Two Months on 90% Raw Vegan

Summary

The author and their spouse have been following a 90% raw vegan diet for two months to address a health issue, finding it easy, enjoyable, and potentially sustainable long-term.

Abstract

The author recounts their recent experience of adopting a 90% raw vegan diet alongside their partner, with the aim of managing a health concern. They describe how they modified their grocery shopping to include a variety of raw vegetables and fruits, incorporating them into salads with cooked elements like sweet potato or nut loaf. Despite the initial uncertainty, they discovered that the diet was not only manageable but also delicious and less time-consuming than preparing traditional cooked meals. The couple has also included supplements, omega-3 sources, and healthy lifestyle practices such as walking and saunas. The author reflects on their previous attempt at a 100% raw vegan diet, which was challenging, but finds the 90% approach to be a practical and healthful balance. They plan to evaluate the diet's effectiveness through upcoming health tests for their partner.

Opinions

The author believes that a 90% raw vegan diet is easy to maintain and could be a permanent lifestyle change.
They find the raw vegan diet to be more convenient and quicker to prepare than cooked meals.
The author suggests that the raw vegan diet, combined with supplements and healthy habits, is beneficial for health.
They express a preference for taking control of their health through diet and lifestyle adjustments rather than relying solely on medical interventions.
The author implies that a 100% raw vegan diet is more difficult to adhere to compared to a 90% raw vegan diet.

It’s easy! I could do this permanently!

I wasn’t sure how we’d get on when hubby and I decided to go 90% raw vegan a couple of months ago.

We were hoping to fix a health problem that could get nasty if it’s not dealt with at an early stage. So we decided to amend our supermarket order to include anything that can be eaten raw, and we started having a lot of salads, usually with a cooked centrepiece.

We had the traditional salad basics, but also added raw asparagus, raw sugar snap peas, raw carrot, raw broccoli, and raw courgette (zucchinis to all the Americans out there).

This may not sound very appetising, but adding these things to a varied salad, with raisins, apple, and other tasty stuff, like pineapple chunks has created some really interesting and varied salads.

We’d then have a centrepiece of cooked sweet potato with hummus, or a slice of nut loaf, or a home made vegetable burger. It really has been easy, quicker to prepare than cooked stuff, and delicious.

We could do this permanently.

We’ve also had fantastic fruit salads for pudding, fruit and nut snacks, and home-made kefir, made with soya milk into a kind of Greek yogurt.

This is all accompanied by nutrient supplementation, a source of omega 3, daily walks and regular saunas. In a month my husband will go for tests and we’ll find out if it’s working.

We always like to take control of our health and see if we can fix things where possible.

Anyone else tried raw vegan? I tried 100% a few years ago, and that was hard, but 90% isn’t a big deal. It’s less hassle than cooking vegetables and probably better for us than a lot of cooked food.