So here’s the fun part: giving your kitchen a raw makeover! It can be a bit expensive so just do a bit one week at a time. Start rewarding yourself with new kitchen tools and get ingredients only as you come across new recipes that sound delicious to you!
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Shifting Your Kitchen
Tips:
Make it a place you love to be in and get energy from
Keep plenty of food on hand, especially your favorite fruits and vegetables.
It’s easy if you can make the food just twice a week (lasts 3-4 days in the fridge)
Go through your kitchen and get rid of some of that Frankenstein food :)
Detox you kitchen by replacing junk you’re eliminating with raw transition foods. Leave designated areas for foods family members are not ready to part with, of course.
You don’t/won’t have to buy everything at once-you’ll buy them when you find recipes you want to make that require them.
Save jars from nut butters, pickles, etc. for future smoothies, nut milks, puddings, soaking seeds, etc.
Essential Equipment Staples
(You actually need much less equipment to do raw food than you need to do cooked food!)
Small Blender: something like the Magic Bullet is perfect to start out with because you can use it as a food processor and nut grinder too (I’d recommend getting one from Amazon because there is free shipping on it).
Optional/Extra Equipment Staples
Vitamix or similar high power blender. Also see here.
Juicer. I used to have the Green Star but found it was too much of a pain to use so I bought a Breville Elite in October 2008. Again, the best deal I found was on Amazon.
Sprouting cups or trays (2 or 3)
Nut Milk bag (if you have a decent blender and want to make your own nut milk)
Essential Kitchen Tool Staples
A sharp knife of knives
Glad Tupperware: Salad bowl size and salad dressing size
Lots of baggies for veggies, nuts, and dried fruit. Freezer bags for your frozen fruit like bananas.
Vegetable Scrubber
Veggie Wash
Garlic Press
Optional/Extra Kitchen tool staples
Lemon juicer
Dry Erase Board for Recipes
Salad Spinner. A tub to soak and wash vegetables in would work fine.
Peeler/Julienner
Big knife for coconuts
Dry Staples:
Dried Spices and Seasonings
Braggs Liquid Aminos (or Nama Shoyu)
Stevia
Raw Honey and/or Agave Nectar
Unpasturized Miso
Seasonings (all optional, of course): Italian Seasoning, Garlic Powder, Tomato Powder, Ginger Powder, Chili Powder, Caraway Seeds, Cardamom, Cumin, Salad Sprinkle, Curry Powder, Turmeric, Cinnamon, Poppy Seeds. (These are all very cheap to get if in the bulk herbs and spices section at Whole Foods.)
Nuts and Seeds (the bulk aisle at Whole Foods is a good place to start with these)
Pick a few of your favorites:
Macadamia nuts
Almonds
Pumpkin seeds
Sesame seeds
Flax seeds
Sunflower seeds
Brazil nuts
Walnuts
Pine nuts
Raw tahini and/or almond butter
Seeds and grains for soaking/sprouting
Oat grouts
Buckwheat grouts
Quinoa
Lentils
Rye
Wheatberry
Miscellaneous
Sea Vegetables (ordering by the pound is much cheaper)
Kelp Power Sprinkle
Dried Fruit: Figs, Prunes, raisins, goji berries, etc.
Bottled Lemon Juice
Olive Oil
Apple Cider Vinegar
Optional/Extra Dried Food Staples
Sun Dried Tomatoes
Sun Dried Olives
Flax crackers (my favorite is the GoRaw brand)
Nutritional Yeast (not raw but tasty and adds a lot of protein and B vitamins)
Refrigerated Oils
Hemp Seed Oil
Flax Oil
Frozen Food
Frozen Fruit-Frozen berries, mango, bananas, etc.
Optional:
Durian
Fresh Food Staples
Apples
Pears
Avocados
Celery
Cucumbers
Variety of greens (at least 3 different kinds)
Fresh herbs such as basil, dill, mint, green onion, and garlic
Parsley
Bell Peppers
Zucchini
Tomatoes
Ginger
Lemon
Staples for desserts and certain smoothies
Vanilla extract
Lecithin
Dates
Agave Nectar
Maple Syrup
Dates
Artisana Coconut Butter
Cashews (not really raw unless you buy Nature’s First Law or Nativas brand. there are a few others out there too)
Ideas on where to get this stuff:
Local Raw food restaurants (Karyn’s Fresh Corner or Cousin’s IV (if you’re in Chicago)
Whole Foods
Bed Bath & Beyond
Target
Costco
Trader Joe’s
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