Raw food trial – day 14

October 23, 2009

Today I decided to make fresh almond milk, something I have never attempted before. The process is very simple: soak 1 cup of almonds overnight remove the soaking water combine the almonds with 3 cups of clean water and blend in a VitaMix strain the resulting mix using a nut-milk bag – a bag made [...]

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Raw food trial – day 13

October 22, 2009

Today was another food shopping day. Before my raw food trial, I always went grocery shopping on Friday evening, because Friday is the day when most of the pre-made vegan goodies are delivered to the store. Since the best ones are also the most popular ones, by Saturday afternoon, the pickings are slim. When on [...]

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Raw food trial – day 12

October 21, 2009

Today was a second day in the row that I skipped making my morning green smoothie. Like yesterday, I felt really good and had no digestive problems whatsoever. Tomorrow, I will make one in the afternoon to test whether it’s the green smoothie itself or the timing of drinking it that causes me problems. Today [...]

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Raw food trial – day 11

October 20, 2009

This was a great day for three reasons. First of all, after having nearly winter like weather for the past few days here in NJ, today was sunny with temperatures in the mid-60s. Working most of the day with the windows open was a nice change of pace, and it seemed more fitting with the [...]

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Raw food trial – day 10

October 19, 2009

For the most part, I am back to normal today, and the feeling of tiredness is mostly gone. Actually, the only time I felt somewhat unusual was shortly after lunch. If I had to describe it… the feeling was similar to having a light fever. It went away after about 20, perhaps 30 minutes. I [...]

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Raw food trial – day 9

October 18, 2009

I’ve been feeling very tired for most of the day today, in spite of the fact that I had slept for about 10 hours last night, which leads me to believe that the raw food diet has something to do with it. This is not necessarily anything to worry about. Pretty much all the accounts [...]

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Raw food trial – day 8

October 17, 2009

Today I had some family visiting, including a 1 year old and a 3 year old, so as you can imagine I am exhausted The family opted for a meal from a burger chain that will remain unnamed, but I was able to talk them into a banana and spinach green smoothie tasting, and they’ve [...]

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Raw food trial – day 7

October 16, 2009

Awesome! I made it the entire week on the raw food diet! Aside from this afternoon (more about that later), I have been feeling good eating raw, but not really much different than when eating cooked vegan diet. I certainly get to the point of hunger more often, but at the same time never get [...]

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Raw food trial – day 6

October 15, 2009

Raw food diet mainstays are the same fruits, veggies, nuts and seeds that are presents in other diets, except not cooked, and often prepared in innovative ways. And for the most part, that’s really all one needs, in order to be satisfied with a raw food way of eating. But raw foodists, more often than [...]

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Raw food trial – day 5

October 14, 2009

Last night, shortly after 11:00pm, I started having some acid reflux issues. I am not sure what might have caused it, especially since at the time I have not eaten or drank anything for many hours. Like for most people, heartburn is not something that is very unusual for me, so I am not treating [...]

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