You Know You're A Raw Foodist When...

[Boysenberry]

you have a coffee grinder, but don't drink coffee.

when you throw out your cook books.

[Angelina]

or worse yet..can't part with your cookbooks and look through them to see how you can un cook SAD recipes!! Its a sickness, but now I can't even look at a recipe without instantly thinking "hmmm..I can do this raw!!"

[Ariannah]

You have six metal "banana trees" on your counter, filled with bananas, and it still doesn't seem to be enough ;)

[TA]

when your house begins to smell like your favorite juice bar...

[JMD]

when you now get a huge "high"/"buzz" when organic produce is on sale and you wipe them out of pears and apples and consider that dinner for the next three days:)

[karotw]

When a guest wants a cup of coffee and you have to clean the nut residue out of your coffee grinder first ; )


When your Spouse/Significant other/kids looks through the cabinets and looks at you with frustrations and say. . "there's never anything to eat around here that's bad for me" ;)

You store your mandolin, food processor parts and glass bowls inside your oven and have a cutting board over your burners!

The fruit bowl actually has fresh fruit in it (not keys, change or plastic apples!)

[rawredbone]

You store your mandolin, food processor parts and glass bowls inside your oven and have a cutting board over your burners!

Thanks Karotw I am running home now to take these things off me over crowded counter and dehydrator and store them in my no longer used oven...lololol

[Sharon in Colorado]

Your K-tec blender shows on the digital display that it is on its 1576th run and you've only had it a few months.

[Rawkinlocs]

Your kids friends come to visit and bring their own food!

In the warmer months your house becomes a summer resort for fruitflies :rolleyes:

The people in produce know you by first name!

[kmik]

Your overweight friends that you've told about raw and have seen your results start avoiding you :(

While shopping at Whole Foods, the lettuce on the salad bar catches your eye, and you start drooling over it :p

Your Aunt-in-law who's coming over for Thanksgiving and bringing her own food asks your Mother-in-law "Does she have any pots?" :D

When people tell you how much weight they gained over Thanksgiving you're able to smile and say you lost weight! (but still ate like a pig!) :D :D

[BDraw]

Hey, great post!

How about when your friends come over and have no clue what kind of fruit that is you have on your counter, so you automatically cut it open and share.

Or everyone who eats SAD is worried about you and your diet! (so sad!)

BD

[katrina]

When you only use your oven to heat your cold kitchen.

When your cabinets look like a nut and seed treasure chest for happy squirrels!

When you have more onions and spinach in the fridge than the grocery store has.

[twinee1]

When you build a new house and tell the Kitchen designer to put in a Subzero restaurant size fridge (lots of storage for veggies), add some basket drawers for extra fruit storage ...and a pantry big enough for a dehydrater, slicers, choppers, mandeline, shelf for the Juicer, extra Blender...Food Processor..and Oh when you tell them to NiX the Microwave and they say "you HAVE to have a Microwave !! ???" :eek:

[karotw]

Hee-hee, when the people that work at your local health food store see you coming and run the other way or say under their breath "omg, there's that woman again and she's going to ask me what temperature something was dehydrated at again"

[Boysenberry]

when you grind up nuts, add some spices and call it cheese!

[Sharon in Colorado]

When you can't understand why all the SADers don't like your creations...

When you start to lose your patience with the "where do you get your protein" question...

When you start to actually like the taste of carob...

[truthseeker]

When your sister-in-law gives you a birthday card that reads:

"Things I've Learned: Any pan is a no-stick pan if you no cook in it."


When you SAD sister who is over for a visit starts explaining how a self cleaning oven works, pauses...looks at you...and then says........... "ya, um, never mind" :p

LOL

[twinee1]

When your friends who always talked to you about the "diet" what I ate to stay looking as I did..now they avoid the subject and stop asking me about my "diet"..and NEVER ask what I have been eating...hmmm I must be a Raw Foodie... :p

[Vandy]

When the girls in my hall started calling me "The girl who likes to eat an insane amount of fruit."

When people think you have a serious eating disorder

When the people at Whole Foods become our best friends...

When you start not to like things that DON'T say "Organic"

When you get excited to Poop!

[Boysenberry]

when you take your own food with you when you go "out" to dinner.

[happy_kauai]

when you sit down in front of the T.V to relax and eat a delicious raw dinner, then end up turning the T.V off just so you can fully enjoy the amazing tastes of your food!
(I did this exact thing tonight with my first raw "pizza"!)

when you have to ask your boyfriend to brush his teeth before you kiss 'cause you can smell everything (not raw) that he had for dinner!

when you eat an ENTIRE big bowl of guacomole (w/ olive oil, no less) in one sitting, and not worry too much about the fat content

when you get the sniffles, a sore throat, a headache, and aching muscles but still refuse to take medicine, because, after all, you're not sick, you're detoxing! :p

[Ariannah]

When you can't understand why all the SADers don't like your creations... Oh man, do I hear you there! I've made things for people whereby I had to sit on my hands to prevent eating the entire thing myself because it's so goooooood, and other people have the attitude of "ewww what's this supposed to be?".

Me (out loud): Well, it's different, an acquired taste I suppose.
Me (thinking silently): What do you mean you don't like this! I could have eaten a larger portion of the dough for this all by myself!

However, night before last, the fudge balls were a great success. They could not believe the ingredients when I told them. It's also a frequent favorite with my children (they don't get why I am so delighted to have them liking this thing which tastes so yummy). Too bad almond butter is around $8 bucks a jar most places (I live in Canada don't forget :) ) but I snagged a few jars for $6 a piece the other day. Whew. At the place where it's $6, the raw gets sold out really quickly as soon as it's in stock, and luckily I was there when they had them in! I wonder if raw eating is catching on?

[NoGMO!]

... when there is no room left in the refrigerator for your SAD eating roommate to put his pizza box and six-pack of colas. :rolleyes:

[ljcoolj]

when everything in a conventional grocery store looks like plastic toys. can't believe I use to spend my $$ on all that crap.

[jax]

When you cook meat for your not raw husband and the smell makes you gag!

When you go to dinner at your mom's and she has fruit and salad out for you along with the cooked food for the rest of the family! My mom actually does this for me without me asking! She is so great!! :D

Jax

[JMD]

When an idea of a good day is one where you have several BM's....which you may analyze to "see how you are digesting and absorbing"

When people blame ANYTHING that may go wrong in your life on your food plan..."well if you ate a little meeat you'd..................."

When people are amazed at the amount of food you eat and how often

When years of guilt and shame about eating leaves your mind and body 90% of the day....

When a gourmet restaurant is a fresh farm stand.

When your husband getting worried at all the phallic symbols on the counter and fridge like carrots, zuchinni, cucumbers, , celery, eggplant .....

[Boysenberry]

Wow, be grateful for the jar of almond butter that is only $8, here in Texas we pay up to $17 a jar!!! Unless you are talking about a half pint?

[Ariannah]

Well, I am grateful for everything :) and this is the first time I've heard of anything costing more in the states... How much by weight/volume do you get for $17?

The $8 Jar I am talking about is the 340g (by weight) of Maranatha Raw Almond butter, and by volume it barely holds two one-cup measurements. One whole jar is gone if I make an entire recipe of fudge.

[jennplas]

...when your mom comes over and by the second day of her visit she has to raid the grocery store and come back with sweets and salts stating that she NEEDS salt and sugar BADLY!!

...when your daughter insists that she should be having butternut squash as a snack before bedtime.

[Sharon in Colorado]

When you find the gonga deal of the year at Walmart, 2 lb bags of organic bananas for .25 and don't tell anyone you know until you've picked up 20 lbs for 2.50. :o

[Boysenberry]

when you wrap a piece of banana fruit leather around a walnut and call it banana bread.

[karotw]

When you're getting ready to go on a business trip and you pack and entire bag of fruits, veggies and nuts.

Then you seek out the local health food store and happen upon a raw restaurant (in Minneapolis, no less!)

:D

[Rawkin' 90's]

when you wrap a piece of banana fruit leather around a walnut and call it banana bread.

ROFL! Good one... :)

[TA]

...your (SAD) kidlets show up for dinner (on time!) with a box of Satsuma Tangerines instead of a bottle of wine...

[Dawn39]

When you have a complete collection of recipe books to learn how to not cook :p

[GratefullyGreen]

When you'll move cross country to be near people who eat like you!!! :D

[Boysenberry]

when you call your husband up at work, ask him to stop at the store on his way home, and he says, "for what? more avacados?" You start laughing, so then he says, "bananas?"

