Hi everyone, I used to come to this site a lot before Alex snazzed it all up. Great Job Alex! I've been in and out of live foods for about 20 years now. I'm absolutely flabbergasted by the numbers of people that know about live foods these days and the resources available. I recently moved to Austin Texas (like 3 weeks ago) and Whole Foods actually has this awesome live food deli counter. These days if I say I'm into live foods it's a possibility that the other person knows what I'm talking about. I used to have to say that I just prefer to eat like a bunny.
The most interesting thing to me was that when I moved to Florida 6 years ago from NYC I was excited about what seemed to be a large live-food community there but found out that most of the people into live foods were hard-core christians doing it because of the bible. That was something very new to me. That doesn't seem to be case here in Austin. People do it for health and spiritual reasons but rarely because of the bible - at least that's what I've found so far. It is strange to see what I considered to be extremely progessive way of life being led by such conservative people. What a trip! Times do change.
I am hoping to find a community here in Austin and on the website that do it for the same reasons that I do. Firstly, it makes logical sense, secondly when I eat live I'm happy, healthy and vibrant and thirdly, because it opens me spiritually and emotionally. Staying with this lifestyle can get a bit straining and isolating at times and it would be wonderful to have communication with others who "get it" for support.
I'm not 100% live right now because of the move and we are re-doing our kitchen. I swear that the people that lived here before ate nothing but pork grease. It's sooooo gross. I'm very excited about having other live food folks over when it's done. I would like to make an Un-cooking club like the cooking clubs that are all the rage now. I will have my dehydrator where the microwave used to be and a counter put in at the right height for my vitamix and food processor and juicers. Any Austinites out there up for an un-cooking club???????
Thanks for reading - looking forward to getting to know ya'all.
Greenbunny