Gravitating towards more fruits

[RawPaw]

It's just easier to prepare a fruit meal than a veggie meal I guess. And when I buy a bunch of spinach or kale, and I get to the end of the bag, it starts to go bad. I can buy a small amount of fruit and it keeps better…

I guess it works for me 'cos I'm a bachelor and I don't care much for food prep.

I do eat veggies and lots of avos, but fruit is almost like fast-food. :D I feel great.

[sport]

I too am a fruit fan. I have plenty of time to prepare my meals but mostly it is the fruit that calls me.

[jacsam]

I remember someone talking about oranges being their favorite travel food because nature puts it in it's own wrapper until your ready to eat it. Fruit really is easy to throw in a bag and take with you for the day.

[Bananna]

I agree...fruit is everything...easy, tasty, hydrating, simple, satisfying, energizing...even comforting, lol.

...not that I shun salads either or anything...but they do taste wicked delicious with some fruit in them too!

[ArcturusXIV]

Hrm, for some reason I feel better when I eat low glycemic fruits a lot...zucchini, squash, et cetera. Anyone else relate to this?

[juliebove]

I don't like fruit and by fruit I mean sweet fruit. Just tastes bad to me so I rarely eat it.

I don't think vegetables are hard to do. I stopped by the salad bar tonight and got dinner. Yeah, it costs more to get the food that way but no work on my part.

I regularly eat peeled and washed baby carrots, cherry or grape tomatoes, and those little sweet peppers. You just carefully eat around the few seeds that are there. If I can't find those, I get the big bell peppers. Just wash them and cut down vertically. I tend to cut them into big chunks then just pick them up and eat them like that. I also buy those small cucumbers. I eat a lot of celery too. I just rip it off, piece by piece, break off the bottom (dirtiest) part, wash and eat. I don't care if it looks pretty. It still tastes good.

Greens are harder. I'll give you that. This past week my organic produce box had mud in it. Seriously. It was bad. Between the spinach and the lettuce, yuck! I had on a light blue shirt and touched the greens to it. Had mud all over front of me. Made a salad from the lettuce and had to wash, wash and rewash. And even after I thought it was clean, it wasn't. There was muddy residue in the bowl. Eek! Luckily I left the pieces rather large so I could rinse them again and clean them better with paper towels.

[RawPaw]

Greens are harder. I'll give you that. This past week my organic produce box had mud in it. Seriously. It was bad. Between the spinach and the lettuce, yuck! I had on a light blue shirt and touched the greens to it. Had mud all over front of me. Made a salad from the lettuce and had to wash, wash and rewash. And even after I thought it was clean, it wasn't. There was muddy residue in the bowl. Eek! Luckily I left the pieces rather large so I could rinse them again and clean them better with paper towels.

That's what I'm talking about. It's hard to find good veggies that aren't caked in dirt. My spinach rarely is clean, and when I buy a single bunch I can't eat it all before it turns.

Fruit are just well, easy. Even melons, which are less sweet can be an easy meal. Freakin' cut it open and dive in.

[juliebove]

That's what I'm talking about. It's hard to find good veggies that aren't caked in dirt. My spinach rarely is clean, and when I buy a single bunch I can't eat it all before it turns.

Fruit are just well, easy. Even melons, which are less sweet can be an easy meal. Freakin' cut it open and dive in.

Most of the time I get my greens via a salad in a restaurant or I buy small quantities from a salad bar. I did try the salad spinner, but it was a pain to store.

[MelissaO]

I love fruit but have to balance them off with greens. I will normally do fruits in the am until lunch then greens and veggies after that.


I seem to have pretty good luck when I buy organic baby spinach in those plastic bins instead of the bags. I use alot of it in my green smoothies. I always buy 2 containers a week from Costco. My other greens I agree to tend to wilt if I buy too much in hopes that they will keep. I do use those green bags that seems to help to keep the other greens for atleast a week.


Costco had a great deal on a case of gorgeous navel organges that I did snap up, can't wait to dive into them tomorrow :)

[J A]

I love fruits, I'd guess 60 - 70 % of what I eat is made up of sweet fruits. No drawbacks that I can feel, but then people like David Klein and Frederic Patenaude say some are made more "fruitarian" whereas others may need more of other raw foods. Fruits are, by the way, just about the only living thing not trying to attack/defend - they don't develop poisons like most plants since they take advantage of being eaten.

[RawPaw]

I love fruits, I'd guess 60 - 70 % of what I eat is made up of sweet fruits. No drawbacks that I can feel, but then people like David Klein and Frederic Patenaude say some are made more "fruitarian" whereas others may need more of other raw foods. Fruits are, by the way, just about the only living thing not trying to attack/defend - they don't develop poisons like most plants since they take advantage of being eaten.

Yeah, I'm no fruitarian by any imagination. I think I'm just going through a fruit phase. Like I said, I think it's my infatuation with junk food that draws me towards easy fruits. LOL And right now I'm eating a bowl of bananas and an avocado, which is a veggie–I guess.

[ShantiLove]

Im a fruit person too :D

When it comes to greens I had the same problem that it turned bad before I could eat it all. Then I discover that somting like romani can last for weeks in the fridge, yes organic romani (Kale is great too). It is only the outside leafs that get a little brown but the indside is green and crispy. So I always buy a lot of romani at the time, and it last me for a week or a week and a half.
Spinat can be difficould to eat when you are the only raw in the house, the bags are just tooo big. I usaly buy spinat from the farmersmarked. There I can buy a smaler portion and get throug it all befoe it turnes bad.
My shortcut on days where I dont feel like using a lot of time preparing food, I use green powders in place of the greens. I know it is not the same but close to, and better than nothing ;) So I will ex. cut up a mango and springle let say barley grass powder over it, and enjoy. Fast and easy :D

[spicyfull]

I don't think you should skip the prep work, you should share all those hours just as we all have to do.:) Just kidding, its your Journey and your call. RAW is TOPs anyway you choose. Fruits are GREAT and that is all a lot or Foodist eat and they are Strong and Healthy. Have a RAWonderful Journey.

[J A]

And right now I'm eating a bowl of bananas and an avocado, which is a veggie–I guess.

Avocado is a non-sweet fruit - but it is an exception from the food combining rule and can be eaten with most anything. Which is good 'cause I love them in my salads :D

[oai]

lol. me too. i dislike food preparation. it would take some kind of miracle for me to really focus on a recipe book. i do like to look through the pictures though -- visual eating. that's how much i dislike prepping food. :rolleyes:

fruits are definitely the easiest fast food. i like making a smoothie of one fruit almost everyday.

[annavon]

I just got done reading "The Raw Life" by Paul Nison. It has a lot of interviews of long-time raw foodists. I was amazed at how many of them lean toward eating a mostly fruit diet. For me, I like fruit and it is convenient, but I only eat about 2-3 servings a day of sweet fruit, usualy some fruit in my green smoothie, an orange or an apple in the afternoon and then if I am craving dessert, I will have some fruit sorbet made in my juicer or Vitamix. Otherwise, I like lots of greens and some non-sweet fruit like tomatos, cucumbers and peppers etc. Oh, yes and let's not forget avocados.