What do you eat on a day-to-day basis?

[supersonic_528]

I have just started this very recently (a week or so), but not totally raw yet (only about 40-50%). I want to go raw as much as possible, but don't have much idea as to what to eat on a day-to-day basis. I'm mostly having smoothies and salads as the raw part of my diet as of now.

I would like to know what you guys eat everyday, starting from breakfast to dinner. That will probably give me some idea and I won't have to eat less like sometimes I'm having to do. I don't care much about taste, but would like to know about some easy day-to-day foods that people usually have. Thanks!

[RAWmen-Noodles]

I am just as new as you but here is what I have been doing:

-As soon as I wake up I drink a big glass of lemon water
-(B)-Oat groats (soaked the night before) with raisens, walnuts, and maple syrup
-(S)-kale chips or piece of fruit or nuts
-(L)-zoodles or big salad or eat fruit until I am full
-(S)-pizza bread or fruit or veg
-(D)-fruit
Lot of water inbetween meals

[supersonic_528]

RAWmen-Noodles, thanks for sharing. What's kale chips? Do you make it or is it something that's available in the market? Same question for pizza bread.

Also, what does HW, CW and GW stand for? I'm guessing weights. I see everbody using it here, but not sure what it means :)

[RawHeaven]

supersonic, do you have alissa cohen's book living on live food? it contains a wealth of information regarding how to get this raw food eating thing started. if you cannot afford it at this time, check with your local library.

i'm sure you'll get lots of great answers, but what you decide to eat (on a daily basis) is dependent on your current health, your goals, your understanding of raw foods, your taste buds, your budget, what you enjoy eating, your detox process, how you're transitioning....i could go on and on and on.

i've been raw for 2 years. i started out eating a lot of gourmet raw stuff, preparing yummy recipes. now i eat pretty simply, juice alot, blend a lot of my foods. occasionally i'll make a raw treat or meal. i've also delved into some of the superfoods - i love chlorella, maca, cacao, vitamineral green.

i would say read as much as you can about this lifestyle. do your research and listen to your body.

no one can really tell you what to eat. you will figure that out for yourself.

starting out just eat raw and don't worry about what it is, is my recommendation.

and get that book, if you don't already have it. ;) there are a gazillion recipes. from the most simple to complex.

there are other good raw food books too. check david wolfe, dr gabriel cousens, victoria boutenko....anyone else feel free to jump in.

peace!

[Veronica01]

If you're just starting out do not worry about being complicated. The easiest and best way to get used to it is by eating whole natural foods.

For breakfast and lunch and snacks just eat lots of fruit, have different fruits at each meal or have 2 or 3 different ones per meal and eat them until you are full. At dinner incorporate some more fruit and a huge salad with lots of veggies and lettuce. It is so easy, just make sure you are not hungry and are taking in a normal amount of calories. Don't worry about buying expensive nuts and items to make recipes.

For breakfast I eat either just bananas, or i make a smoothie with bananas, spinach and whatever other fruit i want

for lunch i eat lots of oranges and grapefruit

for a snack i eat apples or bananas

for dinner i have a large salad with fruit or zuchini cut into strips and i make a marinara sauce in my blender with tomatoes, sundried tomatoes, basil and dates.

It's very easy to eat this way and by eating lots of fruit and keeping it light your body won't get tired or bogged down while you are detoxing and digesting.

[RawSar]

I agree with Veronica01.

My only meal I have is dinner which is a big salad with lots of veggies and a fruit dressing (mangos and strawberries blended like a salsa) usually.

Otherwise through out the day I eat fruit. Whatever we have that's ripe in our kitchen I will just snack on fruit all day till dinner.

I also make smoothies. Just fruit or green smoothies. All depends on what I have.

So simple, so easy, so quick, so natural, and oh so yummy :)

[spicyfull]

With me its like normal Life, what ever I have a taste for or what ever is handy.

[*RayRay*]

lately I've been making veggie wraps....I take some cabbage leaves and slice up some tomatoes, onions, avocados, and pile them on there with some dijon mustard.....it's like a sandwich...or you can leave out the mustard and use guacamole (instead of just chopped avo) and it is like a taco.....yummy, and quick and easy to make...! I also eat lots of big salads... I don't 'eat' breakfast....I have a quart of 'green lemonade' in the morning which is juice from kale, romaine, celery, 1 apple, and 1/2 lemon. delicious.... then for dinner another big salad, and maybe a baked sweet potato (yes, this is cooked, but relatively harmless considering what the rest of my food consists of and that I follow proper food combining rules) Snacks are herbal tea or veggies with guacamole. I'm not currently eating fruit because I'm doing a candida cleanse, but when I do eat fruit it is usually in the morning....apples, or fruit smoothies with strawberries and bananas.

