eating/recipe

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Thanks, Attila, that's very true & insightful. Each of us has

a different experience. I've been asked this question many times,

so I looked up one of the responses that I wrote recently to someone who

emailed me. I've been told by other raw fooders that this is similar

to their experiences, so I'll paste it below, Monte, in hopes it will prove

helpful.

Nora

 

Let me give you a typical day, say 0-5 months into being raw:

Morning, 8-9 a.m. (tried to put off eating longer,

but still haven't

conquered that one): a large smoothie consisting of frozen

bananas, dates, almond milk.

Mid-day, 11:00-11:30 (had to have a big meal before

heading out for

my day's work): either a large salad with greens, tomatoes, avocados,

sunflower seeds or pine nuts and seed/nut-based dressing (lots), or

sunflower seed pate (recipe in Raw Gourmet by Nomi Shannon) with

carrots, cucumbers, celery and radishes for dipping.

Afternoon: I drive about 4 hours each day,

so I'd have bananas or

dates and almonds, or raisins and almonds (yikes, bad combos) while

driving, or in the beginning I'd always have flax crackers on hand

or dried

almonds that had been marinated in nama shoyu (addictive, be warned).

Evening: Usually, around 5 or so I'd have

strawberry/macadamia/date

"cream" (resembled yogurt) with apples for dipping, or almond butter

spread thickly on apple slices, or sometimes I'd have green juice (kale

or lettuce, celery, tomatoes, apples) and/or flax crackers (recipe

in

Raw Power). If I got hungry later on, I'd have more of any of

the above.

What I did basically was try lots of different recipes

in the beginning and settle on a half dozen or so that I really

loved. I ate them whenever I wanted, and in whatever quantities

necessary to satisfy. I also ate things that had been favorites

for

years like salads and smoothies, as when I ate those things I

could forget about going raw and feel normal again! Most

importantly, I didn't limit myself. I wanted to enjoy that feeling

of being able to eat till I was full without guilt, and I knew I would

weaken if I tried to just endure the hunger. Eating my fill without

guilt was my compensation for feelings of deprivation for having to

live without without cooked food!

After about a year of being raw, I was still eating

things like

almond milk and bananas together, or apples and almond butter.

But

ultimately I had to give this up, as my body became stronger and had

the

renewed vitality to inform me that it was the wrong thing to do (nuts

and fruits are not friends, digestively speaking). When this

happened I

just switched from making smoothies with almond milk to coconut water.

Eventually I found that I no longer wanted smoothies at all.

I think I've

had one smoothie in the last year, which is really remarkable considering

they had been a staple of my diet for 13 years or so. This is

just

one example of how leaving unhealthy things behind seems to be almost

effortless, even though you imagine you'll never be able to give them

up. At least that's been my experience. I also found that

eating

nuts and other concentrated foods (like dried fruit and avocados) drained

me of energy if I ate them during the day, so I eventually had to start

eating

only fruit and greens until evening.

Now I eat much more simply. I usually have

juicy fruit in the

morning (melon in summer, citrus in winter), more fruit at lunch time

(right now I'm eating lots of persimmons), but I also eat whatever's

in season or have blended coconuts (water and meat blended in

a Vitamix) or durian (also blended so I can eat it while driving, yes,

I'm bad). When I get home in the afternoon I have green juice

or more

fruit, then I have either greens and nuts in the evening or a salad.

Lately

I've slipped a bit as I invented a new salad dressing, which I had

given up

previously. As combinations go, it's not bad, and I find that

it leaves me

feeling less sluggish the next day compared to when I eat nuts.

Sunflower Seed dressing/pate

1 cup sunflower seeds

1/2 cup lemon juice

1/2-1 cup arugula, to taste

6 radishes

1/4 cup cilantro or sorrel

Blend in Vitamix. Make thickly to use as a dip for celery sticks,

add water for a dressing over salad greens.

 

 

 

 

 

 

attila madaras wrote:

> So what does everyone eat on a typical day? Does

it

> vary a lot, or

> more routine? How often do you eat (on average)?

>

>

>

everyone starts with a various,

complicated

sense of creativity ... but that gets simpler

as one "matures" into the new lifestyle ...

that is "typical" to each and every one according

to one's typical physical , genetical, historical

habitual, seasonal, geografical,spiritual

constitution... yes, it varies a lot in the

beginning, and then it gets more unimportant

what one eats, how many times one eats, ie. it

becomes a routine, just like anything else in

life similar in character ... this takes someone

six month to arrive at, while others need six

years ... people with a well structured

,

better grounded, more stable , more reality

oriented input with a strong,healthy selfesteem

integrate easier the new idea and act on it

more naturally ... others with a more "troubled"

background will have more things to deal with at

the same time , like multiple addictions ,

shortrange kind of thinking method, overemotio-

nalism in their approach to reality and facts ...

many, many factors ... and this is why it is

almost impossible to give you an "average", a

"cross-section" , or a typical recipe ...however

one should be clear about why one is doing it ...

how important it is in one's life ie. where does

a radical change in lifestyle such as this fit in

the scale of one's value system ... because this

is not a change in diet, this is an overall change

in lifestyle, very radical, very different,

very worth the effort to experience it, regardless

of the outcome ... there is a whole lot to

learn...

and a fantastic and funny way of growing...attila

 

 

 

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