new girl from Europe

[tina_eu]

Hi guys,
I've been on raw food diet for a week now, and I feel great. It is still kind of hard to adopt this new life style. Can somebody tell me a bit more about juice fasting?and some links to find recepies?
tnx a lot
love
tina

[RawFoodGrl]

Juice fasting is not required to be raw, and being raw can be as simple as making a variety of salads or smoothies.

There are some recipes on this board, and I"m sure there are some on the web - although I mostly use books. I'm a big fan of Rawsome! by Brigitte Mars and Rainbow Green Live Food Cuisine by Gabriel Cousens.

They both have information and recipes, talk about sprouting and fasting, and while we've mostly tried and loved RGLFC recipes (haven't had a chance to try Rawsome!), Rawesome has a lot of great information about what vitamins, minerals, protiens, etc. are in different foods.

I will post a recipe website in a minute, but wanted to ask, what are challenges are you facing? Perhaps we can help you make this journey easier.

I did a search for "raw food recipes" and found this site. I've not tried any of the recipes:
http://www.living-foods.com/recipes/

[Mattye Lee]

Welcome!! I wish you the best of rawesome health!!

[Double Helix]

Hi, welcome!

Fasting is actually abstaining from eating everything but water, so technically only drinking juice would be considered a diet or cleanse.

As Rawfoodgrl stated, it is not imperitive you mono diet or fast or cleanse on the raw food diet. Do what you are comfortable doing at your own pace.

www.goneraw.com is a great source for lots of recipes.