How I began was inevitable as I'm already what my family (affectionately I hope) call a health nut. I use only natural remedies and cut out refined flour, sugar etc around the time I finished high school. Raw was simply the next step. Why I let it go was a bit more complicated. When I married my husband was willing to eat a major part raw but not altogether. Our parents live with us (in their own homes on the smallholding) and we often make large meals for big family time. I refuse to eat any meat that we do not raise naturally and with love here on the homestead (meat industry is cruel, unhealthy and disgusting) My autistic stepson is on a strict diet plus very sensory orientated. I am already making different dishes for him, different for father-in-law so it's easy making various big salads but doing the whole shebang is too much for them all to swallow (pun intended ;)