bitt

Comments

• I think B-12 in a liquid or sublingual is absorbed much better. I personally LOVE this multivitamin. It is food-based and raw vegan http://www.thevitamincode.com/  

  in Will 1 Centrum pill per day give me enough Vitamin B12? Comment by bitt
• kelp noodles don't fill me up at all. what really fills me up is chia seeds. you can mix them with water or nutmilk and whatever else you like (cinnamon, fruit, etc). belly will be FULL.

  in Easy-to-make filling food? Advice needed Comment by bitt
• if you eat a lot of raw and unprocessed foods, your body most likely will feel ill if you eat too much of a junk food, even if it's once in awhile. your body just recognizes that it's not good and lets you know! that being said you don't have to com…

  in The Other 30% Comment by bitt
• i am on twitter as well. http://twitter.com/cherrycobbler

  in Twitter! Comment by bitt
• I agree with raw Bryan, I use my blendtec and it grinds it better even than the store-bought ground flax. If you really are stuck, tons of places sell it already ground. Just make sure they are refrigerating it. I agree probably unsoaked flax is not…

  in Flax Seed Comment by bitt
• sometimes if i have a stomach virus or something i can get nauseous or just don't feel like eating too many greens. a few tricks i do are adding green powder to raw brownies (you can't even taste it!), green smoothies with fewer greens than i normal…

  in Getting queasy over greens! Help! Comment by bitt
• salads DO get boring! fix yourself something more interesting. and a few months isn't too long to be transitioning. the first few years of being vegetarian i would still get some cravings for meat at times. i just let it go, reminding myself of the …

  in Need help to stay on the raw path Comment by bitt
• i have hypothyroid and avoid broccoli, kale, cabbage, spinach most of the time. won't hurt you on occasion. but for my daily smoothies i have swiss chard. in green juice, parsley. plenty of lettuce and salad greens.

  in Greens for Slow Thyroid Comment by bitt
• i am curious why you want to do it, do you feel better? what do you like abut raw foods? what is easy for you? dont try to go 100% all at once, it is very hard that way. if you try to add more raw in your repertoire will be bigger by the time you ar…

  in TOTALLY LOST IT...... Comment by bitt
• whoa that is kinda cool and gross at the same time. I'm having a little wasp infestation right now so i think maybe i need a fig tree. :-P

  in Figs-- vegan? Comment by bitt
• there is a way to do it without vodka or alcohol. just use vanilla beans and water, blend up. it's called "liquid vanilla".

  in Does anyone know how to make Raw Vanilla from the bean?? Comment by bitt
• i don't think it's fair to list the recipe without permission from the authors. you should get someone to email you privately or just buy the book.

  in Does anyone have the recipe for the "Raw Pecan Turtle Cheesecake" from Sweet Gratitude? Comment by bitt
• i live with my husband who is vegan. the dogs are vegan too but not the cats. :-) My husband eats a lot of raw food but also eats some junky stuff that tempts me from time to time. but he loves my raw food so when we are home we enjoyed raw stuff to…

  in Do you live with other people who eat raw? Comment by bitt
• some of it it due to enzymes, some of it due to things being killed while cooking, other parts of it are just mysterious and can't be proven. most people feel better on raw food if they give it a chance. i was a cooke food vegan for 8 years and was …

  in u kno am till new....some confusing things comeup!!! Benefits of full raw vegan compared 2 a cooking Comment by bitt
• i am planning on it!

  in Raw Spirit Fest '09 in DC Comment by bitt
• here is a good rule: make sure you have your greens first. then if you still have room in your belly, you can have some dessert. sometimes the freaking out can be worse than the agave or whatever. don't stress so much about it! you will eventually w…

  in Too Much Raw Dessert? Comment by bitt
• sometimes friends don't get it. if the friendship is based too much on that food-sharing thing, they maybe it's time to find some new friends. i had friends who i just went out drinking with. it's hard to keep that friendship up if you stop drinking…

  in friends Comment by bitt
• i just wrote a post about this! http://bittsblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/what-i-used-to-eat.html i was cooked food vegan and gluten-free, plenty of sugar and drinks though. ugh.

  in What was your diet like pre-raw? Comment by bitt
• when i was first raw i had to have a huge salad and flax crackers and a smoothie for lunch. and i was losing weight. eat more! of whatever you like! veggies don't have tons of calories so you'll need to add veggie juice or smoothies or seeds to add …

  in What should I eat? I am so hungry!!!!!! Comment by bitt
• I tried to do supplements and eat nothing but iron-rich foods. did not work for me. sometimes when you get so low in iron you can't get it back up very easily. so i had to get shots. they worked and i will work hard to stay there with my diet. some …

  in Need help with Iron deficiency Comment by bitt
• yup, i drink it. i go through phases of not having it though. it just depends on the mood and occasion.

  in How many of you still drink herbal tea? Comment by bitt
• i had a really nice ice cream with irish moss and almond milk that was very good. to me, raw ice cream with mature coconut is also quite good and very creamy but a lot of work. i made evergreen's ice cream today with almond milk and hemp milk and it…

  in Your favorite Raw ice cream recipe? Comment by bitt
• something we do for anything that involves a liquid, such as almond milk, is to add ice in addition to water. keeps it cooler. the other thing you can do it just turn it off and then let it cool down and then turn it on again.

  in Does the vita-mix heat foods too easily? Comment by bitt
• just so you know the cacao butter we got from nutsonline was rancid. sometimes you get what you pay for with cheap stuff. anyhow, hope it was a fluke and yours is ok. i just like making chocolate with cacao butter! melt it, then add cacao powder and…

  in Cacao Butter Comment by bitt
• there is no best in my opinion, there are lots of different ones. diversity is important.

  in Best Raw Blog vote! Comment by bitt
• I don't get it. It's almost like people who eat 80-10-10 have an ethical objection to fat. it's almost like they want to save the world with people only eating fruit. even if fruit is not the best thing for someone. why do you care? it's not hurting…

  in why are so many on this site afraid of fruit? Comment by bitt
• tell us what you mean by "sick". there are some symptoms that are considered to be pretty typical detox such as digestive symptoms, fatigue, sore throat. if these symptoms are too intense for you, perhaps you should gradually increase raw foods into…

  in I get car sick sometimes when I am raw why? Comment by bitt
• i had a stomach bug and monomeals of bananas was a life saver. i just filled in with other things as i wanted them. it was more a nausea thing than a diarrhea thing though. if you are juicing, are you juicing beets or dandelion greens? they will sti…

  in Some people think it's funny... Comment by bitt
• i have the type of body that seems to gain weight when i eat cooked food. if i really eat a detoxifying raw diet for a few days, it comes off. it seems you are craving dense food because you are not eating enough of the foods that are lower calorie.…

  in Need to lose weight >,< HELP!!! Comment by bitt
• I'm vegan for the animals, raw vegan for health. If I found out eating meat was healthy, i'd still be vegan.

  in Why Are You Vegan??? Comment by bitt