Raw Food Diet Menu

Raw food diet recipes can get fairly intricate and I recommend that when starting out, you learn how to develop your own raw food made easy strategy. Creating your own raw food diet menu first helps the newcomer to understand the important concepts of raw food dieting, and also makes it easier to evaluate your body’s response to the introduction of new foods and the elimination of others.

It's also important because the better your knowledge of raw organic food, the typical ingredients and concepts, the easier it will be to create your own diet menu plans. This is key if your priority is to use a raw food diet for weight loss because it will help you stick to it. Eating raw food is more about being able to properly stock your pantry so that something is always available and you don't run into the "there is nothing to eat" excuse.

Here's how I did it. I simply decreased the amount of cooked foods I ate while I increased my intake of raw fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and berries over the course of about 4 weeks. By the end of this period I had pretty much eliminated regular use of animal products and other cooked foods.

During this self designed transitional period I found it helpful to read up on concepts like raw food diet weight loss, the raw food diet detox approach, the importance of food variation, acid and alkaline body pH and how to evaluate proteins. Personally, I found the book “Eating For Energy” to be very helpful in this regard, but there are certainly other sources of this information available.

What I liked about that particular book was that it is packed with a ridiculous amount of information covering the what, how and why of starting a raw eating lifestyle, It also provides a very good 12 week raw food diet menu plan that really focuses on transitioning the body and mind using a large number of great but simple recipes and the very gentle introduction of some brief detox days toward the latter portion of the twelve weeks.

Of course, if you are the type that likes to jump right you could certainly bypass my transitional period and just start off with any of the fine publications available. Most of them include an 8 to 12 week sample menu with recipes that are easy enough for the beginner to follow while becoming acclimated. Most are realistic and very flexible about real world eating situations.

If you are concerned about variety, there are hundreds of raw food recipes so it won't be difficult to come up with your own menu plan or diet meal plan. For example, you can check out the aforementioned Eating for Energy, or the Sunfood Diet System, or other similar books.

This strategy for following a raw food diet menu will definitely get you off on the right track and is what I moved to after my initial raw foods diet transition. But let me just warn you that time and effort are required and my own personal experience taught me that people are more likely to fail and give up when attempting to take this route because it consumes more time and effort; two things that most of us are short on.

Sure you can buy a food dehydrator and make fancy dried bread substitutes. You can purchase sprouting trays and sprout raw beans and grains. There are other contraptions available on the market for making fancy cuts and preparations of raw vegetables. You can accumulate and experiment with raw vegan recipes or follow a prescribed raw food diet daily menu. Let me ask you though. Do you really have time for all that on an everyday basis? What are you going to eat while you are getting up to speed? Chances are you'll quit and go back to eating the old unhealthy way.

Learn to eat raw on a day-to-day basis first instead. Develop your own routine that provides levels of convenience and variety that are acceptable to you. THEN start experimenting with more sophisticated meal preparations and work the favorites into your personal repertoire over time.

Personally, I am still OK with just eating mostly big salads and switching up the ingredients I used from day to day. I find that I don't get bored with it all because there are so many raw and living foods choices available that I only need to concentrate on stocking the stuff that I like and then selecting what I want to have meal by meal.