[Boysenberry]

when your mom comes over and by the second day of her visit she has to raid the grocery store and come back with sweets and salts stating that she NEEDS salt and sugar BADLY!!

My mom does that too!!! :eek:

[tvillemom]

LOL LOL!! LOVE IT! I guess I'm not here YET, but making the committment TODAY....100% RAW FOR ONE YEAR CHALLENGE! :D Here's mine:
You literally DROOL over the pictures from this board!

You and your only RAW friend spend 2 hours on the phone talking about all these recipes you can't wait to try, and your giddy with excitement, and drooling because you KNOW how good its' going to be! :D

Take care,
Wendi

[fiddler]

...when your mom comes over and by the second day of her visit she has to raid the grocery store and come back with sweets and salts stating that she NEEDS salt and sugar BADLY!!


Just the opposite in my case...

You know you're raw when your Mom has seen how well you've done with RAW that she's decided to give it a whirl. She's now 85% RAW, dropped tons of weight, became energized, joined a health club and now comes to the house to raid your produce that you've just bought from the wholesalers :)

- when you have a calmer, more spiritual demeanor
- when you only wash your hair once a week with natural oils and not even notice a difference
- when you get the glow
- when you are happy just to be alive and well.

Cheers,
fiddler

[Gosia]

when you crave fruit whenever you are hungry!


Gosia

[Boysenberry]

when you get the glow

yeah, you get the glow and you're not pregnant!!! :D

[raven]

when you have a photo of a mouth-watering raw entree as your screensaver.

[MoniDew]

when you have a culinary orgasm while standing in front of the produce stand - in full view of the public!

[Guydiane]

When my teenage cousin came over and opern the fridge and said all we had in there was junk foord like carrots and veggies

[honeybee joy]

When not finding a yummy tomato, makes it a bad day.

[shakalover]

When your husband getting worried at all the phallic symbols on the counter and fridge like carrots, zuchinni, cucumbers, , celery, eggplant .....


when you have a culinary orgasm while standing in front of the produce stand - in full view of the public!


those two cracked me up! :p

[rawpriestess]

When the only thing in your medicine cabinet is Tea Tree Oil,

the only thing in your cosmetic bag is a small bottle of honey.

The only thing in your bathroom shower is honey and olive oil.

You don't go anywhere in the supermarket except the produce department.

You won't use plastic bags, or paper bags and you bring your own hemp or cotton bags to the store.

You actually bath in the sun.

You buy an entire case of fruit and don't think you have enough to share with your family or friends.

You plant all your lawn with veggetables and fruits.

You can recognize fruits that other people can't even pronounce.

You've tried all the fruits and veggies in your local market, so start going to specialty shops and asian markets, to look for new things to taste.

You grow your own herbs and spices.

You can go walking in the wilderness, and take nothing with you, and eat all day long and be totally satisfied, and even full.

You can tell the difference between organic and non-organic by the smell of the fruits and veggies.

You've eaten more than two kinds of dates.

You know every restaurant within a 25 mile radius of your home that has organic salads.

You know how to pronounce, agave, cherimoya, durian, and what they taste like.

[Ariannah]

You buy an entire case of fruit and don't think you have enough to share with your family or friends.Yep, this is me... I have 7 organic pineapples (They were on sale for $3.99 this week, cheaper than even the regular price of the NON-organic which is $5.99) and I'm wondering if I should have bought more. :)

[Boysenberry]

the jacket that you used to have to pull your tummy in to zip up now fits you and your toddler at the same time!

[lodestar]

when just reading this thread makes you get up...go to the kitchen...blend another green drink...smile...and feel thankful for another raw day:)

[Ariannah]

Boysenberry - how much almond butter do you get for that $17 jar?

[Sharon in Colorado]

When you get freaked out after finding out that valencia oranges are out of season and you can't juice navel oranges :eek:

[Bretta]

When all you REALLY want for Christmas is a great chef's knife, a huge wooden cutting board and a magnetic strip to hang your knives on the wall!

[Sunshine9]

When you can walk through an entire conventional grocery store and find absolutely nothing to eat!

[Carolyn]

When your version of "fast food" is stopping at the grocery store and picking up a container of a pre-made salad (lettuce, cucumber, tomato) ... and yes, I do this periodically ... cracked up the cashier when I said it was my version of "fast food" ... :)

[Rawism]

...when your family and friends think this is just "another phase" you are going through.

[rawredbone]

Then you seek out the local health food store and happen upon a raw restaurant (in Minneapolis, no less!)

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The restaurant is the RaW DiGiTy I might add. Just had to Represent Minneapolis......SoUtH SiDDDDDDDDDDDddddddE...lololol

[rawredbone]

When your co-workers thinks you have lost your mind but, they look at you with their mouths hanging open when they see the weight falling off.

[Ariannah]

When even ordering a salad at a small restaurant isn't something you can just do, as in say, "I'd like the garden salad please". You also have to tell them to leave off the cheese, canned fruit, and put the dressing on the side.

[Sharon in Colorado]

When all you REALLY want for Christmas is a great chef's knife, a huge wooden cutting board and a magnetic strip to hang your knives on the wall!

Or a ceramic knife, bamboo cutting board and spirooli. :p

Alissa needs to start offering gift cards... :cool:

[CAdreamer]

When you travel long distance to visit family and friends and have to take an
extra suitcase for the raw gadgets and food !

When, before visiting them, you tell them to just cook their regular food and not bother for you....they LOVE IT !! It sure takes the pressure off the host not to have to think about what foods to buy and what their guests like.

When your new neighbor plans a dinner get-together, for us to meet others in the neighborhood, and I had to forewarn her that we are raw foodist...then she says, "A what?"

We just moved to a new state and she's my Swedish neighbor across the street. After explaining, I told her that just having people over for tea would be nice. She's now trying to think of how to make the raw dinner for us....that's nice. I told her we could all potluck something raw. However, there's snow on the ground and maybe others would rather have a hot meal...we'll see.

When you have to buy most of your kitchen gadgets from the internet, because, if it was in the store, not only would it gather dust on the shelf, but no one else would have a clue how to use it.

[Boysenberry]

when your cereal bowls are to small to hold your salad, so you use your biggest tupperware bowl.

[Boysenberry]

when you have banned from the "all you can eat" salad bar. :eek:

lol everybody. LOL

[karotw]

You go out and buy new, larger salad bowls (like the size most people use for a salad to feed a whole family) because the little ones just weren't doing it for you!

[JMD]

when you are hated by the waitstaff at non-raw restaurants

when you bring your own dressing and food to a restaurant...to "add in" to their version of salads

when @ a restaurant your friends and family want you to order last and refer to you as "Sally" from "WHEN HARRY MET SALLY" and I take it as a HUGE compliment :)

[Salsify]

When you can just say 'no' to things you used to love and don't feel you miss out on something, and on top of that feel really good eating or drinking something raw instead.

[charis]

...when you make and serve Alissa's Raw Ravioli for the first time to your not-raw husband and he suggests to call it something different -- like a funny, hard to pronounce name that you would find in Star Trek -- so he could try to enjoy it instead of constantly comparing it to the real thing.

[twinee1]

When some one asked you what your favorite food is and you say spouted almonds, Fuji apples and a Green Drink made of Kale...

And when you make a Green Drink and comment to your husband about the beautiful BRIGHT GREEN color of your juice

:D ..and you think your normal.

[tvillemom]

Twinee....that is sooo funny. I tell my non-raw friends that a really easy thing for them to do to get more greens is...is to make the green smoothie. I tell them its' one of my favorites, and they get this funny look on their face, like yuck!
Wendi

[Rawkinlocs]

When people look at your food, look at their food and say that theirs is "real food".

When your little one begs for a green smoothie like most kids beg for candy!

When you keep burning out food processors and have no qualms about replacing them.

When you roll your own oats.

When you no longer consider talking about BM's personal or awkward.

[Sharon in Colorado]

When you roll your own oats.


And you can proudly comment out loud in the grain aisle at the natural foods store, with a chuckle:

"I roll my own!"

[Mangoagogo]

Twinee....that is sooo funny. I tell my non-raw friends that a really easy thing for them to do to get more greens is...is to make the green smoothie. I tell them its' one of my favorites, and they get this funny look on their face, like yuck!
Wendi

My friends/family reacts the same way to green smoothies...my father goes so far as to say that they look "putrid" (he says this while he's stuffing himself with pork rinds... :rolleyes: ) But I find that if I can actually get people to *taste* the smoothies, their opinion changes!

