Raw Savoury Veggie Stews

[Ruth]

Has anyone heard of the raw savoury veggie stew, created by Roger Haeske? It is touted as being the answer to being able to maintain a 100% raw food diet and also something which is so addictive that cooked food eaters can be convinced by a few mouthfuls into eating more raw... it being so terribly delicious. Apparently it is incredibly filling and helps cooked food cravings dissapear for good. Sounds too good to be true? Have a look at this.

http://savorystews.rogerhaeske.com/

I have been making raw savoury soups in my vitamix for a couple of years; just throwing in whatever i have in the fridge. I love them! Sometimes they come out fantastically delcious; at others not so good. Although i have developed a formula of my own, Roger Haeske and his followers and friends (including Frederick Patenaude) are saying that this is a break-through contribution to a lower-fat raw way of living; and that Roger has discovered something really special. Not just through the secret ingredients used but through his creative use of the vitamix blender (apparently he uses different speeds to create different textures which took 20 years to perfect.)

I wondered if there was anyone out there who had tried his program and recipes. If so, could you post about it and let us know if it truly is the, "next biggest thing in raw foods after the green smoothie!"

I would like to buy his program (its not just recipes but MP3 audio, 15 minute consult with him (if one wants help with making them) lifetime updates of new recipes and his other various culinary ideas, and the cheat sheets about how to make the stews, available nowehere else! (His customers rave about it as you'd expect, but nowhere on the internet can I find any hint of the technique with which they are made! Even watching youtube videos for savoury veg stews (including the beautiful one of his own child, baby Andrew making one on his own...link below...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JysrqmxGAU

brings up clips which have been edited...it is obvious that ingredients and stages of the prep and discussion of how to use the vitamix have been left out.)

This all sounds just wonderful. However to buy into this knowledge costs $97!!! (As Rpger reminds us, he took 20 years to develop his ideas and if they truly do lead to a lifetime of raw, or much higher percentage of raw... with family and friends ALSO desiring to eat your delicious stews (!) it SHOULD be worth that much to us!! At time of writing this is almost 59 pounds.)

I wondered if anyone would like to share this cost with me. Four to five more people would be great and we could pool our results.

To our increasing health....

[Jax]

I'm tempted, depending on how may others come in :confused2:

[karen @rawchocolateheaven]

i was sent the recipes and seriously would not spend £97 mental....the concept is same as any good raw food book,Boutenkos have really great soup/stews in their books and you could buy most of theirs for the same cost!
the guy is trying to sell an idea that he has formulated that has worked well for him, as with all ideas it is their idea and not always everyones cup of tea.
very expensive colection of just a few recipes!

[Ruth]

I've also now been sent the basic recipes and am so grateful to the friend who shared with me. What is incredible is that Roger is marketing the idea I have been making for myself almost every day for supper for the past couple of years without ever thinking it WAS marketable! Apart from one idea of adding a sweetener it is exactly the formula I have followed from my own initiative and presumably others too. I have just called them recipe-less soups; led from whatever is fresh in the fridge but following a basic formula of common sense with handling raw food and blenders such as he sets out. Again, I am so grateful for the ability to pool knowledge and share. There is a lot of money now being made in raw food; and still a lot of desperate people looking for miracle cures willing to pay out when confronted by expert marketing. I know I can get bamboozled by hype even though I came to raw food without knowing there was such a thing.

[karen @rawchocolateheaven]

have found myself gravitating towards simpler foods that a while back i would have scoffed at....!!lol but listening to you talking about the 80-10-10 the other day and i began thinking about where my food is now, and tried again the green soups, i never liked these in my early raw days. Now however i find them juicy, tasty, filling and lovely! gosh my taste buds have changed, i am really glad this process has taken years to complete because it has given me loads of time to fully explore lots of aspects of raw, my diet now centers on lots of fruit and lots of green things and my body feels really happy right now xxxxx