Raw Food Meals in Costa Rica

It's been a busy day and evening and I have an early morning tomorrow, so this is going to be fairly short.

I can't believe how cold and windy it is, certainly not Costa Rican weather!

Anyway, I was going to give you some idea what its like to be a raw foodist in Costa Rica. The fruit is amazing and so inexpensive. I absolutely love papaya, and Bob and I would eat at least one a day. Sometimes we would just cut it up and eat it for a meal or add it to our green smoothies. The other thing I did, was freeze cut-up bananas and papaya, and then blend it to make an ice cream. We took our K-Tec with us and I'm so glad we did. The ice cream was usually our treat in the evening, while playing Scrabble, after our salad which we ate after our sunset walk on the beach. The sun always sets at 5:45 p.m. in Costa Rica, so most nights we were in bed by 8:00 or 9:00 and up around 6:00 am.

Variations of this ice cream were banana and mango and banana and sopote. Sopote is a very unusual fruit that has a carmel flavor and made the most delicious ice cream. Unfortunately, the season was just ending so we only had it a few times.

A typical day started with a walk on the beach around 6:30 and after our walk we had an orange-pineapple blended drink. Then around 10:00 am we'd have our green smoothie/pudding and in the afternoon we'd have fruit for a snack or if we were home I'd make a watermelon or cantelope drink. Some days we would just eat a whole watermelon for lunch or a snack. Watermelon is very filling! Some days we would go to the organic juice bar and have a juice, usually carrot and apple.

Our salads consisted of organic greens that we purchased from an organic farmer that came right to Dominical every Friday. We got most of our fruits and vegetables from him and could even order it ahead of time to make sure we had enough for the week. The tomatoes were amazing, as were the cucumbers and avocadoes. The only thing that was really not up to par was the organic celery, which is a little disappointing because we normally eat quite a bit of celery for the sodium to balance out the potassium in all the bananas we eat. Not sure what I'll do about that when we live there.

I'm getting hungry just thinking about all this great food, and so much for being short. Time to put my head to the pillow.

Until next time.
Yvonne