Embarking on a cleansing experience means eliminating a plethora of unhealthy foods from your diet. As many people who use the Full Body Cleanse know, the goal is to focus on fresh foods that aid the cleansing process and provide the body with various phytochemicals, antioxidants, and other vitamins & minerals. Diet, while it plays a crucial role in weight loss and achieving a healthier body, is merely one aspect of cleansing.

Cleansing Beyond The Diet

The chemicals in cleaning and beauty products can enter the body via skin absorption or inhalation. Because the average person is accustomed to using these products, he or she may not interpret the side effects of those harmful chemicals in the body as wrong or “out of the norm.” After you cleanse the body, you may notice skin irritation, coughing, or sinus irritations when using commercial cleaning or beauty products. This is why you may want to consider using all-natural alternatives.

Common household cleaners make your living space look clean, but they simultaneously fill the area with chemicals that have caused asthma in children and skin irritations in adults. Indoor air pollution, which ranks high on the list of environmental dangers, is primarily caused by cleaning products. After cleaning with such products post cleanse, you may notice eye irritation, sore throat, runny nose, or headaches. A lot of this has to do with how the government regulates cleaning products.

Cleaning with natural cleaning products may be unfamiliar or different, but so is the thought of completing a Full Body Cleanse. We aren’t saying that you need to trash all of your cleaning and beauty products, but we are suggesting that keeping the body clean and healthy requires a multifaceted approach. Your skin rash or chronic cough may be attributed to your favorite lotion or countertop cleaner. In an effort to expose you to more natural options, here are some of our favorite skin care and cleaning products to incorporate into your new, healthier lifestyle. 

DIY Whipped Body Butter

Ingredients:

• ¼ cup each: Shea butter, cocoa butter, virgin coconut oil, and sweet almond oil
• 10 drops lavender essential oil
• 10 drops tea tree essential oil

Instructions:

• In a double boiler or sauce pain over medium-low heat, combine all of the ingredients, except the essential oils. Stir this mixture until it becomes liquid.
• Remove from the heat and allow the mixture to cool and set. Make sure it is set before completing the next step.
• Add the essential oils and whip with a stand or hand mixer, whipping until you get fluffy peaks. The mixture will not whip if you don’t let it set.
• Spoon this into a glass jar and store in a cool dry place, or in the fridge. Use on dry or cracked skin.

Chemical Free Moisturizer

Ingredients:

• ¾ cup extra virgin olive oil
• ¼ cup castor oil
• small soft washcloth
• small container for storing oil mixture

Instructions:

• It is recommended that you only apply this mixture once a day before bed to allow the oils to nurture your skin overnight.
• Mix the oils together in a glass jar.
• Pour about one teaspoon of the oil mixture in your hands, rub them together, and apply the mixture all over your face.
• Take the washcloth and run it under hot water. Place this over your face and leave it on until it becomes cool.
• Using the washcloth, wipe your face and then rinse the washcloth off.
• If you feel that your skin is dry, apply a couple drops of olive oil on your skin.
• Store the mixture in a cool, dry place.

Exfoliating Sugar Scrub

Ingredients:

• 1 tablespoon dried green tea leaves (can be taken from 2-4 tea bags)
• 1 cup organic brown sugar
• ½ cup extra virgin olive oil
• 2 tablespoons raw honey
• 10 drops lavender essential oil

Instructions:

• Mix all of the ingredients in a medium bowl. Scoop this mixture into an airtight container and then store it in a cool dry place.
• When you want to use this exfoliator, apply about 1 tablespoon to your hands and massage it onto the face/body for 30 seconds. Rinse this from your skin with warm water and pat dry.

Appliance Cleaner

Ingredients:

• 1 part distilled white vinegar
• 1 part water

Instructions:

• In a spray bottle, mix one part distilled white vinegar and 1 part water. Spray on your appliances and wipe away with a microfiber cloth.

Citrusy Dish Soap

Ingredients:

• 4 teaspoons baking soda
• 5 cups boiling water
• 5 tablespoons liquid castile soap
• 10 drops lemon essential oil
• 10 drops grapefruit essential oil
• 10 drops tea tree essential oil

Instructions:

• Dissolve the baking soda in the boiling water. Add the liquid castile soap and stir until everything is dissolved. Let this cool.
• When the mixture is cooled, stir in the essential oils and pour it into a bottle. It is important to shake well before you use it.

