It's been pretty miserable in our neck of the woods. Today the high was 93° and the humidity was something like 80% (which makes it feel like it's 100°). I hung the diapers out to dry on the clothesline a few days ago, and they just refused to dry out there. You can really see the humidity in the air. This morning I finally gave up and put them in the dryer.
Sometimes I can understand the appeal of a swimming pool (I'm generally not a chlorine person). A garden hose and a bucket can do a pretty decent job, though.
For some reason, kids just aren't as affected by this kind of weather as adults are. I can't deal with feeling the least bit sticky (so I end up taking several cold showers all day long, and sitting in front of the fan in between), but my boys don't seem to notice their stickiness at all (though I certainly notice their stickiness when they try to stick their sweaty bodies all over me).
We've decided to head to the Cape for the second half of this week. It will surely be at least 10° cooler there, and breezy and lovely (assuming it's not raining). I am so excited to see what Zeb thinks of the ocean. I'd love any suggestions for gluten-free camping!
6/8/08
HOT and HUMID
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i've been trying to think of raw camping foods. we've been eating more raw, and it certainly seems easier for camping - no cookstove required!
haven't been out camping this year, so haven't tested my ideas out in situ... but fruit of course... also there are things you can soak overnight in a mason jar and eat in the morning... mung beans, steel cut oats (not sure how concerned you are about x-contamination)... other things i've been having for breakfast - celery sticks and nut butter. a non-raw breakfast i love is yogurt, berries and nuts, but you'd have to be able to keep the yogurt cool.
Yeah..will he eat nuts? Soaked almonds are great camping...but no jumping! :)
Also "nut-thins" are a new gluten-free cracker we're crazy about...anything but rice! They're especially good with soft cheese.
Dried fruits, goji berries, cashews--- You could make a big batch of nori rolls to take... Also, sometimes Araela likes to "roll" them herself...so you could make rice, bring avocados and nori sheets, and just let them make their own little rice presents. We do that with big raw collard green leafs too...really great. Those little packages of nori in the asian foods section of the store are really yummy...not too spicy..great iodine-rich snack.You could pre-pop popcorn...and bring the stuff to make it yummy...we like olive oil, nut. yeast and sea salt. Corn chips and guac. Rice noodles w/ butter, nutritional yeast, grated goat jack and sea salt. apples and nut butter. Just realized I am mostly saying lots of carb foods. Pre-roasted pumpkin seeds are yummy. I just asked Araela if she had any ideas and her reply was "banana and kale and blueberries" hmm...all mixed together? Good luck!
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