-When you have 3 fruit bowls in your kitchen!
-When, after 21 years, you have acquired a taste for raw broccoli.
-When you consider eating raw trail mix a real indulgence.
-When you have a year-round "tan" thanks to your love of mangoes! :D
-When you salivate whilst passing by a bunch of young red chard growing on the side of the road.

[shakalover]

you have a fit b/c you don't have any almond butter in the house :rolleyes:

[GratefullyGreen]

When you gaze deeply into other people's eye's to see if they sparke as much as yours do***

When you spend 300 dollars a week on food and can justify it by saying...its life insurance :p

[Boysenberry]

When your little girl asks your husband if she can help him cook dinner, and he says, "we don't cook anymore...your mother has gone raw." hee hee haha

[rawpriestess]

When you sleep with all the windows open, even when it's freezing outside.

When you invite people over for dinner, you tell them they can come anytime, because nothing will get "cold" if they are late.

When you just graze all day long, and have an apple here, and a pear there, and a handfull of nuts and a juice and think you're so full because you ate so much, but never sat down for breakfast OR lunch OR dinner.

When you remove your antique marbel pub table and the two hand carved chairs that went with it, and cost an absolute fortune, out of your kitchen, to bring in a huge butcher block (we did this just last month)

When you have you hubby sand off the top 1/4" from your old Butcher block because you cut meat on it in a past life, and you want it now to be safe for your veggies and fruits (we did this too)

When your stove, oven and microwave quit working and you didn't even know it until your son told you so, when he came to visit. (why would we even care?) LOL

When you buy 3 dehydrators (we did this too)

When you never buy anything at the store except food that you can eat, because you never use deoderants, shampoos or anything like that anymore.

When your dog and cat become vegan too, and really love to beg for pineapple or berries. (ours does this)

When you carry your own chopsitcks with you, when you go out to dinner with friends.

When you ask the waitstaff if the salad is cut in the back by a cook or if it comes in a bag, because you won't eat the bagged sulfited stuff anymore.

When you ask for fresh lemon as your salad dressing when out at a restaurant.

When you eat the garnish off everyones' plate as your dinner (I've done this more than once.)

When you look at SAD food as plastic toys and not as something to eat.

When you have to use your charge card at the farmer's market because you don't have that much money in your checking account (my friend has done this)

When you toss out all of your kitchen gadgets that heat, like the pop corn maker, the grill, the sandwich maker, the crock pot, the hot dogger, the deep fryer.

When you toss out anything that you can cook in, like your Revere ware, your pots and pans, pressure cookers, canning pots, double boilers, etc.

When you put a wooden cutting board over your burners, and simply turn off the breaker to them, because you KNOW you'll never use them again.

When you store herbs in your microwave (we do this)

When you store grains in your oven (we do this)

When you are desinging a new home and you don't include a stove, oven or microwave, but you do include two freezers and two fridges, and many many open baskets for fruits and veggies. But no pantry space for canned foods.

When you have a mandoline, AND a V slicer because they do two different things,

When you have a spirooli AND a spiral slicer becasue they make several sizes of noodles.

When you toss all your metal knives, because you have ceramic, and refuse to use anything else.

When you have a food processor and a blender and a salad shooter, and a Vita Mix, and every kitchen gadget known to man as long as it doesn't heat up.

When your pyrex never gets warm any more.

When your teflex sheets are getting worn looking.

When your dehydrator runs 24/7.

When you look at flax seeds and automatically think "crackers" yummy.

When the first thing you do with anything, including fruit and vegetables is to read the label. LOL

[honeybee joy]

When your dog and cat become vegan too, and really love to beg for pineapple or berries. (ours does this)

My dogs are crazy. They go crazy for most if all veggies. They will fight over the rest of a salad that I do not finish. I have a bag of organic carrots that are mostly for them. My dogs eat carrots down like they are meat or candy. It really cracks me up!! I never thought dogs could be that crazy for fruits & veggies.

[aisah]

...your kitchen apartment looks like a mini garden :)

...even the sight or smell of cooked 'healthy' vegetarian/vegan dishes makes you shudder... :eek:

...you prioritize your packing items like blender/containers and you make a list of food items that will last a few days on your trip overseas ;)

...your date is delighted with you for you turn out to be such an 'easy and cheap-date'.... as in no need to bring you to fanciful, expensive restaurants just so to impress you! Turn up with an apple is very good enough! ;)

...your roommate seriously believes you are hiding a monkey in the apartment what with the abundance, constant and ever-ready supply of bananas/avocadoes/mangoes/nuts :rolleyes:

...each time you have a BIG bowl of salad for lunch your roommate firmly believes and in fact he goes round your back to check if you have grown a bunny tail!! :eek:

...he goes 'EWWWWW DOG TURD!!!SHE'S MAKING DOG TURD AGAIN!!' at the sight of pre-mix sprouted wheats/herbs etc that is being churned out of your champion juicer :p

...even as simply as drinking your freshly squeezed orange juice/biting into that juicy sweet melon makes you go.... mmmmm this is life! and actually get high and feeling orgasmic about it!! while at the same time being very grateful to the Supreme Being for providing them so in their natural state and wonder what took you so long to 'discover' the simple goodness of it!

;)

[TA]

...when you realize you would really rather eat at home than go out because the wonderful nut pate in the fridge is better than anything on a menu in any of the restaurants around... (and there isn't time to run to the nearest raw restaurant!)

[truthseeker]

When your at a restaurant and see a cooked dish you use to LIVE for and it not only doesn't phase you, but makes you squeamish at the thought of it being in yer belly.

When you now know why the house you bought ( when your were SAD )coinicdentally had 2 refrigerators that came with it.

When your friends feel bad for your husband because they think his wife only knows how to "make" ....??? avocado smoothies ??? (this is all one of our friends can seem to retain about our diet)


When drinking FRESH JUICED ORANGE JUICE is literally what it is to drink of the cup of life. And feel EVERY bit of it run through your veins to every extremity as your head is thrown back and your arms are extended WIDE open to the universe to accept it's gift of energy and to return with extreme gratitude the connection of love and life. And this unintentional form of meditation which you have naturally gravitated to now replaces your SAD coffee breaks ;)

[Ariannah]

When eating cookie dough can be called a meal.

[JMD]

when you have mastered the art of cleaning your juicer in under 5 minutes like a person in the military cleaning their ammo.

when your dining utensils are now a veggie peeler and your hands. :p

[anneley]

I can totally relate to all of the above... :)

When at a birthday party, your child is the only one with veggies and fruits (instead of pizza) on her plate and actually enjoying them!

Meanwhile you are getting all the "what a weird mother" looks... :D

[MoniDew]

when you have a culinary orgasm while standing in front of the produce stand - in full view of the public!

screaming,
"goji!,
maca!,
raw...mmmm...chocolate...hhuuuhh!!
YES!! YES!! YES!!"

while pounding your fists into the countertop

[Boysenberry]

when your husband says, "are you going to eat ALL that salad?"

[Sharon in Colorado]

...when you make a consious effort not to judge the contents of other folk's shopping carts at the grocery store.

[Mysticat]

...when you plan a weekend getaway with your spouse and start deciding 2 weeks in advance what you will eat...and then dehydrate crackers and snacks for a whole week. Then you end up with 2 big bags and a cooler full of food, and you never have to leave where you are staying to find a meal !!!!
...and the only thing you ever hope to receive as a birthday or Christmas gift is a gift card from Whole Foods Market....but you NEVER do!

[MelissaB]

When everyone in your office is sick but you. When asked what vitamins/medicines you are taking to stay so healthy you just smile and look at your fruit basket overflowing with oranges, apples, bananas and grapes.

[TA]

...you can recite the protein composition of dark green and leafy vegetables from memory for your DH when he calls from the restaurant so he can decide which salad to order... spinach, of course!...

[VeggieGirl]

when the compost bin in your kitchen fills up faster than your garbage bin!!

when all you want for christmas is an Exotic Fruit Basket!

when you dress up as your own made-up superhero for halloween: VeggieGirl!

[exurb]

when you go to make "pizza crust" and eat half of it right out of the foodprocessor bowl because yum, it's also a pate :)

[nikola]

Ha! I know....Everyone I have tried to explain this to thinks I am nuts(literally),and then gives me a look of concern.:-(

[MoniDew]

When everyone in your office is sick but you. When asked what vitamins/medicines you are taking to stay so healthy you just smile and look at your fruit basket overflowing with oranges, apples, bananas and grapes.

yes! I'm going through this at my work right now, too.

