Is a Raw Food Diet Boring?

I have to be straightforward.  This is one particular question that Genuinely gets my goat.  Each time I listen to someone attacking the raw food plan because it really is as well "uninteresting," I go crazy!

Genuinely, I hulk out!

I've been following a lower-fat raw vegan diet regime for very nearly 2 several years now.  I can honestly say, with out any reservations, that there is definitely Almost nothing boring about a raw meals food plan!

*Deep Breath*  Okay, I'm calm now.

Let me describe why a raw meals diet is totally NOT uninteresting.

Selection

The range of fruits, greens, nuts and seeds that exist is astounding.  You have apples, grapes, oranges, bananas, peaches, pears, cantaloupe, romaine, celery, cucumber, avocado...and I'm just alluding to what is to choose from in your neighborhood grocery keep!

In actuality, I can very nearly ensure you that raw foodists eat *extra* range than Anybody on a conventional American eating habits...or any other eating habits for that issue.

This is considering most folks have a tendency to consume just a handful of dishes that turned into their staples.  And these dishes are commonly really identical.

If you eat meat, your meals will often center approximately a protein, with some starchy vegetable and perhaps greens along side.  If you're from the Southern States, your greens are cooked to death in butter and almost everything gets a great heapin' supporting of beef gravy smothered on top. )

If you are vegetarian or vegan, the concentrate is ordinarily on total grains or legumes with greens.  And of course, every person has his or her preferred dessert.

But when you live on a fruit-centered diet program, you have to adapt what you are consuming to what you can unearth in your space.  Just mainly because you have a couple of popular fruits does not mean that they will continually be out there.

I would gladly eat practically nothing but mangoes for the rest of my life, but I can not mainly because they are not normally in time!

Where's the Proof?

Nonetheless skeptical that a raw diet is honestly that varied?  Here's a list of several of the distinctive kinds of fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds that I consume in a granted yr:

o    Apples
o    Apricots
o    Avocado
o    Bananas
o    Basil
o    Bell Pepper
o    Blackberries
o    Blueberries
o    Boston Lettuce
o    Cantaloupe
o    Celery
o    Cherries
o    Cilantro
o    Clementines
o    Cucumber
o    Currants
o    Dates
o    Dill
o    Grapefruit
o    Grapes
o    Honeydew
o    Iceberg Lettuce
o    Kiwi
o    Lemon
o    Lime
o    Mangoes
o    Mint
o    Nectarines
o    Oranges
o    Papaya
o    Peaches
o    Pears
o    Pineapple
o    Pistachios
o    Raspberries
o    Romaine Lettuce
o    Star Fruit
o    Strawberries
o    Sunflower Seeds
o    Tangerines
o    Tomatoes
o    Watermelon
o    Zucchini

AND I didn't even comprise of the distinct varieties of fruit within just about every species.  For instance, there are Navel and Valencia oranges, red and green grapes, the Fuji apples and the Gala apples, Red Haven and White Nectar peaches, and many others.

All of this is located conventionally at my local supermarkets in Tennessee.  Of program, if you are living somewhere tropical or have access to exotic markets, you have a full different spectrum of fruits to decide on from:

o    Chocolate Sapote
o    Custard Apple
o    Durian
o    Jackfruit
o    Litchi
o    Longan
o    Mamey Sapote
o    Mangosteen
o    Rambutan
o    Sapodilla
o    Soursop

There's even a peanut butter fruit that has the taste AND texture of peanut butter!

How can a eating habits that is complete of so quite a few numerous smells, tastes, and textures be boring?

Extremely purely, it are unable to.

Raw Recipes

If you *nevertheless* aren't convinced that a raw diet program isn't boring, you almost certainly haven't deemed all the totally different raw vegan recipes that you can make.

And I am not talking about fatty dehydrated conglomerations that are manufactured to mimic the flavor and textures of cooked dishes.  I'm referring to straight forward, delicious, nutritious meals that have few substances and get basically minutes to put jointly.

There are fruit smoothies, green smoothies, fruit soups, vegetable soups, fruit salads, savory salads, fruit puddings, dips, salsas, and even fruit ice lotions!

You could virtually consider just a several distinctive healthy raw substances and have a 100 % various dish for each meal for a entire week!

Now how in the planet can a eating habits like *this* be uninteresting?

Fairly plainly, it cannot.

Don't Get My Word For It!

If you are nonetheless debating going raw, there is no much better time than now to get out there and go for it.  See for oneself just how varied this diet can be.  Acquire all the fruits you can and go ridiculous in the kitchen!

Just be sure to send me the recipes to all of your excellent raw creations.