Maybe this topic has already been discussed but I don't want to look again
into the archives.

I have been all-raw for 4 months now, but I made 7 exceptions. Not because
of temptation: on the contrary, I avoid cooked meals as much as possible,
but sometimes I has to accept invitations for dinner. The latest one was
yesterday evening. My impressions:

First course: blended salad
A: I put some lemon juice, but no oil on it.
B: No oil? How can you expect to stay healthy without olive oil?
A: I can bring some if you want. You can add salt and pepper too.
(B adds some salt. I have to _remove_ the grains of pepper from my salad,
but the taste of the salad is still overridden by the lemon juice).

Second course: pork with boiled potatoes.
A: Would you like some sauce?
Me: No, thanks.
(Even without sauce, the meat has too much salt, but it is dry and tasteless;
the potato is OK; unable to finish my glass of wine).

Dessert: "mousse au chocolat".
(Not bad, thanks to the sugar; unable to drink my glass of champagne).

Now, some questions:
Do you sometimes make exceptions too, or did you choose to refuse
systematically all the invitations?
Did you tell all your friends that you are a raw-foodist? What are their
reactions? Do they think you are really weird, or are they more open minded?

Personally, I only talked about my diet to a few friends, and, among my
relatives, only my parents know about it. One of my friends thinks I am
a vegetarian, and when he invited me, the menu was spaghetti with cheese
(the worst items from an instincto point of view)!

Thanks in advance for your answers.
Cheers,

Jean-Louis