DIY Disinfectant Spray

Ingredients:

• Enough lemon peels to fill up a quart-size mason jar
• Enough distilled white vinegar to fill that mason jar
• A spray bottle

Instructions:

• Fill a quart-size mason jar with lemon peels.
• Fill the jar almost to the brim with distilled white vinegar. Seal the jar and allow it to sit for about one day in a cool dry place.
• Strain the vinegar through fine mesh strainer into another jar or bowl.
• Pour the strained vinegar into a spray bottle, screw the top on, and spray away and start cleaning!

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Over time, it’s common for the average person to experience sluggishness, bloating, fatigue, mental fog, and poor digestion. The onslaught of toxins from the environment and foods in the Standard American Diet can impair optimal function of the body’s major organs and systems. Even though you can cook food and obtain essential nutrients for the body, the average person is not eating these healthy foods. That’s where a raw food reset comes to the rescue. 

If you feel tired, weighed down, constipated, or simply not yourself, you may need to hit the reset button on your health. What better way to do that than focusing on raw foods for a certain time period? According to health food purists, raw food is “alive” and cooked food is “dead.” This means that raw foods contain all of the essential nutrients, which theoretically die during in the cooking process. Many raw food purists are of the mind that eating anything but a raw food diet goes against the laws of nature. Some even attribute all modern diseases, including obesity, diabetes, cancer, and more, to straying from the diet humans used to keep. It’s no secret that the Western diet contributes to many diseases, so could the raw food reset get you back in touch with your healthiest self?

What Is A Raw Food Reset?

A raw food diet can help restore beneficial enzymes that the body needs for optimal digestion and organ function. The duration is entirely up to you. In the case of our Full Body Cleanse, the diet lasts for 20 days. Health experts believe that it takes three weeks to fully reset the body. If you need to test the waters before jumping headfirst into a cleanse, you can do a raw food reset for five, seven, ten, or even 15 days. 

What To Expect From A Raw Food Reset

The initial transition from your current diet to the raw food diet is a dramatic shift for the body. It’s a shock to your system, and you may experience some uncomfortable things as you begin the detox process. It’s possible to experience fatigue, headaches, hunger, cravings, slight nausea, and other stomach problems. This is completely normal and the symptoms typically subside after the first couple days. One of the primary things you can expect is frequent elimination. Raw foods take a lot less time to digest, so this encourages regular bowel movements. This process takes time, but the important thing is that the body starts to eliminate toxins and excess fat as you continue to progress through the reset. 

The Benefits Of A Raw Food Reset

Even though the reset is temporary, unless you decide to make a lifestyle change, you can experience numerous benefits. Because you’ll be flooding the body with essential, plant-based nutrients and tons of soluble and insoluble fiber, you will definitely experience improved digestion. In addition to better digestion, one of the primary benefits is weight loss. The reduced caloric intake aids with weight loss, but raw foods encourage toxin elimination. They help move waste through the digestive tract so that you can eliminate it efficiently. 

On the topic of weight loss, there’s something you should know. Many people cleanse or engage in a raw food reset in order to lose weight. Weight loss is merely a potential side effect of the reset. The primary reason for doing a reset is to get your health back on track! During the reset, the body eliminates toxins, which commonly exist in fat cells. When you eliminate toxins, they can enter the bloodstream, and they’ll stay there if you aren’t effectively aiding their elimination. If you can’t eliminate them from the body, the body creates new fat cells to store those toxins. This is why many people struggle with weight loss and become frustrated when the number on the scale doesn’t reflect their efforts. Raw foods help eliminate these harmful substances, which contributes to effective weight loss. 

Engage in a raw food reset and take the time to give your body what it needs. Start with five days and go from there. It’s a great way to hit the reset button on your health!

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Cleansing isn’t easy, but taking 20 days out of your life to improve your health is very doable. He appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and talked about his cleansing experience, joking about his raw foods diet. We see you, Steve! Steve Harvey cleanses once a year to help balance his hormones, lose a few pounds, and to hit the reset button on his health. What are your health goals? You could achieve them in 20 days, but you won’t know until you try!

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Are you an ectomorph, endomorph, or a mesomorph? AD Dolphin helps you identify your body type and the type of workouts you should be doing to slim down. Keep watching to find out what cleansing and raw foods can do for you.

