Any raw fooders out there? - Page 5

[3littlesweeties]

hehe! :LOL Andrea, if you are overposting...so am I!

Welcome Diana!
I am BF too. :infant: I have a 4 month old! As you have probably read from my posts, I tried to go 100% right away and my detox was scary, so I ate sme cereal or something that evening and it stoped the detox. Because I already went out and bought enough stuff for a few recipies I still made them and found myself, with the help of the nice mama's on this board, eating mostly raw without really trying to hard. Then I was feeling great!!!

Day 4 I had a slight headache and realized I wasn't drinking enough water. So I drank 2 liters and felt fine.

I continue to struggle with 100% though. I want to do it because I didn't have that afternoon lull in my day where I could take a nap yesterday!
The detox is pretty much over.... Oh GREAT NEWS!! My taste buds have seriously changed!!!! I tried to eat some Rice Dream ice cream (Obviously my downfall) and It did not taste good!! I was almost bummed!! I am just amazed at how wonderfully flavorful fresh fruiys and veggies are!!!

Again, Welcome Diana and let us know what you think!!

Nicole

[Delight]

Recipe copyright

Hi all...
Just a quick reminder about posting recipes that are not your own. Here is the official Mothering statement about it:

Since the question was posed about copyright related to recipes we did a bit of checking to find out what the actual law is. You can read the US Copyright Office full document here: http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl122.pdf

Basically what we understand from it is that you can list the ingredients of a recipe but you must word the directions yourself. So please post recipes accordingly. Please do not cut and paste a complete recipe with it's directions without getting permission to reproduce from the copyright owner and placing that in your post.

Just want to make sure we are following the rules I know the broccoli soup is Alissa's...so maybe if you email her and get permission to post it, you wouldn't have to change it. Thanks!

[3littlesweeties]

Oh, thank you Sara,
I really forgot about that! I e-mailed her and asked her permission. Do I post it here when I get it?
Thanks,
Nicole

[ComaWhite]

my recipes are all made up, so no worries here.

[shaper]

Originally Posted by quidditchmom

I'm still reading through all of the posts on this thread, but I have a couple of questions for you all. Is it safe to 'go raw' when you're breastfeeding? Also, is it safe for young children? I've been considering making the transition, just because I know that I feel better on days when all I eat is fruits and vegetables and it seems alot easier. Also, I've been having a hard time losing weight since my baby was born (almost 10 months ago and I've lost none except what was lost in labor ). I am bfing, but I think he's probably starting to get most of his nutrients from food because he's been cutting back on the bfing lately. If I did this, I would be planning to go slowly myself, and I'm sure that I would be giving all three of my kids more fruits and veggies or smoothies or anything else I try to make. Is that ok? I mean I know it's ok for them to have fruits and veggies, but would it be ok if they got to the point they were mostly raw or would it be bad for them?

I personally think that raw is the best thing to do for your kids. My son is 10 months as well (11 now??) and I've been "transitioning" for the last year and a half. It's only starting to really click just lately. Raw is a giant step forward from any diet, imo, and perfectly safe. There's a lot of fear out there though - I wrote this essay here:
transitioning while nursing

The whole webpage isn't up yet - I plan on making a good resource for mother's going raw while nursing/pregnant but there's still a lot of work to do on it. Still, I thought I'd give you guys a sneak peek because a lot of people here are probably concerned about this.

I also put up a story of another woman's transition overnight with a 1 yr old son. I have her permission to publish it online. If any of you are on the yahoo group "RawSchool" you may have seen it already..
April's story

Please let me know if there's any gaping holes or inaccuracies in my essay - it's been a LONG time since ive written anything. also, if anyone wants to contribute anything - stories, photos, articles - whatever - thatd be great too. thanks

[Delight]

Regarding "permissions"...I think it's just one of those things that you would need to keep in case the owner of the recipe came back and said that you didn't ask to post it. Then you could show them the permission and say...."see, yes you did". You don't need to post it here. Have a great night!

[quidditchmom]

Those of you that responded to my post, thanks. I suppose I should have waited until reading the whole thread before posting, but it was late, I was tired and I just really wanted to know! I have a few more questions for you all.

