How to eat like an animal

I am reading and studying raw food.

Those who know me know I am far from a vegetarian and most certainly love to cook, but the attraction of the raw diet keeps me coming back for more: questioning, experimenting, making colossal blunders and the occasional success.

What I see in raw food theory that attracts me is the promise of a healthier body, clearer mind and a more vitalized life. And fundamentally, it seems mighty easy as far as eating styles go. The tricky parts seem to be when you try to emulate “cooked” food and find yourself missing the real thing.

I plan on making a hamburger patty for my husband tonight. He asked this morning if I was going to force him to eat the way I was choosing to. I told him no and I hoped he’d try to support my choices, whatever they are.I will contemplate if I will join him or not in a beef patty tonight.

I have not made a commitment to raw food as a 100% way of eating, but I am currently writing as the dehydrator hums in the kitchen, making a variety of snaky foods to munch on through out the day. This is contrast to the peanut butter , chocolate dipped cookies from the $.99 store that JA like to eat for breakfast. I sometimes worry about this...it seems like an awful lot of sugar and processed food to be digesting.

I don’t want to judge...I want a healthy happy man in my life. If peanut butter chocolate cookies keep him happy, that’s half of the equation. I hope he’ll be healthy for many, many decades to come. I want to be there keeping up with him...step by step.