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We’ve seen it time and time again. Our customers transition to the raw vegan diet without reading the necessary information or our tips and they end up cheating or failing as a result. We want nothing but success and transformation for the Dherbs family, but people sometimes fall prey to common mistakes that are easily avoidable. 

This article is not just about people who transition to the raw vegan diet to follow along with one of our cleanses. More and more people continue to transition to both vegan and raw vegan diets because they are fast growing movements, but people also appreciate the health benefits. Whatever your reason for making the switch, we applaud your conviction and want to see you succeed. In order to help you on your journey, avoid the following mistakes that cause people to fail on the raw vegan diet. 

#1: Not Eating Enough

You have to eat more than you realize when you switch to a raw vegan diet. It’s all about quantity! You cannot expect to feel full after eating a small salad. That salad needs to be about three or four times the size of a usual salad. The reason for this is because you are reducing your caloric intake by eliminating common foods that are typically heavy. These foods include meats, dairy products, refined carbs, processed foods, and more. Keep in mind that you’ll only be eating raw vegetables, fruits, and raw nuts and seeds. Don’t be afraid to eat until you are full!

#2: Keeping Unhealthy Foods In The House

If unhealthy temptations are in your line of sight, it won’t be long until you are hunched over in a dark corner eating what you shouldn’t be eating. If you have cookies, packaged foods, candies, and other processed junk in your cupboards or fridge, take it out before you start your diet. Even though you know you shouldn’t eat those foods on your diet, it’s very easy to succumb to their powers when you’re hungry and don’t know what else to do. Clear it out of the house if you want to succeed!

#3: Not Understanding What You Can Eat

When some people think about the raw vegan diet, they think they will be crunching on lettuce and chomping on carrots the entire time. They think that both meals and flavors don’t exist, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. You can use spices, olive oil, avocado oil, coconut oil, raw apple cider vinegar, coconut aminos, and more to create unbelievable flavor combinations. You can make a homemade pesto to sauce your raw zucchini noodles, or you can make chia pudding as a delicious snack or breakfast. You can also use nuts and seeds to make raw vegan energy bites to power you through the day. There are many websites, including Dherbs, that are dedicated to showcasing the possibilities of the raw vegan diet. Click here to check out our raw vegan recipes.

#4: Not Diversifying Your Diet

You can’t remain in a familiar lane if you want to succeed on a raw vegan diet. People are more comfortable with fruit, so it’s quite common for people to only eat fruit when they make the dietary transition. This is too much sugar for the body! You have to diversify the foods you eat, including various vegetables, nuts, seeds, homemade nut or seed milks, and spices to make a successful raw vegan transition. 

#5: You Don’t Stock Your Fridge

It’s easy to say, “I bought some food, so I’m good for a week.” Wrong, unless you bought the entire produce section at the grocery store. You don’t need to go that far, but you do need to stock up with produce like you’ve never stocked up before. Buy melons, avocados, bananas, different leafy greens, herbs, your favorite fruits, and an assortment of vegetables. Consider shopping in bulk or visit your local grocery store to see what’s in season. If you feel like you can’t finish all the groceries, you can always do smaller grocery runs more often. If you run into a situation where fruit is starting to turn, freeze it first and then you can add it to smoothies. 

#6: You Don’t Have Any Kitchen Tools

You don’t have to have all the equipment from a restaurant, but there are some kitchen tools that make the raw vegan diet much easier. The best thing to have is a good high-speed blender. You’ll need a good blender if you want to make smoothies, sauces, dressings, nut meats, or energy bites. It can also benefit you to buy a spiralizer. Sure, many grocery stores sell spiralized vegetables, but it’s more affordable to buy a simple spiralizer. Lastly, a dehydrator isn’t necessary, but it does come in handy if you want to get really creative with your recipes. 

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With so many fad diets and special lifestyles in existence, it’s difficult to assess exactly what way of life or eating model is best for you. From the meat-centric carnivore diet to the fat-focused keto diet to the various plant-based diets and beyond, you almost have too many diets at your disposal. Some of these diets don’t focus on the healthiest foods, though. This is not the case for the raw vegan diet.

What Is The Raw Vegan Diet?

The raw vegan diet is not a new model of eating; rather, it has been around since the 1800s. Raw vegan supporters believe that this diet is the most ideal for optimal health, but some health experts don’t advise it for everyone. Food is considered raw if it is never heated over 104-118º Fahrenheit. Raw veganism focuses on fresh fruits, vegetables, and raw nuts and seeds. By its very nature, the raw vegan diet is plant-based and avoids all meats, poultry, dairy products, processed, refined or pasteurized foods.

