| Well-prepared cooking needs good equipment like pots | | | | amount of time for preparation as regular cooking |
| and pans, microwave or oven, not to mention a whole | | | | does. Compared to regular cooking the only time |
| list of cooking utensils needed to cook a fairly simple | | | | savings is in the preparation of food because a lot of |
| meal. Going to the grocery store to fill up your fridge | | | | recipes require chopped ingredients. |
| with fresh fruits and vegetables is only the beginning to | | | | Juicer |
| raw food dieting. Unless you want to spend your raw | | | | Making fresh fruit juice or vegetable juice mixes is best |
| food experience eating carrots and celery sticks, you | | | | made with a high-quality juicer. This is the best way to |
| better get equipped! Kitchen equipment is not essential | | | | get a plentiful intake of your fruits and veggies in one |
| in the beginning. You will find your recipe cookbooks will | | | | day. There are many inexpensive juicers on the |
| require more than a kitchen knife and a cutting board. | | | | market but they generally burn the enzymes therefore |
| High-speed blender | | | | degrading the quality of your food. Ceramic juicers on |
| A strong high-speed blender like a Vita-mix or Blend | | | | the other hand squeeze the juice out of the |
| tech mixer is the first essential tool you will require. | | | | vegetables and fruits so as to preserve these |
| Because you will use your blender several times a | | | | precious enzymes. Of course this type of juicer can |
| day, investing in a high quality blender will service your | | | | run into a $300-$500 investment. |
| raw food diet cooking needs for many years to come. | | | | Sprouting tray |
| With the high-speed blender it is possible to prepare | | | | Since salads are a big part of everyday raw cooking, |
| smoothies, hot soups, drink mixes, and sauces. You will | | | | a sprouting tray is essential. This is a three or four level |
| also be able to prepare thick mixes which you will | | | | plastic container with tiny holes at the bottom of each |
| need for your dehydrator to make bread for | | | | one. There are a variety of seeds which can be |
| sandwiches and cake bottoms. The best part is that | | | | purchased at the health food store and sprouted in |
| you will never burn your food ever again. A good | | | | these containers using only water. Within several days |
| high-speed blender is anywhere from a $400-$700 | | | | you will have plenty of fresh sprouts to toss into those |
| investment | | | | tasty salads. They are truly the freshest and easiest |
| Food dehydrator | | | | way to get top-quality nourishment for your new found |
| Once you start using this tool, you will never know | | | | health. |
| how you had managed without it. A dehydrator is | | | | A bookshelf |
| basically a warm oven which extracts moisture from | | | | The day start your journey and discover raw food |
| prepared foods such as vegetables, fruits and tasty | | | | cooking, you will end up buying plenty of books to |
| thick mixes over a period of 12 to 24 hours. | | | | expand this new found experience. This way of |
| Dehydrated food can be kept for a long period of time | | | | preparing foods is so exciting and cannot be |
| and makes great snack foods. The raw food | | | | compared to any conventional way of cooking. Your |
| dehydrator is also used in preparing mixes for cakes | | | | taste buds will discover fresh and exhilarating flavors |
| and pies to be used as the bottom replacing dough | | | | that you will never find even in the best of restaurants |
| mixes. Most raw cookbooks call for this kind of | | | | unless it offers raw food on the menu. |
| preparation in many raw food recipes. Generally a | | | | Even though you may have purchased the best of the |
| good food dehydrator can be purchased between | | | | best in kitchen equipment, your cupboards presently |
| $200-$500 depending on the size and cooking needs. | | | | filled with flour, bread, pasta, sugar and other needless |
| Food processor | | | | ingredients will all have to be replaced with new ones. |
| With the volume of vegetable preparation that you will | | | | Your new cookbooks will call for olive oil, nuts, |
| be doing, a good food processor will get the job done | | | | seaweed, condiments, spices and herbs, many of |
| much quicker. Raw food cooking takes the same | | | | which you will never even have heard of before. |