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Login Here Signup Here Signup using FacebookHi there! I am trying to incorporate more raw foods into my diet with a vision towards being mostly raw at some stage!!!! any advice about the best way to make a move like this? I was thinking of being raw for 2 meals of the day and to keep dinner cooked – mainly because I value the dinners that i get to sit down to with my partner and he would be EXTREMELY unwilling to give up cooked food at all, let alone meat, cheese and processed carbs which unfortunately are his favourites. (I know, I know. rolls eyes)
So any advice you all could give would be much appreciated!
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Hi Peachy_pie. That’s great! Each persons taste is so individual- it’s hard to say what you’d like but smoothies are good for breakfast or a raw granola, or a “scramble”.
One way to get a two for one solution would be to make one raw side for dinner and then use the leftovers for your breakfast. If you made cinnamon rolls as a dessert for dinner- you could have one with breakfast.
My boyfriend became a lot more open to the idea when I made desserts. =) You can also make a spinach salad with each person adding their own dressing at dinner and then the next morning you could use the spinach in a smoothie or use it for your lunch.
Include a fruit salad at dinner and make a smoothie with it for breakfast.
If you have some more info on what you like to eat that would help. Good luck with everything!
Remember that your choices are abundant on this diet. You can eat a lot or a little. It can work for everyone! And, I mean everyone! You can do this a variety of ways. These steps alone will get you eating about 50% Raw foods and well on your way to superior health.
Here’s One Way to Do It Adding Raw foods to your everyday diet:
Start your day with 16 oz of pure water and a squeeze of fresh lemon juice. Then have a powerful, nutrient-packed green juice, or make a nutritiously rockin’ smoothie made with fresh greens such as kale and fruit such as apples.
Begin lunches and dinners with a salad and some fresh delicious homemade Raw dressing, maybe dress the salad up with avocado or soaked nuts/seeds. Another option is to have Raw soup as a starter before your meal.
If you snack, eat fresh fruit or raw vegetable sticks, and/or drink fresh, powerful nutrient-packed green juices or smoothies as between meal snacks instead of other snacks. Drink pure water between meals.
Obviously, reducing or eliminating unhealthy foods from your diet: Start by reducing or eliminating junk food, packaged snacks, fried foods, caffeine, alcohol, white sugar, and white flour. Here is the first step: Go through your cabinets and just throw them away. Don’t say, “I’ll just eat these but not replace them,” actually toss them out. Ceremoniously, if you like. Your life is about to change.
Then reduce or eliminate animal products, especially red meat and pasteurized dairy products. Then reduce or eliminate cooked starches, especially wheat.
Another Way to Do It (This is the way that I found worked best for me.)
Start out by picking just one day a week to eat 100% Raw. You’ll see how easy it is and how amazing you feel that you’ll be excited to do that more than one day a week, maybe two to three days.
After that, you start increasing to one week straight, then two weeks, then up to a month (leaving a little wiggle room here and there, for times you just “can’t” do it, perhaps due to social situations). Just find what works for you. The reason this plan worked better for me, as opposed to the method described above for gradually adding Raw food into each day’s diet, was that I was finding it too hard to give up the addictive cooked food. I found that, if I had even just a little bit of cooked food in the course of a day, it was a slippery slope