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    Some of us on forum try to deal without money for one reason or another, so don't have brix meters or reverse osmosis systems.  Personally I find RAFs so strengthening that if I eat them, chlorine and other toxins don't molest me as much.  It's one of the reasons I turned to RAF now while I'm still fairly young.  My guy has a very strong constitution, many generations raised in the fresh air out in the country, young mothers, majority etc.  My family is city, minority etc.  We have children much later generally too, my parents were both much older than you at my birth and their parents at theirs.  He applies his needs to me (lots of TV, screwed water filters etc), and his compromises make me very sick.  It's a favor.  It brought me to RAF.  If his path was not a sharp cross one to mine, we would have never met nor become one.  With RAF I can survive even if the way he arranges everything contradicts me.  I used to read about brix meters all the time; I was a member of vegan forums for years.  I think brix meters were invented to measure the sugar in grape crops/vineyards.  Some of the members here who've made the best recoveries are now drinking tap water that has not been treated since coming through the city pipes. 

    I used to carefully compost all my own soil from my raw kitchen in the rain forest.  I grew wheat grass from that.  I used nothing artificial.  Wheat grass is a good detergent.  At this point I avoid detergents, solvents and all of the sort if at all possible, artificially sourced or not.  I use raw grass grazed fat and raw grass grazed meat, as it works more naturally with the body.  I can not afford to fool around.  It's the step I'm up to.  If you are up to the step of carefully grown wheat grass, there is nothing to be ashamed about.  Use the grass until it serves you no more.  Know then that there are alternatives.  Wisdom is hard come by.  Suffering is the mother of finding answers that work (even if not popular).

    Wb ltl!  There a guy with a blog.  He ate raw meat for a while and last I heard is raw vegan now and still searching.  He's a body builder, and the blog has run several years, and he receives many comments on it.  I can't think of his name.  Another friend who went from SAD to raw vegan to RAF to Weston Price pointed me to the blog.  He would know, but I've been out of touch with him.

I started the raw zero carb paleo diet 3 weeks ago and I'm having big problems...
My stools are getting really pale and now I can see a lot of small white fat tallow ...

This his what I am eating:
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Very low heat rendered suet (Tallow)
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    Why did you choose to eat tallow over completely raw fat?  Feel better soon. 

Hey Lex

Why did you take up the sunbathing routine? do you wear a shirt? do you work outside or just bathe? are you craving sunlight?...

... have actively exposed myself for 3+ hours a day. I've been doing this because I crave sunlight more than ever this year, interestingly I'm experiencing my first completely free hayfever/eczema  spring of my life.

    Weeks/months I stayed away from all starch, greens, seaweeds, legumes, grains, nuts, dairy and meat completely, I craved sun.  I don't think I've ever craved sun otherwise.  Could it be consuming lots of water makes us crave sun?

Thanks RawZi.  Yes, I've had commercial pasteurised goat butter in the past and had also read that it's distinctive white colour was due to the lack of beta-carotene content.

I've never separated goat cream from milk.  I have done so with large quantities of cow milk in the past using a specialist milk separator which I'd bought.  I was amazed at how much milk it took to, eventually, make a single stick of butter! ...

Did you make raw ghee from cow milk RawZi? ...

    You're welcome Michael.  The goat butter I have is raw unpasteurized.  Goat milk  comes out the teat naturally homogenized, quite unlike cow milk, so it's different to separate.  I made ghee from five lbs cow butter at a time.  I've never used a cow milk separator.  Cheese is similar, in that it takes more milk than how much cheese comes out. 

    Today I'm making:

Cranberry and raw biodynamic cream smoothie for my son (no egg added).

Big salad with raw mushrooms, raw hulled sunflower seeds, raw alfalfa sprouts, raw cauliflower and many other raw salad greens and non-sweet fruit (for my gentleman ), and dressing of stone pressed olive oil, raw ACV and celtic salt.

Raw real free range chicken and organic cranberry salad (for me)

I'm just serving apples for dessert.  None of us like complicated sweets.

    Let's post holiday food here, to give ideas to newbies!


 

    What symptoms does your little son manifest when he gets too much and too little dietary protein?  Children generally have lots of growth hormone.  Because of this, there isn't as much dire need to eat protein. 

