I am in Toronto visiting my wife's parents and head up to oregon to a
"primitive life skill gathering " til the end of july so  will be  off the
list.
i don't have time to extend now but there is some thoughts.
I am glad to see you are doing well and want to  go thru the difficulties
 finding  sources of undenatured  foods is a sport in itself)
It is not expensive in my view to eat good food ,it is  denatured foods that
are more or less artificially made cheap ( so they can sale  more of them ,
. considering they are not satisfying )

In Nature food is expensive ,  can require great  effort .

for hunting : the lost art of blending into nature allowed certainly early
humans to approach game by stacking like Tom BRown in his books demonstrate
the possibility ( able to touch the deer without it  noticing it)

i made some exceptions here with frozen meats because i found some wild
muskox and wild  caribou so could not resist to try it . I just ate it half
frozen so less denaturation happening during the thawing. I bet it will habe
been much better if fresh but it was not bad.
when i have to buy the vegetables i do sometimes  some mixing in my mouth to
make me eat them . one bite of chicoree with one bite of nuts or undenatured
olives or with some fresh herbs . Only with freshly harvested ( eaten on the
spot ) greens can have great pleasure . commercial or even  organics stored
bought is boring taste.
I found necessary to relax on the rules about vegetables  so i could eat
more  of them  overwise i end up eating too much fruits.
jean-claude


>I have been raw for four weeks now.  Notice I don't say instincto, as I
have
>given up on the "stop" I cannot seem to achieve, because it stresses me out
>and takes all the fun out of eating.  I don't think it is unachievable, but
>I probably need wild foods, and some direct supervision from someone such
as
>Jean-Claude.  Since I cannot have those right now, I will be happy with
>eating raw food, as I am enjoying it, and feel and look much healthier than
>on cooked paleo.  I do not want to give any false impressions, though.  I
am
>eating much better foods anyway.  I was previously a bacon and sausage
>caveman, as many of us are.  Though that seemed fine to me when I started a
>year an a half ago, I have changed quite a bit.  We may not all agree with
>Ray on this thing or that, but without reading to his admittedly loose
>interpretation of paleo, I would never have even considered such an
>experimentation as all raw, unprocessed, unmixed food.  I think the way he
>suggests going paleo is a good way for any person to begin the journey
>toward a better way of life and looking at food
>
>As for my raw food diet, it has shown some amazing benefits.  I have lost
15
>pounds, and am down to 10% body fat.  Unfortunately, I did not get a body
>fat test to begin the experiment, but my last one was about 15%, and I can
>reasonably assume it was still close to that.  I eat much less food, just
>because less seems to be enough.  It is quite expensive, however.  Hunting
>season will fix that, with brings me to another point.  I have always
>believed man is a mighty hunter, and that is probably something that
>attracted my to Ray's book, as he thinks so also.  I feel differently now.
>Just as Jean-Claude and other promised, raw meat is much better with a
>little aging.  I put it on a dehydrator tray in the refrigerator, and turn
>it every 12 hours.  The taste gets better and better with time, as long as
>it does not dry out.  Veggies are still a little hard to take, but I try on
>a regular basis.  My current food pyramid is fruit on the bottom, meat in
>the middle, and veggies on top.  I am no trying to do that, it just works
>out that way.  I eat nuts too.  Back to the hunting, though.  If everyone
>eaten raw meat likes it aged, why do we think that man is a mighty hunter?
>It should to me like we are primarily scavengers wrt meat, and hunter
>secondarily.  Why else do I believe this?  Other than outsmarting them by
>running them off a cliff, what tools do we have to kill?  No sharp teeth,
no
>claws, just fingers - great for rummaging through the remains of a kill
>after finding a partially eaten animal, or after running off the carnivore
>that killed it, which I think a human would be capable of.  These are just
>some thoughts, but do not misunderstand me, I will still hunt, I will just
>age my meat and eat it raw, never having been frozen.  Does anyone know how
>long red meat keeps when vacuum sealed and stored in a refrigerator?  I am
>considering buying a vacuum packing machine for home use.
>
>As for the benefits of raw - very little toilet paper need these days,   no
>odor from movements, decreased body odor, never the slightest digestive
>discomfort whatsoever, and it seem to be melting away fat.
>
>-Rob in Lubbock
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