Day 1 Day 2 Day 3

Starting from June 1st I am going on a 30 day raw food diet and am really quite excited about it too. I first heard of the whole raw food lifestyle years ago in an email from a US contact and it seemed very interesting - a restaurant in New York which served only raw food sounded really wonderful and different, something you would almost expect from the big apple.
It wasn't until a couple of weeks ago I started to really think about doing the raw food died myself. As I was working on losing weight (in mid March my weight was 11st 10lb by 1st June I was down too 11st 4lb) and was eating a lot of fruit and vegetables and very little carbohydrates anyway, so it seemed a natural progression. I have decided to go as close to a full raw diet as possible but will not be 100% as I will still be drinking coffee with milk, for me it is my one major sin. Really the coffee beans are the only thing 'cooked' as milk is pasteurised not cooked so it is still 'raw' isn't it!
Some of my ingredients are not all 'raw' but I hope to learn what to replace what I currently using to something that is raw. Part of the whole learning curve for this diet.
Before I go any further let me state quite clearly here I that I am not a vegan nor am I a vegetarian - "now your becoming a vegan?" you many ask me. Well the answer is no-sir-re!
So I will have to be creative and squeeze a little more protein into my diet but will be keeping it raw - really don't see a problem there when it comes to beef and fish but chicken will take a little more research.

To start me off I have purchased a new toy a Spriral-Cutter and it has been quite joy. I guess I will be slowly adding to my kitchen a few new items and lots of ingredients needed for the recipes (within reason of cause).

I have been also looking our for shops and supermarkets that stock raw food ingredients such as Cacao power and Nama Shoyu and also the possiblity of finding a raw food restaurant
or just a restaurant that served some raw food dishers.

So far this hasn't worked out that well for me - I have tried to shop for raw ingredients by visiting Windmill Organics Ltd in Kingston-upon-Thames but they are a wholesale outlet only and well I peddled over to Chiswick to sample some raw pizza at Wally's but again not a great success. I says raw but they cook it! I know - go figure huh!

However these little set backs have not put me off the search.This is now my day three so in my next post I will have to update my blog with what meals I have started with and what recipies I have been experimenting with, all complete with colour photos.