Listen to Raw Talk

I just had the good fortune to hear Rhio with Guest: Felicia Drury Kliment, author of The Acid Alkaline Balance Diet, on the topic of: Acid Alkaline Balance
There was so much information in this radio show that I found myself taking notes. With so many raw food books yet to read (I just ordered her [...]

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The (seeming lack of) Research on Raw

Why do so many of the core Raw reads quote research from 1930 and before? It is typical of what I have found so far. Is there just so little work being done now? Are rawfoodists just so incredibly relaxed by the diet that they just don’t seek scientific research to support it? Is it [...]

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Why eat RAW (rawfoodinfo.com)?

This is brilliant and from rawfoodinfo.com She wrote a raw famous book Hooked on Raw:
“WHAT ARE SOME OF THE KNOWN DIFFERENCES?
Cooked foods cannot create true health because they are missing some very vital elements needed by the body for its optimal functioning; things like enzymes, oxygen, hormones, phytochemicals, bio-electrical energy and life-force. When foods are [...]

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Freedom in Overcoming a Food Addiction Goes Beyond Food

Once you become in the drivers seat about one thing, once you find yourself there you begin to realize this control and confidence entering into other areas in your life. You realize yourself capable and begin walking toward other parts of your life. We all have answers that will help us just sitting in us…they [...]

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Check out RawReform.com

She has just come off a whopping juice “feast” and this video link is her first day breaking the fast. Since she went raw a few years ago she has lost 160 lbs. That is awesome! Good for her, I encourage you to check out the lovely video.

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Bare Bones Kitchen

Bare bones, and I mean bare bones as in I am just getting started bare bones: knives, cutting boards, measuring cups and spoons, big bowls (at least one that is the biggest one you can find, I like white plastic – they are light and you can see everything that is in there, a quality [...]

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Is It Extreme To Go Raw?

No. It is not extreme to eat the way most humans ate throughout most of human history, which includes millions of years before we discovered fire. It isn’t until conventional ovens and huge processing plants and traveling food that nearly all of our food ends up cooked in the average diet.
Is it extreme to [...]

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Sprouting and Fermenting oh my!

This weekend I made many discoveries reading and cooking from Living Cuisine (see my book reviews). Eventually I will be looking for primary sources for claims this book like so many make without footnoting. Eat to Live, by the way has pages of excellent primary resources noted. But this weekend I was enjoying and [...]

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Which Came First the Excercise Program or the Diet?

Whatever inspires you most first! If you get to do both at once do that.
If you are choosing to focus on one first, start with the diet. I know people who run the iron man who know next to nothing about the quality and bioavailability of the foods they are regularly putting into their [...]

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Opening a Coconut

If anybody has any better ideas out there let me know. Here is the best I have found: Put it on a towel on a hard floor (like a concrete basement floor), use a drill or nail punch and hammer to punch out “eyes”, pour out the liquid into a glass. Take the hammer and [...]

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Dehydrators keep seeds Vital

The enzymes of the seeds are kept alive using dehydrators, here is a quote from the Living Cuisine book (see book reviews):
“My personal experience with this involved cleaning the bottom of a dehydrator and shaking the crumbs from flax crackers that had whole flaxseeds in them outside onto a flower bed. A few days later, [...]

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Curry Coconut Soup

Blend fresh coconut meat and coconut water or
one can of coconut milk
1 tbl of Hot curry paste
1 tbl of nama shoyu (raw soy sauce)
1/2 cup fresh orange juice
1 tbl of grated ginger
1 tbl of parsely and/or lemongrass if available
1/4 cup water to lighten
Voila, delish
It is creamy and overly delicious so think portion control.

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Compassionately raw

You don’t accidentally go raw, the way you can accidentally go vegetarian…I remember when I first quit eating dead cows in 1987 a few months later I discovered I couldn’t even digest it anymore. Turned out my body really never wanted it and that was an easy choice to never go back, almost like a [...]

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Check out RawRob.com

Funny short video post on Feb 7, see category fun or just scroll down and look for the lovely chap with the wig (nickname “Beardyman”), and podcast of David Wolfe that I was very glad to see. David Wolfe is very much about people doing what works for them without all the rules and shame/blame [...]