[HolyGuacamole]

I keep it pretty simple most of the time, too.
Fruit or a smoothie for breakfast.
Salad or a blender soup for lunch.
Salad or, say, zucchini "pasta," or nori wraps, or portabellas with guac or pesto... something like that, for dinner.

Fruit and cut up veggies for snacks; sometimes I have a handful of nuts or seeds.
I eat lots of sprouts, and lots of greens.

So far today (it's 1 pm here) I have had pineapple spears, pomegranate, raspberries, and a little sprout salad. To drink I have had kombucha and lots of water.
Normally I would have had a huge green juice but I'm waiting on a juicer part right now.

ETA:
Almost every day, I have tomatoes run through the juicer to make soup, or cut up tomatoes on a plate, liberally doused with sea veggies.

[RaeVynn]

Green smoothie for breakfast: banana, couple handsfuls of greens, today it was watercress and mixed spring salad greens, and some mango slices, with bottled kombucha for the liquid (I don't think I'll use kombucha again).
Lunch: yesterday I grabbed a couple of big collard leaves, and spread a little "cheeze" on them, cut an avocado up and put half on each, and then cut a tomato up and split it between them. Rolled up and had collard wraps!
Dinner: Big salad with mixed spring greens, red pepper, avocado, tomato, some mango, half a Jerusalem artichoke, with a citrus-hemp dressing from Rawvolution, served with some onion bread spread with a bit of the cheeze.
I also made a raw "french onion soup" from Rawvolution, which DH really liked, but I couldn't finish.
Dessert: A couple of Egyptian date balls, followed by a small handful of dates.

[juliew]

lately I've been making veggie wraps....I take some cabbage leaves and slice up some tomatoes, onions, avocados, and pile them on there with some dijon mustard.....it's like a sandwich...or you can leave out the mustard and use guacamole (instead of just chopped avo) and it is like a taco.....yummy, and quick and easy to make...! I also eat lots of big salads... I don't 'eat' breakfast....I have a quart of 'green lemonade' in the morning which is juice from kale, romaine, celery, 1 apple, and 1/2 lemon. delicious.... then for dinner another big salad, and maybe a baked sweet potato (yes, this is cooked, but relatively harmless considering what the rest of my food consists of and that I follow proper food combining rules) Snacks are herbal tea or veggies with guacamole. I'm not currently eating fruit because I'm doing a candida cleanse, but when I do eat fruit it is usually in the morning....apples, or fruit smoothies with strawberries and bananas.

Sounds like natalia rose's plan?

I'm curious how do you afford all the veggies to juice? I tried doing green lemonade for a long time and went throug a ton of expensive veggies for one glass of juice? What's the secret??

[*RayRay*]

Yes juliew, it is Natalia Rose's Plan.....It is the best eating plan I have found....delicious, easy, and not too strict, while still cleansing to the body......I get kale, apples and carrots in bulk at a local organic delivery service, and romaine is pretty cheap (I get bags of 3 organic romaine hearts at my local Fred Meyers for $2.50), and organic celery at Fred Meyers is $0.99 lb. My juice is a priority.....I don't consider it an option....it is something I do every day, and don't worry about what it is costing....(which isn't really that much!).....my health is very important to me!

no secret...but.....in one morning's juice I use about : 3-4 leaves kale (or equivalent amount of other dark leafy green), 4-5 stalks celery, 1-2 apples, 1/2 lemon, and 1/2 romaine heart, somtimes 1/2 cucumber.....this makes almost a quart.....I have a Juiceman II.....

[juliew]

Wow, i was spending like hundreds of dollars a week trying to get that much juice. i have the breville juicer. i don't know where i can get kale and such in bulk. also it seems to go bad too quickly also. i tried her plan to the T for about a year and had a ton of trouble with it. im so glad it is working for you!!! it's important to like what you are doing.

[mongodelight]

Smoothie recipe, breakfast/lunch:

cacao beans 25x
goji berries 50g
old ORGANIC coconut: 50g
Banana 1x
Date 1-2x
Tablespoon of the best honey u can find

U can add a citrus fruit or apple to it, i think it taste better.

I drink that literally every day

[RAWmen-Noodles]

RAWmen-Noodles, thanks for sharing. What's kale chips? Do you make it or is it something that's available in the market? Same question for pizza bread.

Also, what does HW, CW and GW stand for? I'm guessing weights. I see everbody using it here, but not sure what it means :)


Kale chips are just some kale dehydrated until crispy. In a bowl, add a little olive oil and some sea salt of your choice and massage the mixture with your fingers until the kale is covered with the olive oil. Then dehydrate until crispy. They are so good. They keep me from cheating.

The pizza bread was a recipe I ran across on the "goneraw" website.

CW is current weight
GW is goal weight

[gs4life]

for me a typical day could look like:

bfast: large melon
lunch: 1 kilo of grapes
snack: apples
supper: some kind of fruit (papaya, apples or pears) before a large salad (some type of leafy green, cukes and maybe some chopped red grapes on top)