HOT RAW ACTION

Juice Feast 20 / Raw 54

2008-08-29T07:10:27Z

32 oz h2o + lemon + 1 T msm

32 oz pineapple + orange + lemon + blueberry

32 oz watermelon

1 T udo's + pineapple

32 oz watermelon + 1 T superfood

1 T udo's + pineapple

i'm really liking the udo's oil. i pour it in a shot glass then squeeze some pineapple into it. it sinks to the bottom so the shot finishes fruity. the oil is wonderfully nutty and shockingly filling / calming, and after so long with no fat probably badly needed.

new to raw!

2008-08-24T17:50:48Z

hi! i'm new here, i'm linny. i've been a vegetarian for 6 years, vegan for 5. i’ve been trying really hard to eat more foods, and eventually i’d like to become completely 100% raw. i’ve never once gone a day eating all raw foods, and on a regular basis I’ll usually eat about 50% raw. i know that’s awful, but I’m trying really hard to do better. i just bought a juicer, and now I’m saving up for a good blender.

i'm creating a meal plan for myself and i'm going to the grocery next week and will try to jump right into trying to be 100% raw! i'll be logging what i eat on here, of course. :)

juices and smoothes of today

2008-08-24T00:01:17Z

morning smoothie: banana, strawberries, spinach, flax and apple juice
noonish juice: tomato, red pepper, jalapeno, lemon, parsley
early evening juice: grapefruit, beet, lime, grape, ginger

New!

2008-08-21T02:14:46Z

Hello! I am new to the concept of eating only raw food. I have been gradually increasing the percentage of raw food that i eat per day, and whilst i am having trouble with eating enough to stay satisfied, it still feels good!

I actually want to know what the idea is about raw food combining. What it means and how to do it. If anyone can enlighten me or knows where i can find out about this, please let me know!

Thanks!

Anneke

rawfoodlist @ 2008-08-20T10:53:00

2008-08-20T17:59:42Z

they have a few vegan meal replacement drinks at my work- powdered items with veg protein (hemp, rice, etc.), greens, and sometimes added anti-oxidants, vits, minerals, probiotics. I like the idea of these products, but they taste like crap.
i've tried the fruit and choc flavoured, and they're both yuck.
this morning i wanted to try and see if i could do better myself. was craving something rich and chocolatey.

so in to the vitamix:

raw cocoa beans
raw hemp seeds
barleans greens (dried product -the best if you have to buy dry greens!)
raw hazelnuts
a few cashews
water
some chili and cinnamon and stevia

YUM!

juice feast day 10

2008-08-19T09:09:47Z

8 oz h2o + lemon + 1 tsp msm
32 oz romaine + celery + apple + carrot juice
32 oz watermelon juice
honey + bee pollen
32 oz watermelon juice
32 oz romaine + celery + apple + carrot juice
8 oz h2o + lemon + 1 tsp msm

juice feast day 1

2008-08-10T07:50:09Z

8 oz spinach/tomato/lemon juice
10 oz green juice
22 oz celery/cucumber/peach/chard juice
24 oz cuc/tom/cel/peach/pear/chard juice
20 oz pineapple/peach/chard/lemon juice with bee pollon
30 oz carrot/apple juice

114 oz total

hello!

2008-08-08T21:55:22Z

hi, my name is erica and i am currently living in portland, maine where i am lucky to have access to some amazing farmer's markets! and over the last couple of months i have started eating more and more raw food, and juicing. i have been a vegetarian for forever, but i am not 100 percent vegan or raw, and maybe never will be, but i am going to do what i can. i love fruits and vegetables so its mostly not an issue.

today, so far

black tea and ginger tea
apple, pear, kale, mint juice
watermelon, lime, grape juice
tomato, cucumber, parsley, lemon, celery juice

i look forward to reading your posts!

Today:

2008-08-08T04:46:31Z

+2 peaches, 2 tomatoes

+1/4 cantaloupe

+3 bananas, 2-3 tbs almond butter

An Introduction

2008-08-07T21:33:18Z

Hello. My name is Malorie, I live in Northern California.
I've been practicing the raw foods lifestyle for a few months now. After eating what I'll call %99.9 raw foods for a month and a half or so, I started getting really bored with the foods I was eating (I did try to maintain somewhat of a variety, but I have never experimented with recipes and don't even have a blender for smoothies!). So, I ended up eating a cooked meal thinking what harm could it do? Oi. I ended up eating cooked foods for a week and feeling very out of control and confused about food. So, four days ago (after I had read a few books on fasting) I decided to go on an absolute fast (water only). It only lasted three days, but I do feel like I learned a lesson from it. The reason I wasn't enjoying raw food before had more to do with the fact that I was eating too much. I still hadn't done away with looking at food in some twisted ways (usually as a cure for boredome, but also for emotional reasons, etc).
Now I'm interested in eating a lot less and less frequently and looking to food as a means of nurishment and not to fulfill other needs. I think there's a name for this... instinctive eating or something?
Anyway, I'm glad to have a place to post my daily intake as a way to keep myself attentive to it.
Cheers!

