In Germany, you can find these products on amazon:
Pesto
Chips
Apfel-Zimt Schokolade
Rohkostcracker
We LOVE snacks, raw vegan snacks! Chocolate, bars, cookies are our staples. But chips? We are sceptical and excited at the same time!
In Germany, you can find these products on amazon:
Pesto
Chips
Apfel-Zimt Schokolade
Rohkostcracker
We LOVE snacks, raw vegan snacks! Chocolate, bars, cookies are our staples. But chips? We are sceptical and excited at the same time!
My first foot steps in Asia were made in Bangkok. This city is nothing like I was imagining it. It is far more exxtreme. The good things are mtuch better, the bad much worse.
Temples are a must on your first visit. Make sure to check the opening hours and national_holidays.
We found our both condos on airbnb, we loved the incredible view and the central location. Modern condos have great pools, gyms and roof top terraces. Only the plumbing could be improved, most bathrooms and bedrooms smell like sewage in Thailand.
The only raw food restaurant is not vegan. So there is no gourmet option in Bangkok. You can find out more about this restaurant here and decide whether you want to dine here.
We love the gourmet grocery stores for their amazing organic mangos and some other organic fruit like apple bananas, papaya, greens, and veggies. We had most luck in these here
Other gourmet markets are in Siam Paragon, K Village, Terminal 21.
Cabs are simply disgusting in Bangkok. Every driver we ever had smokes inside the car and tried to cover the smell with the more disgusting scent. We took a regular cap from the airport and after waining for 40 minutes we endet up sitting in a stinking hell for another 40 minutes. We should have called an Uber. Uber driver have much cleaner cars, we never sate in a smelly car. Download the uber app.. Get your discount code here Startguthaben für dich.
You can buy me a smoothie and show some love back.
In the morning, I have no self-control, I need a plan. If I don’t feel like eating fruit, which is usually my go to breakfast, I’ll make a smoothie. It’s a plan, right? Let’s try it for a week straight.These fruit smoothies taste much better than coffee and will do a better job waking you up and keeping you energised till the next meal.
This smoothie tastes like a hot summer morning by the beach.
Always use ripe bananas for your smoothies. Ripe bananas are heavily spotted.
Carrot cake? This smoothie tastes like an awesome, refreshing carrot cake.
Strawberry yoghurt smoothie is the winner today.
If you don’t bring enough food while traveling, you might be ending up starving or binging on nasty foods you don’t normally eat. Fruit and raw food options are uncertain at the airport and on the plane. Organic and ripe fruit is non exciting.
Even I try to go for the fancy and comforting foods while I’m traveling, I try to stick to the foods I’m used to. For example too salty snacks with make me feel super thirsty and uncomfortable. Also eating lots of dehydrated foods or dried fruit after following a fresh fruit diet for month will dehydrate me and I wont enjoy the trip as much as I would do of water rich fruit. The good thing is, the foods I’m used to eat are also the cheap and easily available for taking on the trip.
When we are planing a special meal, we often try to be super perfect. And with food, perfect meany healthy. But there is no need to be to restrictive on the flight and deprive yourself of the foods you would usually eat. I even go a little overboard while traveling eating more comfort foods than usual. It helps me feeling comfy and happy. Traveling doesn’t happen every day for me and this one day of eating will not change my habits permanently nor will it get me out of shape. So I go for what seems beneficial for my happiness and make me feel great on the trip.
Water rich fruit makes me feel the best, watermelon and papaya are always part of my travel day breakfast. To take on the plane, I prefer lighter weight calorie-dense foods like power bars, dates, nuts.
Power Wraps (salt-free)
Bananas
Kale chips
Power bars
Dates
Nuts
Click the recipe below!
Our raw vegan holidays in Bali.
I used to travel with a huge check in bag when I wen on a 7 days trip, now, I share one bag with my husband traveling for 6 months, here is how we do it.
Video coming this week
The most space in my suitcase was always taken up by clothes. Most of which I didn’t even touch. So lots of schlepping for nothing. With time, I figured out how to pack wisely. Now, I’m using 100% of the cloth I bring. My ground rule is 3 outfits. If I have 3 outfits, I have enough time to wash and dry one while wearing the other 2. I usually have 1 dress, 1 pair of pants, short pants and 2 shirts plus a large scarf or a jacket for the plane. Shoe-wise, I only have my running shoes and flip flops, which are solid enough to be worn as shoes outside.
Picking the right cloth isn’t easy at all. There is the weather, the mosquitos, the activities that should be considered. I like to be prepared for the mosquito situation as mosquito prove pants are not so easy to find.
In the tropics, the life is very different from the life back home. It is much easier to get stains on the clothes and washing machines only operate in the cold water mode, wo once you get a stain, you are gonna keep it. I try to find colourful dresses and shirts I like.