[squidly]

when:
.........three fruit bowls on the bench is still not enough

........your 2 year old asks for fruit for dinner instead of the cooked veggie soup that was given to her

...........you never leave home without at least 3 pieces of fruit and a bottle of water

...........when you crave chocolate obsession ice cream but instead make banana choc icecream at home because you know you really will feel better for it

This is the most inspiring thread I have to say

BTW - I use soaked almonds for the fudge balls instead of almond butter as I find it to be alot cheaper. I just put them in the food processor first and then ass the other ingredients

[Autumn]

<<I just put them in the food processor first and then ass the other ingredients>>

I can't say I've heard of *that* procedure before! :D :p

[deedub]

I know I'm a raw foodist when I don't say a word about what I eat and someone at work says to me, "you eat mostly raw food, huh?"

[ReneeSC]

...when you make a consious effort not to judge the contents of other folk's shopping carts at the grocery store.
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Or you suddenly notice how terribly overweight people in the Wal-Mart grocery are... and stare intently at the thin ones because they stick out like sore thumbs.

When you look at women still in their prime of life - and inwardly mourn for the loss of their beauty and strength solely because of what they eat. :(

and in the same Wally, you intentionally turn around in the mirrored places in clothing so see how much smaller your rear is truly getting. (I'da DIED doing that 6 months ago )

Which brings us back to being nonjudgemental in the check-out.

[Fruitarianone]

When you tell the cashier not to be so rough with your food! :)

[Mysticat]

....when your in-laws invite you over for dinner, and then ask you if you will be bringing your own meal!

[Boysenberry]

when you go to Whole Foods Market and darn near eat all of the samples of fruit they had set out.

when they recognize you at the raw foods bar and ask you how much weight you've lost so far.

[VeggieMel]

Mangoagogo, Do you really have color from eating mangoes???

[sachis2112]

<<I just put them in the food processor first and then ass the other ingredients>>

I can't say I've heard of *that* procedure before! :D :p
ROFL!!! LOLOLOL!!!!!!

[Ariannah]

You don't have much interest in the weekly grocery store sales flyers.

[Vandy]

when your hallmates wake you up at 5:30 in the morning b/c one of the other girls is sick and having conculsions and they need some of your "special herb stuff" to make her feel better!

When your parents begin to call YOU for advice on what to do to feel better

When you check this message board more than you check your email!

When you have replaced the mall with the whole foods store!

When you freak out if your poops are behind schedule

when sometimes you feel so in tune with your body that you no longer feel human.

when you feel more loving, patient, and euphoric ALL the TIME!

[Sharon in Colorado]

When you've given up your coupon queen status - and can no longer buy $167 worth of groceries for $9.61 - instead you start a produce co-op to get the best deals in town.

[truthseeker]

When you wake up in the morning with an organic avocado sticker stuck on your arm! I noticed that this morning when I woke from a great nights sleep, walked into my bathroom, looked into my mirror and saw a small green sticker stuck to my arm that read ogranic avocado...LOL, LOL I immediately thought of this thread and began to laugh...and laugh...and laugh, knowing full well that I would be here posting about it! :D

[Smoothie]

When you wake up in the morning with an organic avocado sticker stuck on your arm! I noticed that this morning when I woke from a great nights sleep, walked into my bathroom, looked into my mirror and saw a small green sticker stuck to my arm that read ogranic avocado...LOL, LOL I immediately thought of this thread and began to laugh...and laugh...and laugh, knowing full well that I would be here posting about it! :D

This is a good one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JennaBoBenna]

when you visit your parents and eat their week supply of fruit in about 10 minutes :D

[exurb]

when your husband comes home from grocery shopping with a big load of reduced organic bananas and says "look babe, I bought you ice cream" :p

[Boysenberry]

exurb, aawwww that is so sweet. That man deserves a reward. :p

[Sharon in Colorado]

When you pray that the restaurant you are meeting some friends doesn't only serve iceberg lettuce.

[Sillybloss]

Thanks for this thread! I come here when I need a mood Pick-me-up. I always end up laughing!

[Lady Green Jeans]

Absolutely love this thread. LOL anytime I reread some of the posts.

You know you're raw when...

You have categorized Alissa's recipes to "everyday" or "special occasion" and Tuesday night is still "pasta night" at your house.

Kathy

[ReneeSC]

Goodness, Sharon..you don't like iceburg lettuce, eh? hahahah I'm willing to bet ( not really lol ) that Pattye wishes they were serving iceburg lettuce at that... posh ( yeah, right ) Mexican restaurant! I get all excited if someone actually OFFERS me anything green while out. ( it's bad in some spots ).

I know.. we shouldn't eat out for months after we've gone raw, but.. ya know.. sometimes that just not always possible.

I like Samuel's remedy. Water and Lemon.

I've kept forgetting to bring my own food! Why?????????

When Firefly and I met up in Columbia not long ago, I'd TOTALLY forgotten to bring the dressing.. She did, though. Whew.

Heck, I'll just shove a lemon and the Nama in my purse and go!

[karotw]

When you pull the flax crackers out of your purse, AGAIN and DBF doesn't say a word or even roll his eyes anymore . . .


I, too, love this thread . . .it's always good for a laugh and a moment of feeling connected!!

Many Blessings,
Karen

[eachpeachpearplum]

When you build a new house and tell the Kitchen designer to put in a Subzero restaurant size fridge (lots of storage for veggies), add some basket drawers for extra fruit storage ...and a pantry big enough for a dehydrater, slicers, choppers, mandeline, shelf for the Juicer, extra Blender...Food Processor..and Oh when you tell them to NiX the Microwave and they say "you HAVE to have a Microwave !! ???" :eek:


I would LOVE to see pictures of your posh new purpose built RAW kitchen when it's done!!

[swiddweas]

When you recycle plastic soda bottles by pouring your favorite smoothie in it and taking that on trips instead of buying fast food/drinks, while everyone else buys soda.

When your clothes suddely feel very loose and you wonder "when did that happen?" because your scale shows differently.

When you stay up very late at night and get up earlier then everyone else and still have more energy then most people who sleep twice as long.

For your Birthday, your Hubby attempts to make a raw cake for you and it tastes better then any cake you have ever eaten in your life.

When your body is at peace and your mind is calm when, in "normal"(SAD) circumstances, you would be a nervous wreck.

When your favorite dessert is actually for dinner AND is more nutrient dense then SAD dinners.


Pattye

[LeanAndHungry]

...your roommate seriously believes you are hiding a monkey in the apartment what with the abundance, constant and ever-ready supply of bananas/avocadoes/mangoes/nuts :rolleyes:


;)

Funniest thing I have ever read.

[SamuelWilson]

when you want to fight someone because they asked you where do you get your protein.

[ReneeSC]

When you imitate Samuel Wilson by pretending they don't exist.

[SamuelWilson]

Well, pretending they do not exist is probably better than punching someone in the face :)

[ReneeSC]

Bwwwwwwuuuuahahahahahahah.. LOL

Now, now, Darline Samuel... we mustn't get our knickers in a knot over something so unjust. Throw a pig snot truffle at 'em.

[Tombi]

...when you spend 4 days or more in health food stores shopping and just when you think that is bad enough you find yourself trying to find a way to get hired so you can at least get an employee discount... :D

[Sharon in Colorado]

(to add to SW and Renee)

...when you STILL aren't sure how to answer that protein question!

Should I be sarcastic?

Should I just ignore them?

Should I ask them how their cow gets its protein?

Should I just be nice?

Should I ask them where they got their fiber?

Should I tell them to ask the gorilla where it gets its protein?

[jax]

When you come home from work and your non-raw husband is cutting bananas for the deyhdrator because "were out of Banana chips dear!"
Or your non-raw husband sees you looking in the fridge with a confused look on your face and says, "Oh, I ate the rest of your fudge balls, sorry!" :(

Jax :D

[butterfly]

When you hang out at Whole Foods more than the people who work there.

When a big, beautiful salad has become your "new" comfort food.

When you wake up in the middle of the night craving raw cashews...

[misslinda]

your starving to death and you look outside the window and think...........

