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Once again, I am foregoing the attempt to be 100% raw in favor of healthy cooked food--not vegan, not vegetarian, but cleanly prepared foods that will be as organic as I can afford. (That sentence sounded a helluva lot more pragmatic than I'd like. Universe, please don't let me turn into a pragmatist!)
Although I consider a high-meat diet unhealthy, it seems to me that the larger issue that vegetarians and vegans take up is not one related to health--and, blogwise, I'm not going to touch that issue. It's a difficult one to discuss delicately and without irking someone or another. Ideally, I'd like to cut out meat altogether, but in the interest of keeping out processed things as much as possible, I'm leaving in wild-caught fish, which I personally consider healthier than any soy product. (For every study done on the health benefits of soy, it seems that another floats to the surface claiming that soy--in anything but very small doses--is harmful to one's health. That said, I'm not cutting out soy yet either, but eating it in moderation.)
I'm not nixing raw altogether. I'm going to eat as much raw as feels 'right' without attempting to force. (I will admit that boxed cereals and soymilk seem far from unnatural to me, that is, in contrast to a raw diet, but so be it. I'm not in the right headspace right now to take on 100% raw, because that means detox and the inevitable binges of unhealthy junk that I get when I detox.)
I plan to start with raw fruit for breakfast, or fresh juice, or both. Fresh smoothies are also good. I'm leaving in some not-too-processed (read: nothing made with soy from the frozen section of the grocery store, or those fake meat soy products) things like soy/ricemilk, tofu. I'll also be doing steamed veggies and fish cooked in coconut oil...possibly some organic poultry, cooked egg whites, cheeses (non-raw, like cottage cheese, and other raw cheeses when available), and cultured organic unsalted butter. The egg yolks will be eaten raw when I feel that I can slowly work them into my system again. I'm also balancing this out with some cooked grains like organic rice and, on occasion, one-ingredient organic pasta like spelt or kamut with organic store-bought sauce. And, of course, I can't forget steamed winter squashes like butternut, and also yams/sweet potatoes.
I'm undecided about food combining at this point. It's just not 'fun' or 'easy' to food combine, meaning that when I do food combine it takes alot more food to make me feel full, and--I'll admit it--I just like my carbs...with everything.
Although I consider a high-meat diet unhealthy, it seems to me that the larger issue that vegetarians and vegans take up is not one related to health--and, blogwise, I'm not going to touch that issue. It's a difficult one to discuss delicately and without irking someone or another. Ideally, I'd like to cut out meat altogether, but in the interest of keeping out processed things as much as possible, I'm leaving in wild-caught fish, which I personally consider healthier than any soy product. (For every study done on the health benefits of soy, it seems that another floats to the surface claiming that soy--in anything but very small doses--is harmful to one's health. That said, I'm not cutting out soy yet either, but eating it in moderation.)
I'm not nixing raw altogether. I'm going to eat as much raw as feels 'right' without attempting to force. (I will admit that boxed cereals and soymilk seem far from unnatural to me, that is, in contrast to a raw diet, but so be it. I'm not in the right headspace right now to take on 100% raw, because that means detox and the inevitable binges of unhealthy junk that I get when I detox.)
I plan to start with raw fruit for breakfast, or fresh juice, or both. Fresh smoothies are also good. I'm leaving in some not-too-processed (read: nothing made with soy from the frozen section of the grocery store, or those fake meat soy products) things like soy/ricemilk, tofu. I'll also be doing steamed veggies and fish cooked in coconut oil...possibly some organic poultry, cooked egg whites, cheeses (non-raw, like cottage cheese, and other raw cheeses when available), and cultured organic unsalted butter. The egg yolks will be eaten raw when I feel that I can slowly work them into my system again. I'm also balancing this out with some cooked grains like organic rice and, on occasion, one-ingredient organic pasta like spelt or kamut with organic store-bought sauce. And, of course, I can't forget steamed winter squashes like butternut, and also yams/sweet potatoes.
I'm undecided about food combining at this point. It's just not 'fun' or 'easy' to food combine, meaning that when I do food combine it takes alot more food to make me feel full, and--I'll admit it--I just like my carbs...with everything.