raw foods: I've been thinking about incorporating more raw foods into my diet and am simply wondering where to begin. From what I understand I need a food dehydrator and a food processor- is there an inexpensive brand or type of each some of you more experienced raw foodsists would recommend? How about recipe books, and websites? I know I can Google for recipes but I'd like to know what your favorites are as well. Thank you kindly ~|||I see you got almost no answers so far. I was not fully raw, but I had a time of being up to 90% raw (during recovery from a serious disease). I can at least recommend you a cookbook author: Ani Phyo. She's a real pro and won numerous vegetarian and vegan awards. I can recommend ALL her books and cooking videos (those are for free). The website address is: http://www.aniphyo.com/ There are some raw vegan communities online, but I never did go any deeper there, kinda infested with certain sect members, similar to the trolls here, only more difficult to recognize :-/ As long you do not know how long you will go raw, better no investing in too expensive appliances. An average - approved quality - food processor is fine for beginners, and for dehydrating one can use the oven (or sunshine). Only if you are SURE in the long term it pays off to get the Vita-Mix or similar high quality blender (albeit the Vita-Mix probably pays off in the end for everyone who is interested in healthy and nutrition dense food). Test out first if you want to stay 100% raw for some time, I could not justify that for myself after a few days. It is good for detoxing the body, but one can detox also with health conscious vegan whole foods. I just missed the real rice, the real pasta, the steaming HOT soups and stews, the baking and cooking itself - I love cooking and it is a very therapeutic and soothing process and the cooking aromas and the warm and inviting kitchen are parts of it... So today I am at around 50% raw in my food and the rest is cooked or baked... And I do well, so raw is not the ultimate only answer :-) But I am absolutely not anti-raw, it's definitely very healthy and the body benefits greatly :-)|||Start by enjoying the wholesome goodness of carrots. The rest will come naturally.|||http://www.living-foods.com/