DISPELLING THE MYTH THAT RAW FOOD IS COMPLICATED
July 3, 2009 by admin
Filed under Eating Raw Live Food
DISPELLING THE MYTH THAT RAW FOOD IS COMPLICATED
My life is all about simplicity – my favorite motto is ‘keep it simple.’ When somebody tells me that the raw food diet is difficult, something I’ve been eating for over ten years, it makes no sense to me. It surely wouldn’t fit into MY lifestyle if it were!
I recently sat down to give this comment some serious in-depth consideration. How could something so simple be complex?
I guess this way of eating can be difficult if:
you were
- trying to prepare a wide “variety” of recipes
- preparing ‘gourmet’ type recipes
- using elaborate preparation methods
- lacked the tools to efficiently prepare the food
- using hard-to-find ingredients
- pushing yourself to 100% raw too quickly
This way of eating could be difficult for the person who is used to purchasing large quantities of food and storing them indefinitely in the pantry – but gosh, food left on the shelf gets old! I prefer to have food that is fresh, aromatic, and ‘bursting with flavor’ in my kitchen, on my table, and in my body! If what I eat is not fresh, is preserved with chemicals, is not nutrient rich, and is not free of harmful substances, what’s the point?
I guess it could be difficult if you’ve been ‘conditioned’ to run out to one of the fast-food franchises for ‘fast food’ when hungry. If you haven’t tried something as simple as grabbing a handful of berries, a large apple or several bananas to ‘fill that void’ then I highly recommend you do so. It’s not only faster, cheaper, lower in calories, higher in nutrients, but you can eat lots of it and still not come close to the calories found in fast food meals. I like to eat, and though I eat a lot of food I remain slim, healthy, and full of energy!
HOW EASY IS IT?
Most raw food recipes are prepared under 15 minutes (5 minutes if you’re a veteran of eating this kind of food), and use 5 ingredients or less. With the use of just a couple of handy appliances such as a high-speed blender (the Vita-Mix for example) or a food processor your meals are typically cut, combined, mixed, and finished in one easy process. If there’s a better example of ‘easy’ I haven’t discovered it yet.
Cleanup is even easier. With just a drop of liquid dish soap and a quick rinse under hot water your equipment is cleaned and ready to be used again! How easy is that? No baked on food residue, no oily/greasy mess to dispose of, and no cooked-on hard gunk to scrape off your dishes or pots/pans, no burned meals!
Keeping raw food preparation uncomplicated makes this diet simple to do. Save the ‘gourmet’ dishes for special occasions or when you have the time, inclination, and need to make them. In the meantime, save yourself:
- Time
- Money
- Stress
- Extra Work
- Confusion
- Waste
by keeping things “SIMPLE.”
Let YOUR new motto be: “KEEP…..IT….. SIMPLE”
Bon A Petite
Beth Wilke, Raw Food Chef & Teacher
A NEW DIETARY APPROACH – HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL SURROUND YOURSELF WITH EXCELLENCE
A NEW DIETARY APPROACH – HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL SURROUND YOURSELF WITH EXCELLENCE
What a simple exercise, yet how profound its impact! Creating a habit of choosing ‘Excellence’ as your mantra will have you reaching goals you never dreamed possible.
We are who we associate with. We are what we eat. We are who we think we are. We do what we say we can do. Imagine applying ‘Excellence’ to all of the above! WOW! Can’t you just FEEL the ENERGY rising in you?
Let us assume you wish to start practicing healthier habits and choose to focus on your diet.
Who We Associate With: Are you spending time today surrounding yourself with people who are healthy, trim, energetic, and practicing good eating and exercise habits? People who motivate you by their thoughts, words and/or actions?
Or, has your friend/co-worker/sibling just called you and said, “Let’s go grab a coffee (you know donuts or a pastry automatically attach itself to the cup when being served) and catch up.”
Though the social opportunity is fulfilling, bad food choices and inactivity will not support your higher goal. Did you know by choosing the coffee, our body’s NATURAL inclination is to create balance – therefore the desire for something sweet and creamy to balance the bitterness, and thinness of coffee propel us to make unhealthy readily-available choices.
What we eat:
By keeping poor quality food choices in our pantry, our cabinets, our refrigerator (‘just in case…..’) we do more harm to derail our dietary goals than just about any other action we take. Do not bring anything in to the house that does not support your goals, that you know will set you up for failure.
Excellence means having high quality, superior nutrient food in your kitchen, on your counters, and more specifically in our bodies! You can’t achieve excellent health by consuming inferior fuel. John Robbins recently said, “Our mouths are dumb, they’ll accept anything we give it.” Choose EXCELLENCE!
