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raw food till dinner

The founder of Blueprint Cleanse and a champion of the uncooked, Zoë Sakoutis is a health nut but not dogmatic. For active social lives and decadent tastes, her simple plan packs savory virtue into the working hours, making room for indulgence at night.

Photo by Justin Bernhaut March 2008

"I had a cold and a friend recommended this diet. I went from 100 percent carnivore to 100 percent raw food-ist overnight." Sakoutis says of her conversion eight years ago. (For the uninitiated, raw means unprocessed and uncooked plant foods—nothing heated above 116 °).

Inspired by increased energy, better digestion and glowing skin, Sakoutis set out to "make this really hippie, underground thing more user-friendly."

Try these four easy and "raw" recipes from "Sakoutis' raw-till-dinner concept". The menu ideas are great way to introduce holistic benefits to a realistic lifestyle.