I’ve been getting very into Living Food this past year.

Living Food (aka Raw) is food which has not been heated to above body temperature to retain all the life force, enzymes and other goodies.

Food is organic, living material, just like you are.  When we get heated to above around 40 degrees something nasty starts to happen – all our enzymes  and other living components die, and we follow them.

Your food is no different. Heat it to above 40 and Woops! What was living food is now dead food.

Here's one I made earlier...raw apple & apricot cake!

This may seem quite shocking or radical to some folks, but really – it makes perfect sense if you think about it.

Now, don’t get me wrong – I love my potatoes and rice and obviously these are foods we struggle to eat raw, but the point here is food which can be eaten raw, probably should.

Eating is not just about nutrition, which is what most folks have focussed on in recent years. Nutrition is like the ’spare parts’ for the body. Life Force is like its real fuel. The analogy isn’t perfect, but I hope you see the idea.

Nutrition and life force are two different things. You can still get nutrition from your food, so long as its not over-processed, but life force is something you can only get from, well, food that’s Alive!

Now, I don’t propose munching into a cow as it walks by you, of course I’m talking vegetarian here (though some do do the Raw Meat thing!)

If you eat dead food, you need to eat lots of it to feel full and you still end up ‘fed up’ in more ways than one, eat food which is Alive and, well, as you might expect, you end up feeling ALIVE.

There are tons of technical reasons for it you can read about elsewhere online, and plenty of other folks experiences with it, but for me, the thing that seals it is the experience – how you feel after a sustained period on raw food compared to how you feel on cooked is substantially different.

Greater sensitivity, greater energy, clearer mind, less cravings, no ’slowdown’ during the day at all.  Its simply phenomenal.

And it doesn’t mean a diet of carrot and lettuce.  One of the most amazing things I discovered as I started to explore and experiment with this is that the variety is astounding.  Curries, porridges, cakes (yes, cakes!), puddings, pizzas, breads, soups, fake-pastas, fake-rices, the list just goes on and on and on.  The textures, colours, flavours are vibrant and sharp and it really does taste different, and delicious!

Raw Pizza 'n Stuff

Even though I’m not fully raw myself and still love my rice, potatoes and pies etc, I do feel that nothing increases inner sensitivity and energy more than this diet.  For this reason, all my events are Living Food events.

You get to maximise the benefit of the event, as well as a chance to try an interesting approach to food too.  I guarantee you will be surprised!

A lot of people in the ‘Raw Food World’  try to convert people to Raw, going for a 100% raw diet. All I say to them is tell that to the eskimos.

I’m someone who grew up on a standard scottish diet – chippies, mince ‘n tatties, deep fried pizza, irn bru, chocolate and more. I know how ‘fed up’ I felt on that.  Now, I eat organic where possible, and raw where possible (but still not always) and I can say that I’ve never felt better than when introducing more raw into my food repertoire.

I’m hoping to write more on the benefits of raw and living food over time, but if you search the net, you’ll see that countless others have done it beforehand, and they have shared hundreds of exciting recipes for you to try if you fancy it.

It really does make sense if you think about it, and when you realise its not just boring salad, it really does become an adventure that makes you feel better than you’ve ever felt in your life!