ARTAFRUITAVEGEMIN

I finally found the fruit & veggie artist whose name I couldn't remember.

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It's not Kei Kosa:



And it's not Greg Brown:





Not that they're not very cool. But the artist I was thinking of is a little more sublime and subtle and takes into consideration the intrinsic personality and character of each piece of fruit or vegetable he "sculpts":

It's Saxton Freymann!:












(There's probably an absolute must-post MeFi FPP here.)
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This is great!

I've been meaning to post and say how much more energy I have, but life has been chaotically busy and messed up lately. Based on the amount of stress and exercize and lack of sleep I've had over the last five days I should have no energy right now, I should be achy and tired and exhausted, and normally I would be anxious and depressed as well. But I'm fine!

I've still been eating many of my normal foods, like a little organic free-range milk occasionally, Morningstar soy sausages, organic PBJs on whole wheat, etc, so I haven't transitioned anywhere near totally. But I've been eating a huge salad every day and all the fruits and vegetables I can manage. And when I can't find time to eat green stuff, I've been getting smoothies with algae and grasses from the local organic market. Today I've already had four bananas and a bunch of raw filbert nuts. A huge bag of organic baby carrots awaits me...

Anyway, there's something to this, eating "live" foods that build healthy, vibrant cells. If you are what you eat, then eating 'live' must be good...

Basically, I should be a wreck, but I'm not. Quite the opposite.

How cool! Thanks!

The Junk Food Urge

...does it hit you early on?

MY Initial (pitiful) Attempts

Just in case anyone thinks I've got this being raw 'in the bag', let me assure you it isn't so.

That's good to know, as I think I'll shoot for maybe 60% or 70% rawwie myself.

So far, my own personal pitiful (pitiful compared to all of iconomy's recipes) attempt is just to eat anything raw I can get my hands on. Yesterday I bought a 1# bag of carrots for the drive home and ended up eating almost the whole thing.

You're right, it does get easier. After I thought I was done with those carrots, my hand just kept reaching in the bag. And two days ago I forced myself to eat a salad, while yesterday I craved it. I had four bananas and a huge salad yesterday too, and half an acorn squash last night, but it was lightly broiled in water.

Anyway, I've eaten as much fruits and vegetables in the last two days as I had in the two, maybe even three months prior to that. That can't be bad.

I used to be the type of vegetarian who just didn't eat meat, but never actually ate vegetables. More of a "non-meat-aterian." It feels good now to be eating the green stuff.