Why Don’t You Cook Food On The Raw Vegan Diet?

When you heat food past a certain temperature, the nutrients and enzymes start to break down. Raw food is living, so to speak, while cooked food is somewhat dead. This is why many vegan or raw vegan restaurants refer to raw dishes as “living foods.”

Why Do You Have To Eat Raw During A Dherbs Cleanse?

The Standard American Diet is one of the worst diets in existence, and many people suffer severe health problems because of it. From bacon-wrapped hotdogs and buttered popcorn to chocolate brownie sundaes and cupcakes, it’s safe to say that Americans don’t eat the healthiest foods. These foods contribute to clogged arteries, chronic inflammation, and impacted colons, so it doesn’t make sense to eat them while you’re cleansing. Instead of focusing on those foods, which led you to cleansing, we turn your attention to raw fruits, vegetables, and raw nuts and seeds. The raw vegan diet helps people in two ways: it aids the cleansing process and it helps promote weight loss, if that is your reason for cleansing. There are many raw vegan meals you can make, and you can always visit our cleanse approved recipe section (click here) for meal ideas.

How To Start Eating Raw Vegan

Stock Up On Raw Foods

You cannot start this diet if your fridge isn’t stocked with an assortment of raw fruits and vegetables. If you don’t have enough of these foods, you’ll easily fall off the diet and reach for something buried in your cabinets. Speaking of which, get rid of any junk, snacks, or non-raw foods in your kitchen. There’s no room for sugar-laden, sodium-rich, toxic foods on the raw vegan diet. Don’t forget that you can buy raw nuts and seeds, both of which help to fill you up between meals. You can also purchase dried fruit, so long as it is free of chemicals and added sugars.

Invest In Some Quality Kitchen Tools

You don’t need a juicer, but having a good blender is a game changer for living raw vegan. In fact, you’ll become best friends with your blender with all the smoothies that you’ll make. Another excellent kitchen tool is the spiralizer, but please opt for the one with the crank. Don’t get the handheld one because you’ll tire yourself out or get frustrated, and not all veggies or fruits fit in it. If you plan on making energy bites, nut “meat,” or raw vegan desserts, a food processor may come in handy. For other kitchen tool recommendations, please click here.

Eat A Lot…We Mean It

One of the biggest mistakes people make when they switch to the raw vegan diet is that they don’t eat enough. You have to remember that fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds have fewer calories than the foods you typically eat. When you don’t eat enough, you can experience fatigue, headaches, stomach pain, and lethargy. If your goal is to lose weight, this tip is extra important. The body will hold on to fluids and weight if you don’t eat enough, so please drink large smoothies, eat large salads, and explore raw vegan entrée options to increase your caloric intake.

Find Inspiration Online

The Internet is an amazing place, especially if you need help on a diet. With so many food blogs, Instagram pages, and YouTube channels dedicated to raw veganism, it’s easy to find inspiration for recipes, exercise pointers, and lifestyle tips. We understand that many people are busy, but it’s so easy to watch a short video detailing how to make a new recipe. Use these resources to your advantage in order to succeed on the raw vegan diet.

Anything in life that’s worth having doesn’t come easy. The raw vegan diet is drastically different from what most people are used to, but that’s okay. Don’t be afraid of change, and don’t get mad at yourself if you slip up on the diet. You should not shame yourself for eating a cooked meal. The best thing you can do is get back on the horse to ride again. It’s acceptable to have setbacks in the beginning! Just remind yourself that you are eating this way to improve your health.

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’Tis the season for people to indulge in unhealthy foods because they exist around every corner. You’ll find cookies, pies, cakes, and an assortment of other sweet treats on each block you visit or in every restaurant you eat at. This can pose a lot of problems for people who are attempting to adhere to the raw vegan diet this holiday season. There’s no need to stress, though, because a little preparation will help you overcome the temptation of toxic, processed holiday junk food.

If the holidays were about being alone and sticking to your diet, we wouldn’t need to write this article, but the reality is that the holidays are about communal time, sharing love, and food. Unfortunately for raw vegans, the focal point of these gatherings, dinner parties, and office parties is food that they cannot enjoy. While it is perfectly acceptable to be a recluse, most people, even raw vegans, want to feel included in the action, even it means coming face to face with temptation. As our gift to the raw vegans, here are five tips to help you navigate the holidays with ease.

