Keeping warm in a cold climate!!

Forgive me if this topic's been done before, I couldn't find anything in a quick search.

It's mid August, the height of summer season in Ireland. It's lashing horizontal rain and the wind is howling through the windows. To go to my local Farmers' Market just now, my umbrella blew inside out and I was cursing not having brought my winter coat. Did I say already this is summer?

Rising oil prices and concern over plundering the earth = trying not to 'put the central heating on' so much. Burning log fires, whilst carbon neutral, is more of a comforting feature rather than usefully heating all rooms being lived in.

FOOD is traditionally the medium through which we have warmed ourselves here for centuries. Despite working in the organic food sector and growing my own veg, it's really hard to get a plentiful and consistent supply of produce in the kind of quantities raw foodies consume 52 weeks a year. (Of course, there is sadly no problem for people here to lay their hands on bread, bacon, potatoes etc, therein lies the travesty.)

So...a key thing that is keeping many of us (ok the few of us there are) out of total raw is the thought of winter. Despite a new found passion for living foods over the last year, with no steaming soups and warming casseroles, hearty grains and miso seaweed broths, nutty porridge, steamed green veg and sweet potatoes (all 'healthy' by conventional standards) ...we nod fondly towards our US West Coast cousins with their more temperate climate - meteorlogical and cultural - and sagely shake our heads "it's not so easy here".

SO: to ward off oncoming excuses and pessimism I'd love to know your ideas for keeping warm whilst staying raw with those obstacles in mind, whether recipes, food types, routines or anything else you think would help us stay on track?

Many thanks...