raw kids/ no dehydrater

[chamomile]

Raw food is so yummy that my dh and kids have been eating more and more raw. I'm so excited!!!I'm thinking of going all the way with them, I dont have a dehydrater though. For myself I eat simply and don't find one necessary. Are any of your kids raw w/o eating dehydrated food? I think it might be to hard for them. I have 5 kids ages 1 1/2 - 11.
thanks for the input

[Revvell]

Storm and Jinjee have 4 children, all raw and they rarely if ever use a dehydrator. You might wish to get their eBooks. They're only $20 for nine of them. They give a lot of information plust recipes for kids as well as adults.

www.thegardendiet.com

Revvell

[Denise Nicole]

Storm and Jinjee have 4 children, all raw and they rarely if ever use a dehydrator. You might wish to get their eBooks. They're only $20 for nine of them. They give a lot of information plust recipes for kids as well as adults.

www.thegardendiet.com

Revvell
I was going to say the same thing, lol You beat me too it Revvell :p :)

[Revvell]

I was going to say the same thing, lol You beat me too it Revvell :p :)


Ya gots to get up pretttttttty early in the morning to beat me!!! :D

[Ka-Yun Yoon]

for now, u can jus make them things like green smoothies, fresh fruits, soaked nutmilk shakes, etc...

I'd luv ta make my children (when me & my husband have one :D ) raw with me,,, so far I slip up everyday, and my husband is no help >< he luvs meat, and luvs me ^^ he enjoys tak'n me out to eat every other day ;)

[rawpriestess]

Oh YES, Storm and Jinjees ebooks are great, I LOVE THEM.


also, just put a ton of fruit on your counter and let the kids go wild, smoothies too and frozen fruits, just to eat with a popsicle stick in them, frozen bananas with a popsicle stick, kids love these,

any kind of nut pudding with dates, avocado with cacao, and dates,

almond milk, fruit juices, marinara sauce with zucchini spiral noodles, etc.

you certainly don't need a dehydrator, but they are nice to have to warm foods an for crackers and such, but I wouldnt' worry about it, unless they get board with the food, chances are having as much fresh fruits as they can eat will keep them happy, and then there are carrots, and celery, and radishes, and and and............

[Ariella]

my son is mostly raw and my daughter is all raw. we rarely eat dehydrated foods. they are healthy and happy and growing well. we eat pretty simple at my house. a lot of smoothies, popsicles, salads, fruits, veggies, trail mix, an occasional raw desert. it works.

Ariella

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[Raw_Journey]

Hi. I am new here, but wanted to post quickly. My 2 children 6 and 2 have been 100% for a month and we have only used the dehydrator once or twice for some cookies they wanted to make. Most recipes are great eating right after we make them and even if they call for dehydrating the kids eat it before it can get there! :)
They eat mostly fruits and 1-2 salads a day.
Good luck!

Kathryn

[NuttyRawMom]

My whole family (me, hubby, 3 kids ages 6 to 15 mo.) is raw. On a seldom occasion, my kids eat some cooked vegan items, but for the most part they are raw. The hang up for me at first (in feeding my children raw) was thinking that just a pile of fruit is a whole meal and not just a snack. I constantly ask if they are hungry, but they are fine. I just need to relax and take the cues from them. Someone else (sorry, can't remember who) mentioned that they let the kids choose fruit when they don't like the prepared meal. I am trying to do that with mine. Our rule is one bite and if you don't like it, you don't have to have it.

I also love the ebooks from Storm and Jinjee. I do not yet have Alissa's book, though it is next on my list, their books were the final step in my decision to try raw. The fact that they don't dehydrate (and I don't have a dehydrator either), have 4 kids 100% raw (alleviates my concerns for my own kiddos), and the books were online (instant info for me in Europe) led me to purchase their books first.

If it weren't for all these great people with wonderful ideas and amazing pictures in this forum, I wouldn't be so desperate to get a stinkin' dehydrator! Although, my great excuse to my hubby is that we have so many fruit trees that I have to do something with the fruit since I can't can it as preserves! :)

Winners in our house are: smoothies, sunflower seed pate with a veggie platter, fruit of any flavor and color, separate bowls of almond butter and coconut flakes to dip apples, bananas, pineapple, and berries in, homemade ice cream and popsicles (aka frozen smoothies - kids are clueless that they ate it for breakfast, too!), trail mix, dried figs, tahini cheese, fruit juices, chocolate almond milk (still adapting to plain!)....the list is endless when you keep experimenting with new ideas.

One things seems to be pretty general: the younger they are, the easier it will be!

Hope this helps!

[chamomile]

thank you all so much for answering. It helps alot to hear from other moms. My kids eat alot of raw food, some days more than others. They still have one cooked meal a day. I am nervous about changing their diets. But then again, summer time is probably the best time to start a raw food diet.
I'll look into jinjees books. sounds interesting.
I think i'll change them slooowly. It's great to hear that other families are raw w/o using the dehydrater.
thanks again for all the replies

[Ariannah]

There's also the risk that the kids/family won't like very many of the things which come from the dehydrator. Successes were the crepe things made with banana leather and cashew/macadamia cream, and the carrot pecan burgers (with lots of mushroom). Marginal was the Onion bread, Failures were almost everything else. And the irony was, they are the people for whom I *bought* the dehydrator, as that was as "cooked" as I was willing to get!

I didn't care for many flax crackers, or many of the recipes which require dehydration. It seemed like a lot of preparation and buying of ingredients for something so anticlimactic.

It's my personal taste and that of my family. But then again, I had harboured secret hopes that I'd gradually win my family over with all the cool raw stuff I could make. They are not raw, but they love raw fruits and veggies, and some of the raw things I have made, and I am satisfied that they eat the least bad of the food in the cooked realm. It has to be their own choice.

Alissa's book has all kinds of delicious recipes that do not require a dehydrator. But for me, I'm the simple, few ingredients, fresh type of preferrer.

This is just my experience.

[blueberryone]

ah, RP, did you delete these because you didn't want people to know that you're not so bright? Do you REALLY have a PhD? That's dubious, at best.
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