Stock Up

During the season of self-indulgence, it’s important for raw vegans to stock their fridges and pantries with raw staples. While everybody has his or her own favorite raw vegan snacks, we recommend getting your hands on raw cashews, grade A maple syrup, dates, raw cacao powder, or alcohol-free vanilla extract, all of which you can use to whip up healthy raw vegan desserts. Click here to make raw gingerbread energy bites, here for raw hot cocoa, or here for a raw eggnog smoothie.

Educate With Food

Let’s say you’ve been reading up on the benefits of the raw vegan diet and want to share this information via conversation at holiday gatherings. Since most people abandon their diets until the New Year, they may not be receptive to your newfound information. Rather than cornering people to preach your raw vegan information, show them how easily you can create delicious raw vegan meals. By tasting raw vegan meals, people may ask about the food and your new diet. This leads us into our next point.

Bring A Dish

Someone who has to host a holiday party most likely has his or her hands full. Don’t ask the host to make a specific raw vegan dish for you; rather, you should bring one or two to contribute to the holiday spread. From a colorful green salad or zoodle dish to a raw vegan fudge or cheesecake, sharing raw vegan foods is a communal way of sharing health conscious views and ensuring that you have things to eat at the parties you attend.

Get The Right Equipment

When it comes to creating spectacular raw vegan holiday dishes, there are a few kitchen essentials you may want to acquire. Items like a high-speed blender, food processor, spiralizer, mandolin, or dehydrator can help make life as a raw vegan much easier. If you don’t have any of these and want some, this is the perfect time of year to request those gifts!

Remind Yourself Of The Benefits

Remember when you were eating processed foods, dairy products, refined sugars, meats, and junk foods? How was your digestive system or cholesterol at that time? How do you feel now compared to how you used to feel? Take questions like these into account when you are tempted to eat sugary holiday creations. Before you get seduced by tempting treats, remind yourself of your regular bowel movements, improved energy levels, clearer thoughts, or improved circulation. Then you’ll reach for a raw dish that is filled with enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants!

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Winter is upon us, which means that it’s time to put on bulky coats, beanies, gloves, and scarves for warmth. After being out in the cold, most people like to come home and enjoy stews, oven baked delights, and hearty comforting meals, but you can’t do that if you are on a raw foods diet. A salad may not be at the top of the list when you walk in your house from the cold, so what do you eat to stay warm?

Whether you are eating a raw foods diet as part of one of our cleanses, or you’re just experimenting with a healthier lifestyle, eating cold food when you really want warm food can be challenging. The reality is that eating raw foods provides the body with the essential nutrients it needs to function optimally. The raw foods actually help to naturally detox your body, and this helps to increase circulation, which can make you feel warmer.

In case the cold just happens to go all the way through to your core, we have some tips on how to stay warm while eating raw foods. Try some of the following tips to keep warm and let us know if they work for you.

#1: Spice It Up

If you live in climates that are 32 degrees F or below, try putting cayenne pepper or cloves in socks or gloves. Some people may be sensitive and don’t want to put cayenne on their skin, and that’s completely acceptable. You can spice up your food with cayenne, ginger, black pepper, cumin, chili powder, curry, and garlic as well! Many of these spices go great in homemade salad dressings.

#2: Exercise

Exercise is a great way to get your blood flowing, and it helps warm you up. You can even break a sweat running in 20-degree weather. Get the juices going with a morning workout routine and try to stretch before dinner to help boost your metabolism.

#3: Use A Dehydrator

You can actually warm food in a dehydrator, so long as you don’t warm it above 115 degrees. Warming your food for about 10-15 minutes in the dehydrator is acceptable because it doesn’t destroy the enzymes in your food. If you don’t have a dehydrator, you can warm up a plate and serve your food on that. It’s hacks like that that will take your raw vegan game to the next level.

#4: Drink Warming Beverages

Herbal teas are probably the best for cold weather. Curl up under a fuzzy blanket and sip on chamomile, ginger, lemon, peppermint, or Echinacea tea to warm your soul. Additionally, you can drink lemon water and mix in fresh ginger or cayenne pepper to promote internal warmth.

