How to Transition to a High Raw Diet – by Carissa Leventix-Cox
This article was posted by Raw news bot on November 1st, 2010 and has been 154 views.This article was syndicated from The Raw Mom Blog.
by Carissa Leventis-Cox I have been a raw vegan for over a year. During this time, my meat and carb craving husband and son have been able to transition from 100% cooked foods to more and more raw vegan meals. On a very good day at home, breakfast, snacks, drinks and lunch are 100% raw and dinner is about 50% raw. As I write this, I am reminded of how far we have come in the past year. But it is a struggle sometimes. On what I call bad days, the boys consume almost 0% raw but for their drinks. We recently visited Alabama and I was shocked to discover that in one restaurant the only fruit or vegetable (cooked or raw) on the menu was a side order of 2 slices of tomato!!! I couldn’t believe it. Needless to say, we didn’t eat there. We were appalled! But, what incensed me the most was the quality of food my husband and son were eating - rather what they chose to eat when dining out: non-organic meats, Krispy Kreme doughnuts (at a buffet in a museum), highly processed preservative filled pancakes and muffins (I would have chosen better restaurants if there were options), fried coconut shrimp (probably saturated fat and mercury filled), lemonade no doubt made with high fructose corn syrup… I could go on. I cringed at their choices. I cringed at the toxins they were eating. I cringed because I had a quick vision of myself giving up on them and serving them what they obviously so enjoyed. Where we didn’t eat: A Cafe in Gadsden, AL Then it [...]
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