A Month in the Raw

Posted by Greg
It’s Sunday morning, and I was really looking forward to a smoothie with some banana in it. But when I  walked to Whole Foods, I was greeted by shelves full of green bananas. Too green.
So I had to pick up some other smoothie-appropriate fruit (I tried honeydew melon the other day and it [...]

Posted by Greg
I definitely miss non-raw food. The smells of cooking are hard to walk past. Bread is tough to just look at. Onions are so much more enjoyable to me after a stovetop steals their innocence.
So I decided that my stomach satisfaction is too low to make it through another 2.5 weeks of what [...]

Posted by Greg
I’ve been having a problem with my right eye for the past 6 months, originally diagnosed as blepharitis, a condition that old people usually get. Essentially, my right eyelid is red, inflamed/swollen, bumpy, and droopy. After several eye doctor visits, the conclusion is that I have a double chalazion, which is a bump [...]

Posted by Greg
Today marks my one raw week. I suppose maybe because I am the odd one out (I don’t work at the museum, so I don’t see any of the other bloggers, let alone know any of them yet aside from Erin), I am not experiencing the mental difficulties noted in some previous posts. [...]

Posted by Greg Allen

The innocent avocado in a bar clamp is not some sort of instant-guacamole technique, but rather a visual representation of my evening frustration. Yesterday was my first day on the raw diet. It went well and left me feeling really good about salad, not because I felt limited to it, but because [...]

My name is Greg. I know, I’m joining late in the game. A day might perhaps have been fashionably late, but this is just embarrassingly late. I just wasn’t prepared. And I wasn’t in a location where I could easily buy food. I thought to myself that Mondays are when a lot of things start, [...]