How to Eat Raw Foods

To observe a raw food diet completely is very difficult. I ate raw for a year. It was very obsessive and very antisocial--but in my opinion--very healthy. My eyes were whiter, my skin was clearer, my energy higher. Here are steps for following a raw diet. Add this to my Recipe Box.

Instructions

1

Eat raw foods when possible. A raw diet is a vegan diet in which food is never cooked in over 118-degree heat. Your oven starts at 250, so even remotely warmed food is made in expensive hydrators.

2

Include fruits such as young coconuts and coconut water, nuts, avocadoes, vegetables, dried fruits and vegetables, soaked grains, beans and nut pastes.

3

Be creative. Dehydrate flax seeds and nuts to make crackers and faux pizza or sweet pie crusts. Puree fruits and nuts to fill the pie crusts and use expensive high-powered "vitamix" blenders to puree cauliflower into faux mashed potatoes. Zucchini peels with tomatoes can work as pasta and frozen pureed cocoa and coconut can become ice cream.

4

Eat fresh raw vegetables instead of cooked when possible. At a restaurant, order the salad over the grilled vegetable option. Drink fresh green juices (mixed with fruit).

5

Replace energy bars with raw peanut butter when you crave a snack.