    I do know when my son was that little though, that he loved to eat nuts.  He used to crack them open himself.  Actually, he did not like nuts unless he cracked them himself.  He also liked the seed cheese recipe (AW) that I (and others) made.  I made it to taste somewhat like tuna fish salad and also as salad dressing.

    Little children usually use a lot of fuel (carbohydrates and fats).  Nuts not only have protein, but a kind of starch (carb).  AV has been prescribing the nut formula (or made with soaked peas rather than nuts) for some people that he sees require starch.  I don't have experience with it, as I don't require starch.  Most people don't.

he does not like the animal protein that much. so i try that at night. i'm also afraid of too much protein intake. please, help me out little more. thanks.

:(my questions are,1) what else i can give him for lunch?
                           2)the day i give him fish lunch and steak diner and yolks breakfast, is it too much protein he is taking for entire day?
                           3) he loves pomegranates, cheese, apple, water melon, grapes (i don't like to give these everyday b/c of high content  of suger and they are not local. can i give him only good amount of raw cheese only?

@wodgina6722 I know, right?  Sixteen ounces is more than anyone I know.  I've eaten bowls of flax seeds ground with soaked prunes and papaya, and fell sick for months.  It was the prunes.  The same with just papaya and flax served some helpful purpose at least.  Beet juice burns me as it goes down.  I don't know how someone imagines plants are antiinflammatory and raw meat not.  They/we have to try it to know different. 

Iron supplements are inorganic.

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I would try mineral and energy drops on it like quantum minerals plus drops just to see if it is a mineral deficiency.

    What are

quantum minerals plus drops

? 

    Do you have a recipe how to make it?  I don't need it right now, but if I ever get stuck eating vegan style or other inferior food for me.  Soaking raisins and mixing the resultant water with a little unheated honey delivers iron, but I think raisin water is too sweet for me.  I know other herbs that can help with anemias, but no recipe.

   

... freshly grounded flex seeds (he loves this very much), than i give him the super combination of 1)half avocado, 2)one tsp raw soaked sunflower seeds,3)one tsp raw soaked sesame seed, 4)six California raw soaked almonds, 5)very small a pinch bee pollen... all together crush them in a stone and make a paste (this is the way i'm feeding him since he started solid food which is part of his vegan diet). he is so happy drinking the celery, but as soon as i give him that paste, he throws up every thing. he just doesn't like it.  than i give him only avocado paste, he eats that.

    The seeds/nuts could be the big problem.  You could try eliminating them, or using them as a slight condiment rather than a major component.

     

I thought of another way of describing it. On my better days it's like meditation has become me instead of me meditating.

    Isn't it beautiful?  For a hearty part of the last fifteen or more years that I was vegan, I got to a point where it was so hard to meditate.  Of course when I water fasted for a few days or more it came back for months or a year or so.  Me too, eating mostly (R)AF, mostly fat (raw), there's such a clear calm, no need to try as it's so easy for months at a time.  I haven't gone fully (R)AF yet though.  I assume if I do, it will be more stable and better. 

    When I relied on coconut water as my sole drinking water source, it was all fresh, mostly coconuts I picked myself.  I never got sick from it.  Once they are opened, contamination can get in.  Opening them myself cuts out the middle man and who knows what else. right?  Also, the middle man (when my buddy got sick), I got the water from did not live near where coconuts grow.

    raw- Are the Florida coconuts dipped?  If so, do you think the pesticides or formaldehyde could get into them if not careful?

    Could Martins have chemicals to kill the bacteria? Has anyone information?  Like has anyone visited their manufacturing plant?

    I have gotten packaged juices that were raw.  I think they had to be sold within three days.  They're illegal where I live.  They have to be fresh made or pasteurized somehow.  Good luck with all the irradiation and such they try to do to our fruit.  It's amazing they put radiation waste in food.

    I am interested to try fasting on eggs sometime in the future, possibly with the addition of celery/zucchini/cilantro juice.

    Tyler, what were the sources of the eggs on your fast?

    From what I heard from AV, he's not very happy with all milk fasts.  I suppose he thinks it's a little better than being any kind of vegan.  You mean the milk cure diet, right?  To me it seems he really feels adults need meat for their health.