For the past month and a half, I’ve been experimenting with a raw food diet. I went 17 days on an 80% raw food diet, fell off the bandwagon for 2 weeks (travelling home and such) and for the past 10 days have managed to jump back on that wagon full-on. I’ve kept a goals of 50% of my daily food intake from raw sources.
Today, I was about to go to breakfast with my friends, where I would surely have ordered some completely non-raw and non-vegan meal. The friends ended up bailing on breakfast. I couldnt bring myself to make another salad and was totally starving after my yoga practice, so, I searched for a local raw food restaurant. I found Chaco Canyon Cafe in U District and decided to hit it up.
I ended up having an absultely delicious and filling 100% raw food meal. I had a Spicy Thai Grinder and a glass of fresh squeezed carrot juice. I was pretty amazed that they could make these things out of totally raw food. The grinder was basically a patty of ground seed and veggies on a bed of cabbage and spinach, with some peanut sauce. Amazingly, I ate the thing and was actually full. It was not very big, and I was starving. It is pretty clear to me that if you consume high quality food sources, you need to eat much less than you normally would.
This little place is located on 50th and Brooklyn (on the corner across from the big Safeway) and is right kitty korner to the weekend market in the U District. For those that aren’t looking for a totally raw meal, they also have some awesome Vegan desserts and a full vegan menu.
As a bonus, I ran into 4 other raw foodists, one of whom has been at it for 6 years! I have no intention to go 100% raw, but the changes I have seen over the past 6 weeks have me convinced that getting a large percentage of food 100% as nature intended has benefits (physcial and emotional) that you cannot get in any other way.
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