[Shimmer]

HI all

Yes, I've heard of raw foodies. My mother-in-law and her lifelong boyfriend recently picked up the trend, and have been doing raw food stuff now for about a year and a half. Eating with them is pure adventure. Everything is so fresh- guacamole with chips made out of nuts and dehydrated tomatoes, etc, and interesting. For my husband, who has a nut allergy, it wasn't the best thing because they make milk products and bread type products out of nuts, since they grind up and cling together really well.

They traded their oven in for a dehydrator, and it makes them happy, so.....

A large part of it has to do with knowing how cooking vegetables strips them of nutrients, and wanting to eat "whole foods." She is an herbalist and a healer, so naturally they would be concerned with this. They started with the cookbook written by Julienne (the guy in Ca) and went from there, ended up meeting families in southern Oregon who adoped this as their lifestyle.

Anyway


~~Shimmer~~