You NEED to give yourself some Transitioning time!

Sometimes even though you just want to jump into the raw food revolution, you just have to force yourself to transition slowly...Some people do this, and some people just cant wait...like me! When I first started eating raw foods I started to feel really sick, almost like morning sickness for about 3 weeks. I had read that people need to take the transition time seriously, but I wa so gung ho about it that I decided that I would take the chance on becoming sick...well if I knew better I would have not done it that way again.

This is what tends to happen especially to young people the funny thing is that you would think that younger people would have an easier time detoxing because they dont have as many toxins to get rid of...but from what I have seen, younger people get sicker when they have no transition...my theory is that younger people have a harder time just switching to all raw foods because they are still young and their bodies respond more readily to the enzymes and their body is more efficiently expelling toxins than someone 30 years older than them.

I really value Natilia Rose's books because of this. She gives you a quiz to find out where you are in the scheme of things(eating habits) does your diet consist only of dairy, starchy carbs and red meat? Does your diet consist of mainly wild fish and organic veggies? Or have you been a rawfoodist for 5 years? She lays out a plan for you according to your level, and gives you ideas about transition foods that you can use to get you to the place you want to be. If you are switching from a highly processed diet with almost no organic foods use these as transition foods to substitiute unstead of your regular fare.

Bread- Sprouted Grain Ezekiel Breads(tortillas, bagels, and pitas)
Potatoes- Baked Yam or Sweet Potato
Sugary Cereals- Steel Cut Oats or Multigrain Cereal
Peanut Butter- Raw Almond Butter
Sugar- Stevia, Agave Nectar, Raw Honey
Milk and Yogurt- Coconut Milk and Coconut Yogurt, Almond Milk
Pasta- Brown rice, kamut, quinoa pastas or zucchini pasta(made with spiralizer)raw
Muffins- Manna Bread(Date, or Cinnamon Raisin)
Ice Cream- Coconut Bliss Ice Cream
Cheese- Goat Cheese
Rice- Brown Rice
Meat and Fish- Wild Salmon, Lean cuts of Grass Fed Beef, Free Range Organic Chicken
Eggs- Local Free Range Eggs
Nuts- Preferrably always soaked and raw


Tips for Transitioning:

*Drink a green smoothie or juice every day

*Try to limit Meat, Poultry and Fish to 1 serving per day if at all.
(make sure it is the best quality flesh products,you dont want grain fed beef, even if it is organic,the best is grass fed and organic beef, you want only wild fish, and only free range organic chicken with no antibiotics or hormones)

*If you have room for a garden, dig it! If not look for CSA's and farmers markets, buy local produce whenever possible.

*Dont focus on what you are missing...focus on what you are adding to your life!

*Eat one large salad everyday.

*Eat raw until dinner, then you can eat Salmon and salad, A baked yam and a large salad with avocado, or steamed veggies and a good tasting organic marinara sauce with some goat cheese melted on top.

*Keep your goals in mind.

*If you run into a healing crisis, and are detoxing, add in plenty of greens in your diet, such as juice and green smoothies, making digestion easier for your body and try adding in a few steamed veggies or Baked sweet potato to help slow down the detox, so that your body can handle it better.


The Best to the Worst

*All Raw fruits and vegetables

*Lightly Steamed Low Starch Veggies(everything but potatoes, butterbut squash and pumpkin)

*Raw Nuts and Seeds

*Vegetable oils including olive, flax and hemp oils.

*Cooked Starchy Veggies(sweet potatoes, butternut squash, pumpkin etc.)

*Raw Unpasturized Dairy Products especially goats milk

* Whole Grains(brown rice, quinoa, millet, buckwheat, whole wheat

* Flesh Products and Pasturized Dairy

*All non whole grain flour products

*Sugar

*Cooked Animal Fats(lard, processesed soy products, mainstream meat products)

* Chemicals, artificial coloring, unnatural additives.




Transitioning food ideas Meal Ideas for the Aspiring Raw Foodist

*Steel Cut oats Or multigrain cereal with dried fruit and nuts

*Raw Granola and Almond Milk

*Smoothie with Banana, Pineapple, water, and Spinach.

*Large Green Juice with Cuke, Chard, Lemon and 1 Apple...add stevia to sweeten

*5 oz Baked Salmon with a large green Salad and good
quality olive oil and Balsalmic Vinegar

*Large Green Salad with raw veggies of your choice, 1 Baked Yam and avocado

*Good Quality Marinara Sauce with Steamed Veggies, and or Brown Rice Pasta or Zucchini Pasta, add shredded goat cheese on top if desired.

*Large Salad or Collard Wrap with Nut Pate

*Stuffed Acorn Squash with Sundried tomatoes, Pine Nuts and Asparagus