Hello all! We are a family of 5 who are excited to be beginning our journey to raw. We understand it will be slow and have been loving exploring the recipes we’ve found and trying them out on our kids. I tend to be overly excitable about this kind of thing… like this is the lifestyle I’ve been searching for my entire life and I cannot wait to be there. But the reality is that we have 3 children, 5, almost 4 and 19 months. They are used to their tummies being full with eggs/breads/chicken/pasta, etc. We’re fortunate that our oldest is a tremendous eater and willing to try and love exotic flavors, and they’ve been enjoying their green smoothies twice daily for about 2 weeks now. But whenever I try to go an entire day on just the raw foods I’ve prepared they’re cranky and seeking out other foods (ie. tonight we had a labor day picnic in the neighborhood and my son was hunting down everyone’s hot dogs and my daughters were sneaking someone’s lemon bars). I’m frankly nervous about what the transition may do to their sweet little bodies (after reading about so many really tough detox stories), yet I truly believe that if they were already 100% raw or close to it they would be so much happier, healthier & more balanced. Feeling a little discouraged and confused about it and would appreciate anyone who has a success story in this regard. Thanks :)
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I am struggling to go raw myself and honestly don’t know a lot about raw nutrition for children, but I ran across this article in another thread and thought it might help: http://shazzie.com/raw/articles/raw_vegan_child
Honestly, I don’t know if I believe everything in the article, but I don’t have kids, so it doesn’t affect me much. And at the begining, it sounds like she is a meat eating, closed minded, anti raw foodie, but she is quite the opposite. She just happens to be able to look at things objectively. Try to read the article all the way through; I think it might be some thought provoking and helpful reading. Good luck!
Thank you everyone. It is so helpful to have folks out there with such great advice. I will heed.