rawfoodlist @ 2008-08-04T15:36:00

2008-08-04T19:40:37Z

so far today:
- 32 oz celery + fennel juice
- chocolate pudding (1/2 avocado, agave, cacao, lucuma) with raspberries and strawberries
- salad: 2 small heads of local romaine, 1 local beet - shredded and shaved, handful of local snap peas, 5 raw sundried olives, hemp seeds, black sesame seeds, drizzle of sesame oil, local kelp, local dulse, pink salt

maybe another salad later and probably oranges for a snack.

rawfoodlist @ 2008-07-10T16:12:00

2008-07-10T20:17:58Z

Hi! First time posting, I'm an 18 year old vegan making the switch to 100% raw vegan foods. This is my third day and I think I did fairly well

Breakfast:
1 Banana
8 Strawberries

Lunch:
1 Double stuffed tomato (sunflower seeds, basil, garlic, and sundried tomatoes - recipe from Shazzie's free e-book)

Dinner:
Salad (romaine, tomatoes, red onion, topped with guacamole)

hi

2008-07-10T05:47:35Z

hello.
long story short...
went 100% raw for 70 days once, incredible benefits, fell off hard. been meaning/trying to get back ever since. this year was intended to be all raw, then lots of terrible things happened and i got sidetracked. rather than give up, i've decided to try for as many raw days this year as possible, then try to beat it next year.

anywho, i've been logging my raw days on my own journal so i thought why not here as well. to whit...

Raw 33
-foOod-
smoothie (pinapple, water, spinach, frzn bananas, frzn mixed fruit)
very thick & green and filling =)

walnut/squash/flax crackers with guacamole, tomato & nut. yeast
water

cantelope

cherries

another cracker/guac thing
water

water

another smoothie substantially like the first, with fresh mango replacing the frozen mixed fruit

here's a pic of the cracker thing. it came out a bit salty, and made me very thirsty, but it wasn't bad considering i didn't have to go to the store. =)

today

2008-07-10T05:32:31Z

- 64 oz cantaloupe-strawberry juice
- 12 oz of blueberries (first solids in 42 days!)
- 52 oz celery-cucumber-red pepper-parsley juice
- 32 oz homemade raspberry lemonade

rawfoodlist @ 2008-06-25T19:57:00

2008-06-25T23:59:25Z

yesterday
- 48 oz green grape-spinach-wheatgrass juice

day before
- 48 oz of watermelon-green grape juice

food today

2008-06-24T01:37:08Z

1 cup or so of Peach/Peppermint/Purslane/Bananna & Rainbow Chard smoothie

1 packet ( 2.4 oz) of Livin Spoonful Pumpkin Pesto Flax Crackers (super yum!)

Big Handful of Rainier Cherries
2 radishes & 1 dandelion leaf from yard
Bite of dill pickle (before chucking its softness into the compost)

1 quart Savory GS: Bok Choy, Radish with Tops, celery, cuke, basil, lambsquarters, a few kale leaves, lots of mixed lettuce leaves, young garlic & garlic scapes, pinch of pink himalayan salt, cayenne pepper & schizandra berry steeped kombucha!

rawfoodlist @ 2008-06-21T10:27:00

2008-06-21T14:41:15Z

okay- so i'm just writing to say- i won't be doing rawfoods anymore. well- of course i'll still be eating a lot of raw foods, fruits and veggies are huge staples in my diet and i like eating them raw. but honestly? i do not lose weight on raw foods. i've tried for weeks and have only gained on raw foods. it's pretty band- i was even 100% for a little while. the thing is, when i try to eat 100 or even 80% raw foods, i eat so much and never ever feel satisfied. ever. and being a recovering compulsive over eater i need and crave satisfaction (over satisfaction really). I also need to lose weight. so both combined, gaining weight was not good for me on an almost entirely raw foods diet (keep in mind i do exersize a lot, and hour a day almost every single day of the week PLUS biking or walking, sometimes jog/walking to work and back 5 days a week which adds to 6.6 miles per day= 33 miles/week). I REFUSE to count calories while still being on a raw foods diet, because i know that will throw me into detrimental cycles of binging from restricting waaaay too much. So, i've been off for a little while now and have lost 12lbs just by eating a healthy high protein, high fiber, low calorie (1200-1500 daily, sometime more, sometimes less) diet in the matter of weeks. yeah...but don't get me wrong. i'm glad i experimented with it because it led me to discover a lot of delicious recipes that i'm still using and helped. i'm still keeping this community because it reminds me to be healthy and stay away from processed crap, and also shares recipes that i still use daily. and good luck to everyone staying raw food. i just wanted to share that, although i love raw foods in my diet- i hate having my diet restricted to only raw foods and does not help keep me healthy as it makes me gain weight and feel crappy about myself rather than accomplished. i also can't stand people(NOT in this community, mainly on goneraw.com) who swear every malady on raw foods is "detoxing". Sorry, but if your hair and nails are brittle, that is NOT detoxing- that is your body telling you that you are missing essential nutrients! and the fatigue i got from raw foods was NOT detoxing, it was me not getting enough protein (yes, i was getting amino acids- it was the lack of protein, which also led me to be far less satisfied with what i was eating, or to eat too many nuts which led to further weight gain). this is not some miracle diet that is correct for everyone, and i think everyone needs to listen to their very individual bodies, and follow what works for them. Again- i man not raw foods bashing, i think it's awesome- my body, however, does not like only raw foods...

