Obviously things like plain/uncooked vegetables, fruits and nuts are raw... but what about "normal" recipes--like guacamole--that are "accidentally" raw. What others might there be?

I'd love to try a raw diet once in a while, but I don't have the $$$ for specialty equipment like juicers or dehydrators. So I'm basically trying to compile a no-specialty-appliance-needed list of recipes for "raw days." Any suggestions?

Well, with guacamole, it still depends. If people are using seasonings in it, most likely the seasonings aren't raw. But if you don't use seasonings in it, then yeah, that's a good quick 'accidentally' raw recipe!

Any kind of fruit smoothie is raw. Fruit salads. Green/veggie salads, depending on your salad dressing.

I'll have to think of some more.

By the way, I don't have a juicer, either. I do have a dehydrator but I rarely use it. That's more for special occasions. I get by with my cheap blender and food processor.

salsa is raw
also, gazpacho ( i think, i have never had it)

:)

Actually many salsas are cooked. Bryanna's Italian cookbook contains a recipe for a raw sauce, which kinda surprised me.

Jenna is right. You don't need all the equipment to enjoy healthy food. There are a number of people in raw circles who cater to / prey on omnivore fad diet$. The gadgets lend a sort of mystique, while heavily-processed recipes mimic traditional cooked foods for those who fear change or don't want to give up eating something they can think of as a burger or pasta.

That said, yeah, I've got a full complement of gadgets, but I'm a guy so it's a chromosomal imperative. My $70 mandolin is really really nice for making pretty slices of things, but you can score a useful v-slicer for $10 at Target too, or use a knife you already have. My $400 blender can make a smoothie out of granite rocks in about five seconds, but with some care you can do just fine with a cheap blender. Many of the raw people I know get by mostly with a blender and a cheap food processor. Many have an Excalibur dehydrator, but like me they don't use it very often.

As for a juicer -- I'd rather consume whole fruits/veggies instead of extracting clear juice and leaving the rest behind. It'd be nice to be able to do that for ginger, though.