Raw food diet

zippychick

ive merged this with an older thread on Raw diet - good luck

Zip

bltchef

if you can watch this dvd called Average Joe on the RAW it should answer some of you q

hereigoagain22

Hi ladies and gents

Something I've always been interested in... a completely raw and natural diet with nothing processed or cooked in the slightest. I would just like to make gentle changes - maybe one or two lunches a week and changing to healthy raw snacks? I've searched for loads of information online but it's all so confusing for me!! I looked at the delivery services but prices are extortionate!

Does anyone on MSE do a raw foot diet? I'd love to chat about it and be given some tips.

Living_proof

Hi HIGA, I had never heard of such a thing until I bought an Excalibur food dehydrator last year. A lot of people, particularly requiring an optimum diet for their medical condition, dry a lot of food and make fruit rubbers and biscuit type snacks by drying. The dried element gives different texture and gives variety. There is a great bit of TV about a guy who went raw. He went on an enema holiday. Wish I could remember the channel. Let us know how you get on if you do it - it's quite an alien concept to me but never say never!

kezlou

Hi, my friends a vegan and raw foodist.

She said this book is pretty good

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Book-Raw-Food-Vegetarian/dp/1578263530/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1359233855&sr=1-1

she said it has more recipes than biography.

http://therawchef.com/therawchefblog/

not sure if this any good, thought it might give you pointers
http://www.therawfoodcoach.com/start_here.php

I looked into but i would just eat locally sourced foods and buy dehydrated fruits and use them as snacks. Buying from sourced places costs a fortune.

very thinly sliced cabbage leaves are quite nice and lovely in a salad. i tried about a decade ago, worked quite well, hard work. Gave up when i became pregnant.

Bit of bad news though my friend tends to get her parents to supplement her income by buying it for her. So its quite expensive diet to have if you buy in.

good luck

twinkle_star_2

I tried to increase the amount of raw food in my diet but I've never really wanted to go all-raw. The easiest things I found were:

Make a smoothie for breakfast - banana, greens of choice (kale, spring greens, spinach, etc), berries, and other bits and bobs (ground flax, hemp seeds). I used to have this and a small handful of almonds on most mornings.

Alternatively a nice breakfast was various fruits on a plate (all neatly sliced/arranged, a scoop of nut butter and a little dish of hemp seeds. Dip fruit into nut butter and then in seeds and nom away.

Eat a giant salad for lunch - add all the veg and nuts you fancy plus a tasty raw dressing

Date and nut balls! Those raw Nakd bars that cost about £1 each can be easily made at home for pennies by blending chopped dates and nuts in a food processor. Vary the dried fruits and nuts and add other flavourings for different varieties. My favourite was to add cocoa power (or raw cacao nibs) for chocolate truffle style treats. Roll in more cocoa powder and serve with strawberries for a luxurious dessert.

Sprout your own beans, seeds and lentils. Loads of raw food blogs and books call for sprouted things and you'll have to make them yourself. You can just use a jar if you don't want to buy a sprouter but I got a 3-tier plastic sprouter with a selection of seeds for about £10 and I still use it to make micro salad greens and beansprouts for stir-frys.

Things not to do:
Don't cave in and buy a dehydrator/spiralizer/juicer straight away. If you can't do a couple of months living on salads and smoothies you aren't going to stay raw for that long.

Don't buy the super expensive juicer/blender/dehydrator that all the raw bloggers use (Champion, Vitamix, Excalibur). A normal one will do you just fine for ages. If you end up staying high raw for quite some time then they might be worth it. In fact, the juicer and dehydrator probably aren't worth investing in at first either.

Hope that helps!

twinkle_star_2

Oh, and I found Kristen's Raw to be the handiest of raw blogs.

Jox

I've been interested in the raw food lifestyle for a few years but only been 100% raw for about 3 months in 2007, then I met my now husband and fell off that wagon as he tempted me back to meat, dairy and alcohol.

I managed another 3 months in 2008 and then went on a long trip to India with work and had to abandon it again.


Whenever I manage 3 months raw something big happens in my life!

I read Shazzie's website for inspiration, her life took some amazing turns after discovering the raw food diet.

http://shazzie.com/life/biography/long.shtml

Freelee is another raw foodist, primarily fruitarian.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Freelea

She has a website called 30 bananas a day, her philosophy is based on the 80-10-10 diet, there's a book about this, I've not read it.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/80-10-Diet-Balancing-Luscious/dp/1893831248

I've read tons of inspiring blogs and testimonials and my ideal diet would be fruit, veg, nuts, seeds, sprouts, wheatgrass but I allow myself to be too swayed by the mainstream to be the person I truly want to be!

Those times that I was "fully raw" (http://www.youtube.com/user/FullyRawKristina) I was clear headed, slept better, could breathe better, felt flat-stomached and slim, was excited and optimistic and had more energy.

This feeling can be a bit scary as it can lead to big changes in life and makes one question everything from relationships to careers.

ragz_2

Wow, that 30 bananas a day lady is scary thin and that much sugar cannot be healthy! There are always extremes and they are generally best avoided...
start simple and see how you get on. Salads and smoothies, raw veg etc is all very healthy and the more you eat the better usually.

I would miss meat, there is no way I am eating a raw chicken