Today is my first day of my two week raw food diet. My goal is to document all of the food I eat, the cost of the food, and how I’m feeling about my lack of cooked food consumption.
Last night, I ate my last cooked meal of a grilled cheese, fries, and sweet tea. I savored that meal, like an inmate on death row. But as I’m going on with my day, I’m realizing how little cooked foods I actually eat. My snack and breakfast are exactly what I eat everyday, before I started this diet.
Breakfast: Banana, water ($0.19)
Snack: Pure Cherry Cashew bar, water ($1.49)
Lunch:
Snack:
Dinner:
My main concern, while attempting this diet, is having a balanced diet and avoiding malnutrition and hunger.
A diet (at least) 75% fruits and veggies
NOT heating food above 116 degrees
Harder to intake proper amount of vitamin B12, calcium, iron, and omega-3 fatty acids
Eat almost twice the iron as non-vegetarians
Eat at least eight servings a day of calcium-rich foods
Eat fortified foods for vitamin B12
Trader Joes, Whole Foods, and People’s are my new best friends.
Trader Joes
Raw Almonds ($4.49)
Broccoli ($1.69)
Persian Cucumbers (2.29)
Honeycrisp Apples ($2.99)
Pearl Tomatoes ($2.49)
Pure Cherry Cashew Bar ($1.49)
Pure Chocolate Brownie ($1.49)
Cantaloupe ($2.49)
Total (with tax): $20.59
Tomorrow, I am going to begin my endeavor of being rawesome.
Rawesome: (adj.) someone awesome who only eats raw foods.