Dehydrated

I have recently added a food dehydrator to my collection of Appliances I Have No Room For and Therefore Have No Business Owning. I have been wanting one for a few years now, and when I mentioned it to my friend, she said she had one in her basement and she gave it to me. It's fun to have friends!

I am hoping that the dehydrator does not suffer the same fate in my hands as it did in hers. I want to get some use out of it and have fun. I want to make fun things the kids will eat and that I can use.

After my recent sugar/salt/carbs binge and subsequent weight gain, I have decided that I need a detox. I am going to go completely raw food for three days. I think I can do this. I know that I could never do that for life (although there was a time in my life that I thought I could never be a vegan). I mean, I really don't think that coffee qualifies, so there goes that idea. And I love cooked food. But I have been reading about the benefits of a raw diet lately and I really want to incorporate more raw foods into my life. Eating raw is not just eating plain old fruits and veggies. Raw foodies do some amazing things with sprouts, soaked nuts and seeds, spices, a blender and a food dehydrator. I am excited to try recipes I have found recently, such as a Chilly Chai smoothie, a salad called Popeye Goes to India (with spinach, avocado, curry powder, ground sesame seeds), and some sweet potato jerky, which I am going to make today in my dehydrator. I also want to try to make fruit leather, because it's easy and helathy and I think the kids will love it.

I think the raw food detox will make me feel much cleaner, lighter, and give me some energy. It will flush my system of all the crap I have been putting into it lately. I have to get a few groceries and then I'm going to give it a try.