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• try it and you will get a “flavor” for the difference between “healthy” cooked food and raw. keeping a good balance of greens, fruits, and fats is important, but just eating ALL RAW for 2 weeks and you’ll FEEL the difference. it’s beyond the describ…

  in What is your staple food after going raw? Comment by pianissima
• 1) too complicated a breakfast. solution: have a fresh juice, eat fruit, and/or a (green) smoothie 2) too many nuts. solution: make sure you soak them, eat them later in the day, and replace some with seeds or avocado, or oils, or coconut meat. 3) e…

  in What's wrong with what I'm eating?! Comment by pianissima
• oooh… red pepper adds the most delicious sweetness to sauces. have you guy ever tried half-dehydrating your tomatoes instead of using a combo of fresh and sun-dried? i tried it the other day and it was quite delicious.

  in Pasta Sauce Comment by pianissima
• yum! i recently started putting bell pepper in my sauce. it makes all the different. the color AND taste are much nicer. i like to put in olives too.

  in Pasta Sauce Comment by pianissima
• 1. i’m pretty sure it’s not and that no (wild) rice is. it’s steamed. 2. ???

  in 2 questions Comment by pianissima
• i’m curious cuz i always see this mentioned: why would one use a calorie counter?

  in Calorie calculator Comment by pianissima
• blujett8- actually, if you read the label on the “raw” tj’s almond butter i think it says “ingredients: raw roasted almonds” ??? i always wondered what that meant.

  in Maranatha Nut Butter warning Comment by pianissima
• mandelicious—why would you call yourself 100% if you weren’t? does it matter that much that you’d want to lie about it? miso and nama shoyu are no more raw than unpasteurized sake (made from fermented cooked rice), or homemade tofu (made from fermen…

  in replacements for nama shoyu and/or miso? Comment by pianissima
• oh, and south river miso’s distinction is that it is unpasteurized.

  in miso? Comment by pianissima
• it’s salty and spreadable…. it’s not raw, so adding it to your raw diet if you don’t use it already doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. it’s “living”, meaning that it’s been cooked and then cultured.

  in miso? Comment by pianissima
• i tried food combining for a few months. i was doing it for a while and realized that YES i was being a very good food combiner. but i didn’t feel any better. as long you are eating raw foods and not too much, i say food combining is not all that im…

  in Food Combining Comment by pianissima
• sabrina—sigg is a brand of non-toxic water bottles. they are very pretty. a bit pricey.

  in Toxic Plastic Bottles Comment by pianissima
• i recently discovered i could buy 39 cent/gallon “reverse osmosis” water at whole foods (other health food stores do this as well). since it’s just me, i fill 1 gallon at a time, but you can buy 5 at a time (or multiple containers). they sell non-to…

  in Toxic Plastic Bottles Comment by pianissima
• i did not experience this. but here’s my guess: your body will be detoxing quite a bit and if it unused to getting so many nutrients in so little bulk, then it might give you the sign that it is full because it is working hard with what it has to de…

  in Only need tiny amounts of food?! Comment by pianissima
• waxing is the best for me. low maintenance.

  in Do you shave pits/legs? Comment by pianissima
• i do the same as lizk- i like greens and fruit during the day. veggies, fats and starches at night. but i LOVE fruit.

  in Raw Food Pyramid- 15% fruit or less? Comment by pianissima
• the fresh ones right? as far as i can tell there is no way they could be processed and taste like they’ve literally come out of the sea. the texture is intact, the flavor is pretty bland (like it would be). i’d say raw.

  in Kelp Noodles? Kombu? Comment by pianissima
• no shame in asking the store. but yeah, if they make it in house, i doubt they have a pasteurizer (word?) in the back. good idea to read ingredients too though. anything marked as “salt” would probably not be raw salt.

  in Store-bought refrigerated salsa Comment by pianissima
• thanks!

  in 100% raw questions Comment by pianissima
• do you strain the syrup, or does it just come out smooth? i do scrape out the inside, but i feel silly wasting the pod. but vanilla powder just gave me an idea… maybe i could dehydrate the pod, then grind it up in my coffee grinder. hmmm…

  in 100% raw questions Comment by pianissima
• it’s not the fact that they are pickled or jarred that makes them raw/not raw. it is pasteurization, and cooking that makes them not raw. olives bought in farmer’s markets in southern europe are totally raw. (i asked). they are picked, then steeped …

  in Olives and Beets Comment by pianissima
• http://www.excaliburdehydrator.com/ from $210-$250

  in Dehydrators Comment by pianissima
• roxi—really? i find just the opposite. raw food tastes so much better to me. it’s a complete experience of feeling great about the way it looks (so colorful), the way it tastes, and the way i feel afterwards. maybe your taste buds have to catch up w…

  in Needing some advice and words of encouragement Comment by pianissima
• harmonylia—=) yeah, when it comes to the palate, REeducating is more difficult than educating i’m afraid. that is so sad about social workers and taking raw kids away (i can just image the “wholesome” meals they get in their new homes). on the other…

  in MYOB in the Grocery Store? Comment by pianissima
• ha ha. if they sold the stand, i’d consider carrying the 5 gallon… but yeah, 3 seems like a happy medium for sure!

  in MYOB in the Grocery Store? Comment by pianissima
• oooh… 3 gallons would be better. i’ll see if i can find one (i have to go for refills A LOT ;))

  in MYOB in the Grocery Store? Comment by pianissima
• strawberry—that’s great! my sound engineer and i were talking about how much produce we buy… people think we own a restaurant (he isn’t even completely raw). izhpt- my mother is the same way! sometimes it’s just too much info at once. oh, one thing:…

  in MYOB in the Grocery Store? Comment by pianissima
• BlueDolphin- i try to change my knee-jerk reaction too. it’s so hard. i was thinking about this in the car actually. maybe there is a difference between judging BEHAVIOR and judging the PERSON for their behavior. when we see the behavior as separate…

  in MYOB in the Grocery Store? Comment by pianissima
• hear you loud and clear! organic potato chips? organic chocolate milk? plus, they’re very expensive. but they have to get there on their own… i’ve had some lovely conversations with people who comment on all the greens in my bag though. they want to…

  in MYOB in the Grocery Store? Comment by pianissima
• what are zeolites please?

  in Getting Rid of Toxins Comment by pianissima