"that tree and grass sure looks good enough to eat! it's raw/vegan" ;)

[twinee1]

When you get home from work at 9:00 pm, after a long day, hungrily look in the fridge, you pass by all the formally yummy cooked food...looking for some Romaine lettuce to chow on...and maybe even roll up some sprouts in a leaf. Yum yum.... :p

[Salsify]

When somebody at work makes some SAD cookies and you take them home and tell your SAD teenage son there are some cookies in the kitchen and he asks: Are they real cookies or did you make them? Because you always eat that weird stuff. :eek:

[Colin]

I haven't yet read all of the contributions, but so far all 15 or so I have looked over to me are very humorous. It started off my raw day 6 just right....
Colin


you have a coffee grinder, but don't drink coffee.

when you throw out your cook books.

[EisPrinzessin]

(And keep in mind, I've only been raw a short time...)

When you go to Feel Rite for some Good Stuff by Mom and Me raw brownies and cookies and they're all out, and you realize, sheepishly, it's because you've bought them all out in the last week or so. :o :p

[ephmeralgrl]

when you can work a 16 hour shift and not need coffee or sugar to get through it!!

[lavendarJ]

I can tell I'm on my way to being 100% raw because #1 I take money from my "gas tank" funds to buy the latest veggie/herb gardening/natural living magazines at Borders and #2 you know your raw when you can't stay of the rawfoodtalk website and get other things completed (the site is so inspiring) :o

[Faithfullyfit]

When you share your own dinner with your pet rabbit

....He loves :D it!!!!!

Faithfully FIT

[newyearspromise]

When your husband tells you your breath smells...and you say, "oh, is it bad?", and he says, "no...it just smells...RAW..."

Happened to me yesterday. :D

[choleblack]

When you go to the zoo & the monkey's lunch looks good.

Chole

[Faithfullyfit]

I love this one about the monkeys.....I could not stop laughing! Thanks for the giggle ;)

[monkeyboy]

Hi Everyone,

You know you are a raw fooder when.......Monkeyboy mentions you in one of his posts.


Peace,
M.B.

[Nini]

When you have a year-round "tan" thanks to your love of mangoes!


Wow... I had no idea...

[lavendarJ]

When you share your own dinner with your pet rabbit

....He loves :D it!!!!!

Faithfully FIT

LOL Faithfully FIT... :D

[Lauraw]

ROFL at these...thanks for the great thread!

When someone stops by your house and you quickly hide the pantyhose that are hanging to dry in your kitchen (you didn't have a mesh bag for straining the almond milk).

When raw wannabes ask questions about your raw lifestyle and you start gushing like a parent about their baby.

When you pass along a gift you received--a tin of sugar-laden holiday baked goods--to your neighbor and she returns the tin filled with pears. (Wasn't that nice of her?)

When you consciously stop to think. "Am I really hungry for that rye bagel 'cause it took me five days to make it."

[sachis2112]

When a friend falls ill (headache, general icky feeling) and you ask them to spit in a glass. When they look at you like you've gone completely over the edge, you realize that not EVERYONE has heard of Candida. :o

[ambiguous]

. . . when your idea of "vegging out" actually includes vegetables.

[mangomama]

when your children tell you they are hungry and you tell them they can eat whatever fruit they can find and they end up full and happy.

when you *know* this is good and right and you just couldn't go back to SAD.

when that starbucks latte makes you think phrases like, "black death", "poison potion" and "swollen tongue tonic"

when you'd really rather have that raw chocolate pudding than anything else "sweet and chocolatey"

[Rawmney]

When you throw away / donate / freecycle the weight loss books, magazines, tapes, CDs, vidoes, etc. because you have FINALLY found the permanent solution!

I could not believe how much I had and there's still more.

Caryn

[karenisraw]

When you cringe because of the food your vegetarian roomate eats. You're worried about the toxins and poisons in her food.

[aisah]

Funniest thing I have ever read.

just got back from an outback Downunder trip and I missed young coconuts tremendously then so I got me 8 YOUNG COCONUTS the moment i got home, drank 2 and when my flat-mate opened the fridge, he asked.... 'so who fed the monkeys when you were away?' :)

so you know you are a raw-foodist when
..... your friends name you after animals, so far its been bunny, honey-bunny, bunny-rabbit, bird (for the 'bird-food' that I feed on), monkey and i love this affectionate latest term..... CHUNKY MONKEY!! :p

..... your sister comes to visit with bags of potato chips and you had to politely decline then she exclaimed, 'but they are your favorite! plus I got them from an organic shop! see! its even labelled organic!!' :eek:

[Boz]

Hahahah, I just wanted to bump this back up because it's hilarious, and puts such a big smile on my face.

The best one that I read, although I can't seem to find it and give credit to the poster, but it was.....

You know your a raw fooditst when.....you date a guy for his dehydrator.

Hahhaha, i think it's soooo funny. :D

[Brianna]

When you use your microwave as an extra cupboard.

[JEN]

When your food processor is your best friend
Your Vita Mix is your lover
And you have and intimate relationship with every fruit, veggie and nut you eat! :D

[PixieLed]

...When people look at your food or taste it and say "wow that looks/tastes really good, but I don't think I could eat like this all the time" and you think they're crazy.

...When you tell people you went to a raw food potluck and they ask: "so everyone brings something raw and then you go home and cook it?" and you have to shake your head and explain.

...When you laugh when someone says "I heard there's this restaurant that doesn't serve anything cooked at all!"

...When you are still going strong around 2pm at work and everyone else is feeling sleepy, tired, bloated and reaching for a pick-me-up like a second or third cup of coffee just to last the day.

[eachpeachpearplum]

When upon watching lord of The Rings noticed that character of "Gollum" chastises the hobbits for cooking their foods - "yuck, he says he likes his fresh & wriggly & juicy" - granted he was eating a fish but hey he was AGAINST cooking food!

So I am watching this amazing movie and I pic out a rawfoodist in the cast!!!

[eachpeachpearplum]

When you go to the zoo & the monkey's lunch looks good.

Chole


I am dying of laughter!

[Dimond]

When you're talking on the phone about how you haven't used a microwave in years and have to run to the kitchen to see if your apartment of 3 months has a microwave because you can't remember & never go near that side of the kitchen. :o

When you manage to make a new raw meal and are so proud of yourself because you never liked to cook when SAD.

When you always carry an emergency raw bar just in case.

When you make sure to bring food in a cooler tote if going out for several hrs.

When your ready-made raw food meals arrive and you're so excited, like you received a gift you've been wanting.

When those same meals are so tasty, you can't imagine ever having to eat cooked again.

[Coriander74]

~when your freezer is packed full of frozen bananas and nuts
~when your microwave, crock pot, toaster oven have been packed away and will be listed on e-bay
~when your stove breakers have been shut off
~when your fridge is overflowing with produce
~when you get excited about a trip to Whole Foods or Sprouts

and I'm SUPER guilty of this one... :o
~when I peek into other shoppers carts and think how many toxins and fake foods they're taking into their bodies

[Gosia]

When your kitchen looks like a grocery store. :)

Gosia

[rome]

when you finally realize you are allowed to have more then one fruit basket on the bench and don't have to try and balance all the fruit on top to stop it falling off. :D

[fallenangel]

when you drive waiting staff in restaurants crazy ordering off the menu!!! :rolleyes:

[rawpriestess]

When people come to your house, and can't believe you actually used your stove (to warm up some of the SAD food other's brought to our pot luck)

When you buy a food saver (suck and seal) just to keep your vanilla beans in, because you use so many of them.

when you think it is normal to order 50 pounds of dates on the internet

When you buy gallon canning jars just to hold your nuts

When you buy an extra fridge for the garage, so your not so raw lover, can still keep his stuff cold

when you become a power seller on ebay, because you've sold all of your old kitchen cooking gadgets

[LovingLife]

Fun thread!

First have to say that we keep our dehydrator in the laundry room . . .

-- when your kids complain that their clothes always smell like "mom's crackers" :rolleyes:

-- when you jump up and down and squeal in the store when you first discover where the baby coconuts are

-- when you call coconut juice your "happy juice" (love that stuff!)

-- when you miss those fall months when you can just sit and eat pomegranate after pomegranate for breakfast each day

-- when you get excited each week of spring and summer as the seasonal fruits keep showing up in the stores

-- when you're actually shocked and caught off-guard when people ask the "where do you get your protein" question because it's never been a concern of yours

-- when your husband keeps asking every day "You're still happy?"

-- when you perplex your doctor by the difference in your health problems when eating raw compared to when you didn't

-- when you daydream of the day you can give Alissa a big hug for all the help she's given you

[Brianna]

When you take all the kitchen appliances along for a week's vacation!!!

[berrymarymac]

The guy who checks you out at the Farmer's Market double checks with you to make sure the price is right cause you've bought way too many fruits and veggies!

