The Tough Part About Raw Food is the Tough Part About Food

Raw bean burritos with guacamole, salsa, cilantro, and spinach wrapped in cabbage tortillas






The toughest part about eating raw is that you have to prepare all the food yourself, from scratch.

Notice anything funny about that sentence?

We're supposed to be making food from scratch!! Going raw just forces you to do this. Then we say, "going raw is so much work!" In fact, eating healthy in general is "so much work." At least, compared to what we're used to.

We have transitioned from one- to two-income households in these last decades and have gone to convenience foods in the process which involve either throwing packages into the microwave or into a pan of boiling water to prepare. Then there's fast-food or simply eating out too much.

For the sake of our health, we MUST go back to the old custom of preparing our own food at home from scratch. Certainly there are times and places for going out to eat with friends or to celebrate, but I do not feel there is a place for boxed, bagged, or microwaveable meals.

I think for most people, transitioning to making all food from scratch would be one of the hardest changes they could make, yet it would have an instant and powerful effect on their health for the better.

It's so funny--people think the food they eat at restaurants tastes so good because of some brilliant chef in the kitchen (which is surely the case at times), but really, it tastes so good because it completely over-stimulates your taste buds with salt, sugar, and oil. There's nothing magic there. If you want to reproduce the "superior" restaurant food taste at home, put four times the salt, sugar, or oil in whatever you are making. Then appreciate why it is so much healthier to be the one in control of your food.

Once you've been making all your food on your own, going raw won't seem like any work at all. You'll just be making different recipes than before. Pretty simple.