This post is also from my old forum with some commentary added today.

AA Rafael recommends that one eats about 1/2 of food raw. There are some folks who eat totally raw, and Rafael says they have a lot of trouble keeping up their weight. Notice the ones you see on TV are thin. Some foods provide improved nutrition when cooked. All dried beans (not green beans) should be cooked, except for lentils and garbanzo's can be eaten raw. Sprout dry beans for one to two days, makes them more nutritious, and turns them into live foods. Of course they aren't very live once cooked, but the nutrition is better, more vitamins, and less gas too. Protein better balanced from sprouting.

In general all seeds ought to be sprouted before eating, whether cooked or not, as this improves digestibility and vitamin content.  There is a bread recipe in the bible, back in Ezekiel I think, which shows how to make bread from raw sprouted grains. The recipe includes wheat, spelt, soy, lentils, barely, oats and millet that I remember.  I have done this. You get a complete protein the end product, meaning the bread supplies adequate amounts of all the 8 amino acids the body cannot manufacture itself out of your other foods.

You just mix a bunch of the above, sprout for 2 days, drain WELL, grind the mess up in your counter top food processor, add some salt and yeast (1 package per 3 cups or so of mix), pour into bread pans, not too full, and let rise a while and bake it.  I get lazy, so I often buy Ezekiel 4:9 bread by Food for Life.

There is a method also called Essene bread, where you again mix some grains, sprout, add 1/4 cup sour dough starter per 3 cups of grains, let set a day or two, grind the mess, add sea salt and either dry it raw, or bake it.

You can also dry the Ezekiel bread above, if you make it from scratch. I have not had the best of luck with this.  Once, I had soy beans in it, so I had to bake it, because it's not good to eat raw soy, even though sprouted, belly ache can ensue, (and does for me).  Another time I add coconut and fruits to it, and the coconut was apparently rancid, or doesn't agree with this process, because in a few hours of drying, it was terrible tasting.