People worry about your protein intake and health when they should have been when I was eating vegetarian SAD foods!!

Watch people driving down the road eating something from a fast food place and thinking, "they are killing themselves with that junk" while drinking your smoothie.

Going to Whole Foods and finding organic is on sale!

[blessed]

:D :D to go outside and check to see what's ready to pick from our garden.
Seeing all the beautiful colors, red, green, orange, yellow Oh my gosh, i love eating fresh raw garden grown produce.
When i know it's organic and good then i know that i know I'm a RAW FOODIE!!.

Ann

[rawnpawgirl]

* when the UPS guy rings your doorbell while guests are over and you run to the door filled with excitement exclaiming, "Oh YAY, my enema kit arrived!!!!" while your guests look at you very oddly, wondering when they can sneak out.

* when you are washing your face in the shower and feel a pimple on your face, so you jump out and run to the mirror, naked and dripping wet cuz' your so psyched to be able to FINALLY pinch a zit.

* when you actually get really jazzed about colonics, # of BM's/day, etc and have contemplated showing your spouse when you have a really "healthy" one

* when cake, brownies, potato chips, grilling steaks, and all other previously tempting cooked food has NO effect on you but instead you crave a kale salad with tomatoes and avocado!

* when you feel like a salad with even ANY iceberg lettuce in it is junk food.

* when you can't help but notice and analyze (and despair over) everyone's SAD grocery cart items

* when the checkout person in the grocery store has to look up several produce items in the little book cuz he/she is completely stumped (and you can't help but feel a little smug)

*when you get up earlier and stay awake later than everyone in your house

*when your kid's friends are scared to eat at your house

[LovingLife]

. . . when you feel the need to educate the checker at the health food store as your groceries pass through "Have you ever tried baby coconuts? (or whatever)" then go through the soliloquy of how wonderful it is, what you do with it, how you eat it, etc. Probably one out of every five checkers actually responds to what I'm saying, yet I keep talking :D

[Coriander74]

* when the UPS guy rings your doorbell while guests are over and you run to the door filled with excitement exclaiming, "Oh YAY, my enema kit arrived!!!!" while your guests look at you very oddly, wondering when they can sneak out.


I about fell out of my chair laughing at this one LMBO!!!!!

[lissomllama]

When you share your own dinner with your pet rabbit

....He loves :D it!!!!!

Faithfully FIT

YES! My bunny and I share meals all the time. Sometimes, I'll just sit on the floor with him and we'll share carrots and salads and stuff!

[Sharon in Colorado]

When you go to the zoo & the monkey's lunch looks good.

Chole

When you go to the zoo and are aghast at how much better the animals are fed than the humans.

[mcasburn]

...when your best friend chastises you with, "You know, a glass of liquid green stuff is not a meal!"

[Coriander74]

when you're at the gym on the treadmill listening to two other people talk about working off the McDonalds they ate today... and feeling rather like handing them a recipe for a green smoothie :eek:

[ChaiLife]

When your kids brag to their SAD friends that they get to have pie for breakfast.

When you drive past a bright green lawn and get hungry and imagine grazing out there. (not that I ever do that! :o )

When your stove becomes a cutting block.

When you collect raw cookbooks and end up just eating simple foods like apples, mangoes and salads.

[dreamrawalwz]

YES! My bunny and I share meals all the time. Sometimes, I'll just sit on the floor with him and we'll share carrots and salads and stuff!

When you share your dinner with your cat, dog, and tortious.

[konmai]

this is such a cute thread! i'm glad to have seen it today, hehe.

ugh...let's see for me it was when my aunt was making my fav. dessert w/ corn, but I wasn't really craving it. Instead, I ate the corn raw from the cob. :D

She kept telling me to at least heat it up a little bit in the microwave, b/c I would get an upset tummy if I ate it raw. I was the only one in the house the whole time who didn't have an upset tummy whatsoever! :cool:

[chamomile]

*when dinner time comes around your family takes a watermelon and a large knife, sits out on the lawn and enjoys.
*when you see cooked food and it looks dead!!!!
*when your neighbors kids come over so they can have a banana or a peach, cause "they don't have that kind of food"
*when you fill a large serving bowl with fresh salad and you eat the whole thing

[Lay-Lay]

When your husband calls you monkey girl.

Your dad makes moo, moo noises at you not because your fat, but because you grazing on greens.

When you tell your husband you want to go out to dinner and he grabs the car keys and you grab a bucket and a bag and you say lets go we don't need keys were grabbing fast food tonight and you and him go picking wild onion, berries, lettuces, etc....

When you sit outside in the sun reading a book while your husband is washing the car and before you even realize it you are picking the grass beside you and chewing all the juice out of it.

When your husbands saids you better watch out, your going to grow a bunny tail.

When you go to your parents house and you say your hungry and they say oh well there's some lettuce in there. Fix a salad and you look at it and you think ....this should have been eaten two weeks ago...and you say thanks I'm going home I'll see you later.

[Coriander74]

When you dream that you were force-fed 20 microwave pizzas and wake up in horror. (Anyone else? LOL)

[konmai]

oh! I get moo-moo noises from the family all the time! :p Here I thought I was the only one.

Seeing squirrels handle a nut from inside some green round thing that looks weird...wondering if I can eat the nut inside it, too. :rolleyes:

[light&happy]

Your one year old actually pulls open the oven door and trys to play in it. He doesn't know that it's supposed to be hot! This is actually a pain in the &^%$ someone else's house who actually uses their oven! :)

[Booboo]

When you go to a friend's wedding and all you want to eat from the buffet line is the garnish. :D

[Booboo]

...you are shopping at Whole Foods and suddenly become very excited when you smell Durian from an aisle away. Oh yessssssss!!!!!!!!!:p

[Conscious Midwife]

You're almost there when:

:) You buy "special bowls" to display fruits and veggies on your counter
You declare your kitchen raw "kosher" and have seperate shelves in the fridge for Sad stuff, plus use the deep freezer for fruits and water only
The only meat your SAD family gets to eat is take out from the chinese restarant because your refuse to cook.

:D Toddlers can eat a who quart of cherry tomatoes before you are done shopping. Same toddlers bite into roma tomatoes, yellow and orange bell peppers like they are apples. Same toddlers wake up at 7am on a sunday asking for grapes

:) You have 4 shelves of olive oil, seasonings and spices, and sugar or flour are not included

:) eat avacados for breakfast
eat pecans by the handful
CRAVE RAW CORN WHEN PMS'ing, instead of snickers

:cool: you can stay at a sports event all day and make it on 6 bottled waters and a bag of grapes, while everyone else spends $20 on the concession stand

;) You wanna quit your JOB to open a raw restaurant and health store

[ellenalesa]

Outback Steakhouse used to be my favorite restaurant. My fiance offered to take me out and I said no. That, my friends, is a miracle!!!

Ellen

[konmai]

My friend & I were walking around lost, & she was really HUNGRY! So we were looking for a restaurant & suddenly I can smell the cooked food from real far away. We headed the direction of what I was smelling(she coudn't smell a thing :rolleyes: ). Finally, we hit a whole block of restaurants. :eek:

[dreamrawalwz]

My friend & I were walking around lost, & she was really HUNGRY! So we were looking for a restaurant & suddenly I can smell the cooked food from real far away. We headed the direction of what I was smelling(she coudn't smell a thing :rolleyes: ). Finally, we hit a whole block of restaurants. :eek:

Haha, that's hilarious! Actually, as I walk in to grocery stores I can smell it practically in the parking lot! Things smell SO much stronger now and let's just say the cooked smells (and mangos!) are VERY gross to me lol.

[Graciebeliever]

CRAVE RAW CORN WHEN PMS'ing instead of snickers as per Lifeagift!

WHOA YEAH!! and it's coming in season now WOOHOO

[LovingLife]

When you wake up with GOOD breath every morning! :D

[fwebes]

When you don't have to hurry up to eat your food before it gets cold.

[Azianbee]

When you keep telling your friends that you feel really good, and they look at you funny.. hehe

[Coriander74]

When the girl who works produce at my market says "Back for more pineapples???"
And the checker is used to watching a mile-long pile of produce come her way LOL

[Pierre]

You get a whole case of raw olives and six bags of Shuar peanuts delivered to the office, and your coworkers think it'll last only ten days.
They ask you about health insurance and you point to said olives and peanuts.

[GreenPrince]

When you look at a grocery store as a food museum with free entrance. :)

[Conscious Midwife]

When consuming melons and berries, makes you feel more sensual.

