Clean Program

Today was our first day on the Clean program, and honestly, I don’t even feel like we are cleansing. I feel like I am cheating compared to all the other fasts and detoxes I have done… I never felt hungry today! Our eating schedule looks a bit like this:

• 9:00am            Smoothie
• 11:15ish           Snack (nuts, seeds & raisins OR apple with almond/sunflower butter)
• 1:30-2pm         “Dinner” our solid meal of the day
• 4:00pm            Snack (carrots, radish & celery with homemade hummus)
• 7:00pm            Juices or pureed Soup

Pegs and I had a fruit smoothie for breakfast that was delicious, wild rice and chicken salad for our “Linner” (which is a recipe in our book), and a very green smoothie for dinner. If I keep feeling like this, these next three weeks are going to be a wheat-dairy-egg-sugar-free piece of cake!

Breakfast Smoothie

½ a peach

½ a pear (OR ½ -1 C blueberries)

10oz. coconut water

1 tbsp ground chia seeds

4 tbsp hemp protein (or suggested amount of another protein powder)

3 kale leaves

½ tsp cinnamon

 Wild Rice Chicken Salad

2 C red and curly leaf lettuce mixture

½ C wild rice

½ avocado

¼ C roasted chicken

¼ C sliced red onion

4 green beans

2 tbsp pepita seeds

2 tbsp dried currants

¼- 1/3 C peg’s house dressing

Peg’s House Dressing

2-3 cloves garlic

1 tbsp Dijon mustard

½ tsp Celtic sea salt

1 lemon juiced (Meyer lemon = the best!)

½ C olive oil

 Very Green Dinner Smoothie (2 servings)

10 mint leaves

4-5 kale leaves

4 stalks celery

2 carrots

1 cucumber

1 green apple

1 lemon juiced

1 handful of parsley

1 C purified water (after drinking it, I would recommend 3-4 cups)

**It looked nice; however, this smoothie came out of the Vitamix too thick for Pegs and me… But hey, we are learning! I would stick to juicing my greens.