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Definitely get a few cookbooks and read through them for ideas. The hardest part for me has been changing how I think about food. When you get hungry, you usually start to think about what you want to eat. If you grew up on cooked foods, that's where your mind is going to go. So you need to have alternatives. This is where the cookbooks will help. Otherwise you might just end up eating fruits and nuts and vegetables as they are, which could get boring. Eating a nut pate, for example, is a very different experience than eating a handful of nuts. Plus, there are so many flavor variations with the pate, so you feel like your eating different things and not just more nuts.
Find a list of raw foods. It might be larger than you thought. (Sun dried tomatoes -- be careful of the brand though -- Olives, Bubbies jarred Pickles, for example. Fiind some new foods: maybe Jicama (great in "mashed potatoes" or Miso)
Zucchini Pasta with Raw tomato sauce. This is quicker and easier than the cooked version -- and tastier too. My all time favorite. (You can get a spiralizer for about $40. It is SO worth it -- get the 3 blade one.
Good Luck
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