raw foods: A raw food diet is an extreme of veganism. It typically is made up primarily of fruits and vegetables. Even though other foods can be eaten, they cannot be cooked about a certain temperature. For example, if they wanted to cook their beans or legumes, they could not cook them in a pot on the stove. There is a long soaking process that they use to "cook" their beans.|||Types of vegetables that you can squeez all the juices out and turn them into an imitation of a regular food. Also raw vegetables, fruits with no salt, dressing, or any perservatives. Mostly organic too.|||True raw food diet followers believe that cooking anything denatures the food and takes out all the nutritional value and needed enzymes. They believe that original man did not cook food and that the human body is designed to eat all food raw. So nothing, including meat and chicken is cooked. Everything is organic, unprocessed and uncooked. Got more popular in the 80's.|||vegetarian foods|||I am a certified raw food teacher through Alissa Cohen. A raw food diet includes fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and sprouted grains - all in a raw form. Raw food is not just apple slices and carrot sticks. With these foods, you can make things like pizza, calzone, tacos, breads, dressings, granola, lots of different kinds of desserts including cakes, cookies & pies, spaghetti marinera, salmon pate', ravoli, lasagna, burgers, and a whole lot more. And we use all kinds of seasonings & herbs - including sea salt! If you eat an apple, you are eating raw food. However, sushi is not considered a raw food in this diet, as we do not eat fish (or meat of any kind), or dairy, or eggs, or any processed food. I do not currently eat a 100% raw food diet; however, because of my knowledge of this pure and simple way of eating, I incorporate a lot more wholesome food into my family's diet than most do. Last year, I ate a strick 100% raw food diet and never felt better in my life. Eating this way has cured many people of ailments, such as diabites, high blood pressure, athletes foot, acne, etc.|||I am mostly raw. Some days I only eat raw foods and others I eat raw until dinner and then I just eat something that's healthy, but may be cooked, but always with a salad so I get healthy enzymes to help digestion. I always eat fruit for breakfast and to snack on until lunch. Sometimes I'll juice or make a green smoothie then snack on strawberries or apple clices or something like that. At lunch I almost always eat a salad. Sometimes I'll have a few flax crackers on the side, maybe with some nut pate (I make the cracker and nut pate myself). If I eat bread at dinner I eat sprouted breads - sprouting helps break down glutens and makes it easier to digest. they make sprouted grain burger and hot dog buns as well as breads. If I make pasta I use brown rice pasta and make my own sauces. I might steam some veggies or make a soup or a bean dish. I try and do most things from scratch. There are some great recipes for raw treats like unchicken nuggest that are made from sprouted lentils and carrots and then dehydrated - delicious! Here's a recipe: http://gliving.tv/greenchefs/alissa-cohe鈥?/a> I make puddings with carob and avocado, I make pie shells from nuts and dates or figs, I make cookies with ground nuts and coconut with fruit juices, I make raw chocolate bars from scratch! I do not feel deprived at all. I feel ecstatic that I can eat such tasty things and know they are GOOD for me. One thing that has really been a big change is that I don't think about food so much anymore. At first I was obsessed with all the different things to try and make and worrying about what I would eat, but after a while I only worried about food when I was hungry and I wasn't ruled so much by my taste buds. I was very briefly 100% raw but I felt like I was missing something so I started eating things like beans and sprouted grains for one meal and it made a big difference. I might have some sort of processed food like fake soy chicken nuggets or fake taco meat once in a very great while (like once every few weeks). Eating so much raw food and eliminating virtually all processed foods has made such a difference in my life! I feel and look so much healthier and happier!