When dish soap last you forever cause there are no greasy/sticky cooked food prep going on.

You can eat an avacado right out the peel with a spoon.

When you've leared how to peel an orange with one hand while driving

When you go to the sub shop and they give you free food like shredded lettuce and sliced tomatoes, cause they don't know what to charge you.

When you pack what looks like a picnic lunch each day, just to go run errands.

[Rawzula]

When you go to the supermarket and salivate when you see all the fresh produce.

When you realize that spinach does taste better raw than cooked.

[Pierre]

Someone comes over and tells you he can't eat nightshades. Instead of "no mashed potato and no salsa picante", you think "no lulo or goji in the smoothies".

[Coriander74]

When your best friend, who lives in West Virginia, tells you that that is now the second most obese state in the US, and you want to move her and her family to California (although the girl is doing so great on her diet now :) I'm so proud)

When you run out of room in your kitchen for all the produce and it lines the counters and the coffee table

When you don't find it unusual buying 10 pounds of grapes at a time

When you can't wait until the end of the month to get on the scale or measure yourself to see how you measure up to how great you feel!

When you're on this website 6 hours a day checking to see what's new.

When you smell like oranges.

[frozenme]

Your husband begs you to go buy some new clothes that actually fit you. You refuse because it will be a waste of money when a month from now they will also be too big. :D

[JinxieKat]

When you get told that you eat like a bird and you cheerfully agree because you and your parrots share meals all the time. :D


or...


When you make a green smoothie and your adult macaw starts begging like a baby so she can have her share of smoothie! :p

Jinx

[rawfigure]

When I was at the Grocery Store today I thought I must truely be a RAWbie...the smell from the meat and seafood dept. turned my stomach, peeee uuuuu. I almost got sick from it, I had to get out of that area fast :mad:

[codajess]

You store your mandolin, food processor parts and glass bowls inside your oven and have a cutting board over your burners!


OH SMART! I know people store ingredients and stuff in the oven but I didn't want to do that. DUHHH I didn't think about my food processor. It's just on my dining room table with my (unplugged) microwave and my dehydrator.

[codajess]

When you start to lose your patience with the "where do you get your protein" question...



I lost my patience with that question years ago when I was "merely" vegetarian.

[berrymarymac]

You can eat a very very large bowl of watermelon and another one of cantelope from the grocery store; two tomato, avocado and onion bread sandwiches; maybe 1/2-1 cups of saukraut...and 3 bananas...more brownies...a lemon pie (lara bar), large carrot, ginger, orange juice by 8pm....be full and satisfied! Then tell people what you ate and say you are on a diet...lol!

Oh and maybe 2 peaches...

[dreamrawalwz]

When I was at the Grocery Store today I thought I must truely be a RAWbie...the smell from the meat and seafood dept. turned my stomach, peeee uuuuu. I almost got sick from it, I had to get out of that area fast :mad:

That happened to me today. They conveniently place the rest rooms WAY in the back corner opposite the front doors so you have to walk past ALL the meat and the restrooms are smack in the middle of the sea food section. :eek:

[dread_head]

When you toss out all of your kitchen gadgets that heat, like the pop corn maker, the grill, the sandwich maker, the crock pot, the hot dogger, the deep fryer.
[/QUOTE]

my crock pot is now a water bowl for my cats...LOL ( and no i don't plug it in :D )

[sport]

When I was at the Grocery Store today I thought I must truely be a RAWbie...the smell from the meat and seafood dept. turned my stomach, peeee uuuuu. I almost got sick from it, I had to get out of that area fast :mad:
This is more a vegan thing. I have had this ailment all my life and it causes me a problem in 2 particular areas.
1. My sister is a butcher and I can not go and visit her in her shop. She has to come out on the street to talk to me.
2. In my town there is an area called The English Market and it is an indoor area that has all the organic shops and the ethnic shops but it also has lots of fish shops and dead meat shops. I can not even go inside the door so am missing out on a lot of what is available. It is also supposed to be a glorious building archictecturally and I would like to see it.

[GreenPrince]

When your best friends kids invite you to dinner, and the little one whispers in your ear: "You always bring your own food... and we like your food better... ;) "

[Lay-Lay]

This is more a vegan thing. I have had this ailment all my life and it causes me a problem in 2 particular areas.
1. My sister is a butcher and I can not go and visit her in her shop. She has to come out on the street to talk to me.
2. In my town there is an area called The English Market and it is an indoor area that has all the organic shops and the ethnic shops but it also has lots of fish shops and dead meat shops. I can not even go inside the door so am missing out on a lot of what is available. It is also supposed to be a glorious building archictecturally and I would like to see it.


I cook for my hubby and I buy him bulk meat. I have considered myself a raw foodiest for a long time now. Well, to get to the point, my hubby wanted steaks so I bought him a bulk piece and I was cutting to up and it made me soooooooo sick. I told him I couldn't do that anymore and he said he was sorry that he would do it from now on. I washed my hands like 20 times and I could still smell that meat. I never thought I would ever feel this way about meat. It just completely disquested me. Yuck!

[Deenasmiles]

You know you're a Raw Foodist when you run into your yard to find a snack instead of running to the pantry for sweet junk foods.

You know you're a Raw Foodist when you've become an expert on detox and toxins.

~Deenasmiles~

[stiletto]

When you eat and eat and eat long after everyone else is done... then keep waking up the next morning at the same weight (or lower). It's like groundhog day.

[jiujitsugirl]

when you come up with ways to use food for hair and facial products or you can eat your own shampoo :D

you fight over fruit at the grocery store

you forgot you even owned a microwave, and your oven has cobwebs

you take an hour listening, feeling and determining which fruit is riper

untensils are a thing of the past

[GreenPrince]

When you buy a coke, pour out the content in the kitchen sink, and get a small nice plastic bottle to bring your delightful smoothie to the beach.

[dogmd]

When you make a green smoothie and your adult macaw starts begging like a baby so she can have her share of smoothie! :p

Jinx

When your African grey Parrot wakes you up at 6 in the morning by sounding just like the vitamix blender. :eek:

[dreamrawalwz]

When your African grey Parrot wakes you up at 6 in the morning by sounding just like the vitamix blender. :eek:

WOW....HAHAHAHA

[JennaBoBenna]

When your African grey Parrot wakes you up at 6 in the morning by sounding just like the vitamix blender. :eek:

HAHAHAHA! How cool!!

[GreenPrince]

When your African grey Parrot wakes you up at 6 in the morning by sounding just like the vitamix blender. :eek:

When the Vitamix company suddenly calls you and make a proposal
to employ your Vitamix sounding parrot for some television ads.

[Coriander74]

*when you buy two more cutting boards just to keep on the counter for easy access

*when you go to lunch with your Mom at the Olive Garden and are happy with your berries and salad, when she's having the breadsticks that you used to binge on (and you don't even want them!)

*when you are so helped by Raw that you're able to go into a mall for the first time in over 2 years, and not have a panic attack. :D :D :D

[freespirit]

When your African grey Parrot wakes you up at 6 in the morning by sounding just like the vitamix blender. :eek:

How hilarious!!!

[Naiad]

When your trips to Whole Foods used to be buying Staci's Pita Chips/Pre-made sandwiches and spending the rest of your time in the cosmetic/supplement aisles.

Now you go into the personal care aisle only to buy whatever soap is on sale, completely avoiding the pre-made section and spending your whole time picking out the best looking greens and fruit, getting excited when they have baskets of outrageous looking heirloom tomatoes and the jicama goes on sale :p

*Edited

I forgot to add... and spending *way* less money ;)

[eatyourbroccoli]

you pick up a grapefruit fruitcup in desperation, read the ingredients, and get irate at the fact that it incorporates high-fructose corn syrup and yell "how the heck can they screw up GRAPEFRUIT!" to no one in particular. :rolleyes:

[Naiad]

you pick up a grapefruit fruitcup in desperation, read the ingredients, and get irate at the fact that it incorporates high-fructose corn syrup and yell "how the heck can they screw up GRAPEFRUIT!" to no one in particular. :rolleyes:

I get that way all the time. When I see that evil menace HFCS in FRUIT products, oooooh man, I have to calm myself down from getting nuts over the absurdity.

Just thinking about parents buying syrup filled fruit cups for their kids to wolf down that are all profit for the companies... makes me ache inside :rolleyes:

[Veganforlife]

...I eat, live, and breath this stuff...

it's ALL I think about!!! :eek:

[dogmd]

When the Vitamix company suddenly calls you and make a proposal
to employ your Vitamix sounding parrot for some television ads.


