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One big concern of many people who are just getting started on the raw and living food lifestyle is "it's so expensive"! "I can't afford the expensive dehydrators... and 3 hp juicers... and twin gear extractors... and goji berries... can I still be raw?"

I find that it takes a bit of ingenuity and shopping around to accomplish it, but eating raw inexpensively CAN be done!

1. Shop at discounted food stores that also have produce -- or places like K-Mart, Walmart Super Centers, etc. and focus on those items which are on sale or in season.Where I live in Western North Carolina, I often shop at Go Outlet, Amazing Savings (in Asheville), Walmart Superstores, and buy things like lemons, limes, grapefruit, strawberries, garlic, cilantro, avocados, walnuts, extra virgin olive oil, sprouts, baby greens, romaine, red onion, plum tomatoes, kale, and so forth.
   
2. In the summer, I also shop at the local natural food store's weekly farmers market -- as well as the other local farmer's markets and produce stands. You might also look into CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) as a source in the summer.
   
3. Raise your own tomatoes, basil and other herbs, lettuces and other easy-to-grow veggies. Raise extra tomatoes and dry them. Raise lots of basil and make it into cubes and freeze it.
   
4. Buy extra of whatever is cheap and freeze it. You can even buy avocadoes when they're cheap, mash one avocado with 1/2 tablespoon of lemon or lime juice, and put it into a small sandwich bag. Suck out all the air with a straw. Place the individual sandwich bags inside a large freezer bag or container. Freeze for up to 5 months.
   
5. Grow your own sprouts.
   
6. Make your own dehydrated crackers.
   
7. Join a food co-op and buy things like nuts and sesame seeds, flax seeds, etc. in bulk.
   
8. Keep it simple. Avoid recipes with lots of expensive ingredients -- and stick with those ingredients that are inexpensive and in season.

Getting an Abundance of Raw and Living Food... for Free Below are a few paragraphs from one of our favorite websites: Raw Food Advantage ... which prove that it doesn't take a lot cash... just a bit of ingenuity and a willingness to think outside the box...to eat very well on the raw and living food lifestyle I still go to farmers markets and get the fruits and veggies for Free that they throw away since they can't sell them. I also used to go to Mexican restaurants and get avocado pits out of the garbage..(now they just give them to me. The managers just give them to me whenever I call them. They have hundreds of them and they just throw them away!)... and I go to grocery stores and they give me the cantelope seeds and pineapple cores. I make the best cantelope milk in my blender from the seeds and its free. I put it in my raw dehyrated orange zest granola.. I also get brocolli stems free. These are the one of the most nutrient rich vegetables you can eat. The middle part is so sweet but most people don't eat them since they just eat the flower part.I also go to juice bars and get the pulp that they don't use and put the pulp in recipees... such as carrot pulp. You can even make a mock tuna salad out of that pulp. You would not believe how much pulp gets thrown away at a high traffic juice bar. It is very disturbing to me.I can't stand to hear people saying eating organic is expensive...It doesn't cost me hardly a dime.All the grocery stores throw their pineapple skins away with so much fruit left on it.. They also throw out the rinds from watermellon (95% of all the nutrition is in the rind). Also.. they throw out the bruised fruits where I am. They would just go in the garbage.. They say they are not allowed to give it to charity since if someone got sick they would sue them.... but once it goes out in the dumpster.... well.... That is another story... LOLSometimes the stores will tell you they have to throw the food away due to getting sued. They would rather throw it in the dumpster rather than giving it to a charity that could use the bruised or over ripe fruits. Once its in the dumpster they have never given me a problem. I actaully found an entire case of over ripe cherymoyas. They were in a box and there was around 30 of them.. They were all soft and slihtly over ripe. They had a slight moldy fuzz on the outside which prevented them from putting them on the shelf but when I ate them... they were the best cherymoyas I have ever eaten in my life. I had a few friends over and we all ate them. They go for about 4 to 6 bucks each and were totally free.

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