I have read the whole thing now, and I'm sad to say, I'm a little discouraged. Is there anyone on here that manages to eat raw on a very tight budget? Right now my boyfriend and I are both students (taking the summer off ). He isn't working and I really can't handle working too much on top of homeschooling and taking care of my babies. I have started babysitting, although I'm not getting paid too much . The friend I'm doing it for is in a tight spot right now and I'm to soft to tell her no so I can watch some other kids that I can get paid for. I've gotten $150 for 3 weeks of watching 2 kids full time. We can spend about $400-500 a month on food, and that's to feed two adults and three small children, two additional children (that eat all the time) for one meal and two snacks 5 days a week and two perpetually hungry teenagers for about 3-4 meals a week each. My boyfriend is not going raw, he's too into junk food Although I'd like to get enough vegetables and fruits into his diet so he's at least classified as an omnivore. I think since my kids are older there is going to be a gradual transition. The baby might go all at once, but it's hard for me to figure out what to feed him since most of what he eats is vegetables. He only has two teeth, and they're both on on side so raw veggies are a little bit of a problem. He does eat pepper sticks and I give him matchstick carrots. He loves broccoli and squash, but I don't know about raw broccoli. I know that I can cut costs by making bread, cookies and other things like that instead of buying them for those that eat them, but I'm still nervous about money. I can't grow too much cause I live in an apartment with a very small backyard that kids run through all day. I grow tomatoes in containers, but they aren't doing well this year. We went with organic seeds and right now they are only about 4" tall and we planted them in April! Last year our plants were a couple of feet high by now There is no farmers market that I know of that's closer than an hour drive. There is a natural food store, but the produce is unbelievably expensive.

Any suggestions on how to do it cheaply are welcome.

Also, for those of you that grow food, I have a question for you. Is there a way to make your own soil? I thought that I had read something about taking dirt from outside and cooking it in your oven a while ago.

I was also about using the oven as a dehydrator. I read that some people put food in there with just the light turned on, and that some people heat it to 250, then turn it off. Has anyone done either of these? Is there any simple conversion like, for every however long in the dehydrator it needs to be in a preheated off oven for so long?

Someone asked if going raw has made you more natural in other ways. I haven't gone raw yet, so I can't say anything about that, but I know that recently I have felt that way. I have never been the crunchy-granola type, in fact I've been like the very opposite. Now I'm considering a raw diet, I buy some organic, I've been looking into yoga, I'm homeschooling, I've started being concerned with using regular household cleaners and a bunch of other stuff. It's been kind of a graduall awareness I've had since I had my second child.

Now, I have one more (very silly) question. I saw that some of you eat pumpkin seeds. I was always told that raw pumpkin seeds were poisonous Guess they're not then?

Thanks everyone for all the information.

Diana

[quidditchmom]

Just one more quick question - for now at least . How do you know if something is cooked? Like honey, I had no idea there was raw honey because I didn't know honey was cooked.

Diana

[Delight]

I started out eating some fruit for breakfast, but needed something more. So I made the Sweet Nori Rolls by Alissa...they have avocado, apples, and honey...and I added spinach instead of lettuce. They were GREAT! I was a little nervous about the fishy taste with apples, but the sweetness of the apples and honey actually neutralized the fishy taste of the nori. Interesting and yummy. Here is a pic.

[shaper]

Quidditchmom - the honey will say "raw" or "unpasteurized" - that's the one you want. Not the one in the squeeze bear My husband is a student too - our only income, except he *IS* working this summer (although we're trying to save most of it) - we get by, but I have no idea what we spend. Thats sounds doable, in my opinion - just maybe you're not getting pineapple & coconut & strawberries every week! I forget who it is, but someone gave the 1$/lb advice in a book I read (I think it was Jinjee in Raising Raw Children, but I could be wrong) - and she said, just go and buy anything you find under or around 1$/lb, and then work with what you have. she said some of the yummiest recipes were created with whatever they had lying around. Of course, splurge when you really want something.

Also, if you've still got a junk food junkie, things will be more expensive. We spend way more on food when we're still getting our "treats".

