Can anyone give me advice about starting to incorporate a raw diet into my normal diet?

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The best way to start incorporating and eating raw is every easy.

Breakfast - 3 to 5 pieces of raw fruit

I usually eat banana's but sometimes apples and in the summer it varies more often

Lunch - you can eat a salad or make a smoothie

For a smoothie keep it simple just Kale is really good because you can get it cheap from alot of local farmers same with cabbage.

Typical smoothie is like this:

2-3 Banana

2-3 apples

2-3 cups of packed greens

For dinner I try to have some sort salad or raw veggies with your normal meal.

Try not to overcomplicate things and keep it simple.

There isn't really an "unsafe" way to start eating raw foods. You can literally jump right into it, but if you want to incorporate the foods over a period of time it might be easier.

For juicing recipes just make a list of fruits and veggies you'll eat, and consider what combination of them would taste best. My favorite for example is banana and spinach. Maybe with a little blueberry.

This site: http://www.living-foods.com/index.shtml is very helpful and contains a lot of recipes.

If you have a dehydrator you can make a lot of different things like breads, crackers, and dried fruit.

Best of luck.

120 Raw Diet Food Recipes : http://go.stayeatingraw.com/?mMku

please start with one egg 1/2 done in your drink milo. for 3 days.

Have a juice half an hour before every meal. Try to have at least one green juice a day, at least one fruit juice, and at least one vegetable juice.

A salad with every meal

Fruit before or after every meal (before is better for digestion but afterwards feels like dessert)

Shred greens and mix them in with mash potato, or chop broccoli and slice or grate carrots and mix with mashed potato or even things like stew or lasagna. Any cooked food makes raw veg go down easier.

Blend dark leafy greens with fruit and water/fruit juice/green juice, to make a green smoothie. Drink at least 4 glasses a day made with at least 200g greens.

Make fermented veg like sauerkraut and kimchee and serve with every cooked meal. The enzymes help digestion.

Replace all your cakes/biscuits/dessert-pies with raw versions which are just as delicious. Its hard to make raw savoury food taste as good as cooked but the desserts are all divine - and are actually good for you. Google for raw recipes. http://stanford.wellsphere.com/raw-food-article/jo... use cocoa powder instead of carob as many people vomit if they eat carob (its an allergy).

To make a cake, grind up walnuts and medjool dates in a food processor. Make a layer of that, a layer of sliced fruit (banana, strawberry, papaya or mango), layer of nut/date, layer of fruit, layer of nut/date. Then make a cream topping by blending pine nuts, water, 1 date and juice of half a lemon. Decorate with berries or flowers.

To make chocolate brownies, put 1 cup of walnuts, 1 cup of dates and 1/3 cup cocoa powder in a food processor and grind until crumbly. press into a pan, refridgerate then cut into slices.

Instead of thinking "i must eat less cooked food", make it your goal to eat as much raw food as possible. Then you won't feel deprived. Don't worry about the cooked food, just try to get as much raw stuff down as you can.

I love blueberries blended with banana and avocado.

Switch your roasted nuts to raw nuts - you'll barely notice the difference.

For special occasions - lasagna

Zucchini-and-Green-Zebra-Tomato Lasagne with Basil-Pistachio Pesto

by Matthew Kenney of Pure Food and Wine

Ingredients

Lemon-Pignoli “Ricotta”

2 cups raw pignoli nuts, soaked in water for at least 1 hour

2 tablespoons lemon juice

2 tablespoons nutritional yeast (optional; available in health food stores)

1 teaspoon sea salt

Tomato Sauce

2 cups good-quality sun-dried tomatoes (dry-packed), soaked in water for at least 2 hours

1 medium ripe tomato, diced

1/4 small onion, chopped

2 tablespoons lemon juice

1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil

4 teaspoons maple syrup

2 teaspoons sea salt

Pinch hot-pepper flakes

Basil-Pistachio Pesto

2 cups packed basil leaves

1/2 cup raw pistachios

6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil

1 teaspoon sea salt, or to taste

Pinch freshly ground black pepper

Lasagne

3 medium zucchini, ends trimmed

3 medium green-zebra tomatoes (or other heirloom variety)

2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil

1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh oregano

1 tablespoon fresh thyme leaves

Garnish: whole basil leaves

Cooking Instructions

Lemon-Pignoli “Ricotta”

Place the pignoli, lemon juice, nutritional yeast, and salt in a food processor, and pulse a few times, until thoroughly combined. Gradually add 6 tablespoons water, and pulse until the texture becomes fluffy, like ricotta. Place in a bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and set aside.

Tomato Sauce

Place all ingredients in a blender, and process until smooth.

Basil-Pistachio Pesto

Place all ingredients in a blender, and process until smooth.

Lasagne

Using a mandoline or vegetable peeler, shave zucchini lengthwise into very thin slices, then cut in half crosswise. Cut the tomatoes in half, and each half into thin slices. Line the bottom of a 9-by-13-inch baking dish with two layers of zucchini slices. Brush the zucchini lightly with olive oil, spread 1/3 of the tomato sauce over it, and top with small dollops of “ricotta” and pesto, using 1/3 of each. Layer on 1/3 of the tomato slices, and sprinkle with 1/3 of the oregano and thyme. Add another double layer of zucchini and repeat twice more with the tomato sauce, pesto, ricotta, tomato slices, and herbs. Serve immediately, or cover with plastic and let sit at room temperature for a few hours. Garnish with basil.

You could also buy a spiralizer and make spaghetti out of zucchini, and use this instead of cooked spaghetti with your cooked pasta sauce/bolognaise.

You could make raw hoummus and eat it with rice cakes.

Its easy to make half cooked-half raw meals without noticing much difference.