If you want one appliance to pretty much do it all you need a Vitamix blender. Most people into raw foods have a commercial blender and a food processor.

I personally use a commercial blender and a food processor. My food processor is a little Cuisinart Mini Prep Plus, which is fine for the small amounts of food I make with it. The blender is a Waring mx1000xt. I would not skimp on the blender. I have found a commercial blender to be essential.

yes a commercial grade blender will do lots of food prep for the raw food lifestyle.I have a vita prep 3 and love the power and versatility of the blender.The cost of a good blender is 300-700 dollars,but a 2+peak hp blender will do a lot and cost considerably less.I have pictures of my vita prep 3 in the Image Gallery in the photos section under grassmans sprouts.I have pics. of blending grass juice which is hard on a blender and I would have never tried doing grass juice with my old vitamix5000 but the vita prep 3 handled it well.You can get bulk raw nuts at nutsite.com and nutsonline.com and you might want to get some dates to sweeten things up in the milks.nutsite,com has a fresh crop of dates I just picked up 30lbs. myself they have great dates at a very good price.Happy blending.Jeff

thanks for all your posts.