The humidity leaves everything wet for days after washing. If we are lucky, we have a dryer, but most of the time sun drying is what we do. It really helps to have thin, fast drying fabrics.
Multiuse is the key. My bathing suit is at the same time yoga pants and my only bra. My dress can be worn as a shirt.
Most of the suitable cloth can be purchased at the destination. We buy couple of items which work great in the environment where we travel and donate them afterwards. Besides of my mosquito prove pants and flip flops, and one dress I love, I would hardly miss anything.
Gear is a biggest part of my luggage now, but it is still pretty minimalistic. I don’t carry around huge tripods for filming anymore, I do most of the stationary filming with a small camera and a light weight tripod.
Read my post on my gear
The beauty routine will not be the same in the warmer place. I’ve seen girls wearing false lashes in Bali, but tis is not what I’m gonna do.
This time we travel with minimal beauty products. I’ve been missing couple of things and had hard time finding them in Bali, here what I brought and forgot.
I brought 3 tubes of mineral based sunblock, bud hardly used any. We can avoid sun pretty good. Our schedule is flexible and we can choose when to leave the house and when to stay under the protective roof.
Haare care products are tricky. Good vegan once are hard to find. We have been testing local products, but I wish I would have brought more of our fav shampoo and conditioner.
I tried to go minimal and underestimated how pale I look on the camera here. I needed to get a mascara, concealer and powder here and it was pretty much impossible. Wish I had brought it with me. I had just the essentials, like a good under eye concealer, smoky eye easy shadow palette, eyebrow gel and a lip tint. I thought is would be enough, but it wasn’t.
I completely forgot to bring my organic citronella, maybe because it doesn’t help that much. But i need something, even something not 100% reliable. It is hard to find organic oils in Bali. I wish I would have brought mine with me.
Good. But not life-changing. We went to a safe place to have some durian. Durian SS2. Quite a taxi ride from the city. Our plan today was to have durian for breakfast and to see how we feel food wise. We found out that the place opens around 11, so we went to a mall nearby to have some good glass bottled water and left around 11:30. It was actually good as they just started to serve first durians around 12pm. The place looks clean, the service is friendly. The prices range between 18 MYR and 54 MYR ($4.5-$13) per kg of unpeeled durian. It’s pretty pricy given the quality is not terrific.
The good thing is, the servers double check the durians while opening and will not give you the obvousely bad ones,
but I found that 3 out of 4 durians we had were slightly overripe. It’s February and the small durian season, so the quality should be better though. One durian was really on point. I really liked the hygiene of the place. They don’t touch the durian meat and you can wash your hands and even have plastic gloves for eating the durian. They had around 8 kinds of durian, all pretty much the same. Sweet and mild, not much of the distinctive smell and flavor. We had around 6,5 kg of unpeeled durian and spend $50. I didn’t eat anything else that day, Stefan had a hand full cashews. We had 1l of water each and I had water of 1 coconuts, Stefan of 2.
We tried to get durians the next day. We arrived 12.20 and they didin’t have any durians here. We couldn’t wait and went to Donald’s Durian. They didn’t have any durians as well. It was on a Sunday, but still pretty disappointing how pople seem to run their businesses. On the first glimpse, Donald’s Durian place is a dirty garage, you don’t want to eat there. We were so lucky to get a box of organic mandarins outside, they were all over the place just in time for Chinese New Year, they were our food for the day along with some mangosteens.
Almost non existing on the first sight. We found 3-4 organic veggies at Cold Storage, but no fruit, bananas and greens at Just Life. BMS Organic didn’t have any fresh produce. We found some organic mandarins at a durian selling place, but it was a Chinese New Years thing.
We’ve been to 4 malls and to 2 organic shops. There are no local products availible but some imported 5 times more expensive beauty products from Europe. You will find all you need, but not the place to shop for beauty products at all.
We went up the tower. Amazing view. Go up to the top. The 1st level is disappointing, but all the people seem to go just to the first level. We stayed for more than an hour and watched the sunset. It is pricy. Pick a good time of the day and bring your camera. The taxi service from the tower is a rip off. They charge twice as much as the meter would be. Take the free shuttle down and haggle with the taxi drivers down there. You might get a better price, or you may not.
The first negativ thing about Kuala Lumpur was the poorly organised taxi service at the airport. You need to pay at the counter inside the arrival hall and than wait in a long long cue for an hour or longer outside to get your ride. There seems to be a priority taxi, but we didn’t spot the counter that sold vouchers for these. The train is pretty expensive as well, so not an alternative, locals suggest the bus, which we didn’t try out though.
Next time, we would try to catch an Uber driver. Get the app and try it for a convenient ride back home. Here is your free ride. The taxis are as dirty as people say, our last one smelled so terrible that we had to stop it and to get out, and call an Uber.