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Get There One Raw Walnut at a time

Find the raw foods you love and eat them. Keep it simple for yourself and enjoyable. Find a Raw Recipe book you love. Experiment. Anyone finding some good pathways out there? I am anxious to find a new Raw Recipe book.

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The Produce Aisle

Found an old journal entry from Sept 2006:

Yesterday I ate all fruits and vegetables except for a little rice. I also went to the grocery store and after pulling stuff out of the produce aisle for about 20 minutes I headed to other aisles only to realize there really wasn’t anything else I needed or [...]

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Quitting Coffee and Bigger Fish to Not Fry

Well the coffee quitting led to more eating and increasing cooked foods. I remembered how I started up the habit again last year, I was losing the extra 25 pounds I had sitting on my lungs, my thighs, my whole body, just fat. A Iced American in the afternoon helped and apparently it still does. [...]

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Listen to the Chains falling on the floor all around us

Just reading the raw food blogs increases the likelihood you have and will experience the freedom that an increased raw food diet is. The feeling of just losing 20 pounds for a mildly overweight person is a lighter chest, deeper and easier breathing, the ability to stretch and release the stress on your body. Then [...]

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Salad with Garbonzo layer recipe

Layer a dish with mashed garbanzo beans or garbanzo sprouts, on top put this mixture after tossing it together: spinach (4 cups), olive oil (1/4 cup), one avocado, tomatoes; fresh cilantro, parsley and basil (1/2 cup each), two sliced zucchinis. All credit for this recipe goes to Living Cuisine (see my book reviews). I am [...]

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Weekend Raw Food Extravaganza

Getting snowed in has its attributes. One of them is being obliged to do projects at home. I am looking forward to hitting the store before the storm, heaping in tons of vegetables and covering the counters in the kitchen with their beautiful colors. Maybe listening to talk radio…hopefully the recipe discoveries I will discover [...]

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Get Your RAW Wear!

I am having so much fun coming up with raw slogins for t-shirts, coasters, etc. If you have any ideas you would like to see there let me know. Here is MyRawFoodBlog Storefront. And just for fun I started a my art storefront as well. Any variations you may desire are simple to produce. Have [...]

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Why eat RAW (livingfoods.com)?

This is from Livingfoods.com:
“The first thing that is lost when you cook something is its’ water content. Our bodies are between 60% and 70% water. Vegetables and fruits are loaded with water, and it is structured water that better facilitates our biological processes. Cooking denatures the proteins in our food, rendering them harder to digest [...]

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The MyRawFoodBlog.com first RAW FOOD CHALLENGE

The first Raw Food Challenge will be my first day going 100% raw. Not even a hairy cup of coffee will pass through my lips at that time. Raw for a day. I will start with eliminating one meal at a time. The first two, breakfast and lunch will not be that big of a [...]

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Completely Caffeinated

That is me, acidic and caffeinated and it has just occured to me it is time to start up the let me quit espresso campaign again. In many ways I am among the least gifted at leading this campaign because I have run it many times over the past 10+ years and right now I [...]

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Is Drinking Tea going off the Raw diet?

This was my question too! Here is Shazzie’s most excellent answer! Found via shazzie.com Excellent Site! I am a fan, she is quickly becoming my raw food guru.
Here is her answer:
6th February 2007
This is a great question and one that I’m often asked. If you visited my house, you’d see a whole cupboard devoted to [...]

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Simple Definition of Raw Foodist

Of course it is absurd to try to fit this group of brilliant individuals into a catagory (other than brilliant, you can fit them there of course) and yet this site has had good and simple success and is just such a pleasure to visit:

Detox Your World
Enjoy – Rawfoodism defined, she has a [...]

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Heating Gently

When you wake up in the morning and it is -16 outside with a prospect of a high that day of -8, the idea of never eating any heated foods is an especially hard sell. However on the coldest day in the past 11 years we were enjoying a delicious raw recipe for lunch, it [...]

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It is about the Process

Upon approaching cutting up 3 lbs. of carrots for a recipe I realized, spending time making food is about the process. What chef would do it otherwise? It is about looking with an open mind to each sound and color and smell with open curiosity taking in all aspects of the experience like a meditation. [...]

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Recipes to Replace Cravings

It does happen that you discover a new recipe that eliminates your craving for a particular food. Have you had any experience like this? The book Living Cuisine has helped me discover quite a few beautiful alternatives (see my book reviews).

