A woman runs through her life...

The road to raw is bumpy and paved with lots of chopped veggies! Veggies I don't always have time to arrange in an edible fashion. I have been trying recipes from some raw food (un)cookbooks... Well, it appears I am as gifted at not cooking foods as I am at cooking them. Many can attest to my recipes gone wrong. So I am having a rough time with this raw thing.

I have noticed a natural progression towards a vegan diet, something that I didn't intentionally seek out. Chicken, beef, cheese and eggs are inedible to me now. Even fish is beginning to swim away. The only vice that I can't bear to let go of is the cream that goes into my favorite warm beverage.

Reading a poem by one of my new favorite poets has sort of brought me back to the basics of raw eating- eating with intentionality. It is thought and taste provoking...she has such a way with words...


A Man Walks Through His Life
by Jane Hirshfield


"A man walks through his life
as he did when he was a boy,
taking a pear here, an apple there,
three peaches.

It is easy. They are there, by the roadside.

I want to say to him, stop.
I want to say to him, where is the plum tree you planted?

But how can I say this?
I suck on the pit of my own question,
I who also eat daily the labor of others."


I choked on this "pit" that she refers to, thinking of how often I waste the produce that I buy and do I even consider where my food came from? How I wish that it came from my own garden or even farm. Although my touch is just as tragic with gardening as with cooking.

At the very least I seek to now use each precious morsel that comes from the earth...thanks to my juicer (best $250 I have spent in a long time). Which brings me back to the beginning- the basics - where I started. I am going back to The Raw Food Detox Diet by Natalia Rose in which juicing and fresh fruit are the basis for what she calls life force energy.

I have been running through my life (literally as well as figuratively) and I am going to stop while I chop the veggies for my Green Juice and consider the source of the gift of that which grows so abundantly on this earth...

Bye, bye, pizza pie!

I realized that I am in love with pizza and it is truly hindering my efforts at eating a mostly raw diet. Tonight ended with me regretting my rendezvous, as usual. I ate pretty well today, probably about 70% raw, I even had a blissful hour or so where I had that natural "high" one achieves through ingesting raw foods.

Then I went running, it was a really hard one for some reason, 5 miles outside. I think it was because I didn't have any fresh fruit and no salad or green juice. Some of my best runs have been on days when I eat lots of hydrating fruits and veggies. I get back from this tough run, bathe the kids and put them to bed...then I start fantasizing about pizza! I gave in to my illicit desire and now I feel YUCKY!

So...I am giving up pizza- until I can find a raw version that is worth the time and effort to prepare. Also, I am going to load up on Green Juice, fruit, and salad. I will save the denser foods like dried fruits and nuts for later on when I get hungry after a run.

Goodbye pizza, I am no longer a slave to your succulent seduction!