Raw-ish

Negotiations:

I had a feeling when Benny agreed so easily to this raw food thing that he would reconsider. During our weekend of debauchery we finally got down to the business of discussing what it meant to go raw. The discussion soon turned into a negotiation. Benny has been doing weight watchers and has had success having lost 15 pounds. So he feels like he has found the magic bullet and doesn’t want to tempt fate by going rogue and doing this raw thing. I on the other hand have to be honest with myself and consider that I am an absolute carb loving wine drinking smoker who is useless prior to his morning cup of coffee. If I just stop all of those things it could lead to a meltdown and possible jail time. So I decided that instead of following someone else’s raw detox plan that we would simply create our own William and Benny friendly raw-ish detox.
Here are the rules:
The main goal is to eat things that are not processed. No ingredients that you do not recognize as “food” and nothing white.
As much raw vegetables as possible however grilling and lightly cooking is fine.
I will be allowed to have toast for breakfast however it has to be whole grain. I found bread from a bakery in Oceanside that is high in protein and fiber and has no preservatives.
I will be allowed one cup of coffee first thing in the morning and I can use organic milk from a free range dairy.
No meat.
We can have beans but we have to buy them dry and make them from scratch. We will also make hummus with chickpeas instead of buying it so we can control what is in it.
We can eat brown rice but like the beans we buy it dry and make it old school.
No alcohol :(
No cheese
Nothing fried
Salad dressings are to be all natural with the before mentioned ingredient rule.
No cigarettes ….. This is the big one of course for me. I have promised to begin a “gaba” regimen and will be using natural tabs from the health food store to get thru cravings.
Basically we will be vegetarians. I see now that I will need to change the name of this plan from “Raw” to “vegetarian” although we will primarily be eating raw. We have also purchased a simple whole body cleanse that we start on day one (tomorrow). It’s basically a bunch of herbs that are supposed to start a process of riding our body of toxins.
The plan is that we do this thru September… Benny will be making vegetarian recipes and I will be posting them with photos here on the blog. We can do this!