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So this morning when I went to make my usual “green juice”

I realized that I didn’t have enough greens. So I decided to head over to Liquiteria (a juice bar in the east village that I’ve been meaning to try out) and see if their “all greens with apple” was similar to what I make in the morning.

Liquiteria has a menu of fresh squeezed juice, smoothies (that they call liquid meals), and fresh pressed juice. They also have a small take-out menu of sandwiches, wraps, soups, etc.

But I came for the juice! Now fresh squeezed juice would be what I make with my juicer at home, it has more body and is usually a little thicker than pressed juice, but it won’t last as long (you should drink it right away). When you find a place that sells pressed juice its usually made and bottled fresh, and will last a few days in the fridge.

Liquiteria has one of the bigger menus of pressed juices around

ALL GREENS
kale, spinach, romaine, parsley, celery & cucumber

ALL GREENS WITH APPLE, LEMON & GINGER
kale, spinach, romaine, parsley, celery, cucumber, apple, lemon & ginger

ALL GREENS WITH APPLE
kale, spinach, romaine, parsley, celery, cucumber & apple

MR GREEN 
carrot, apple, beet, ginger, Super Green Food & Liver Kidney Lymph Detox

GREENS WITH CARROT
romaine, spinach, kale, parsley & carrot

MIXED VEGGIE
kale, spinach, parsley, celery, cucumber, carrot & beets

GRASSHOPPER 
apple, pear, pineapple, wheatgrass & mint

THE KILLER
green apple, ginger, lemon & Immunity Now

THE KILLER XX
green apple, double serving of ginger, lemon, cayenne & Immunity Now

IMMUNE ROCKET BOOSTER 
carrot, celery, beet, ginger, flax seed oil & Immunity Now

SKIN TRIP
carrot, spinach, cucumber, parsley, aloe vera & Liver Kidney Lymph Detox

I picked up the all greens with apple because it sounded closest to what I usually make in the morning. I like the juice a lot, it’s a little sweeter than I usually make mine, so I’m eager to try just the all greens next time and see if I can handle cutting out the fruit completely.

Of course the downside to finding a juice place you like is that you will be lazy and buy juice when you could just make it for much less money. So hopefully this will only be a last resort for when I run out of produce.

Do you have a favorite juice place? or maybe a juice recipe that you think I should try?

I lot of people ask me for links to sources on how to get started eating raw foods. So I thought I would compile a list.

Here are some good books that helped me a lot getting started:

Raw Food/Real World

Rawvolution

Raw Living Food

These books not only have recipies, but also have very helpful personal stories of how the authors went raw, and how they got into eating this way.

Other great resources are blogs. Here are some of my favorites:

Choosing Raw

We like it Raw

Sarma’s Raw Blog

There are also online communities and local raw groups. Search on Meetup to see if there are any raw groups in your area.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact me. I’m just learning like everyone else, but I would be happy to help!

When I first went Raw, I jumped right into it 100%. My original intention was only to do it as a cleanse, but I felt so good that I kept on going. I was lucky when i decided to go raw because I was still living at home and my mom had always been somewhat of a health nut. So I had things like a good blender and a juicer available to me.

But after moving to a new city and a new apartment, I don’t have the money right away to buy all the kitchen supplies I might need to go back to raw right out of the gate.

So I have to figure out a way to ease myself back into it.

Yesterday I got a copy of Sarma Melngailis’s two books Raw Food/Real World and Living Raw Food. Sarma is the Chef and owner of Pure Food and Wine, which is an amazing raw food restaurant in new york city.

The first book, Raw Food/Real World talks a lot about how she got into raw food, and making the transition.

They have been very helpful to read, and I have made recipes from both books in the past and they are delicious!

I am lucky enough to have a juice bar in the food court of my building at work. But if gets expensive. The more I keep drinking green juice, it really has been helping my body get back to that place of craving raw foods.

Slowly but surely, I am making this transition!

I mentioned in my last post that I moved to a new city. I moved from New York City (the big apple), down to Philadelphia (the city of brotherly love).

But in my head, these citys have had two very different meanings. NYC (home to pure food and wine, and other great vegan and raw foods places) and Philly (home to lots of sports, and cheesesteaks)

I realized that I had moved from raw food mecca (so to speak) to a city where raw was pretty much non existant. And even vegan restaurants were few and far between.

So what’s a girl to do when she is trying to eat healthy?

I thought about it a lot and I came to the conclusion that now I am living like most of the rest of the country. With limited access to raw food communities, and health food stores.

This was the perfect time to start my journey again.

Since going off raw I have been a very bad vegetarian. Eating lots of starch and cheese. Not lots of fresh fruits and veggies.

I need to find a way to get myself back to a good place, but I am starting from scratch. I need to figure out how to eat this way, all while working in an office 9-5 with little access to a good blender or juicer.

This will no longer just be a place to hold recipies, but a journal where I can talk about new foods I tried, raw cookbooks, raw food delivery services, and everything else to help me make this transition back to a healther place.

Hi, I’m Sarah Cooley and 11 days ago I went Raw Food Vegan!

I started eating raw as part of a 7 day cleanse, but I felt so good that I decided to keep it up.

I am not sure if I will stay 100% raw, but I wanted a place to post all the raw food recipes that I want to try, or have successfully made.

So that’s what I will use this blog for.