Hahaha I'm still confused as to what cleared it up for you. But I really like that. Robin love or Rob in love hahaha that tickles me. Hi Steve!!! 😀

It was the title of your thread.

Some folks just jump right in but I would take it slow and see how it goes.  Slow and steady has always been my motto. If you get yourself sick from not being used to it you probably will become discouraged and not want to do it. Give yourself time to build up your gut flora. Especially if you are sickly.

Most everyone here believes in grass fed, wild, cage free, etc. But I simply can't afford to eat that way and don't live anywhere near any small farms that might sell at a discount. I'm sure grass fed is better but I think it is greatly over exaggerated.

It's really going to depend on who you ask and most folks here will probably disagree with me for eating whatever I can find that's on sale. I bought six dozen eggs for under six dollars today. Cage free would have cost me over 30 dollars. Hamburger jerky is my newest favorite food. I absolutely love it! I just make it from whatever goes on sale and buy a ton of it and put it in my freezer. I don't think you have to freeze meat before eating it raw but it makes me feel better doing it though I just started a batch of hamburger jerky from meat I bought today that's never been frozen.

Raw meat tastes surprisingly good to me but I like it a hundred times better when it's made with spices and raw sea salt. I never liked plain meat when it was cooked either. I also like it with some sort of acid like lemon juice or raw vinegar. Even when it was cooked I had to have some sort of steak sauce, hot sauce or ketchup on it so it's probably just a personal preference.

This is all just my personal opinion. Also if you go out of your way to make your food more colorful and appetizing you will do much better on a raw food or any other type of diet. You will also save a lot of money and be able to use healthy ingredients learning to cook and not buying prepared foods or eating out in restaurants.

I've given up all dairy for years now but when I cooked my steak I always fried in in coconut oil. Funny. I had coconut oil on my list because I am running low but haven't used it since I went totally raw.

My skin is better since I gave up dairy. Raw milk is not an option for me because it's too expensive and I'd have to travel over a hundred miles to get it but if it were available here I would give raw dairy a try and see how it agrees with me.

I just got through looking for vernal alfalfa seed and they don't even sell it on ebay or Amazon.  Last time I bought it from a seed company the seeds were coated with some kind of yellow stuff and I wound up throwing them away so I'm afraid to order any from seed companies anymore. Besides that most of them only sell vernal alfalfa in the early spring or fall and it's too late. Also it's not commonly planted anymore by the farmers because other hybrids that grow more efficiently have taken it's place.

I guess vernal alfalfa is on it's way to becoming extinct like many of the real paleo foods have. It's getting really hard to find. It's a shame because there was nothing like it. It is truly a magical food though not as magical as those mushrooms I suppose...

I was just wondering if distilled water was technically permitted on a raw food diet or not. I suppose it's more of a philosophical question than a scientific one.

I drink reverse osmosis water so I suppose it doesn't really concern me. I used to add minerals back into it but started forgetting. I think it's because I been eating a lot of salt and don't need them anymore.

Don't tell anybody ( It's a secret.) but ground beef jerky is really raw pemmican. The only difference is you don't render the fat so it wont keep as long because the fat will go rancid but that's ok because pemmican is made with cooked fat while ground beef jerky is a totally raw food!

It's a good thing I started right out making 3 pounds because I'm already down to 2 pounds and it's nowhere near dried. To be honest I don't know if it's going to dry at all because of the high 27% fat content of the hamburger I used. I like fat but to be honest it's even a little rich for me. I will keep making it that way till I use up all the fatty hamburger in my freezer but next time the leaner stuff goes on sale I intend to buy a ton of it.

I set my dehydrator for 110 degrees F. before I went to bed and when I checked it with the infrared thermometer this morning it was a steady 102 degrees from the top to the bottom tray so I turned it down and intend on finishing the drying at the lowest 104 degree setting.

My recipe was pretty simple. I defrosted the beef and mixed in salt, pepper, cayenne, oregano, cilantro, lots of cumin and a few glugs of vinegar and mixed it with my hands and pressed it out to make really small thin patties.

Some of the beef was still frozen. Rather than wait I sliced it in my food processor. It came out paper thin and I just sprinkled salt and pepper on the slices after I laid them out on my dehydrator trays.

The part I mixed everything in with my hands like the video I posted tastes a lot better. The paper thin slices are drying a bit faster but actually they have re moistened a bit because I moved them to the top and are picking up moisture from the lower ones. There's only a few left so they'll most likely be eaten long before they get a chance to dry.

I'm not going to post my recipe till it's done but as a primer here is someone's youtube video on making hamburger jerky.

If you're a health conscious raw paleo you won't want to follow this guy's recipe at all but I think there's some valuable tricks in there that definitely make it worth watching!

World's Easiest Beef Jerky! No Jerky Gun? No Smoker? No Dehydrator? No Problem!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIOkRWgjUgs

My Westinghouse rectangular dehydrator just came. Compared to the round one I had before it's HUGE. It looks well made and seems like a really good dehydrator for the money. I spent a lot more for my old round one but probably paid extra buying it at the store instead of on the internet.

I've got some fatty hamburger defrosting in my sink and I'm going to make some hamburger jerky as soon as it defrosts. Will post the results in the recipe section!

I've been making Ingred's berry and whipped egg yolks every day since I discovered it. Sometimes twice a day Yum!

I been throwing away the egg whites. Yesterday I decided to try whipping them up. They looked so good when I made them but read on...

I began by whipping up 6 egg whites on low, then medium and then high speed for a couple of minutes.

Next I added a pinch of salt, a tablespoon of honey and the juice of 4 key limes, all slowly while whipping them on high.

Boy did they whip up. Filled a one quart sauce pan all the way to the top!

They looked so good but when I tasted them I didn't like them at all. Maybe they would have been ok if I had added a ton of sugar to them but that would have defeated the purpose of a raw healthy snack. They ruined my grapes that I had in whipped yolk. I added half of them and it was still way too much. It over powered them and filled me up to where I could only eat half. Had to throw the rest away this morning. Every other day I was able to easily finish off six yolks and some kind of fruit but this actually gave me a stomach ache.

Try it at your own risk. I suppose some people will actually like that kind of thing but not me! I guess when they make key lime pie they bake it in the oven. It's hard to believe something that looked so good tasted so terrible and was so hard on my stomach.

Raw egg yolks yum!

Raw egg whites yuk!

I eat what I can afford.

If there's one thing that motivated me to eat raw food more than anything else it was this video!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxlhVfWkzRQ&t=747s

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