Raw Food Day 65 - How to get started in Raw Foods

People have asked me how do they get started on a raw food diet and I usually give them two ideas. One is to incorporate live food in each meal. Like fruit for breakfast and either a salad and or raw vegetable with lunch. You can also start making raw deserts. The other way is to transform one meal at a time. For example, you can make fruit or vegetable smoothies for breakfast. (Don't forget to leave the dairy out.) You can eat fruit or make fruit juices or you can even make raw muesli. I suggest a good cookbook. Something like Alissa Cohen's Living on Live Food book and DVD, which you can purchase here.

Don't forget to drink a lot of water. Drink as much as you can to rehydrate your body. Coconut water, fruit juices and celery juice help in rehydrating your body as well.

Remember that raw foods is more about what you do not put into your body. Avoid processed foods and white sugar. There are many sugar substitutes like agave nectar, stevia, maple syrup or raw honey.

Once you are comfortable with raw breakfasts then you can start with lunch. You can use different vegetable leaves to make sandwich wraps. Like collard greens, nori sheets (used for sushi) or lettuce. You can have salads or make some guacamole.

Then you can start on snacks and deserts. Frozen bananas put in a blender is a great substitute for ice cream. You can flavor it with fruit too. You can eat raw nuts and dehydrated fruits. Little by little you keep adding more raw food. You can look into dehydrated foods, sprouting and superfoods. The list just grows and grows. The basic appliances you need are a blender and or a juicer, and or a food processor and or a dehydrator.

You should start off with easy recipes and as you get accustom to these foods then you can make nut chesses, dips or even pates.

Raw nutrients of the day:
4oz kombucha
32oz cafix
3 flaxseed crackers with almond butter and honey
32oz pineapple coconut juice
banana ice cream (2) with coconut meat and alomond butter and honey
16oz water

Quote of the day:
"It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly." - Isaac Asimov

Live life and enjoy your weekend,
Alma