The Body Detox Part 2

Foods to eat on a detox include fresh fruit and fresh vegetables. All fresh vegetables. Be sure to include brocolli, cauliflower, onions, garlic, artichokes, beets, red and green vegetables.
Rice, brown or basmati rice, rice cakes, rice crackers and rice pasta.
Other Grains like quinoa, amaranth, millet, and buckwheat can be used instead of rice.
Beans, split yellow and green peas and lentils are easiest to digest and require the least soaking time. Other acceptable beans include kidney beans, pinto beans, mung beans and garbanzo beans (chickpeas).
Nuts and Seeds, unsalted nuts, seeds and nut butters can be sprinkled over any meal. Includes flaxseed, pumpkinseeds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, almonds, cashews and walnuts. Avoid peanuts. Peanuts have a high allergen rate and should be avoided.
Oil, Extra-virgin olive oil
Condiments like vegetable salt, sea salt, vinegar, naturally fermented soy sauce or tamari, any culinary herbs or spices, limited amounts of honey.
Herbal Tea, non-caffeinated teas, green tea.
Other Beverages, water, lemon water, 100% natural fruit and vegetable juices, rice milk
And be sure to drink lots of water at warm or room temperature. Water helps to clear waste from the blood. Also remember that thirst is often mistaken for hunger.
* Dilute fruit juice with 50% water.

Foods you may want to avoid during a detox are refined sugars and mixtures containing refined sugar, including sucrose, dextrose, corn syrup, brown sugar, turbinado. Avoid artificial sweeteners.
Dairy Products, milk, butter and other dairy products.
Wheat and products containing wheat.
Gluten. All gluten-containing grains, including barley, rye, spelt and kamut. Some people are sensitive to gluten, a protein fragment in these grains.
Caffeine, coffee, both regular and decaffeinated, black tea, and other drinks containing caffeine should be reduced. Green tea is a great substitute to regular coffee.
Other Foods to Avoid
* Yeast
* Alcohol
* Food additives and preservatives
* Chocolate
* High-Fat Foods

Here is a sample detox menu that I found online


When you wake up have....

* 1/2 lemon squeezed into a glass of warm water
* 1 tablespoon of ground flaxseeds in a glass of water

Breakfast

* breakfast smoothie made with pear, rice milk and rice protein powder
* supplements: vitamin C and B complex

Snacks

* apple juice diluted with water
* water
* vegetable broth
* celery sticks and hummus

Lunch

* chunky vegetable soup made with vegetable stock and your choice of vegetables
* steamed broccoli with sesame seeds and beets sprinkled with lemon juice on brown rice
* apple sauce
* supplements: multivitamin

Snacks

* carrot sticks with hummus dip
* water
* supplements: milk thistle

Dinner

* curried lentils on quinoa
* salad with mixed greens, red peppers, artichokes and sprouts drizzled with salad dressing of garlic, lemon juice and olive oil
* vegetable broth

Before bed

* 1 tablespoon of ground flaxseeds in a glass of water

Why Detox? Detoxing the body has great health benefits. If you feed your body better food then in return your body will
give you better skin, hair, nails and that's just on the outside. On the inside you will have more energy. You're cravings for sweets will be less and you will actually find yourself avoiding the fast food restaurants, eating less when you go out to eat, and actually craving those healthful foods.
So if you decide to detox I say good luck and remember to have fun creating new menus to help you along your way. Remember to always do your own research before starting any new diet or program.

Veggie goodness, Lent and White Bean Alfredo

See my beautiful bounty? Our new vegetable is bok choy. I've been pretty much using it in stir fry but I did make some potatoes the other day and put in some bok choy with other veggies and 1 tbsp of hot curry. It was really good.












For Lent I am giving up biting my nails. A trivial thing for most people but for it's one of the hardest things ever. I have been a chronic nail biter since I was 5. I think only 4 times in my life I stopped enough to have nails but it never lasts long. The longest I've ever had nails is a year and a half. This is a pic of my nails one week after Lent started. Most people when they stop biting nails start at this point. Look closely. Imagine the nails shorter and the meat around the nails chewed to oblivion. Yeah........



For dinner last night I got an idea from
VegCookingBlog on the PETA site. Amy offered up a dish of "Alfredo Sauce" with pasta. It looked so good I had to go try it. I miss alfredo very much. Its made of white beans with garlic, vegan margarine, salt and pepper. I added some Italian Seasoning to it, a dash of chilli pepper and some onion.
Everyone loved this sauce!!!! They raved about it all through dinner. It tastes absolutely delicious and its good for you too. I cooked up a little bit of vegetable to add to the pasta to get those extra veggies in.
Next time I will have to double the recipe.


If anyone can tell me how to do a link on blogger it would be much appreciated. Apparently the a href thing does not work on here.