Tale of Two Raws

In the blogging world, lists are big items. They are a way to get people to read your blog, as well as give information in a succinct form, so people can grasp the info nuggets without much struggle. I created this list to help you through the quagmire of raw food/health blogs. There are a ton more, but these I wasn’t all that familiar with and they looked interesting.

You can subscribe to them, you know, as you can subscribe to this one. What happens is every time one of us writes a post it goes into your blog reader and you can read it at your leisure. Makes it easy to not miss any posts…I mean, I just might write something that would be vital for your well being, and if you miss it you will be cast adrift for all eternity. (Yikes, where did that come from?) Anyway, if you want to subscribe look for the orange RSS box and click on it.

• Happy Foodie - pretty pictures and interesting recipies.
• The Raw & The Cooked - Hey, we can’t all be 100% raw all the time.
• The Raw Dish - a daily log of what this guy eats, amazing!
• The Renegade Health Show - all sorts of things related to health and eating raw
• Nature Moms Blog - not really about raw, but cute and informative on how to be a green family.
• The Daily Raw Cafe - she hasn’t posted since May, but as with all blogs, her links may lead you someplace cool.
• CureZone - some serious posts about being raw.
• Raw Food Right Now - podcast of David Wolfe from Hawaii, among other things

Insights: Doing the research for this post was surprisingly inspirational - reading what people had to say about their raw adventures reignited my desire to be raw.

Lately I had been whining to myself that eating raw was too hard, I didn’t have time, didn’t have the right stuff, you know that kind of litany. But I then remembered last year (before we started RRF) when I was about 80% raw and loving it. I lost weight, and had enormous amounts of energy - plus it was easy.

The thing that blew me away most by going raw was how clean the kitchen was and how easy it was to clean up after making a meal. And the house, oh, it smelled so fresh, no rancid meat or fried oil smell. I mean, come on, I can always make a salad! So I’m excited about eating again. Being excited about anything these days is good!

Epilogue: As I was listening to the David Wolfe podcast I got incredibly hungry. He was talking about Goji berries as a super food and how good they are for you. So I started popping Goji berries into my mouth like I used to eat popcorn, (with lots of butter) a handful at a time. Now I much feel better. I wanted to take a nap, was actually getting droopy eyed watching the podcast, but now I’m ready to roll.