The Frugivore Diet

Austropithicus Africanses diet

2014-08-08T00:52:33.000Z

Australopithicus Africanses was the first primate to climb down from the trees, some 25 million years ago. His diet was simple: leaves and fruit. If s/he found a fruit tree, s/he might spend the day there, or at least eat until the fruit was gone. If he found a nice-tasting bush or tree, s/he might have eaten his/her fill.

What I plan to do is simply walk in to the Produce Department and buy a bunch of spinach, or chard, or Romaine, and eat it until it is gone; then go back for something different.

I don't like to cook anyway! This may be the answer to my dreams!

Okay, I'll try it!

2014-08-08T00:43:30.000Z

What's good for breakfast? I'll start tomorrow. How about bean soup? Just beans and filtered water.

why making smoothies not part of mono meal?

2013-02-02T02:33:01.000Z

Hi I am wondering why smoothies are not treated as part of mono meal, i mean smoothies also can be mono..i can put 30 bananas in my blender and drink the smoothie all day why is it not mono any reason??well where i got this from it was in the very heading of this forum describing mono meals...

Eating fruit after a salad

2012-07-19T04:58:25.000Z

Hey guys,I've been eating a couple apricots or bananas after eating my dinner salad (consists of romaine, raw peas raw corn and raw mushrooms) I know the starchy veggies may not mix well with the fruit... Should I stop doing this?I know I should just eat more fruit BEFORE I have my salad..Any advice?

Mono V.s. Not Mono

2012-07-10T16:27:20.000Z

Hi Everyone

I'm new here

I have been reading about mono meal

and also try it

it's a lot better than eating non monomeal

My digestion is way lot better

and I don't feel like bloating

but I want to know

1. why

2. What if I have to eat more than one fruits for a meal

what should I eat and not to eat

3. If I can't combine some fruit together

many raw food recipe might not be good <as it contains many kind of fruit, veg and nut>

Mono or not?

2012-05-20T08:28:49.000Z

Hi everybody,

I feel fantastic eating only mono meals. Though I do have a question. I bought 2 different kinds of tomatoes yesterday (big ones and the little cherry ones). If I ate both of them as a meal would that still be considered a mono meal (because their both tomatoes) or not (because their different kinds of tomatoes?

The unorthodoxy of fruit-eating

2012-02-25T03:32:53.000Z

Eating high quantities of fruit really puts a person in touch with the intimate details of the fruit: how it ripens, the insides of seeds, the fiber of peels, the flavors of cores.

What are some things you know about a fruit that most people never think about?

What parts are surprisingly edible? What do you eat fruit-leaves-skin-seeds-cores-and-all?

I will admit this confession with a shroud of guilt: I just discovered how delicious papaya seeds are! They are lovely and soft and taste just like spicy radishes.

Now, as I'm impatiently waiting for those papayas to ripen, I think longingly of eating the fruit with its seeds and the delicious combo they make, like a sassy fruit salad.

So where's the guilt? From all the seeds I scraped away and ignored for years…= (

What fruity tricks do you know?

Tania = )

January Mono Challenge - who wants to join?

2011-12-28T03:03:22.000Z

I would really like to give monoeating a serious try. Lately I've been feeling that every time I eat a combined meal - my energy goes down, even when I don't eat any overts at all. I also feel that monoeating is the only way to truly tune in with my body and to know what it needs and how much.

So, in January I plan to eat only low fat fruits and greens - all as mono-meals. I will make sure to have at the very least 10 minutes break between different meals (in situations when I am still hungry but don't want this particular type of food or when I run out of one ingredient).

Please join me if you would like to take on the challenge!

Care to post an update, anyone?

2011-03-20T18:45:55.000Z

Hi all!

I just joined this group and noticed that noone has posted in a long time. I'd love to hear how you've all been doing, any changes in your ways of eating, meal times, benefits noticed, problems...

I tried fully monomealing for a while, but had a problem getting enough calories unless I gave up on greens and low cal fruits completely. After a few months of this, I really needed some greens and found myself going back to a 2 or 3 ingred salad at dinner. The rest of my meals are mono unless I am still hungry and out of the particular fruit I started with (this is not frequent, though).

I guess my challenge is that I am very small woman (5'2" and 85 lbs soaking wet) and I find that when I eat to satiation, I am seldom hungry again for at least 4 hours. I've actually never been one to snack.

I see that some of you eat 5 times in a day -- that has never worked for me since I end up never feeling hungry, eating because I "should" (for calories) and then I don't enjoy the food as well as always feeling stuffed. Yuck.

Plus, if I eat more often, I find it hard to ever have an empty-enough stomach for any vigorous exercise.

Still, I do love how monomeals work for my digestive system -- I feel lighter and more energetic, well-nourished and generally happier in mood. So I may revisit all day monomeals if I can figure out a way. Definitely open to suggestions!

Thanks -- hope to hear from some of you soon.

