Juicy!

So the diet of raw fruit and veg has been going pretty well and now that there's so much fruit and veg piled up in the kitchen Bec suggested we buy a juicer.  Lots of nice fresh carrot juice and apple juice and of course I like to experiment and make some concoctions based on what I can find lying around.  In doing this I have discovered that 

-too much red onion ruins a nice juice

-juicing raw beetroot is nice but the look of blood stained hands is not so professional at work when you can't clean your hands

-The temptation to add a few shots of rum creates some tasty cocktails but convinced that 'it's healthy so it's okay' the measures of rum tend to be a bit too generous

RAW

Having not made a post for a week or two since my announcement of a vegan raw food diet, readers of my blog have been concerned that I have wasted away and collapsed in a heap of malnutrition.  Well the news to report back is quite the opposite!  I feel great! eating 100% raw has proved quite difficult and so after a couple of days it became more like 75% mainly due to my weakness for bread but also found I needed to cook up a bit of rice, pasta and potatoes.  If I've stuck to mostly raw then 15-20 portions of fruit and veg a day is easily consumed and on some days more if I've been playing with the new juicer we bought.  Being a veggie I think about what I eat anyway but since the emphasis on raw I feel I've got a bit more energy, I concentrate better at work, feel less tired and my insides feel clean like they've been flushed out which makes sense when I think about it because I've been pooing more frequently now (if that's possible).

So the usual confused question from the meat eaters is always "but what do you eat???" while they visualise me grazing on grass in the back garden, Well I eat fruit and vegetables and lots of them, gotta go now, think i need a poo.....

Tree Hugger

I don't feel like I get enough banter from my friends for being vegetarian anymore, they've become desensitised and even when eating out or at parties and bbq's the jokes dry up a lot quicker than they used to, so having been vegetarian for 5 years or so now maybe it's time to become a raw food vegan!  Yes, I've started on a week of eating raw fruit and raw vegetables only, to see how it goes.  So that means no processed food, no cooked food, no dairy products, just nice fresh fruit and veg.  Maybe this will get friends and family shaking their heads and asking the usual stupid questions like "but what do you eat?" and "I bet you still like the smell of bacon, do you crave a bacon butty sometimes?"

Here's a short article on the benefits of a raw food diet I found which saves me writing it myself
http://zenhabits.net/10-reasons-eating-raw-is-healthier-for-you-and-the-planet/

Maybe read this one too
http://www.naturalnews.com/026553_raw_food_colon_health.html

and this
http://www.naturalnews.com/025741_food_foods_diet.html

there's lots of stories about raw food diets helping cure cancer or reverse diabetes, here's one about a couple in their 60's who powered by a raw fruit and veg diet ran a marathon every single day in 2013
http://www.examiner.com/article/elderly-couple-credits-vegan-raw-food-diet-for-their-daily-marathon-regime

Happy tree hugging! x