Louis Pasteur is cramping my style

I'm at about day 7 of mostly raw.  Now, it hasn't really been that simple, because day 1 and 2 were a juice detox, which I ended by scarfing a heavily-battered veggie corn dog (not vegan).  Since that last hurrah, I have subsisted primarily on avocados, bananas, mixed nuts, smoothies with kale, OJ, almond butter, and high-price mediocre-tasting packaged products labeled "raw" and purchased from my local natural-foods grocery.  My only two cooked meals have been a spicy veggie stir-fry with rice (ate some cooked vegan tortilla chips that night too) and steel-cut oatmeal with soymilk.  I also fasted for the Tenth of Tevet yesterday from sunup to sundown - no food or water.

Observations about my mostly-raw diet so far:

• In this country, the only way to get a truly "raw" almond is to grow it yourself, or buy it in bulk off the internet for $8+ a pound.  No, you can't even get it at Sevananda, those bitches are pasteurized.
• This pasteurization thing is true of a lot of things.  Remind me why pasteurization is important again?  Oh right, killing bacteria or something?
• In the hubbub of my indoctrination all about how AWFUL dead, cooked foods are, I forgot that actually eating raw stuff can be dangerous.  Eating raw shiitake mushrooms can cause major skin rash - I will tell you if I am red and itchy in 48 hours.
• Raw food renders much of my kitchenware and appliances useless.  Apparently to fully take advantage of a raw-food diet I will need about $1500 of brand new appliances that it has never before occurred to me to use.  This includes a $600 blender, a dehydrator, a food processor, and a juicer with a "masticator."  
• Raw food takes substantial time to think about and prepare, even if you are doing the Super Sevananda Run version.  Enough time that it is extremely difficult to add 1.5 hours of meditation to my day + eat.  Eating takes precedence, so meditation is getting a little thrown under the bus here (although I am still trying to do some every day).  
• Digestion has been... interesting.  Symptoms could be detox, or could be ODing on chlorophyll.
• I have noticeably more energy.  Genuinely and unquestionably.  Have not had coffee, decaf coffee, tea, coke, etc. in over a week.  

The energy boost so quickly is quite enough to motivate me to continue with this and even to try to go 100% raw for at least a week.  Then again, some purists don't consider you 100% raw unless you drink juice within 15 minutes of squeezing it, eat nothing pasteurized, soak and sprout all your nuts and seeds, and so on.  One could drive oneself batty with all these rules.  But even without going all the way raw I feel I have experienced some serious benefits over the past week.  I will be interested to see what happens next!