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For those of you who haven’t yet had the pleasure of experiencing the benefits of eating a high raw diet (gah, I dislike that word ‘diet’ – it has too many restrictive connotations. Let’s call it a high-raw life instead) it may be hard to accept the claims that eating mainly or only raw food gives you more energy and a new zest for life, makes you feel ‘lighter’, rids you of aches, pains and illness and helps you loose weight.

Any skepticism is completely understandable. After all, we are bombarded every day with pills, potions and diets (those boring restrictive ones) that promise you this and that, all for the ’special price’ of a month’s salary, or make you count calories, overdose on protein, guzzle expensive and unnatural drinks, or stop eating fruit.

But one thing to bear in mind is that most people don’t promote raw food as a way to cash in and so are coming from a genuine place. Of course there are people that make their living from it, but this is often due to the fact that they have revolutionized their lives by eating that way, and want to share it with others. Yes, they charge money for their books and courses but there is also a lot of free information out there that you can get by on. Besides, if people hadn’t written books on raw food, and if I hadn’t gladly paid a relatively small investment to buy them then I wouldn’t have discovered the benefits of eating and living this way. After all, if you go to the doctor with an illness or fatigue, very few of them are even going to ask what you eat, let alone recommend eating natural and uncooked food!

So while reading about so many people waxing lyrical about raw food may sound intriguing and fill you with new hope to live a life you deserve, rather than one of lethargy and pain, it is almost hard to imagine just how good you can feel from something as seemingly simple as not cooking the life out of your food, and by cutting out certain things from your life.

A friend of mine, for example, used to be able to get away with filling his tummy with fries or potato wedges and veggie burgers at night without complaining about it the next morning. I on the other hand, would have some potatoes with my evening raw meal and wake up feeling far less energetic than I usually do. Does that then mean that I am ultra sensitive and a naturally tired person, or does that mean that I actually know what it feels like not to feel tired and weighed down by such food? I believe it is the latter, though I do also acknowledge that it seems that the cleaner food you put in your body the less crap food and drink you are able to tolerate without feeling rubbish.

This friend of mine has been eating more and more raw food throughout the past few years, and now starts the day with a fantastic green smoothie and eats a large salad with his cooked veggie food. But recently those plates of potatoes and stodge have not been letting themselves be forgotten the morning after. Now my friend is waking up with the potato hangover that I get. And despite me telling him how great it feels to eat mostly, or only, raw foods, it is only when he experiences it that he understands what I mean.

I know that the times when I have slipped back to eating say 50% raw, with the dreaded bread making an appearance several times a week, I am aware that I would feel better getting back up to high raw again. I have felt how it feels before, but it is only when I am there and high raw again that I can remember just how darn good it is and that it is certainly worth the effort of curbing cravings for cooked or stodgy food.

So I can wholeheartedly recommend you trying it. Even small steps by introducing more and more raw food in to your life may help you feel better. To help you, I am writing two recipe books full of delicious and life-giving recipes. The first book is bursting full of amazing high-raw desserts that will make you look at those cooked desserts full of flour, cholesterol, refined sugar and unhealthy fats with new eyes. And an added bonus is that I have been making these yummylicious desserts and eating them every day for several months now and have maintained my weight and well being! I know that wouldn’t have happened if I had been feasting on the cooked versions daily for so long! Life is really sweet when you try new things!

Keep an eye out for news of my first book launch, or mail me if you would like me to notify you when it is ready: hello(at)miss-best.com

In the meantime here is a recipe for a lovely raw soup. I find that I feel so great in the mornings if I eat a larger meal at lunch and then have something like a raw soup and fruit for my evening meal. Raw soup is simple and quick to make and has not a single potato in sight!

Raw spinach and avocado soup
Serves 1 hungry bunny
(double, triple etc the quantities if you have other hungry bunnies to feed)

Large handful spinach (preferably organic)
1 avocado
a small piece of leek (about 4 or 5 cm in length)
1 carrot, scrubbed or peeled and chopped into pieces
1 small apple, core removed
1 stick celery, chopped to blender friendly pieces
1 chunk of cucumber
Salt and pepper and spices to taste: pinch of turmeric, ½ teaspoon curry powder, a little chilli, and – if you fancy – a pinch of kelp
A splash of fresh lemon juice
Warm water (just finger warm – you don’t want it too hot or you’ll ruin those happy helpful enzymes) – just enough H2O to help the blender do it’s thing!

Instructions:
Cut the avocado in half, remove the stone and scoop out the flesh. Put this and everything else in a blender and whizz them, baby! Enjoy xx

Tags: Discoveries, Food, New things, Raw, Recipe, Vegan

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