About This Site
Welcome to MyRawFoodBlog, this raw food endeavor is a support and information place for those of us (me!) joining/being the rawfood movement, for all of the reasons we might do that. The focus of this blog is the effects of eating over half of ones calories from raw veggies and fruits. Rawfoodism has helped me be more intelligent about heating vegetables when I do cook (i.e., using more moisture, less cook time, lower heat, and containing the cooked fluids in a soup all reduce loss of nutrients). Most of all rawfoodism is about discovering new ways to increase the amount of raw greens in the diet (exquisitely delicious salads, marinades, smoothies, pates, cold soups, dressings, desserts, etc.). Using fruits as sweeteners and nuts and seeds as fats raw recipes transform your palate away from the American diet with ease.
The idea is that I wanted a place to keep notes, favorite videos, recipes, etc.
If I come across a neat way to increase success, you’ll read about it here. If others would like to follow along for the ride, that’s great. I think what we eat affects us all, and hopefully we’ll learn from each other and meet up at a whole foods wellness retreat in Hawaii some day.
Agree with me? Disagree? Leave a comment! Comments are an encouraged part of this site. We are all learning from each other. A lot of the inspiration for this blog comes from great people in my life, reading health food books, and other sites. I am not a professional writer or health professional of any kind.
I do want to share this experience because going raw has helped me. Years ago I solved migraine and digestive problems all by going more raw and dairy free. The more I do it the more the problems are solved, so I keep exploring and invite you to join me.
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Last Updated: 7/4/2009
First published: 4/6/2007
Hi- I’ve been reading your blog and I thought you and your readers might be interested in hearing about “Raw For Life” which is a 2 disc dvd set that covers how to go raw and stay raw.
Check out http://www.rawfor30days.com for more info. I think this would be of great interest to your readers.
Hope all is well!
Josh
Healing, going raw, and much more will be highlighted in perhaps the most intense raw food presentation in the mainstream when “There Is A Cure For Diabetes” has its event first in Miami this weekend, and then in downtown New York City.
The special NYC event has all the information and advance tickets for $20 including the book and signing at:
http://www.21daycure.com.
The Miami and the rest of the tour details are at:
http://www.treeoflife.nu/gabrielontour
Gabriel Cousens, M.D., the author of this new book “There Is A Cure for Diabetes” and many other books for 35 years, is the director of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in the mountainous high desert live food training and awakening center of Patagonia, AZ.
To our live vibrant health and deep joy!
Elizabeth,
I love your blog! Your writing style is terrific and the topics you cover and information you provide truly amazing.
I thought you and your readers might also be interested in reading my groundbreaking raw food book called “Eating for Energy” which can be found at…
http://www.EatingforEnergy.ca
Let me know if I can send you a copy.
Yuri
p.s. keep up the great work. You’re truly an inspiration
Hi Elizabeth,
I came across your blog from Blogged and am really happy I did so! Everything here is so great and I’m sure you’d love to share your experiences with as many people as possible!
If you have a minute I’d encourage you to stop by http://rawfoodsdiet.wetpaint.com/ to see how your passion is catching on in a community here with hundreds more. The site is a wiki site where anyone who visits the site can contribute to it, from experience to recipe & restaurant recommendations for fellow raw foodists. I’m sure everyone on the site would love to hear from you, and who knows, maybe they have some insights that could be pretty interesting to you!
Thanks, and keep up the good work!
Devin – dhughes@wetpaint.com
Another great migraine article! I always like read your blog so I always come back for more.
I have only just come across your BLOG and I was googling for months before I decided to endure a 6-month RAW experiment with GP’s and naturopaths. Now that I have found you I am n shock that our BLOGS are so similar- we have even chosen the same template- ironic- anyway please give me as much advice as possible, and I might change my template so i don’t look like I’m copying you, I find your BLOG amazing; so much so that I have become slightly disheartened, you have so many followers.
Hi Shannon,
You are very kind, thank you so much. Well it is no problem that our have the same theme. We have great taste don’t we! Literally! Congratulations on your adventure in Raw food land, I am so happy you decided to write a blog – good for you! Clearly a book needs to be written, maybe you can do that too! If you are looking for followers you will find them I am certain – this field is just getting ready to take off and there is not much on it out there. This field has a real need for writers.
Elizabeth,
I would LOVE to write a book. I am trying to make a doco of this experiment- a ’supersize me in reverse’ it’s harder to get noticed I think in Australia. I wonder what genre the book should be? Academic? Funny? A memoir? I read one about a lady that cooked every meal in a French cook book over a year,but I don’t think I could fit a whole book full of RAW story. I’ll try- I have had a few articles published- Anyway, today I trialled RAW and only ate carrot and mandarin and apple so I need to google some menu plans so better go and plan the next 6 months- Thank you for your reply.
Shannon
Hoorah! Shannon I am already looking forward to reading your book! Maybe you could get offered a book deal. Wishing you the best, Elizabeth
Hi,
you’re using my image http://www.flickr.com/photos/elementalpaul/399265635/ without my permission on your post dated May 17, 2007.
I’m flattered you like my work but I always think it’s polite to ask before using images. The photograph in question should link back to Flickr and be marked as © All rights reserved.
Thanks
Paul Davidson
Dear Paul,
I really do apologize. I will take it off right away, please forgive. Many flickr photos are free to use and I must have mistook yours for one of those.