I wouldn't worry about veggies for your baby - fruit is still great for him You can try a green smoothie if you're worried about it - or a blended salad. My guy liked that (it was disgusting).

I can't help with the growing things - this is first year I've grown anything (tomatoes and strawberries) and I've never grown anything from seed.

And i LOVE raw pumpkin seeds, so no - very not posionous!!

Delight ~ looks good - I might try apple w/nori someday - I didnt really like the stuff (nori) when I tried it last.

[quidditchmom]

shaper, thanks so much for the advice. The only reason why I was worried about raw veggies for the baby is because that is most of what he eats. He isn't fond of fruit, except bananas and cantalope. You want to see a funny face, you should try giving him some apple sauce. I don't know why he's not into fruit, most babies are cause it's so sweet. Maybe it's cause I started him on veggies when he started eating.

I experienced an interesting thing today. As I said, I'm not going 100% right off, but when I got up this morning I had some water and some fruit and I was feeling fine. Actually, I was feeling awake, which usually doesn't happen that early I wasn't hungry for the rest of the morning either. Just a bit ago, I was getting my kids some lunch and I had a bite of what they were having and all of a sudden I want to eat everything bad. Cookies, chocolate chips, ice cream...I had some nuts (they were roasted, but it's all we had) I guessed maybe the fattyness of them would help my cravings. If they will, they haven't yet. The cherry chocolate chip ice cream in the freezer is still calling to me.

Is this normal? If I do it halfway will I have cravings like this the second I have less healthy stuff? Maybe one has nothing to do with the other. I usually have cereal or toast instead of fruit for breakfast but I wouldn't think that I would be affected by the change if it's only been this morning. YKWIM?

[shaper]

Thats normal for me, anyawy quidditchmom - the moment i have "goodies" i'm done for the day When people talk about fats stopping cravings they're usally talking about raw nuts and seeds- not ice cream

Maybe your son would like tomatoes & cucumbers then - you should try the blended salad for him - he'd probably like it! My son didn't like applesauce either, but he loves watermelon & strawberries.

anyway, glad i could help

[prana]

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[quidditchmom]

That is a great idea, I'll have to try it.

I have an electric juicer that I use often. However it seems quite wasteful because I'm left with alot of de-juiced fruits and veggies. Right now I throw them into spaghetti sauce when I can. Any raw ideas to use this stuff up?

[shaper]

whoa, great idea prana!!! my kid's pretty much out of the mushed-up foods, but i'll have to keep that in mind for next time!

[moma justice]

hey ladies
another RAW day here for me

although today i "mourned" the loss of binge eating, emotional eating, and recreational eating,
i just let it go...these things were apart of my food history as long as i can remember
and food now holds a very different place in my life

today i had a smoothie for breakfast: 1 beat, 1 mango, 1/2 a melon, 1 juiced (by hand) orange, a dalop of coconut milk, and 2 tb spoons of flax oil
(added to that my dd had an entire cucumber, and a banana)

lunch: salad: arugala, sprouts, and red pepper with seseame oil and um plum vineger (dd had instead a bowl of oats soaked in coconut milk for about an hour with a teaspoon of honey adn a tbl spoon of almond butter)

dinner: RAW PASTA WITH SAUCE!!!!
my pasta was zuccini slivers and my sauce was about 8 roma tomatoes, 2 cloves of garlic, half a small onion, a bunch of raw basil and oregano, 1/4 cup nutritional yeast, 1/4 cup of balck walnuts, 1 red bell pepper
i put everything in my new yard sale blender (except the red peppers) and belnded and then added in the cuberd pepper and the nutritional yeast

GREAT and filling

my dd had nothing to do with that pasta, infact she opted for cottage cheese instead!

no biggie
she is doing great and so am i

my dh had a mostly raw weekedn but his detox was SO INTENSE
i mean he was not functional almost all weekend!
so since his demanding work week began today he opted for a60-70 % raw day and felt better although still fuzzy

maybe every weekend he could go 100% till he was more stable with his detox?

i don't know

mine was not that bad...but as i have said, i have been cutting out bad foods for months and months before my raw diet started

i am going strong and wish everyone the best

and i think i read on RAWTALK.COM
that people said that even non organic raw foods are better for you than organic cooked.....for the most part

i don't know how i feel about that, but i am just putting that out there for anyone thinking $$$ issues with raw

we are still 99% organic, have always been, and will remain unless something crazy happens

[*green*faery*]

shaper~
Thanks for sharing the links above (about breast feeding, etc.)

