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By admin, January 27, 2010

What does it mean to “be raw“?  Does it mean only eating food that is uncooked, or how about eating at least most of your food this way?   Many “raw foodists” have wildly differing opinions on this simple definition.

To Be Raw, to me, means eating the majority of your calories uncooked.   Why would someone do this? You might ask… there is no simple answer for this simple question.  In a few words eating your food without cooking it can have dramatic effects on your health. These effects can only be seen as good, as long as you are getting enough calories to sustain good energy levels.

I have gone through periods where I could not get enough raw food into my system because I didn’t really want to.  I feel like this is a sustainable option only for a specific set amount of time.  Look at it more as a raw food cleanse, and less as a raw food diet. It is perfectly fine to lessen the amount of calories you intake for a specific period, but it is highly unlikely that you will keep your enthusiasum up if you don’t have some great food to look forward to.

Speaking of great food, there are plenty of options for the raw foodist to have an amazing meal.  I’ve made some pretty dynamite raw enchiladas and raw salsa and chips from a recipe book called The Top Rawmen.  I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to get into gourmet raw food.   When my wife and I whipped up a batch of zuchini hummus we ate an entire tub of this stuff dipping everything we could find into it!  Kale, carrots, lettuce, jicama root, celery, bell peppers, the list goes on.

Sometimes an amazing meal can be as simple as some incredible seed cheeze and a gorgeous red bell pepper!  The tastes of living, juice filled, fruits and vegetables can’t be beat!

So to be raw is more about your relationship with the food you eat, rather than worrying about the amount of raw food you consume.  Raw food has become quite the fad diet these days, but I don’t really mind that because, it’s so unlike any “diet” anyone will ever get on.  It can’t even be classified as a diet, to me.  It’s more of a “livit” than a diet!  You eat living food, it should be called livit! We’ll leave the diets to people who think they can stay healthy eating mostly dead food!