Ate cooked food. Not interested.

[Andre]

Today I ran out of raw food so I steamed up some lentils, softwheat, onions, avocado (unripe), and a hot pepper. Let me tell you that I'm no chef, raw or cooked.

Surprising it didn't taste as good as I thought it would. This tasted watery, mushy, and bland. I couldn't taste the food itself. Just water mostly. With raw food you can taste it so much better. Take a carrot for example. You can taste the sweet and slightly bitter 'carrot' taste. You can feel the crackle and crunch, and even the nutrients buzzing on your tongue, but when cooked it tastes to me like a bunch of sugary mush.

So the food is sitting in my stomach now. Like a lump of water logged goop. Not the most pleasant feeling, but not nauseating either. It just doesn't 'feel' as healthy and efficient. But that's just me. Also, since going raw I haven't been sick - flu or cold!

Just wanted to share the experience.

[Thick]

Another textural thing I've noticed --When I first started eating all raw, all the chewing was exhausting. I felt like every meal was too much chewing. I can even remember some sore jaws lol.

Now, when I've had some cooked food--I feel the same way about it--it seems to take forever to chew it all up--since its all mush already but I know it still needs to be chewed..

I think that sometimes eating cooked can help you along your raw journey because of what you learn from the experience, eh?

On another note, I'm sorry you ran out of raw food. Where do you live? Maybe I can help you.

[Andre]

On another note, I'm sorry you ran out of raw food. Where do you live? Maybe I can help you.
Every week I defrost my fridge and make sure to eat the rest of my food. So I only had a few add-ons inside. The big thing was that I ran out of sprouted softwheat and lentils; they were only just soaking. They would've went nicely with the onions and some cayenne for a very simple dinner until I had a chance to shop tomorrow.

Thank you for offering to help. I appeciate it.

[Vaclare79]

Andre,
How long have you been raw ?? I guess sad food doesn't taste good after being raw for a while. That's great though. Wish I could have that experience too. :)

[Riiiya]

Oh my, i had a horrible cooked binge for amonth or so during the holiday season last year!!! and EVERY time i'd eat that food- i would think how TASTELESS and artificial it tastes!!! and yet it was so addicting that i couldn't get enough..

[Eva]

On another note, I'm sorry you ran out of raw food. Where do you live? Maybe I can help you.

What a kind offer. :)

[RawHeaven]

Andre that is a pretty interesting experience with cooked food and thank you for sharing. I can feel your descriptions and though you don't know it you give me further reason not to succumb to an emotional veggie burger & fries craving I've been having on and off the past few days. haha. Even though I'm not going to eat one and it no longer supports my health goals, I know it will not taste as good as I'm imagining. :p Your testimony confirms this. Thank you!

[srsarri]

Maybe I have not been raw long enough, because cooked food still tastes amazing. I have been 100% with the occasional bite. still tastes good, and I still want to keep eating it but I dont.

However, in the beginning, the only difference I noticed was the feeling it left in my stomach. Not the taste.

Im not tempted to try either! hehe

What a great experience!

[Green_Woman]

I had this SAME experience this weekend!!!

Bf and I went to a restaurant to enjoy the "Endless Soup and Salad" special... I was STARVING and their salad was PRIMARILY iceburg lettuce!!! Even two huge bowls of it later, I was STILL starving... so I got a bowl of minestrone soup.

Now, what USED to be my FAVORITE soup of all time tasted like flavorless, lifeless MUSH.... and, even though I only picked out the beans and sipped the broth, just 1.5 bowls later I was feeling exhausted and ill.

I went home, napped for two hours, and spent the rest of the night "cleansing" my poor traumatized innards of the cooked soup I'd put in them!

Poor widdle intestines! They were so confused! *laughs*

Raw food has so much more flavor and LIFE... well... of course. *giggles*

Oh... and I'm exhausted and sluggish today, too. Almost "hungover" feeling... NOT good considering I have a billion homework assignments to do before 8am tomorrow!! Definitely not worth a few sips of mushy soup!

[rawstrength]

I have experienced this as well. Cooked food just doesn't taste as good . . . plus digesting it is exhausting.

[petaltothemetal]

I have also experienced it, and find it totally amazing. I held onto bread products and coffee a long time because I never thought I could let them go. I've actually eaten two huge hunks of bread during my 2 consecutive challenges (oops!) laden down with butter because I really wanted them because the bread smelled so good coming out of the oven. But they didn't taste as good as they used to, and the butter, mysteriously, wasn't buttery?! And in the last 3 months my mom's given me cookies, crab and fish that I haven't enjoyed like I thought I would. When I've tasted food I've made for other people, I can't even tell for sure if it tastes good anymore. I find it a relief, to tell you the truth.

[kristinseto]

When I've tasted food I've made for other people, I can't even tell for sure if it tastes good anymore. I find it a relief, to tell you the truth.[/QUOTE]

That is amazing! I have had the same thing when I gave up meat.
I am hoping to get there with raw too.

[petaltothemetal]

I may be lucky in that regard because I didn't start from a fast food diet or a lot of sweets. When I make raw desserts I usually use only fresh fruit and no agave or even dates. So it may have been easier for me to change than most people. But I love to chew and chew and chew. And to crunch. And to savor silky smoothness. And to smell luscious ripeness. So when I dip a spoon into a pot of ____ cooked stuff because it smells amazing, I am often surprised it tastes like nothing. But raw food doesn't smell so much and tastes better than it smells.

It reminds me of something a doctor ex boyfriend told me years back: what you smell you actually inhale. When someone farts you are inhaling little bits of their poop.

Yep, something I really wanted to hear! :D And I've remembered this wonderful bit of knowledge several times while tasting stuff. If the smell goes into the air, that means particles of the food are escaping. They may be the particles that flavor it.

I know you are all very grateful that I posted this.

[cherrypie]

interessting observation, i had a similar experience yesterday night. I was too tired and too lazy to throw a salad together (and I was of course unprepared) so I made a cheese sandwhich
I'm German so I am/ sorry used to be obsessed with bread and made my own delicious wholegrain-organic-sourdough bread which was highly delicious and satisfying before I went 100% raw, I was in shock after eating it- not only did it suddenly taste far too slaty and somewhat bland not too mention the raw cheese camenbert but I had an awful bloating still going on today. That will teach me to stay raw:cool:
So I will keep going on baking bread for my family as I can't possibly allow them to eat this artificial playdough stuff, called bread here in the californian supermarkets- but I keep my fingers of it. PROMISE to me