Re: meals

Raw/living foods diets can vary substantially, from pure fruitarian to pure
sproutarian to, more commonly, a diet that includes raw fruits, sprouts,
vegetables.

My typical day of meals is:
+ breakfast - raw fruit, usually citrus but sometimes papayas, figs, peaches, or
mangoes
+ lunch - variety of raw vegetables, usually with avocado (might substitute
sprouts for avo if avos very expensive, and with lemon/lime juice as dressing.
This is usually not a formal salad - just put veggies on plate and eat.
Vegetables that I eat frequently include: cilantro, celery, red sweet peppers,
fennel bulb, snow peas, okra (raw! it's slimy but I like it!), asparagus (raw,
of course), cucumbers, dandelion greens. (Will eat some from list at meal, not
all of list!)
+ supper - sprout milk, i.e. milk substitute made from sprouts (sprouted
oats, rice, almonds, flavored with raw honey and cinnamon), plus a bowl
of sprouts (wheat, sesame, mung, sunflower are most common). If still hungry,
may eat some nuts, usually walnuts (soaked when possible) or pecans.
+ snacks - vary, usually carrot juice or fruit; often eat dates as snack.

Cooked food - the only cooked food I consume is 1 cup of herb tea steeped in
hot water (I use the tea as an eyerinse, hence want to sterilize it first;
drink unused portion as tea), per day.

Additional Comments:

David Mayne, [log in to unmask], mentioned raw corn soup in a previous e-mail.
Sounds interesting!  Regarding raw sweet corn I wanted to mention that not
only is raw corn silk edible, but it is sweet and delicious. So, when you eat
raw sweet corn, it is a good idea to eat the corn silk also. Western herbalists
and Ayurveda use corn silk as anti-diabetes, and it is a strong diuretic. In
a way, the corn silk is an "antidote" for the high sugar content of the corn.

Judy Pokras, [log in to unmask] asked about the following:

water distillers - an area of disagreement among raw fooders. Some insist on
distilled water, while others refuse to drink it. Alternatives include solid
carbon block filters and reverse osmosis units.

Viktoras Kulvinskas and Gabriel Cousens  both cite research which shows that
cooked food, including pure boiled water, promotes the development of white
blood cells. As white blood cells are your body's response to germs and
infection, this suggests that boiled water is not good for you. An alternative
view is that you don't cook your food, so why cook your water?

shower filters - I had one but it self-destructed after 13 months of use. It
was nice while it lasted, but my bad experience leads me to not get another
one...

Tom Billings
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