I’ve done this a few times before, jotting down any random thoughts on being a raw vegan.
Things I’ve Realized About Being Raw

I LOVE Avocados!

After 3 years of being mostly raw vegan, I still don’t own an Excalibur Dehydrator or a Vitamix Blender.

I also LOVE olives!

Whenever I eat a high fat raw meal, like with nut dips and nut dishes, I still feel sleepy afterwards and it DOES slow me down.

Fresh, raw, organic salads always get my energy up, up, up!!! Never fails.

A combination of olives, basil, cilantro, dill, radicchio, …

“Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.”
—Hippocrates

59 Days at 100% Raw
After almost 60 days of being 100% raw vegan, I have realized that I was making a choice, and a commitment to myself to become more healthy and thus improve the quality of my life.
Of course, when I didn’t care about my health and ate whatever I wanted to without any thought to the consequences, I was making a choice too.
In the end we do what we have to do in …

There is a “Zen” of raw food presentation I am striving for, on a personal level… because it is also important to “take in” the food visually as well.

A Question To My Readers
Do you find these food diary/logs interesting? Perhaps helpful? Let me know… for sometimes I get a bit tired of posting them. It can get a bit tedious, but it’s important for me to also log what I eat on a daily basis, and get feedback from my readers as well. …

Exilir of Life
After going to Whole Foods Market to buy some raw foods, I had gone home to make my first batch of raw almond milk. I had some almonds soaked in water since last night, and I placed them in a blender with 3 cups of water and, presto… fresh almond milk! I squeezed the stuff through cheese cloth to capture the pulp, and the liquid looks just like fresh milk with some foam on top. Awesome!
I’ll keep the pulp to make some almond cheese …

A couple of years ago I wrote a post entitled, Raw Foods: The Grand Experiment. I had already been a vegan for a number of years, and a vegetarian for more than two decades. Anyway, I’d been reading about the concepts of eating only raw foods online and in various books. And back when I initially wrote that previous article I thought I’d give raw foods a try.

The main concepts concerning a raw food diet were fascinating to me:
1. More Energy and Stamina
I’ve read about triathletes …