Who We Think We Are:
By keeping our thoughts focused on SUCCESS (not on failure, the past, or negative experiences) and practicing being the EXCELLENT person we are (Yes, even if you don’t feel it.) you’ll soon BE that person. If you focus on being a healthy, fit, lean, powerful machine then you will soon be that person you see yourself to be.
“I AM who I say I am, I can DO what I say I can do, and I can BE who I say I can be!” If you’re thinking ‘Excellence’ then you:
ARE who you say you are;
Will DO what you say you can do;
Will BE who you say you will be;
A person of Excellence!
Practicing Healthier Habits
“Actions speak louder than words.”
“What you DO speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say!” – Anonymous
In practicing excellent healthier eating habits you will experience excellent health. Therefore, don’t just go ‘through the motions’ of trying to eat healthier. Do you honestly think a smaller helping of poor food choices is making you healthier? At best it is going to make you hungrier!
What if, instead, you practiced filling your plate full of whole, fresh foods that are packed full of nutrients, learned to prepare your favorite dishes using these high quality foods, and searched for NEW recipes to meet your demand for healthier dishes. What you do today will have an impact on tomorrow – take control. Seek out Excellence! Take a raw food preparation class. Attend raw food potlucks (enjoy sampling healthy foods and finding new favorites). Raw whole plant food is the highest quality, supreme fuel for the body.
Eventually you will be eating healthy food that tastes so good you’ll forget what bad food taste like. Your desire for it will have disappeared.
The result: you’ll experience new levels of energy, lose unwanted weight, discover new levels of well-being – you’ll be inspired!
Surround yourself with EXCELLENCE.
Bon A Petite!
Beth Wilke, Raw Diet Chef
DISPELLING THE MYTH THAT RAW FOOD IS COMPLICATED
My life is all about simplicity – my favorite motto is ‘keep it simple.’ When somebody tells me that the raw food diet is difficult, something I’ve been eating for over ten years, it makes no sense to me. It surely wouldn’t fit into MY lifestyle if it were!
I recently sat down to give this comment some serious in-depth consideration. How could something so simple be complex?
I guess this way of eating can be difficult if:
you were
- trying to prepare a wide “variety” of recipes
- preparing ‘gourmet’ type recipes
- using elaborate preparation methods
- lacked the tools to efficiently prepare the food
- using hard-to-find ingredients
- pushing yourself to 100% raw too quickly
This way of eating could be difficult for the person who is used to purchasing large quantities of food and storing them indefinitely in the pantry – but gosh, food left on the shelf gets old! I prefer to have food that is fresh, aromatic, and ‘bursting with flavor’ in my kitchen, on my table, and in my body! If what I eat is not fresh, is preserved with chemicals, is not nutrient rich, and is not free of harmful substances, what’s the point?
I guess it could be difficult if you’ve been ‘conditioned’ to run out to one of the fast-food franchises for ‘fast food’ when hungry. If you haven’t tried something as simple as grabbing a handful of berries, a large apple or several bananas to ‘fill that void’ then I highly recommend you do so. It’s not only faster, cheaper, lower in calories, higher in nutrients, but you can eat lots of it and still not come close to the calories found in fast food meals. I like to eat, and though I eat a lot of food I remain slim, healthy, and full of energy!
HOW EASY IS IT?
Most raw food recipes are prepared under 15 minutes (5 minutes if you’re a veteran of eating this kind of food), and use 5 ingredients or less. With the use of just a couple of handy appliances such as a high-speed blender (the Vita-Mix for example) or a food processor your meals are typically cut, combined, mixed, and finished in one easy process. If there’s a better example of ‘easy’ I haven’t discovered it yet.
Cleanup is even easier. With just a drop of liquid dish soap and a quick rinse under hot water your equipment is cleaned and ready to be used again! How easy is that? No baked on food residue, no oily/greasy mess to dispose of, and no cooked-on hard gunk to scrape off your dishes or pots/pans, no burned meals!
Keeping raw food preparation uncomplicated makes this diet simple to do. Save the ‘gourmet’ dishes for special occasions or when you have the time, inclination, and need to make them. In the meantime, save yourself:
- Time
- Money
- Stress
- Extra Work
- Confusion
- Waste
by keeping things “SIMPLE.”
Let YOUR new motto be: “KEEP…..IT….. SIMPLE”
Bon A Petite
Beth Wilke, Raw Food Chef & Teacher
