When you're starting a raw food diet, you may not know how to begin. What can you eat? What should you buy? Should you go 100% raw or is it better to go gradually?
Here are some tips and tricks to help you getting started.
Top 3 Starters Tips
Organic foods: Start buying organic. Just this change will have a dramatic result on your health. See the organic foods page for a list of the top 10 organic foods and more info.
Juicing: Fruit and vegetable juices will give you a jump start to the raw food diet and you'll feel better quickly. The juice is full of enzymes, vitamins, minerals, co-factors and more. It will give you lots of energy. Look for recipes in the recipe section of this site.
Add healthier foods to your diet gradually. You can try something new every day, week or month. It doesn't really matter, as long as you keep going in a pace that's right for you. Before you know it, you'll eat a large amount of your diet raw. And you'll feel it.
These superfoods are an effective, quick and easy way to get results fast.
Shopping List
When you decide to go raw you may wonder what to eat and where to buy it. To help you shopping in the health store, here are two shopping lists.
The first shopping list is for when you just begin a raw food diet - it has lists both raw foods and healthy transition foods and snacks. This list is also great for when you have family members that are not raw, but that you'd like to eat healthier...
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