People ask me all the time: “how do you just eat raw, vegan foods? It seems way too hard!” You know what I think is hard? NOT just eating raw, vegan foods! Today alone, I 1) listened to NPR’s story on palm oil, and how that’s causing environmental destruction, 2) signed a petition against the use of BPAs…
I’m really enjoying preparing food lately, which makes it all so much easier! I seem to go into slumps where it all just seems like a chore, and then back up to where it’s fun again. I guess like everything else, food prep has its cycles, or rather, my feelings about it does. Since I’ll…
My wonderful old friend Kim recently asked me to submit an entry for her zine, Toil. I’m still not certain which path I’ll take for my article, but the theme? Starting Over. Easy. And at the same time, oh so difficult. We start over every day, every year, every month, every moment–if we’re good at it.…
Well, I love this! Sometimes I tire of preparing food, and/or find myself dishing up the same three or four meals over and over and over . Preparing food for one can be boring and annoying. Sure, it can also be fun and full of freedom, and I’m often just as happy and grateful to…
So here’s what I’d like to address in this blog post: Craziness. Not your average kook-on-the-street-yelling-to-himself-mental-illness crazy—but self-induced-food-crazy (SIFC). It can really sneak up on you, take it from me: I recently had to reel myself back from the brink of SIFC, and it wasn’t a pretty thing. I even learned from my friend Julie that there’s an actual label for SIFC (other than, thank you, SIFC), and it’s a condition called Orthorexia Nervosa —here’s a definition out of Wikipedia:
Benefits of Raw Food Link: This is simply a link to Planet Raw’s site, where they do an admirable job of describing the many benefits of a raw food diet. Check it out here: http://www.planetraw.com/healthy-restaurant-los-angeles-organic-vegan-raw-foods-benefits/ Protein on a Raw Foods Diet: In our society, we’ve been programmed by marketing and myth to be extremely…