Mmm this week i got my first box of organic fruit & veggies home delivered via Organic & quality foods (http://www.organicfoods.com.au/) upon the recommendation of a couple of friends. And omg you guys, i forgot how *good* fresh, organic fruit & veggies can taste. Real, ripe tomatoes, not sad ones picked months ago before they're ripe, treated with poisons & chemicals that ruin the natural environment around them and in run-off, & pumped full of water to look bigger & better on the shelves of coles (i mostly bough local fruit & veggies from small shops, but i know many ppl get theirs in supermarkets). Investing in my health never tasted & felt so good =).

I made a really yummy raw meal today a (mostly)raw salsa salad nacho type dish. First i prepared a bed of lettuce & cut up some carrot & corn. I then made some sunflower seed 'cheeze' and a simple salsa of tomato, coriander(which you may call cilantro), salt & lemon juice (should've been lime but it will do) which i pulsed real quick in the blender so it was still chunky. And omg that salsa was SO good. I could have just eaten a bowl of that! But instead i enjoyed it with the salad and followed it up with an incredibly creamy & nutritious raw choc-chip vanilla/coconut ice-cream from these folks - http://fromearthandwater.com/services.htm. Yum!

So i'm getting into the swing of being raw now, i'm still eating cooked foods more often than i'd like as i adjust and slowly eat what cooked foods i have left, but i am finding my cravings for them diminish. Especially with green smoothies. They give me plenty of energy for the morning (comparatively, 'cos the cfs means i'm pretty low) and i find they really do make you crave salads. My body is adjusting to healthy, living foods, to eating the way nature intended.

I had a burger and potatoes at the forest on Thursday and honestly i found both to be a little bland. Although i looked forward to and enjoyed the cake i wasn't really looking forward to the cooked food. Once i get a food processor and eventually a dehydrator i'll be able to make raw bread & biscuits & cakes which will satisfy the physical and psychological urges i have for such foods.

I really think i could eat this way for life, whether it helps me a little or is a major factor in my complete healing it's the way i want to be. It's an amazing discovery really, food tastes better, i create less rubbish, and the intimidation and trepidation i felt at eating this way has pretty much given way to complete excitement in the new way of looking at & preparing food & the earth. It's changing my mindset for the better. The only down sides will be when traveling or eating out - boring green salads & fruit platters ahoyhoy :/. But there are ways around that in being prepared and taking supplements. But for now it's not too much of a concern, i just need to be organized and have my green smoothie or similar every morning & to take along prepared raw snacks so i don't get too hungry when out.

I really am enjoying learning all about health issues, hearing about how people have cured their chronic fatigue syndrome or thyroid issues and even depression on raw food diets! There are so many different theories on what to eat too. High fruit diets, people who think greens are where it's at, people who like to dehydrate & those who don't and so on. But i'm testing the waters and seeing what i enjoy and what works for my own unique biochemistry (high protein & more veggies than fruit i think).

I did think about making a filter for these raw entries, but then i thought well if you wanna skip you can. I'd only filter for things like sex-talk, things that might offend people. Keeping track of my progress is more for me than anything, but i figure some of you might be interested in this too =).

To that end this community is active & helpful so join if you're interested and let me know if you do so we can be buddies! It's like a social network site for raw foodies ^-^.
http://www.giveittomeraw.com/
This website has some really wonderful recipes that are quite inspiring, though they do tend to be a little gourmet but they certainly prove how yummy raw food can be. Lots of videos too. http://gliving.tv/greenchefs/
And here is a blog from a raw model who lives in New York. I've enjoyed looking about at his blog there are lots of nice pics, of both the food and him haha ;)
http://rawmodelcom.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html
Enjoy!