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GERD Increased by Even Moderate Weight Gain

“Even moderate weight gain among persons of normal weight may cause or exacerbate symptoms of reflux.” See Pubmed for the research journal article.

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Peel your fruit with grace and ease

This is one of my favorite tools in the kitchen. See it at the

pampered chef
it is called the pampered chef citrus peeler. We LOVE ours and use them often.
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What is in my fridge?

I am discovering complicated raw dishes are great for occasions and that most of all I like food very simple. Here are the ingredients I most often find myself using:
fresh lemon juice, fresh ginger, cups of raw nuts and seeds, Udo’s oil, flax seed oil, soy sauce (raw soy sauce is nama shoyu), raw [...]

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Miso Soup

It is so simple. Miso is a typically soy paste found in a chilled section of a grocery. Miso is a food that has stood the test of time for thousands of years.
4 cups of water
2 tbl. of miso
1 tbl. olive or sesame oil
1 tbl. soy sauce
2 tbl. of fresh grated ginger
As you [...]

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What percentage of RAW do you eat?

One start me that has occured to me is challenging yourself to eat primarily raw food at each meal and snack. People define rawfoodist as someone who eats primarily raw food, generally it is that you eat more raw than anything else. Anyway have a go at that concept, primarily raw, the largest percentage of [...]

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What are you eating?

One of the most important tools I have found so far in my journey towards rawfood and vegan diets is fitday.com. Here you can type in what you eat daily and run reports on nutrition goals. This site made me aware in a very clear way of a vitamin B shortage I was getting in [...]

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Calories of Raw vs. Cooked

Holy cow! What a difference cooking makes. A not good difference to your waist and waste (raw vegetables are the best way to keep you regular). The point I want to make is one my mom made to me a long time ago. A cooked mashed cup of zucchini is 38 calories. A large raw [...]

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The Longevity Diet

Click here for more book reviews on this book The Longevity Diet
This book was a disappointment. When you look at the podcasts of these geeky intense scientists with their graphs at the CR conferences you expect more science from this book. I believe this is a field that is still about to take off.

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Vegan Living

Click here for more book reviews on this book Vegan Living
The most comprehensive book on Vegan living I have found. As with any real vegan community it is not all about health it is political and about animal rights and compassion.

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Living Among Meat Eaters

Click here to see more reviews of this book Living Among Meat Eaters
Going home to the family? Bolster yourself with Carol J. Adams kind intentions and philosophy, it works.

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Fats that Heal Fats that Kill

Click here for more reviews of this book Fats that Heal Fats that Kill
This book is full of molecule drawings. He invented manufacturing processes to protect flaxseed oil in production and creates a fantastic product. This book really helps you understand the biological nature of fats and why they are important for our nutrition. He [...]

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Conscious Eating

Click here to see more book reviews Conscious Eating
This is a huge book, I wish it referenced newer experiments. It is an enjoyable read. This author is considered one of the foremost authorities. This book’s heart is on theory and why people go raw.

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Living Cuisine

Click here to see more book reviews Living Cuisine
In addition to having a food index full of interesting information (ie., did you know figs have flowers inside them?) this has the most incredible, delicious, do able recipes I have found. The focus is on great combinations with whole foods rather than on lots of dehydration [...]

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Fit for Life

Click here see more book reviews Fit for Life
This book is not an excellent resource, although it is great at breaking down some of the myths around vegetarianism and the american breakfast. Through this book I began to experiment with fruit only breakfasts. It makes you laugh by asking you when you ever or anyone [...]

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Eat to Live

Click here to see more book reviews Eat to Live
This book is full of science. He has years of experience and his references include pages of footnotes noting medical journals. If you would like inspiration and reason why to eat more raw food, this is your book.

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Raw Food Start Me Ups

Now I am collecting ideas for raw food start me ups or challenges. The first one I have found is the Epiphany diet via rawtimes. This one sounds very exciting! You get to eat as much as you want as long as it is raw. I would think I would gain some calories but feel [...]

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About This Site

About This Site
Welcome to MyRawFoodBlog.com, This raw food endeavor will be a support and information place for those of us (me!) joining/being the rawfood movement, for all of the reasons we might do that. Proposed questions and ideas will be the subject of posts, as well as articles and great discoveries.
This site is about [...]

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