newww

2008-06-19T16:45:36Z

hey everyone. i have been a vegan on and off for 6 years. lately diet has been poor so decided to jump into raw food. my resources are slightly limited. i do not have blender dehydrator or funds to do the whole creating diverse raw food meals...so im kinda stickin to the basics of fruits and veggies. my problem has been...i allowed myself store bought dressings with the vegetables and i definitely think that it makes a difference. any suggestions on what i could doooo in terms of spicing up salads, broccoli etc...that sticks to RAW ....any raw dressing recipes that arent TOO difficult???

Hi... New to this community!

2008-06-19T16:03:14Z

3 weeks ago, I had a horrible upper respiratory infection and the dr said to build my immune system I would need to go on a raw food diet - even though I've been a vegetarian for most of the past 30 years.

So as I got better and it "clicked" and made sense jumped in with both feet and started my Raw Food Journey. No, I won't be using a dehydrator for my food and will stick to as natural as possible.

It has now been 2 weeks of trial and error but am making considerable progress and feeling much better. I did have one night where I was feeling pretty bad and had hubby stop at not one but 2 fast food places to get my "favorite old comfort as a kid food - cheeseburgers but after eating 3 of them.. was convinced that I will not miss them again. They no longer taste like what I remember and yes.. it took 3.. :) Amazing that on the raw food diet an apple or orange will fill me up. And I hadn't had beef in ages as I don't like the taste of it..

I've been exploring the internet trying to get "ideas" of what to eat and was excited when this community was suggested. I'm very glad you're here as this will help me broaden my eating ideas.

Yesterday.. I had an "orange juice" craving day and ate:
Breakfast: Orange
Snack: Orange - with orange, mango, and peach juice
Lunch: Salad of lettuce, tomato, radishes, red onion, and avocado sprinkled with a little olive oil & some celery with almond butter.
Snack: 2 oranges & some pecans
Supper: 4 dates, some pecans, and raisins

food today

2008-06-17T02:58:20Z

banana
carrot/orange juice
water
nuts
large raw veggie stuffed "spring roll" (wrapper used = lettuce leaf)

Hello everybody

2008-06-17T00:03:57Z

Today all I had was watermelon juice

I am ordering raw food from veggiemunn.com and have been waiting all day for it

today

2008-06-16T02:52:02Z

- 32 oz pineapple-strawberry-baby beet green-baby spinach juice with a tablespoon of wheatgrass powder
- lots of water

yesterday

2008-06-12T12:13:53Z

- 64 oz watermelon juice
- 16 oz carrot-beet-celery-kale-parsley-lemon-ginger juice
- 25 oz orange-parsley juice with msm
- 32 oz sparkling water with lime juice and agave

second day trying raw...I think I did gooood!!

2008-06-12T00:31:47Z

Breakfast:
-Banana
-Apricot

Lunch:
-Homemade guacomole (mashed avocado with onion, lime, tomato, and lots of yummy cilantro) eaten with 5 tortilla chips and then I decided to eat it with romaine lettuce leaves. The romaine was a million times yummier!
-Half a lime...yep, eaten like an orange or something

Afternoon Indulgence:
-Cup of coffee

Afternoon Snack:
-Bowl of Mesa Sunrise and Cheerios cereal with soy milk (not raw!)
-A bunch of red grapes

Dinner:
-Big salad (baby greens, yellow pepper, cucumber, radish, tomato, pumpkin seeds, flax oil, tahini, lime juice)

Evening Snacks:
-Banana
-More grapes

yesterday

2008-06-11T15:23:15Z

- 16 oz apple-celery-spinach juice
- 32 oz watermelon juice
- 32 oz apple-fennel-ginger juice
- 8 oz celery-ginger juice with hemp oil, cayenne and pink salt

(this is the best i can do to keep the board active right now. kind of boring, sorry guys.)