I have been a bit absent lately as my hubby and I embark on a new journey in our lives….. Raw food. Sounds weird, right? Having said that, I miss the process of cooking. REALLY miss it.
Cooking is so creative. It brings me such joy to bring a dish to fruition from my imagination to the plate. The whole process – the trials, mistakes, and finally making a dish the perfection of your own tastebuds. That is what I call fun. So although I FEEL better eating raw food (about 80% raw now), and I feel a lot less sluggish.
Actually, I feel more rested in general and a lot of the random aches and pains are gone. It always sounds crazy if you try to describe to people how you feel BAD all the time. Don’t get me wrong, a bunch of that was totally attributed to gluten and once I cut that out of my diet I did feel a tremendous difference. But still there were times when I could just tell things were not right with my body. Excercising has helped, although I am infrequent in the pattern – so that will be something to tackle in my life – regularity with working out.
I will post more soon as I am starting to develop some interested GF/Raw recipes.
Welcome to Raw…I can’t wait to check out your Raw blog. I can appreciate what you wrote about loving to cook and prepare food. I come from a restaurant background and was raised playing in the kitchen with my mom. When I went vegan and then Raw, I knew I wanted to still spend time in the kitchen. What I’ve learned is that although many Raw recipes don’t take long to make, I am able to play and experience delicious flavors – only now their Fresh, Vibrant, Raw and Alive. I have a couple of Raw recipes on my blog you might be interested in trying…..delicious flavors from Morocco and Italy.
Cheers!
Kristen Suzanne
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http://www.KristensRaw.com
http://www.KristensRaw.blogspot.com
YaY! I’ve been leaning to raw as well – have all the books you could imagine, just not the mindfulness yet. But I’m glad to see another celiac in the mix. I have a google alert for all things gluten and found your blog. I look forward to reading your recommended site.
Next after raw and if you aren’t familiar already (just popping in, I don’t “know” where you’ve been and all): check out http://www.bodyecology.com and the B.E.D. (Body Ecology Diet). This author discusses what’s “wrong” and “right” with different diets including raw. It gave me something to think about: fermented foods, and well, “body ecology!”
Best to you on this new journey. I look forward to your future entries.
Angel aka Dotslady