So I made some bone broth soup today and I took one of the bones and it was very brittle so I started to chew on it.  It was very crumbly and I was able to get down into the marrow and it was really good.  Is this safe to do?  I felt like if I ate too much I was going to overload on calcium or something so I gave the rest to my dog (i'm sure he loves the fact that I do this for him and I really like giving my dog the best nutrition possible so I don't feel like I wasted anything).  But I was wondering can you do anything with the left over bones?  I feel like it would be very easy to grind up into a powder, but what would I do with that?  Any suggestions?  As an aside I am glad nothing was thrown away.

Does anyone know where to get raw sardines?  I love sardines but they only come canned.  Has anyone ever ate them raw?

Hey anyone here from the North Carolina area?  I'm not from here originally but have lived here for the last 15 years (since 10th grade in High school).  Right now I work as a database analyst in Greensboro but for the last five years I've known that I've wanted to live off the grid and farm/hunt for my food one day so I've sold my car and I bike everywhere and just been saving up money.  Would love to find someone in the same place as me in life and who shares similar interests and goals so we can work together and support each other.  Oh and someone who isn't that materialistic and is a hard worker!

I ask because kenyan marathon runners drink a lot of tea and they add milk (mostly unpasturized) in their tea, so I was wondering if some of the anti-oxidants found in tea's are fat soluble and would benefit from having some raw milk or cream added to them?  I guess the same question applies to coffee too.  Any idea's?

Or if they added other animal foods like eggs and maybe raw dairy?

I know that a lot of people who come to raw foods initially eat a raw vegan diet.  After some time they either can't sustain like from the little calories they get or they develop deficiencies from vital nutrients found in fish/eggs and other meats. 

I know for a longtime I would go back an forth and eat grains and other carbs just for energy!!  Doing away with the vegan dogma has allowed to me stay more raw than eating just a raw vegan diet.  I still think that initially people should go vegan to detox from factory meats and toxic processed foods; but after a time they should start to integrate some high quality animal foods.  This has been my experience thus far...

I actually feel better now that I can eat all the fruits and veggies I want plus I don't have to fall back to cook grains!!  I don't know about you but I find this a good thing. 

It just seems so odd that the raw food movement is so adamant on the 'raw vegan' doctrine...

Hey guys I'm new here, coming from a raw vegan background.  To be honest I didn't really feel bad eating vegan foods I just sort of didn't want to get caught up in the dogma that any one diet is "right" so to challenge my beliefs I started to eat raw fish.  I was under the impression that I was going to throw up and that my athletic performance would suffer and I would have bad recovery.  Well that never really happened so I am just kind of going with the flow. 

I do find that in the past in my vegan/high raw vegan days I would resort to eating grains because I needed the energy and with the addition of meat and other foods I feel like I don't have to resort to eating grains; which I am grateful for that.  I always felt like I was compromising my health by eating grains occasionally. 

I did the old 811 for a while too and it was good in the beginning I never really felt like is was sustainable long term just from the sheer amount of food you have to consume and you pretty much have to eat around the clock which isn't fun because there's a lot of other things I could be doing with my time.  I do think that the time doing that was well spent because I have such a great appreciation of fruit and it digests really well and it's still a part of my diet.

So what am I eating these days?  Pretty much I am still eating a lot of fruit but also wild caught raw salmon, shellfish (cooked), chicken, sweet potatoes alot of veggies like kale, spinach ect.  eggs.  I haven't gotten into eating beef or pork yet because I am still researching where to get some really good local pastured meats.  I would really like to get pork and beef from people who let their livestock eat their natural diet.  So for beef all grass-fed and not grain finished and for pork a diet of tubers and whatever else it is that pigs eat, but not grains.  I've talked with a few farmers who fit the bill so in the next few weeks I am going to be adding those foods into my diet.

I might try some raw milk there is a guy at the farmers market that sells it, i've never been a fan of the texture of milk growing up but I'll give it a shot just to see what it's like.  I also am interested in learning how to make raw yogurts, kombucha and pro-biotics. I have also thought about growing my own algae's as well mostly because it sounds interesting.  Anyways there's so much stuff to learn it's all so interesting and I love eating foods and learning about different cultures. 

Good to meed all of you guys!