A Raw Reality

Okay, so I've been sifting through the Gone Raw site tonight looking for easy recipes that my boyfriend can make with just a blender or a knife or both because he doesn't have any of the other tools required, and I'm starting to get a little miffed. I keep seeing recipes that call for maple syrup because-- oh no!-- We can't use honey because it's not vegan! In fact, I've seen discussion topics on the honey debate, and it seems that these people would rather make their recipe less raw in order to keep it vegan. I'm on the side that thinks that there's nothing wrong with getting your honey from a good, local apiary and scrapping the vegan bit to keep the recipe 100% raw...

Then again I just ate a big slab of raw salmon too.

What do you guys think?


-Unseeliekin

I stole this little one from Raw Food Talk also. You know, I get bored with that board quick, but every now and then I go back and find some nice gems!

What are your favorites?

fruit:
veggie:
spice:
dessert:
berry:
flavor:
ethnic cuisine:
"weird" food combination:
drink:

what is one food (raw) you can't live without?
what food has never struck your fancy?
do you prefer savory dishes or do you have a big sweet tooth?

I'll reply with mine, you reply with yours. This could be fun!

I was cruising Raw Food Talk (That's Alissa's community site) and I found this link to a cute little raw eBook with some nice recipes. And best of all it's FREE!

Get "Raw Britannia" FREE now!

Okay, I've got a medical question for the group.

I appear to be exhibiting symptoms of dehydration, and I'm not getting any better. I'm actually getting worse. I'm tired, but I can't sleep at night, I'm thirsty, and I get dizzy when I stand up. The idea of going to the doctor makes me feel nauseaus and scared. Then again, so does being dehydrated...

I drink plenty of water, eat lots of watery fruits, and I've started rinking kombucha again, but nothing seems to make it better.

PLEASE HELP

http://www.nutritiondata.com/topic…

Here's a good link if you're looking to see just what's lost beside livwe enzymes when you cook. Interestingly many things are lost during drying, too, which makes dehydrated quite inferior to raw. When you dehydrate at least the enzymes are still active.

Also of interest on nutrition data, look up something (I did mushrooms) and open a tab for raw, a tab for cooked and a tab for microwaved. Move the pages down so that you can flip through looking at the nutrient color graph.

(Since this post had to do with watching what you eat ::snickers:: I went with this icon!)

So these days raw is expensive. I thought maybe we could talk about some affordable options and share recipes using them.

Green squash makes nice elbow pasta. That's coming into season.
Carrots are always cheap even organic, and they make good noodles with nuttier sauces or a great slaw with an avocado dressing. Even cheaper whisk some olive oil and apple cider vinegar mix with a little seasoning.
The secret to keeping the interest in the slaw season is in the little things you can add. Sunflower seeds are cheap, raisins can be too. Well soaked rasins are great in an oil and vinegar slaw, because they add the sweet that reminds us of the sweet tart combo of SAD slaw dressings.

Pumpkin seeds are one step up and make a nice seed burger.

Anyone have any slogans to cheer themselves on for eating raw?

I miss cheese.

I know, it's my own fault I gave up dairy.

I don't even miss yogurt.

Yogurt could suck my $!*% if I could have cheese.

*sigh*

Dear Cheese,

I miss you SO much.

Love,
Angie

Never had it before but it almost killed my blender. Bout to look up ideas on how to eat this stuff. Why is it the better it is for you the more difficult it is to choke down? Seriously, I don't know if I horse could chew this let alone me O.o

With regards to health benifits, detox is the other side and this was very helpful to me. http://drbass.com/symptoms.html
For once I was delighted to have checked off all the symptoms. ROFL What a creepy and weird relief.

In addition to comfort being gained here, I also have surmised a little something with regards to food combining...

I think raw is about health, combining is about effency. In The Raw Food Detox Diet she does specify that you can loose weight even properly combining bad foods, but they're still bad foods. Due to my weight this makes me more inclined to respect some of it a bit. I still retain my typical platter of objections, refusals and personal rules, of course.