Hi, my name is Prem and I have been experiencing and enjoying raw, living foods for over a year now and have been teaching it for several months. This lifestyle has given so much to me and in return I would like to give back what I can.

I would like to share my experience of raw food and why I find it such a life changing and also fun way of eating and being.

I find the raw food diet ironic when I think of all those people going through hell depriving themselves to lose weight and all those people suffering taking all sorts of pills for this and that. The solution is right here available to anyone and as simple as anything could be. A raw food lifestyle lets you eat what you want, evaporates the word deprivation from the dictionary, will cure all diseases and bring you peak health naturally.

I became hooked on raw when I started experimenting with a raw food book my mum gave me for Christmas. Having always been interested in making cakes and maybe because I was not given total freedom to create cakes and destroy my kitchen in a sweet creative passion when was younger, I began not-cooking! Experimenting with many different raw food recipes and eventually creating my own, I started selling my cakes locally and made quite a success of it. I’ill never forget the first time I walked into the deli of my local health food store and sat a beautiful, fresh chocolate avocado cake down on the counter, and assured them it was for real! They reluctantly agreed to take it on consignment but called me later the same day to order another one as it was already gone! (I think they finished it).

I didn't’t go 100% raw myself until I went to a raw food picnic on the Gold Coast.
I dragged my friends along and by the time we had dipped our hands in everything that could be sampled, chatted with all the people present and drove home to digest the day, my friends had decided to go raw and were dragging me with them!
We had not seen such beautifully presented, delicious, alive food ever before, it seemed crazy not to go raw!

From then on my life has just flown higher and higher. Since going 100% raw I have experienced an increasingly positive life, I have taken up surfing which has resulted in giving me a really fit and strong body not to mention the pure joy and thrill of surfing(especially in Byron Bay). I have met some of the most genuine lovely people that I could have possibly dreamed of and I have felt a deeper friendship with all my friends. I have run retreats, classes and taught people how to live a healthy lifestyle. I have become much more sensitive to the universe around me. I feel a true sense of identity. I have devoted a lot of my energy to creating raw gourmet food. I have contributed to the local community, I have learned how to shape my life and create joy around me, and I am committed to reach the world with my message. I am telling you this because I believe that the biggest benefit of eating a raw living food diet is the way your life becomes more and more positive. I believe raw food is a magnet for positive change.

Here are some people I would like to thank just for being who they are: Everyone I met at the Byron Bay and Bangalow markets and our master-classes (their are so many lovely people), everyone at our retreats (I was never the same after that, you guys taught me so much), Lara and Marshal for supporting me right from the beginning, Christian for being an awesome surfing buddy, Eric for being such a cool guy and of course the amazing funky forest, Paul Benhaim for being so supportive to us, My mum for having a mysterious way of picking presents, Jasmine for being such an awesome chick (and a such hot chick), Raw Pleasure for hosting the picnic that inspired us to go raw and of course my friends and eternal soul mates who without you guys I would not be writing this message: Anshu, Anand, Rahasya, Tashy, Nishta And a special thanks to Avesh who is such an awesome guy and who has inspired me and reminded me of the joy of life.

I wrote this because I want to offer you a taste of my journey: it’s such a great journey and so much fun. It began with lots of fun and great food and ended (or shall I say carries on still to this day) with lots of fun and even greater food! I want to help you to see that the journey to health wherever you are in your life can be, (if you choose it to be) a journey of joy, passion and celebration.

Lots of Love
Prem


Raw food chef, educator and pioneer in the raw food movement of Australia
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