Wish that day would come! LOL

My crazy bird would probably clam up as soon as the director yelled action! :rolleyes:

[GreenPrince]

1.When the big television company (you name it) wants to interview your parrot about YOUR raw vegan eating habits.

2.When your parrot talks about raw vegan food in The Late Show with David Letterman,
jumping on the floor and making jokes about SAD-eating and the public roar with laughter.
”Definite one of our best shows”, says David Letterman to New York Times”.

3.When the Meat- and Dairy Industries sue your parrot for making fun with their products.

4.When your parrot wins the case, and gets an awfully amount of bucks, and you guys together
decide to start a foundation for helping people on a low budget to get their blenders,
juicers and dehydration apparatus for free. Your parrot insists however that you choose the name
The Parrot Foundation, and that 5% always should be reserved for parrots.

5.When McDonald´s decide to register the trade mark Parrot for their new product line: Raw vegan food.
”We can't stand outside this movement, says a press agent at McDonald´s. ”This is the future.
Our new line will start with parrot burger, parrot smoothie, parrot salad, and parrot wheat grass juice”.

6.When McDonald´s business attorneys discover that Parrot™ already is a registered trade mark
own by that ”damn parrot” in the Letterman show. They recommend McDonald´s to buy the trade mark
without any further discussion or to pay a generous royalty to The Parrot Foundation.

[Coriander74]

Green, that made me laugh so hard :D

[Pierre]

That's just a parroty, right? ;)

[dogmd]

GreenPrince... You are too much! Thanks for my best laugh of the day!! :D

Hugs :)

[tgaski2]

You go to the movie theatre with a stash of raw cashews and berries and scrunch your nose up at the popcorn your SO offers to go buy. Lol. I never thought I'd pass on popcorn with extra butter, twizzlers and a coke. My boyfriend looked at me like I'd grown horns and said "Oooook so you are serious." Yeah bring on week three ;)

[Queen Shelley]

You might be a Raw Fooder when you spend all day driving from Farm to Farm seeking out slightly blemished fruit at a cheaper price to take home to freeze to make smoothies in the winter.

And...you might be a Raw Fooder if you go to the Farmers corn field and eat several ears of corn while standing in the middle of the field...yum-o! :p

[healthisraw1]

Rawk & Roll

Rawsome

Lou Rawls

Rawlings

Or You Call Things Mock Raw

Or Not Stir Fried

I Used To Have So Many Of These, I Cant Rawmember Them

Ok Ok Dont Throw Rawks................ouch

Have Fun All

[Judy]

When you prepare your food and think of what you can do with all the fruit peels and green garbage and regret it that you don't have a garden or big chunk of land to make your own compost, but sadly have to throw it away.

When you're in nature and look at the grass, bushes, flowers and trees and you have to stop yourself from going down on your knees and graze immediately because it all seems so delicious and edible.

When you're eating with other people and feel more connected to the insects and animals in nature and there eating habits and less to the people around you :)

When you dream about your future house and it has to be 'near the ocean and the woods, in a warm sea climat, with lots of animals surrounding you, organic farms in the neigbourhood, fruit trees and a piece of land to grow veggies and wild herbs on and a spring well and a simple kitchen with a large block to work on and two large large LARGE refridgerators or even better: a cool cellar' and you dream of never having to go to a store again.

When you're not interested in restaurants anymore whatsoever.

When you'd love to chuck out your oven/microwave, stove, pots, pans and other junk, but unfortunately can't, because your hubby isn't raw.

When you're feeling über happy and fantastic all the time for no explicit reason.

When you feel and look like a top athlete while not having to do anything really special for it, except enjoying your delicious food!

When people pour port over their melon for desert and you think: 'Why ruin a perfectly good food like that?'.

When you stand in the aisle and watch the content of people's shopping carts with the observant eye of a scientist and immediately can make a link between what's in there and what that person looks like.

When you feel like an elf or faery happily flying and running in between all the other not so elfish people.

When your hubby wonders what your breath smells like and you automatically ask: 'Is it bad?' and he then exclaims: 'No, not at all, it smells sweet, I know what it is! Strawberries!' And then you realize that your breath smells good and sweet all the time.

When your non raw husband just starts to eat more salads and fruits without you having suggested it to him whatsoever.

When your non raw husband starts to ask you frequently 'when are you going to make that delicious pie again?'.

When you have to double the amount of your smoothie, which you always made for one person only (yourself) before, because your non raw husband now loves to drink it as well.

When you're in the zoo and see all the fruits and vegs a rhino is fed, but there's also some bread in that heap and you think: 'Hey, but that's bad!'

When people start looking at your plate (which consists of something really simple) and actually think it is better than what they are having (cut up peaches with almonds and honey for example)!

When you're going shopping and greedily snatch the two bunches of organic bananas that are left between the non organic ones before others do it (as if!).

When you're starting to prefer eating fruits and herbs and other wonderful stuff right of the tree/soil. It does taste the best!!!

When you hardly ever wash your produce and don't mind it having some sand on it every now and then.

When this website is your favorite site to hang out!

And so on!

[GreenPrince]

When you join a new Rawk band at Waldorf Astoria Hotel New York and get your first hit Rawk Around The Clock.

[Rawzula]

When you look at SAD food, and feel a sense of dread.

When you look into a SAD person's cart and you think:eek: LOOK AT ALL THAT JUNK!

When you get giddy because your local supermarket FINALLY carries raw cashews and peanuts!

I work at a supermarket as a cashier, and it makes me ill looking at everyone's food. Sometimes they have no fruit, only soda, pre-packaged frozen foods, meat, cakes, and candy. AACCKK! :eek:

[JinxieKat]

When your African grey Parrot wakes you up at 6 in the morning by sounding just like the vitamix blender. :eek:


Oh no! So I get to look forward to this too. That's not kosher! Just don't let your grey give my grey any ideas *lol*

Jinx

[NoGMO!]

... when your stove and microwave that comes with your apartment are unlugged and have the breakers switched to the off position so they can be used as extra kitchen cabinets.

[raven]

Your office cubicle has become a satellite kitchen.

Your raw concoctions (nut milks, smoothies, dressings, ice cream) take up half the space in the office fridge.

By the end of week, you’ve accumulated in your workspace over 20 containers used to transport your raw recipes which you didn’t bring home each day because you didn’t want to carry them to yoga class.

You blow off your bf when David Wolfe is in town.


Suzy

[Mishelly]

Your kids friends come to visit and bring their own food!

In the warmer months your house becomes a summer resort for fruitflies :rolleyes:

The people in produce know you by first name!

LOL, I know my first post after lurking should have been an introduction, but this was too cute and funny....

[Pierre]

I work at a supermarket as a cashier, and it makes me ill looking at everyone's food. Sometimes they have no fruit, only soda, pre-packaged frozen foods, meat, cakes, and candy. AACCKK! :eek:
AACCKK indeed! No matter how much cooked I ate, I always ate fruit, since the earliest childhood I remember.

[eatyourbroccoli]

the mouse "pad" on your laptop is stained blue from blackberry-stained fingers

:o

oops..

[dread head vegan]

you look through the fride and can't find anything to eat.. and walk 2 1/2 miles to go get something to eat (i did this today)

you dog begs for raw food.

all you want for you birthday is 2 jars of olives and a pound of carob powder :D

[dreamrawalwz]

you look through the fride and can't find anything to eat.. and walk 2 1/2 miles to go get something to eat (i did this today)

you dog begs for raw food.

all you want for you birthday is 2 jars of olives and a pound of carob powder :D

Haha. I have produce at home, but I go to the store daily for my organic stuff :)

haha my KITTEN begs for my raw food. I taught her well :p

My dog begs for ANY food.

For my birthday/Christmas, ect. I ask for containers, a knife set, spiral sliceer, food chopper, ect. lol. I also ask for tools for my workshop in the basement...

[freespirit]

When your mouth salivates while opening a coconut.

[Sharon in Colorado]

When you completely run out of fruit, go to the store and refill and you get that euphoric feeling like a full tank of gas, a re-organized closet or a clean women's sanitary replacement. :p :o

[earthhealer]

When the highlights of your pleasure trips to Chicago, Minneapolis, and California are the raw food restaurants.

[star1919]

When you get excited to see a dandelion in your yard... and call it greens for your salad

[dreamrawalwz]

When you go out of state to go to a raw food restaurant!