Hi! My name is Elizabeth and I got really sick recently with severe liver failure (am still sick, seeing a specialist soon) and even though I eat mostly healthy (I hate sweet, sugar is gross to me but I love quinoa, sprouts, lentils, etc) I decided it was time to at least go partially raw to give my liver a little bit of a break with it's chores. I made a broccoli and cauliflower soup today that was just lovely. I am also currently dehydrating eggplant bacon and am contemplating what I can shove in the leftover two dehydrator shelves.
I'm a little sad because I own 16 chickens and 2 ducks - mostly for egg purposes. Other than raw egg in my smoothies for a protein hit, which I already do, I'm not entirely sure what to do with 6-8 eggs a day when I go raw.
It probably won't be a permanant thing, but I'd like the experiences and knowledge of the raw diet so that I can consider it in my usual day-to-day meal preparation. So for now, I'm trying to eat as much raw as I can. I already eat plain fruit and veg and keep frozen bananas for ice cream. I haven't made any other raw desserts but I just bought cacao powder and nibs to make a cake tonight. I hope since I don't really like sugar - this will be able to hit the sweet spot without making me feel sick and gross!
Nice to meet all of you! Sorry I type a lot. ;)
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Oh my Lola loves raw eggs. If I give her a whole one she even eats the shell! She's a staffordshire - so she eats anything. Pumpkins, sugar... wood. Plastic. I've had to make all her bowls metal just so she won't eat them!
I am incredibly active and protein would be a big deal to me. Before I got sick, I was in fitness competitions and trying to lower my BF% so I could compete in the bigger events, which is why I ingest raw eggs regularly (not currently).
I was told it wouldn't be best to start raw now though, because the roughage is bad on my liver at this moment (I'm not digesting food properly) but I already eat super super healthy and love the idea behind raw food. Basically, I don't think I'd eat 100% raw vegan BUT I want the experiences in that area of cuisine so that when a food choice comes before me, I can accurately and knowingly make the right one. I feel eating raw for awhile will not only 'bring me back to basics' but make it so in the future I make more healthy food choices (not that I already don't, but I would actively make more raw choices).
Now the big question is - how do I replace my coffee??! I have a double espresso every morning after my lemon water - pick me up. I've seen raw coffee recipes but they just taste like frappuccinos it looks like - no caffeine. I have -espressos-, not double mocha frozen mocchiatos or anything - so I just like the caffeine, lol!!
I'm excited to start eating a more varied and complex diet (funny, complex is going back to the basics these days in the world, where packaging and preservatives are abundant and fruit is a rarity) and hopefully getting my body to start co-operating with me again.
Thank you guys!!! I hope my non-veganness doesn't turn people off. P: I love vegans! I just can't eat a whole one. (how OLD is THAT joke?)