Plan a little more time for everything. For getting a ride to the city, or for getting trough the security check at the airport on your way in and 1 additional hour on your way out.
You can walk around the city, there are good and safe walkways. Watch the gaps and the intense sun while exploring the city. Ask taxis for meter or better get an Uber driver. Don’t visit free attractions such as Twin Tower Bridge, such a waste of time.
Quick drive to the market and we are all set for 3 fruity days. Eating all fruit is pretty typical for us here in Bali. We eat gourmet raw now and then, but not today.
These dishes are our absolute favs. It means, not only would I eat them here anytime, but they would be my fav meal anywhere, anytime.
Avocado soup with onion bread and cashew mozzarella. 65K
The soup was amazingly creamy and flavourful. The flavor was hearty, meaty but the soup still very mild. The onion bread was a wrap filled with carrots and raw mozzarella, which was tasty as much more than just bread.
Tomato, pickled cucumber, sprouts, smoked coconut meat, bbq sauce, cashew cream, lettuce. 55K.
A raw vegan take on the traditional BLT san. The bacon is amazing. Really amazing. Simply amazing. The bbq sauce smoky, tomaty, delicious. Even made with lettuce, absolutely filling and satisfying.
Almond, cashew, veggie patty, seed based bread, cashew cream. On greens.
Delicious, rich, filling. Great burger. Very nicely presented. I very appreciate them serving the oil on the side and not drowning the salad in it. As I don’t use it, I’ll order my burger without it the next time.
Seed crust, veggies, kailan, pickles, & tomato salsa. 120k IDR.
The crust is very delicious, the sauce too. The green salad layer a little dull. The nut cheese pretty good. All in one a litte too oily and lacking in flavour. The side of the pickles adds a litte flavour to the dish.
With anmond bread and cashew cheese. 85k IDK
Amazing creamy beet soup. The creamiest beet soup I would ever expect. Balanced in flavor, topped with crunchy fresh seeds. I would opt out for the oil that was drizzled on top. Don’t like oil in general and the taste of olive oil in a soup.
With anmond bread and cashew cheese. 85k IDK
Amazing creamy beet soup. The creamiest beet soup I would ever expect. Balanced in flavor, topped with crunchy fresh seeds. I would opt out for the oil that was drizzled on top. Don’t like oil in general and the taste of olive oil in a soup.
With cashew mayo. 50k IDR
Greens, tahini sauce, tempeh, almond bread.
Marinated tomato, spinach, green peas, zuchini, sundried tomatoes, and garlic. With tamarind date chutney. 55k IDR
Very Indian. Pretty delicious. My husband liked it more than me though. I find the filling a little bitter, I just don’t like the bitter taste in general in a dish. The chutney is pretty good as well. Very mild. It comeswith the oil bottle, I let them take it back immediately, so they can reuse it. So it’s not in the pic.
Marinated tempeh. Very delicious. The whole plate is a magical ensemble of hearty, spicy, savory goodness. The spicy sauce is so good, and the chili peaces for the extra burn. I love it. Even I still think this tempeh is technically not raw, it is delicious.
Visiting Rasayana Retreat, we found ourselves in an oasis in the middle of the concrete jungle of Bangkok. The atmosphere is very pleasant, the service friendly and accommodating. They are about to remodel the restaurant, it will be even nicer. The variety of food, juices, desserts is amazing and everything is very fresh. The kitchen is creative, the quality of ingredients is amazing, it’s mostly organic. Some ingredients are imported, like soy sauce, nuts, apples. If you are only ordering a few dishes, you should pick what you order carefully. The dishes are hit or miss. Read the reviews, let them explain what the dishes are made of, ask about the size. Picking the right dish, you will feel like in raw food paradise.
For your first visit, definitely take a cab and don’t try to walk there. There are no sidewalks and the traffic is pretty heavy at most times. It’s difficult to get a cap back home, some guest’s let the taxi driver weit for them to eat here. For the food, Hawaiian pizza is the safest choice, very delicious and pretty close to the “original”. The mushroom burger is amazing as well. Fruity juices and smoothies always a great choice. Many of the dishes we had were more a or less simple salads with dressing (and crackers) presented as a dish. These are great if you are looking for a low fat dish or like your salad to look different, but you might be disappointed if you are looking for a raw gourmet dish. I’m particularily talking about the cabbage rolls, the live pizza, the veggie sandwich, and the noodles. Larb and guacamole are pretty small and pretty much the same price than the way more exciting dishes like the pizzas or the mushroom burger. Watch out for the honey in drinks, desserts, dressings. Ask the service to help you to order a vegan meal.
Tabbouleh is a staple in our kitchen and one of my fav salads. Unfortunately, my husband doesn’t like cauliflower. Here is something we both more than enjoy.
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