For a while now, & even though I use it to describe myself, I've been bothered by the term 'raw foodist'. This breaks down to three main reasons: It implies that I only eat raw foods (ie, I'm 100% — & possibly militant about it at that) It misses the whole point of raw (more on …
September 30, 2008 – 01:41
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By Si
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Posted in raw
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A week or so ago I got rid of my final cooked food addiction… or so I thought. I'd been reading a really interesting thread on Give It To Me Raw about being addicted to cooked food. At the time I was eating all raw.. except for going out for hot chips, ohhh, 2 or …
September 17, 2008 – 10:39
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By Si
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Posted in healing, raw
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I decided a sunny Saturday afternoon was the perfect time to try durian. I'd had a small bite of one before, but was now determined to try the whole thing. Choosing, buying, opening & hopefully having enough nerve to actually eat one. I steeled myself to the distinct possibility of getting part way in & …
September 16, 2008 – 11:48
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By Si
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Posted in raw
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Last night about 9pm I had a fruit salad. It was tasty. What wasn't so clever was putting raw chocolate sauce on it (cacao powder, coconut oil, raw honey). I went to sleep around 1–1:30ish. At 3:30 I woke up, wide awake, and could NOT get back to sleep. Ok, so cacao late at night = bad …
August 19, 2008 – 13:19
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By Si
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Posted in home, raw
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Seriously, is there anything more beautiful than this? Pic © Dean Fidelman I've always loved bouldering for its simplicity. No ropes, no harnesses, no gear. Just you, your shoes, maybe a chalk bag.. and the rock. Never going high enough that a fall is likely to kill, but still adrenaline & lactic acid pumping hard enough …
I'm coming to the conclusion that the closer a food is to being alive, the better it is for us to eat it — no ground breaking realisations here of course — just important to realise these things for oneself. The antithesis of this being: the more processed, complexly combined & further from this natural …
July 14, 2008 – 23:49
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By Si
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Posted in health, raw
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Ok, so everyone knows spirulina is good for you. But so many brands taste like ass (uhh, ok, not exactly like ass). What to do, what to do? Well, I've finally found a way (other than the obvious, masking it in smoothies, with tons of fruit, or, you know, buying all the brands out there till you …
July 11, 2008 – 04:02
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By Si
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Posted in health, raw
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I'm seeing more & more recipes that need a food processor — but my kitchen is only big enough for midgets (or two regular people if one of them stands on the bench) I already have a juicer & blender (that both see a lot of use). Between them they already take up half my bench …
July 3, 2008 – 02:10
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By Si
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Posted in home, raw
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First of all — a disclaimer. I ain't a juice feastin' expert. I can only talk about my own experience. And so I shall! Ok, some background — why did I do a juice feast in the first place? Spiritual clarity, essentially. In the process of weeding my emotional garden, I knew that the lighter my …
Going on a 30 something day juice feast totally kicked my ass. I admit it. I was miserable pretty much the entire time. Worse though was afterwards. I decided to finish by going from juice onto a 4 day water fast (which was easier, oddly). That was ok. However, once the transition back to normal food …