Lots of love,

Shelah

Why mono?

2010-07-01T08:13:34.000Z

Advantage of raw vegan mono diet in front of all diets is evident. Because this diet was given us by primordial mother nature. Simplicity of mono-eating so striking and can be difine just few words: take food item from mother nature and eat it in primordial state do not combine with anything and do not treat or process. Nothing to add and nothing to take off.

People asking me why exactly mono-eating? Why so extreme? Some of them who already transit to this diet mostly doing it because of feel sympathy with this so elementary diet. But I'll try to explain why it so important to keep mono on raw.

When we combining food we completely confuse our organism. Our stomach not like sorting machine. Just amazing how many energy need to spend and how many job need to do for digesting your smothie or salad. But If the food is all mono our stomach doesn't have to separate anybody. When you mono-eat your stomach has to deal just with one item! Thinking about that how efficiently you body can to function on mono diet.

Only one species on earth who preparing salads, making smoothie and many other reckless combination of food - this is human!

I'm following strictly mono-eating since October 2008 and it best ever diet which I tried in all my life! And if we go vegan and low fat raw we should go mono as well!

This is my old post I copied here.

I want to add fundamental benefits which I got on mono diet:

1. Simplicity. When I travel, cycling, hiking very easy and comfortable to be mono.

2. Lightness. I never felt on combining food so light perception of my stomach and digestion.

3. Efficiency. Cleansing and healing process of my body going fast and more deeper. Mono diet gives me maximum power and energy with minimum compactness and time.

In this topic please share why you also want to chose (or already chosen) mono as your permanent lifestyle.

After 6 Months Of Pure Mono Eating...

2010-06-30T17:53:35.000Z

My new year's resolution this year was to eat only mono meals and today makes 6 months in a row for me of eating all mono.

I wanted to tell all of those who are interested in eating more mono that I have NEVER enjoyed the taste of food more than I do now after 6 months of eating this way and I currently have no desire to ever go back to eating meals with more than 1 ingredient in them.

I became a vegan because I wanted to eat as ethically as possible, then I became a raw foodist because I wanted to eat as naturaly as possible, and then I decided to eat my meals mono because I wanted to eat as simply as possible... Ethical, Natural, and Simple, those are the qualities that I want not only in a diet, but in life in general.

The first time that I ever heard of mono eating was when I was watching a video on YouTube of Doug Gram giving a talk at the "Raw Spirit Festival" and the things that he was saying about eating mono made so much sense to me that I wondered how in the world I went the first 30 years of my life without ever even hearing about the concept of a diet where you only eat 1 type of food per meal. I also wondered how a diet so simple and so natural could seem like such an extreme and even alien concept to most people. I guess that it's because people these days are being raised on foods that have really long and unpronounceable ingredient lists on them. (Reading the ingredient lists on the back of a box of cereal, a bag of bread, or a frozen dinner almost makes me dizzy now and I can't believe that I used to eat that way when I was younger. I recently saw a frozen pizza that had 189 listed ingredients!)

When I heard that lecture from Doug Gram about mono eating I got the same feeling that I got when I first started hearing about the raw food diet or when I first started hearing about veganism. It just clicked with me and I wanted to experience it for myself, then after reading a post on this website last year from fellow 30BAD member "Fruit Eater" where he said that he had been eating purely mono for a year I was inspired to go ahead and try it and I am so happy now that I did.

I used to eat salads made with things like lettuce, tomatoes, and avocados, but now I enjoy eating lettuce, tomatoes, and avocados by themself so much that I don't want to spend the time mixing them together and covering them with dressings which will only serve to take away from the real and natual taste of the foods that I'm eating.

If eating a meal of nothing but tomatoes or nothing but pineapple seems bland and boring to you it's because you aren't getting the good stuff! Nature designed our foods to taste really really good to us, and one of the best benefits of eating this way is that it forces you to go our of your way to start getting the best quality foods possible because you are actually going to taste the foods that you are eating.

When I used to make "Zuchinni Pasta" I would make the sauce with tomatoes that by themself tasted like nothing, or like cardboard, but it didn't matter to me at the time because when I put the tomatoes in the blender I would add dates, mangos, or carrots to sweeten them up and this would hide the fact that the tomatoes that I was eating were such poor quality tomatoes that I would never want to eat them by themself.

I can't stress enough just how much more I appreciate the the foods that I eat now, (People look at me like there is something seriously wrong for me for being so happy eating something like a meal of just lettuce.)

I also want to tell everyone that I have had no problems in the past 6 months with getting enough calories or getting a decent variety with this diet. (I personally eat 3 high calorie meals a day with things like bananas, dates, or mangos, and 2 low calorie meals a day with things like lettuce, strawberries, or avocado.)

I encourage anyone reading this to give mono eating a try for an extended period of time and see how you feel after eating this way for a while and then see if you even want to go back to non-mono eating after you have become used to eating all mono.