Rawkin' around the Christmas tree?

An unexpected benefit of the RawFood lifestyle: my experience of Christmas is being transformed. Last year, as a cooked fooder I had a very merry time with fun-loving girlfriends in a rented seaside cottage, close to Totnes. We lolled around in our pyjamas, experimented with eye make-up, watched entire series of the Mighty Boosch and of course ate utterly unfeasible amounts of food, most of it rich, fatty and sweet. For us then as it is for many now, Christmas is a binge.

What a difference a year makes; 6 months into my transition, 2 months fully raw; this Christmas will be simple and stripped back. Maybe a spicy cran-orange-cinnnamon juice to get the day going, probably some dried fruit nibbles, a world away from the traditional meal. I marvel at how adaptable we are: to be able to shed years of personal conditioning and move awayf from heaviness and excess. How unappetising the traditional meal seems to me now. Raw food = light relief .