Hi everybody, I have always been fascinated with the idea of being self sufficient, so my long road to RPD actually started with becoming disillusioned with minimalist urban camping. I have decided to start a farm where I wil grow my own food, water and energy and I needed to know what my food needs were. I experimented with vegetarian but I didn't really like beans and, quite frankly, the idea of growing my own grains and harvesting them in a sustainable way made me want to break down and weep. My brother is an athlete and his trainer has him on a strange hybrid paleo diet, but that is what lead me on to the paleo diet. I had a really good experience with that re weight loss and muscle tone with minimal effort (I wasn't exactly heavy and I have an active job/lifestyle) as well as a huge improvement in energy levels. What made me switch to the raw paleo diet (besides making complete logical sense from how I understand the world to work) was sheer lack of time. I simply do not have time to cook and do dishes at this point in my life. Another plus is on my farm I won't need as much fuel to cook with!! Has anybody else had experience with paleo farming?
On a side note, I have been eating raw for a couple weeks and on the weekend my roommate made burgers and I thought, "What the hell?" and ate the (cooked) burger. Suffice to say, it did not agree with my digestion. I don't think I will be going back to cooked foods, as the transition from cooked to raw was painless but the first cooked meat I had after only a few weeks of raw meat caused extreme physical distress (well maybe not extreme, but deffinatly distressing ). Two days after the burger, my raw meat tasted orders of magnitude better and I never had a problem with the taste of raw meat.