Raw and delicious!
Amanda, THANK YOU so much for loaning me your VitaMix while you’re in New Zealand. So far ive ventured out and created a yummy peach and spinach raw smoothy!!!! It was SO good…don’t be thrown off by the spinach, you could hardly taste that it was there. Check out some of these recipes!!!
Dehydration party! Bananas, blueberries, pears!
So ive done The Zone, ive read the Omnivore’s Dilemna, seen Food Inc and Fast Food Nation and its hard to really believe that i used to eat the way i did, and that people still eat the way they do! I guess when you don’t know any better then all you can do is hope and pray that the powers that be are putting the right goods on your plate and on the shelves right? Riiiiiight. Im still not perfect, but am at least aware now and im working to find the right balance. We are all pretty much captive to the marketing the dairy industry puts into our text books (The food pyramid) and paralyzed by the food distributors and farming industry right? Wrong. Long story short, i never felt better since reading some of the more recent selections from my Amazon Wishlist. Victoria Boutenko’s “12 Steps to Raw Food” opened a whole new chapter and gave me a new perspective… eating raw isn’t just another fad diet, its a way of life. Ask yourself, “why do i eat?” Survival? Socially? Emotionally? What function does food really serve? Right, survival. But the reality is that now that we don’t ONLY have to depend on food for survival, we get to enjoy it with friends socially, for work meetings, for straight up pleasure and so on. If that is the path that we’ve chosen, then we really need to consider what it is that we are dumping into our systems and thinking about the long term effects and benefits of the goods that we consume. Sure, go eat socially, but maybe think about how you are going to eat socially. And if you’re in an industry and role such as i am, i think you’ll find that it can be a challenge. Its not impossible, it really just takes a little education, planning and some time. I may not ever aim to eat raw 100%, but i think that im going to really enjoy it, and any little thing that i can do to treat my body extra special, i think i owe it to myself.
