Has anybody felt the same way?

[Domenico Brunetti]

Today has been my wife's birthday and because we haven't been into vegan-raw food for a long time, I guess we are still stuck in our old ways, so I prepared tiramisu and some pasta. 

We had good time together and I couldn't really think about the food that much, we went to the city center and I saw on offer to beautifully ripe papayas and mangoes, so I bought the lot.

Recently I have been living on raw food every day for as much as 75%-80% of the food I eat, but today was a special occasion, I felt it was ok to eat a bit of non food, but it wasn't until I open that papaya in half and absorbed that delicious smell that I started to dig into its juicy, abundant and, most of all, sweet flesh that I have understood that this is THE food I was always meant to eat.

While I was nibbling on the bits of mango that I could not get off the stone, I thought I  found the same satisfaction that a lion feels when catching its prey.

My conclusion was that such a feeling can only happen if eating the food we are supposed to eat as human beings, this is why, and it's a funny feeling, I didn't feel any regret in pigging out on fruit like this, which usually happens when I eat some other kind of food which is not fruit and veg.

I think this is a turning point. Has anybody felt the same way?

[Judy O'Donnell]

I ABSOLUTELY agree.,and yes there is something about a mango stone...it makes you work. Sometimes you can taste the sunlight it feels so fabulous. My turning point was years ago too.

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[Domenico Brunetti]

It's still a transition, But for my birthday I am going to get a case of papayas and mangoes.
When I was a kid Inwas growing up amongst mandarines and orange gardens, but I didn't care for them that much. Now in the UK these items are very expensive and when I went back to Sicily a month ago my mom had huge buckets of oranges around the house all organic, just from our small gardens, plus all sorts of mediterranean fruit and veg...After being here in the UK, I thought I was in heaven:)

[L.]

You know what? I have felt that way...even as a kid who ate totally SAD, I remember having these huge cravings for some type of fruit or vegetable, and when I would eat it, it would feel like the best tasting thing in the world. A big, juicy peach in summertime gives me that same sort of bliss. I think part of the reason why this has been so easy for me is because junk food in my house was an absolute abundance, but my parents still had fruit and vegetables around, always very good produce, and we would go through it so fast we were always fighting for it :)! So its like the healthy thing became the treat.

[Susan : )]

You can make tiramisu raw!  Click on the word and you will see a pic and a recipe!

As for pasta, simply use zucchini, click here!

Enjoy your old favorites in a new way!!

[Mae Jardine]

How sweet of you to prepare favorite foods for your Dear One.  Sounds like a lovely way to spend a day together celebrating your wife's birthday, Domenico.  

My turning point was many years ago and I still have that same good to the last juicy morsel relationship with the mango stone  : )  Enjoy!