Dehydrator Giveaway!
The time has come to do our first giveaway and is it ever a good one! Many raw food recipes require a dehydrator and if you don’t have one, it can be challenging. One of the most common questions I get is how to prepare the raw food recipes without a dehydrator.
I hope to fix that problem for one of you!
The great folks over at TSM Dehydrators have donated a 300.00, 5 shelf, stainless Dehydrator, the D5! I couldn’t be happier to be able to offer this! I have one of these dehydrators. It is my favorite. It is quiet, sturdy, very easy to pull apart and clean and does a great job at temperature control. I have checked. Continue for the rules!
Here are the rules:
Enter by simply asking a question you have about raw food in the comment area.
Only one entry allowed per person.
Entries will close at 6pm on Thursday, March 18th, 2010.
Winner will be randomly selected and announced following the contest.
I will be answering your questions in upcoming blog posts!
Alicia wrote on March 17, 2010
How long do foods created with the dehydrator keep? Can they be stored frozen to be eaten later?
THANK YOU!
xoxo
~alicia
Katie wrote on March 17, 2010
I’m currently living and studying abroad in Milan, Italy. Being in such a big (and unavoidably dirty) city has kicked my cravings for fresh produce into overdrive. I find myself eating mostly raw foods, but I really don’t know what the proper ratios are of nuts to veggies, and everything else, if there even are any. So, my question is, what should I generally be eating to make sure I’m getting everything I need to stay healthy?
Linda Schaffer wrote on March 17, 2010
Over 463 comments! No way I’m going to read through them all, so I hope this question hasn’t been asked hundreds of times already, but here it is:
Sometimes food is comforting because it’s hot (temperature, ya know…), how warm/hot can you heat raw food without killing the enzymes?
Thanks your your Rawmazing site! Love it!
Christine wrote on March 17, 2010
How do you balance vegetables/greens/fruits with nuts and seeds on a raw diet? I have been reading a lot and doing lots of research, but I don’t want to over-do it with fats. I am already anemic on a vegan diet and don’t want eat even less protein on a higher raw diet. Any insight would be very helpful. Is there a certain ratio I should use when planning meals or is there a certain amount of nuts/seeds I should limit myself to on a daily basis?
Harley wrote on March 17, 2010
I’ve seen sprouted bread, vegetable bread, and lately recipes for raw bread, but how does this work? Surely you can make a bread that is more alive than traditional bread, but completely raw? Have you experimented with these breads and how close do they come to the texture and versatility of their cooked counterparts?
Jillian Dwyer wrote on March 17, 2010
I live near Boulder, CO. I’ve read that your daughter lives in Boulder and that you visit regularly. Would you consider having a hands-on, raw foods workshop in Boulder this spring or early summer? My friends and I are new to raw foods and would love to attend one of your workshops.
Susan wrote on March 17, 2010
Would love to…email me at Susan@rawmazing.com
michelle ossiander wrote on March 17, 2010
Where is a good place to start?
Cyndee Greene wrote on March 17, 2010
How does this dehydrator compare to the Excalibur?
Also, do you know where the best place is to buy a Wheatgrass growing kit? I’ve looked locally & haven’t found any. And so far on the internet, the shipping cost is outrageous. Do you know of any instructions to EASILY create our own?
Thank you for the great opportunity w/ your awesome giveaway!!
emp wrote on March 17, 2010
Hi, I’m a visitor from Gena’s Choosing Raw blog! RAWmazing looks pretty awesome at first glance and I’m excited to spend more time checking it out.
I just started learning about raw eating and have many questions. But here’s a practical one: If I want to dehydrate soaked buckwheat groats and don’t have a dehydrator (need one!) or access to a safe, sunny spot to sun-dry (I have cats), will plain ol’ air-drying work just as well, even if it takes 2-3x as long? Or will the groats not dehydrate thoroughly?
Here’s another “question” I’m mostly just eager to share. Last night my husband, who’s been patiently watching me dive into raw recipes and boost our salad intake, had the epiphany that raw foodists can’t eat rice, which didn’t make any sense to him because “rice is a vegetarian staple”. I explained the basic reasoning behind eating raw (for me anyway) –that high heat destroys the enzymes that make foods digestible with the use of fewer existing resources in the body (I hope I got that right). What he refused to understand is why cooked rice is harder to digest than uncooked rice –and well, in the case of rice, I didn’t really have a response for how to eat it raw because I haven’t seen an example of that. I did, of course, say one just wouldn’t eat rice raw –which is where he got held up on the idea of it being a “vegetarian staple” and refusing to accept that it would be better not to eat it at all. But the point here, and my real question, is how to explain to him and others that what “we’ve always done” to our bodies may not be the best thing to do to our bodies. I’m also a student of the Alexander Technique, another example of how most people’s movement/posture habits are destructive to the body because they abuse the intended functions of our skeleton, for reasons undocumented but certainly culturally related… *sigh* I could go on and on, it’s almost a dissertation topic in the making. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the issue sometime!
Thanks much!