Question
Kimberly Ramsay
I followed a raw foods eating plan for 2 years, then went back to eating fish. I now want to go strictly plant based, but I have been experiencing cravings and not wanting the food I prepare. Do you have any suggestions for getting back on track?
Answer
Let's see for the raw food thing is great. I've known a lot of the top raw food chefs in the world and have been a raw food chef myself for a period of time at a restaurant in Austin. And you know, it's great. But I also like cooking things. In fact, I would say that there's certain things you can't get out of raw foods you get out of cooked foods, but there's certain things you can get a raw foods can't get out of cooked a lot of vitamins. I get carrots a great example of that carrots, you can get certain vitamins out of a care eating it raw that you can't if you cook it, but if you cook it other ones come out that weren't there before when it was wrong. So, um, you know, but that's that's you know, if you went back to eating fish. That's totally fine too. Now if you want to go strictly plant-based you might want to go beyond just raw cooking everybody that I knew that was a raw food chef. That was very strict upon. It is now also cooking as well and I think the best way to look at that is to go seasonal right? So if you were a raw foodist, you know a bit about this is to eat some of the raw foods in the summer time and then cook more in the winter time. Um, and so I think that's probably, you know a good way to be able to look at it as well. Now if you're eating fish looking for some other ways to be able to incorporate some of those flavor profiles into your menu might be great, you know using see weed a lot more is probably a great thing. So using kombu, when you're cooking your beans using kelp granules to be able to add flavor to different things. I've seen some great things done with tomato and Sushi as well to be able to make you know, something that it's kind of like a tuna style profile where you can still see that with that nice. You know, like like you mix of different flavors you'd put from you know, the tamari and the the vinegars on the sushi as well too using tomato some fantastic things out there as well. If you're really just like creating like you're like, you know what I just want to fish stick. They have processed fish sticks out there. That's totally okay too. Right? So to be able to make that bridge it's okay to be able to break the rules a little bit and give yourself a little bit for forgiveness on those going 100% plant-based, you know, try to be as healthy as you can because that's the reason you're doing the plant-based typically but you know just sticking away from the animal products and looking for the Alternatives and I think it's the best way to look for that.
