Eating a vegan diet is the easist and simplist thing in the world. And it's not because of the fancy new "vegan wonder foods" that replicate and replace (and sometimes carry the same pitfalls) items we now avoid. If anything new vegan foods on the market have needlessly overcomplicated matters - and greatly so. Plant foods are complete foods. I could begin and end the blog with that statement alone and it would be as complete as a salad followed by a plate of rice and beans. I'll repeat this statement another way - we only need to eat plants. Anything else (meat included) is an add on. For me. high raw with an emphasis on fruit and greens are the order of the day. Somedays the emphasis is a bit more on the raw side and others a meal of cooked starches come into play. Sometimes both. I strive to keep my diet uncomplicted as well as my life and although I feel that raw, low fat, high carb may be the optimum order - right now it's not 100% feasable for me. Somethings I won't compromise on of course - I am a vegan. And I strive for low fat daily and mostly succeed. Yet if my wife wants to eat at a vegan resturant I will go out, I will eat and I will have a great time. And it's back to order the next day. The point here is that we complicate our meals by complicating our shopping. We don't need fake meat, vegan chips, and substitute cheese (not knocking this as a place to start if it's needed) We need fruit, vegetables, legumes, grains, nuts and seeds - and even some of these aren't needed in any great measure (fruitarians do fine with minimum nuts and seeds and no grains or legumes of any kind) And don't worry about food combining. Eat a wide variety of plants and your body will properly combine all on its own. I promise. Eat well my friends - eat plants.
Peace,
Eric
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