Raw diets can be among the hardest plant-based diets to follow. Even more difficult is a vegan raw diet. Both of these are legitimate eating lifestyles. However, they are significantly different from normal eating habits.
Therefore, it will take some significant adjustments to your diet to go raw. A lot of former favorites will end up on the forbidden list. The good news is that there will be some foods that can stay, and others that you can find raw alternatives for.
Raw Diet
With a raw diet, you can eat anything that is raw. That includes raw milk, meat eggs and fish, such as sashimi-quality salmon and tuna. However, it will mean giving up bread, baked goods and pizza in many cases. Most raw dieters skip the meat and fish and eat vegetarian raw. Others are really strict and eat vegan raw.
Vegan Raw Food Diet
Vegan raw will be the toughest because it will have a longer list of forbidden foods. In addition, vegan raw dieters need to worry about getting enough protein and amino acids every day in order to maintain good health. They have to watch out for protein and amino acids, and vitamin B12. Fortunately, there are ways to get enough of these important nutrients and still stick to your eating principles.
Bread
There are vegan raw sandwich wraps. You can use a couple of them to help form a pizza crust.
Pizza
Use soy cheese on a crust made from cauliflower that is “cooked” in a dehydrator.
Cake
You can discover recipes for no bake cakes such as lemon squares.
Pasta/Noodles
You can create noodles, or ‘zoodles’, out of zucchini. For Asian-style meals, you can swap shredded daikon horseradish from Japan for rice noodles. If you’ve ever seen the thin white strands of vegetables on a tray of sushi or sashimi, that is daikon.
Chocolate
Chocolate is unfortunately forbidden in most cases on a raw diet because it has usually been cooked with milk. However you can eat carob, which is dairy free, and you can also use cocoa nibs, that is, unprocessed chocolate, rather than chocolate chips in your recipes.
No Bake Cookies
There is a range of no bake cookies available for raw and vegan raw diets. Many of them use fruit, dried fruit, seeds and nut butters to bind these sweet treats together.
If you struggle with the idea of eating raw, consider these vegan raw options and you won’t miss out on all sorts of tasty treats.