#5: Dry Skin Brushing

Dry skin brushing is a great technique to increase circulation in the body. Take a brush with firm bristles and brush your skin from your arms and legs towards your heart, a practice that also promotes detoxification. Brushing away from the heart can disrupt proper circulation, so make a mental note to not do that.

#6: Make Your Meal Meaty

This does not mean that you should add meat to your meal; rather, it is best add meaty things like mushrooms, avocados, walnuts, almonds, or sun-dried tomatoes to your meals. Dark leafy greens also give your body sustenance, which helps keep you warm.

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A plant-based diet is an eating pattern that focuses on only consuming unprocessed and unrefined natural foods. This diet includes grains, tubers, legumes, fruits, and vegetables. A plant-based diet has been known to help reduce the risk of heart disease, stroke, obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and even cancer. As of 2018, it has become the biggest dining trend in the United States, ensuring its subscribers a much healthier and environmentally friendly way of life.

While the benefits of eating natural plants seem more than enough to influence a worldwide transition, enforcing this change after thousands of years of meat-based diets has proven to be quite difficult. In most cases, health conscious individuals enter into plant-based diets with gung-ho attitudes, but are unable to continue due to attachment to old habits and a lack of understanding of how to transition. Achieving optimal health is not easy and like all things, preparedness is the key to success. Here are the top 10 tips on how to successfully begin your plant-based journey.

Tip 1: Research

Before you even think about going plant-based, it is wise to do some research for educational purposes and personal success. Weigh the pros and cons of making plants your only food sources. Whatever it is that’s motivating you to take such a big leap, make sure it’s something that’s right for you. This will increase your chances of success during the withdrawal phase. You will undoubtedly experience some cravings, which is why it’s important that you fully understand what this diet is and how you can benefit from it.

Tip 2: Make A Decision, And Stick With It

Commitment is everything when you make the transition to plant-based foods. Removing animal-based enzymes and processed foods from your diet will change the internal chemistry in the body. Going back and forth between diets may prove strenuous on your overall health.

Tip 3: Clean Out Your Fridge & Pantry

Once you commit to the new diet, it’s time to take action. Remove any and all items from your home that are not plant-based and replace them with items that are. The point of doing this is to alter your taste buds and prevent yourself from cheating on your new diet. Removing the temptation from your house is a painful yet necessary step.

Tip 4: Plan Your Meals

Going plant-based means that your food will have to be made fresh most of the time. Anything with added preservatives is not encouraged while adhering to this diet. Make it easy on yourself by buying bulk items like whole grains, beans, nuts, seeds, and other foods with a long shelf life. You can also try meal prepping one day on the weekend to make your life easier during the week. There are even plant-based meal delivery services that can ease your transition.

Tip 5: Start Small, Keep It Simple

As you begin to preparing your own meals, you’ll notice that you feel more satisfied when you focus on the basics. You don’t want to drain your energy by attempting to make a three-hour recipe with 47 ingredients. Instead, look for recipes that look delicious and require minimal effort. A plant-based diet requires more fresh ingredients so be sure to allot ample time to prepare everything. Keep your meals simple, no need to complicate things with gourmet entrées or three course meals; well, not yet anyway.

Tip 6: Recreate Your Favorite Recipes

Try to find alternative plant-based ingredients for some of your favorite recipes. It may not be possible to do this with all of your go-to recipes, so understand that there will be a difference in the way the dishes taste. Replace the non-plant based items with whole food items. For example, you can substitute mushrooms (portobellos work great) for meat in recipes that call for some type of meat. You can also blend nuts with various spices in a food processor to create raw plant-based meats.

Tip 7: Find Your Plant-Based Tribe

This is a great time to search your favorite social media network for like-minded individuals or groups that share you enthusiasm and interest in the plant-based diet. You may even have friends who have already transitioned to a plant-based diet and can illuminate the path to success. Participate in a challenge and start sharing the recipes you make to inspire others who may want to make the plant-based switch.

Tip 8: Explore Local Food Options

To piggyback on the previous tip, make it a habit to go out to local plant-based restaurants, where you can experience unique creations that you may not think to make at home. Try to do this at least once a week, especially since more and more plant-based restaurants are popping up around the nation. Have fun exploring the diet by immersing yourself in the lifestyle. Take note of any dishes that you may want to make for you or loved ones at home.

