Raw Eggplant... My Tangent on Meat... & My Exciting Weekend Plans!

So in my attempt to become raw, I thought of this bright idea to dehydrate raw eggplant and spice it up with an interesting tomato concoction that included a variety of fresh produce, spices, and herbs. Don't get me wrong, it seemed like a good idea in my mind, however, upon taking a bite of the first little miniature eggplant pizza, I was quick to realize it was a bad idea. It was too dry due to my lack of saturation of olive oil and not to mention the texture of the raw eggplant grossed me out so much that I couldn't eat but a couple of them. You are probably asking yourself "why would she even eat another after experiencing the initial bite of the distasteful eggplant pizza?" It's simple, raw food is gross. I am trying to train my body and taste buds to really enjoy them. Well, let me rephrase that, not all raw food is gross. However, being raised with the diet of my parentals, you could only imagine the difficulty I have in converting to such a "raw" lifestyle. I really don't enjoy too many raw foods.

I have found that you can train your mind and body to pretty much do anything. It takes a lot of willpower and dedication. Honestly, I don't know how well this is going to turn out for me because if you are close to me you would know just how little of willpower I really have, but I want to be healthy!

People these days eat way too much meat and sugary goods when really the human body is not meant to consume such foods. It says in the Bible and Book of Mormon to eat meat sparingly, but for some reason people have stopped paying attention to that small commandment. There are a lot of factors that go to prove this theory, one of which being that our teeth are not designed to chew the meat. If you look at the teeth of carnivores, you will see that they have many very sharp and pointing canines. Human's have them, but I believe we were designed to have the few that we do have, for those times of famine when that is all available eat. They were given to us for those dire times. Human intestines also do not have the capacity to digest large amounts of meat. The intestines found in the human body are long that have food traveling through them over a 12-24 hour period of time. Meat rots in the intestines over that long period of time a long with the dispersement of parasites and other diseases found in cooked meat. The intestines of a carnivore are very short and their digestive tract is fast, leaving little to no time for foods to rot inside the body. This is probably why colon cancer is so prevalent in humans.

Ha! Sorry about the tangent, but the more I read up on being "raw" the more interesting it is! Like I said before, it is very difficult to become raw, but the more I learn about it the more I want to do it.

Now, on a more exciting note! I decided to drive to Washington this weekend for Labor Day with my bestest friend, Katie Grandon, to 1) See my family 2) Do something fun other than stay in my house all weekend long and 3) Swap cars with my daddy. He is going to fix mine and then sell it so I can buy one a little more reliable. I am so excited! While I am there I plan to do the following:

1. Visit the huge Saturday Farmers Market in Portland, Oregon.
2. Go to The Blossoming Lotus Cafe, a raw restaurant, that is located somewhere downtown Portland
3. See my cute nephew Jaren. I'm his favorite aunt!