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Hi Newbie,
There are some relatively cheap hand cranked wheatgrass juicers.
What kind of juice do you plan on making besides wheatgrass and how much wheatgrass do you plan on making? This is important to understand before suggesting a juicer. I've had most of them. If you never want to make anything except an occasional shot of wheat grass the hand cranked will do fine. Otherwise, more details please.
Gotcha on the bread thing. Have you ever tried Manna bread? It's a brand name for this amazing bread that is cooked at low temperatures. It's not technically raw, but it is incredibly digestable and as far as breads go is an amazing delicacy. Many raw foodist do include it in their diets. I take the sunseed or rye or one of the other plainer varieties and break it up into pieces to put on the family salad to make the cooked fooders here happy with my salads. It works wonders.
There are definitely some great cooked yet vegan and healthy Hellman's alternatives. I used to buy one all the time when I was vegan that was delicious, but that was so many years ago at this point that I forgot the name. There is one that is sold in the refrigerated section that is amazing. Hellman's might taste good but is (as I'm sure you know) on the junk food list of foods as it's filled with sugars and saturated fats and all sorts of stuff that a raw foodist would run from. Those vegan mayonnaises on the other hand have some pretty simple and basic ingredients that aren't raw - but aren't saturated or sugared. I don't have a clue how one would go about making raw mayonnaise. I think I have figured out how to make raw mustard, and I'm working on raw ketchup, but if someone knows how to make raw mayonnaise I'd love to hear about it.
Now, that being said, if Hellman's is the only alternative to you feeling delighted and happy with your food - then so be it. I agree with you that feeling good about what we are eating and enjoying it are important. Especially at the beginning of eating raw, unless you can find a good enough alternative to your very favorite foods, it's my opinion that forcing yourself to give them up prematurely can set you up for self-sabotage from your inner self. You can always change everything else first and then see how you feel about it after you are solid in your transition. I think it's safer.
You also might be surprised how your tastes change over time as you eat more and more raw over a longer and longer time. Things that I used to think were incredibly delicious gross me out now. Helman's eventually might lose it's best customer like mudpie has lost it's most ardent fan here. Processed deserts are now disgusting to me when I thought I could never live without them before. It took time, but the transformation did happen without forcing it.
Greenbunny
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