Raw food diet

Angel_Jenny

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

Stop going near bakeries and stick to low carb?

It's ridiculously expensive, I've looked at some of the recipes in the past and by golly, it's expensive.

I walk past 5 on my way to work! Might have to try to convince all the girls at work that bacon sandwiches and cakes and fish and chips should all be kept well away from me.

I didn't realise that the raw food diet had recipes until I started reading about it .... just thought you ate fruit and vegetables not making raw pasta out of courgettes!

Angel_Jenny

Helen2k8 wrote: »

Welcome to the minefield!

Milk's a funny one. We generally start off producing lactase, the enzyme needed to digest milk sugars. But only some ethnic groups evolved to keep producing that enzyme after infancy - mainly Northern Europeans I think. So levels of milk consumption and tolerance are very varied. And that's before you look at how milk from the cow is different to the pasteurised, homogenised, skimmed stuff we buy now...

I hear you on the temptations! I do best "paleo" but every now and then fall facefirst into brownies. Or ice cream. Or both And yet I know how much better I feel before pigging out! I'll learn one day...

It all seems very complicated!

I only drink skimmed milk (well, and soya and almond milk) and I tried some Jersey gold top the other day ..... it was like cream!

I do really well and then eat a huge bag of doritos to myself.

Off to google "paleo" .....

Sambucus_Nigra

Angel_Jenny wrote: »

I walk past 5 on my way to work! Might have to try to convince all the girls at work that bacon sandwiches and cakes and fish and chips should all be kept well away from me.

I didn't realise that the raw food diet had recipes until I started reading about it .... just thought you ate fruit and vegetables not making raw pasta out of courgettes!

I work somewhere with a cafe and have to resist all those cakes on a daily basis; it's doable though esp if you don't take money with you.

Angel_Jenny

trailingspouse wrote: »

Rather than going raw or vegan, which both seem a lot of bother to me, I think you would do better to cut out all refined carbohydrates from your diet. That means - no white sugar, no white bread or anything made with white flour. Instead use unrefined sugar (make sure it says the word 'unrefined' - some sugar, like demerara, is refined and then has the brown colour put back in to it!!), wholemeal bread, wholemeal flour, and also go for wholewheat pasta, and brown rice.
Unrefined carbs are a) better for you, b) more filling, so you need less, c) tastier d) don't bloat you like the refined ones do, and e) provide more fibre which helps with digestion. I could go on.

And I thought demerara sugar was better for you!

I don't really like rice or pasta - my big downfalls are crisps and buying sandwiches at lunch time. They all seem to have so much mayonnaise in ! Really expensive too.

I think I need a plan of things I could take to work for lunches rather than buying things.

pixiedust09

Hi, Raw/Vegan is something I looked into, but that's as far as i got I'm afraid. I don't think I'd have the willpower or funds to do it. You need to eat a hell of a lot of fruit and veg to sustain a Raw diet. Check out the girl who eats 30 bananas a day :eek: here http://www.30bananasaday.com/

Would be interested to here if any OS'ers do it though.

Helen2k8

Oh gosh, I have encountered the banana gang before. About as sane as Scientology imho.

I think, on the OS side, our cheapest veg would not be pretty raw - potato, turnip, kale, swede...? Nah.

I only get bananas now and again for the price, never even look at non-whoopsied mangoes. Pricey to import, and not usually properly ripened.

Angel_Jenny

Bananas .... ewwwwww! I like them in smoothies but not in their natural state.

Was thinking of various smoothies with added wheatgrass / spirulina / barley grass powder.

I don't think I could carry 30 bananas home from the shop never mind forcing myself to eat them.

pixiedust09

Helen2k8 wrote: »

Oh gosh, I have encountered the banana gang before. About as sane as Scientology imho.

I think, on the OS side, our cheapest veg would not be pretty raw - potato, turnip, kale, swede...? Nah.

I only get bananas now and again for the price, never even look at non-whoopsied mangoes. Pricey to import, and not usually properly ripened.

Raw turnip and potato doesn't float my boat either :rotfl:I think a Raw diet would be easier in a warmer climate.

Angel_Jenny

I like raw potato but apparently they are poisonous!

pixiedust09

Angel_Jenny wrote: »

I like raw potato but apparently they are poisonous!

I think they are in the Raw, and don't quote me, probably completly wrong but think Potatoes are from the nightshade family.