If I'm feeling lazy or in a rush to go out I find eating a large meal
of raw greens and roots very tiresome.  Chances are I'll skip the meal
altogether.

Just recently I've tried dumping the whole meal into a blender with a
pint of water and switching on.  The end result is 2 pints of slush
which I drink as fast as I can before it oxidizes too much.  Now I
guess the puritans amongst you will frown on this practice and argue
that the food won't get a proper mixing with saliva first.  Also I've
noticed that taking food this way makes me constipated...dunno why it
should.