eating raw while on tour

Question
QUESTION: Hello,
    I about to start eating and including some raw meat in my diet, and gradually increase until it is about 85% of my diet.  My question is do you have any experience on how to eat a raw paleo diet, while on the road?  I am a musician and I on the road at certain times of the year, and really don't know how to go about it, without eating fast foods or restaurant foods.  Your help or suggestions in this area would appreciated.  Plus are organ meats all I need or should I include some muscle meat too?  Plus while on the road I don't have resource, on organic grass fed meat, any ideas?  Thank you for your help and time in advance.

Sincerely,
         Fahad Qahtani

ANSWER: This is a very difficult problem to sort out.  Many RAFers bring some raw meats with them if they're just travelling for a few days, bringing with them a small portable fridge. I personally tend to just seal my raw meats within plastic containers when hiking in the Alps - then I eat the entire contents of 1 container, each day and wash the empty container in a stream. However, a portable fridge would be best for you, as you could then store several days' worth of raw animal food in it, at a time.

For longer journeys, some RAFers opt for storage methods such as drying their meats, sometimes salting them. I'm not familiar with the process of drying, as I never felt the need for it, but there are plenty of people on the various raw animal food diet forums  who can give you exact info on how to dry meats(make sure the meats are dried at temperatures below 40 degrees Celsius/104 degrees Fahrenheit to ensure enzymes aren't affected).

If you already know, in advance, where you're going to go, I would suggest you also search online all the various towns you're going to visit, looking for sources of raw foods(eg:- farmers' markets, raw oyster bars, Japanese Sashimi Restaurants offering raw fish and many French/Hungarian etc. restaurants offer raw steak-tartare(you can leave out the pasteurised butter that goes with it). I've even heard of a grassfed/naturally-reared burger chain in the UK, so if there's an equivalent in your country, you could order it "rare" if there's an outlet. Oh, and Ethiopian restaurants offer raw meat kitfo, which is raw meat that's only lightly warmed. Then there may be local fishmonger's on the coast, which might be searchable online - that's hwo I found muy local fishmonger's, anyway.

1 food that seems to store for ages, if wrapped in plastic is raw grassfed suet. I've, by mistake, left some suet out of the fridge for weeks, and the worst that happens is that it turns a little green/brown at the edges, but otherwise is fine to eat.

When I'm without decent acess to quality raw animal food, such as sometimes when abroad, I turn to raw organic fruit as it's far more easily accessible. It's not an ideal option, but it's a hell of a lot better than going to a fast-food outlet.

It's a long shot, but if you know exactly where you'll be staying, you could arrange with a farmer to send you a few days' worth of raw grassfed meats(chilled or frozen,with ice-packs) to the hotel you'll be staying at, making sure that the hotel stores the meats for a couple of days beforehand in their fridges(no point arranging meats to be sent to you on the exact date you arrive at the hotel, as post can be delayed).

You don't have to eat only raw organ-meats. I now generally only recommend that for those who have serious digestive problems so that they can't digest raw muscle-meats that easily. The usual suggestion is to eat at least 10% of your raw animal food-intake in the form of raw(grassfed) organs - since eating raw organs is cited by many as speeding up one's recovery-rate, it's a good idea to eat a bit more than that, PROVIDED that one eats a wide variety of different organs. The trouble is, though, that it'll be a LOT easier for you to travel with dried raw muscle-meats than raw organs, so it's best if you eat plenty of raw organs while you're not on tour, but stick to muscle-meats, for the most part, while travelling. You could compromise by buying some of the freeze-dried organ supplements which Dr Ron's website sells, for your travelling:-

http://www.drrons.com/

It's pretty expensive but if you only take 1 tablet of raw multiorgan supplement a day, for example,  it'll last you 6 months.
HTH,
RPG.


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QUESTION: So does that mean I can buy muscle  meat from a regular supermarket since the meat I will be eating is not organ meat?

Answer
Getting meat from a supermarket is a really bad idea, only to be done if there is absolutely NO other way to get hold of meats - supermarket meats invariably come from extremely unhealthy intensively-farmed animals with poor omega-3/omega-6 ratio etc. . Even then, you should stick to really expensive supermarkets like Wholefoods and only buy meats that are of high-quality(for example, here in the UK, expensive supermarket-chains like Waitrose offer grassfed New Zealand lamb, and some such supermarkets sell a little genuinely raw wildcaught seafood) - I've heard an unsubstantiated rumour that much New Zealand lamb is actually grain-finished in the last 3 months prior to slaughter, but it's still way better than 99% of the meats on offer at supermarkets.

HTH,
RPG.

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