sort of mini-garden inside. Plant some herbs for example. Grow wheatgrass and sprouts.

As long as I have some supefoods like spirulina, blue-green algea, Tocos, miso and coconuts, I’m fine.

Few supplements like Prognegalon, Melatonin, Pure Synergy for Woman, maybe Crystal Energy.

For sure I need to have an access to super charged greens and veggies.

I juice.

To moisturize my body I use an oil that my husband made and I’ve never had such a pleasure to massage myself.

For my face I use aloe leave, herbal tonic that I made, cheap but high quality minerals for make-up, that even if bought in sample amounts last few months.

For my hair turnip, ginger, honey tonic, egg, bear shampoo makes wonders.

Yes, I might cut on my expanses, but I will not do so on the superb quality food.
As I mentioned somewhere in a web, my friend lost third of his customers that signed up for his delivery plan.
He grows the best food in whole Wisconsin. Ocean grown and bio-dynamic.

The first day he counted the loss, he passed by McDonald and the parking was full of cars.

It is all about the choice one makes.

And because of the whole codex nasty thing we need to learn as soon as possible how to rely on ourselves.

Learn to plant.
Learn to grow.
Learn to eat the best food ever and not overeat.
Learn to use your time efficiently.
Learn to bite!
Learn to digest.
Learn to prepare herbs and tinctures.

The down economy might effect me in a strategic way :
- how to choose the best quality, so I choose well
- how to sustain myself and not carry around  unnecessary waste of things
- how to be happy with minimal amount of  the best food ever
- how to cut down on habits and addictions

I might skip the theater here and there.
I might work more for myself.

I am not going to compromise my health.
There is always a way to be as much independent as one can and wants.
When you start building your life on living foods, you are making a step towards taking the power away back to you.
The harder times provide even more opportunity in growing independently, throwing away all the access you accumulated, choosing once but wisely, not based on mood swings.

There is one choice eventually : Fear or Action.

The outcome of living through Fear will bring more dependency on others ( economy ).
The outcome of living in Action brings freedom and somewhat minimalistic approach to life.
All of the sudden the material world is not that important anymore compering to making art, garden activities or parenting.

There is only one thing that I believe might influence how one feels about living the maximum through having the minimum.

If you start today, when you still have a choice – at times when you won’t have it anymore you won’t regret.
We`all know that human beings are pretty resistant and once you have chosen where you’re at, it’s fine, but after somebody has put you there under the pressure – everything starts to be very uncomfortable.

So – start looking at your life now. Make some room in the closet and in your head. Read only positive books or books that enrich your life, knowledge.

Grow with your plants.

Find a space.

Start juicing today!

Marta aka Rawvolta is the founding editor of RawFoodTip. To stay informed about the best raw food choices and raw food gossips sign up to Rawvolta’s RSS feed. It will deliver this blog to your email daily! Don’t Miss The Tip!