Tip 9: Be Patient, There Will Be Drawbacks

Subscribing to a plant based diet is not easy, and you may experience symptoms of withdrawals or even deviate from the path a couple times. What you need to understand is that failures like these are still part of the process and it is important to go at your own pace. Be patient and take this new diet one day at a time. Always remember that things will get easier with time, as long as you stay committed.

Tip 10: Add Some Plant Based Supplements To Your Diet

Don’t be afraid to add plant-based vitamin and mineral supplements to your diet, but make sure they are 100% plant-based. Supplementing can help maintain energy levels or keep your protein intake consistent. Transitioning will take time, especially when you’re trying to find what works well with your body and what doesn’t.

Be steadfast in your commitment to plant-based foods and never be ask for assistance, tips, or information about what you are doing. As long as you are trying to better your health with plant-based foods, you are on the right track.

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You decided to make the switch to follow a raw vegan diet, and you are desperately scouring the web for raw food guides, recipes, and any and all tips to succeed. Whether you are cleansing or attempting to improve your overall health and diet, we commend your decision to go raw vegan. A raw food diet helps you preserve your nutrients and enzymes by not cooking the food, but there is still work that needs to happen in the kitchen.

Health Benefits Of Going Raw Vegan

By solely focusing on fresh fruits, vegetables, and raw nuts & seeds, you will supply the body with a wide range of nutrients. Avoiding foods like dairy products, refined grains, alcohol, meats, meat products, processed foods, and artificial sweeteners can help decrease bloating, skin rashes, reduce stress on the liver, and improve overall heart health. Various studies have concluded that a raw food diet may improve blood cholesterol levels and lower a person’s risk of heart disease. Randomized controlled studies have also found that focusing on raw fruits and vegetables may lower the risk of type 2 diabetes, decreasing blood sugar levels and increasing insulin sensitivity.

Let us ease your transition into the raw food lifestyle by recommending essential kitchen tools that are a blessing to any raw chef. Let us also say that you don’t need all of these items to succeed on a raw vegan diet. That being said, diversity is key when it comes to raw foods, and these tools make it easier to create a variety of raw meals, which you can view by clicking here.

A Great Blender

To make smoothies, nut milks, sauces, and condiments, you need one thing and one thing only: a great blender. A bargain blender will only get you so far, so invest a little extra money into a high-speed blender that has some serious horsepower. You don’t need to drop your entire paycheck on a blender because powerful blenders are sold at various price points. You don’t want to be the person who can’t make a smoothie because the blender is underpowered.

A Spiralizer

While spiralized vegetables are sold in certain grocery stores, owning a spiralizer can be a lot more cost effective. You can get a great spiralizer for about $10-$15, and you can use it on fruits or vegetables. Don’t waste your money on handheld spiralizers. Instead, get your hands on the one with several blade attachments and a crank because it is much easier to use. You won’t be eating pasta, but zoodles are the next best thing!

A Nut Milk Bag

Since you cannot purchase plant milks from grocery stores (due to the use of sweeteners, preservatives, and processed ingredients) while you are cleansing, you’ll benefit from having a nut milk bag. It is much easier to use than a cheesecloth, it is reusable, and it won’t give your homemade plant milk a grainy texture. A nut milk bag is inexpensive and essential for anyone who plans on regularly making plant milks.

A Dehydrator

Dehydrating foods can help preserve your ingredients, and a small amount of dehydrated ingredients can offer intense flavors to other recipes. They range from about $40-$200, and the ones in the lower price range work great. Whether or not you invest in a dehydrator will depend on what you like to eat. If you feel that you won’t use it a lot, you don’t have to get it, but you should consider it if you enjoy raw crackers, raw chips, raw burgers, or even raw pizzas!

A Great Knife

With all the chopping, dicing, and slicing that you are bound to do during your raw vegan diet, a great knife is the most important kitchen tool for a raw food chef. Don’t sink your life savings into a knife set, but purchase an all-purpose chef’s knife from a reputable brand. While you’re at it, get a great cutting board to go along with your new knife! Feel like a pro in the kitchen and cut with ease.

A Food Processor

A food processor isn’t absolutely necessary, but it can do the work that most blenders cannot. When it comes to making raw nut meat, homemade ice cream, or thick creamy sauces, a food processor comes in handy. A moderately priced food processor will suffice, but avoid the cheapest variety. You also don’t want a microprocessor because it won’t hold enough food for the recipes you want to make.

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