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I'll give your question a shot
OK - I'll give it a go. I don't have a kitchen at the moment so this might be interesting to someone. I do have a cheap blender.
* First thing in the morning - fresh squeezed orange juice from Whole Foods and a little later some tea of one kind or another.
* Mid-morning - medjool dates with some raw chocolate powder mashed in to make fudge.
* Lunch - nearby restaurant is kind enough to give me chips with guacamole and raw salsa they make there but they replace the chips with a big bowl of baby greens for me. I put a dab of guac and salsa on the baby greens individually and use them like chips. It's a great and cheap meal and their kindness is free.
* Mid-afternoon - Smoothie with bananas, whatever frozen fruits Costco happens to have (usually organic!), almond butter and sometimes some bee pollen or oil or raw wheatgerm.
* Evening - Sushi or manna bread or some kind of live food cookie or a bowl of fruit depending on if we are going out or staying in and what's around and what's the urge. There is another restaurant that serves ahi tuna steaks that makes them extremely rare for me so it's like getting a big steak of sushi and they make a guacamole "salsa" that goes on top nicely. I sometimes bring my own seaweed, freshly grated horseradish, ginger and namu shoyu for a stupendous meal.
Occasionally, like tonight, I will have a tiny bit of wine in the evening. I'd say less than an 8th of a glass usually. Only organic.
During the day I drink lots of water, drink tea and if I need it will have some miso broth. If working outside (which I have been in extreme heat and sun lately) I make sure I have some celtic sea salt or seaweed.
I used to buy packages of soaked and dehydrated almonds in lots of flavors from Whole Foods but they stopped carrying them.
There's a juice bar in town that I get treats at sometimes. They have raw chocolates, juices galore and lots of raw food bars and cookies but I find the raw bars and cookies way too sweet with agave - sickingly sweet. I also got sick a couple of times off of bars that had mold on them. Not fun. So I keep it simple. They sometimes have chocolate pudding - which I also used to make (very easy) - but that is a bit too dense and sweet for me these days.
There's a raw food deli at Whole Foods but just about everything has cashews in it which make me feel bad or smothered with agave. Sad. I eat all live foods and I can't eat at the live food deli!
I need to make sure I make some veggie juice for myself as I do have a juicer - but it's not easy to clean in the bathtub as we still don't have a kitchen sink and my diet is already pretty full. I plan on making juice before going out to dinner in the future. I was just talking about it tonight. I also have to soak more nuts and seeds for myself - but I've been very busy - or perhaps more honestly - very lazy. If they didn't discontinue my nuts I wouldn't bother. But now I sometimes do want some nuts to munch on and need a greater variety of nuts for my smoothies for variety both in taste and nutrients.
In the winter I make warm tomato soup and raw egg/miso soup most days days and don't drink cold smoothies.
When I had my vitamix and dehydrator I made wonders - but now it's all very simple but still delicious and nourishing and gives me the energy to concentrate on the other things in my life. It's quite a routine, but that makes it very easy for me. Eating raw foods can be very simple if you are over the addiction phase. It's amazing for me to think that if someone put a brownie with icecream in front of me or some french fries and said that they would pay me $100 to eat them - I'd refuse. I used to crave those things every single day and eat them ravenously. Now I crave things like those lovely berries I bought tonight. That will be a teat! I go shopping so infrequently that fresh black berries and strawberries have become a special occasion.
At night I take some supplements including blue green algae tablets. Just those alone give me enough nutrition to live.
Well, that's the basic story.
Greenbunny
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