My husband has the next couple days off, so I think we are going to try and eat raw for a few days. I've been reading so much about it lately that that's all I feel like eating. Today I had grapes, garlic hummus, cheese and crackers for lunch and it made my tummy upset. I think it's mainly the cheese. Since becoming pregnant a lot of processed foods don't agree with me; soy "meats", pasta, and now cheese.

Here is a recipe I really like, Its for Pie

basically you need:

1.5-2 cups of nuts (I like to combine almond, pecan, and some walnut)
dates (until you get a crust like consistency, maybe 10)
a little cinnamon

Blend nuts in food processor (into powder), then slowly add dates until desired consistency is reached. Add cinnamon. Then form crust in a pie pan.

Top with your favorite fruit, I like it cut small
My favorite is...mango, strawberry, blueberry, nectarines

You can also make a "creamy" toping...

1c. of almond (soaked and peeled is nice but not necessary)
dates or agave
water to consistency (or young coconut meat and water)
1tsp. Vanilla extract
some recipes also add 1/2c orange juice

Blend almonds in blender/food processor then add other ingredients.

Last a few days in the fridge. Its nice for when you feel like a treat, and its easy to make! My husband loves it!

*erin*
#1 edd 10/29/05

[3littlesweeties]

Shaper, thanks for the nursing info. I am not worried anymore!!

I love all the food pictures...keep 'em comming!!!
I don't know how to do it but if I even have time to figure it out I will post 'em. They are inspirational.

My 5 year old has a bladder infection. So, no fruits! I don't really know how to make veggies very appealing. haven't tried much of the sauces/dips yet.

Anybody have anything close to RANCH Dressing???

If you find a recipie for some bars as well... post 'em please.

Andrea, I still have to try your bar recipie, I think I 'll go do that right now!
Thanks.

[shaper]

3littlesweeties ~ I'm glad you're not worried anymore! yeah! just out of pure curiousity, why cna't you have fruit for a bladder infection?? i've never heard that before.. just wondering what the reason is there.

i make guacamole for dipping veggies a lot, i don't know that a kid would like it though. maybe if you tell them that only adults like it and it's much too good for kids... thats what my parents always said.. i don't know that we ever fell for it though!!

and i DID see a raw ranch dressing today.. now if i could just remember WHERE i saw it!!

erin ~ your pie sounds grand. i'd like to make mini pies of that... like in those little tin cups.. i think i'll do that when i'm back on the island (where all my little tin cups are). thanks for the recipe! i made a pie once, i forget what the crust was, but the filling was mango & banana blended, with banana slices on top.. i made a flower shape with them, it was quite pretty.

momajustice ~ you are doing awesome!!! i've always wanted to try raw pasta - just one of those things i haven't got around to yet. i wish i could truly all-out mourn the cooked foods, but i can't seem to convince myself that they are no more! argh. so hard, this raw life sometimes. you seem to be doing really great though.

quiet day on here today so i had to come bump it up and say hi. hi

we're getting fresh cherries here now... so good! big black juicy ones

[3littlesweeties]

Moma Justice, I think I am jealous now!!

I still have not done one day 100%!!! Gee wiz!

I've been trying to for a whole week!

I keep thinking about what you said about how good you feel and how eating is so emotional even more than we realize. You are sooooo right!!!



Thanks for the recipie green fairy! I have so much prepared live food in yhe fridge right now you wouldn't believe it!!! And NONE of it is like cooked food in the way that ..."it's so good I want to eat it all up!" For some reason I keep lookin for some recipie that will be like that.

SOooo, on we go to the emotional detox!


My next question. my kids are 7 & 5. Do I do the detox along with mine? I'm thinkin' yes, because nothing will taste as good to them as cooked food till their taste buds change. I'm so tired (already) of hearing.."yuck".

Nicole