SASHABAW ROAD SPRING CLEANING DIET PLAN Here is a simple way to eat well while cleansing your body of old wastes and detoxifying your liver, skin and fat stores. Plan to do a good cleanse over about a month’s time. Start with eliminating foods you are sensitive to, along with any processed foods, soda pop or sugar, and by gradually reducing caffeinated beverages. Drink at least 64 to 80 ounces of filtered or distilled water. Dilute green organic tea and herbal teas may be included between meals. Lemon juice may be added to water. With any detox program, including chelation for metals, you may feel worse before you feel better. Such things as headache, swollen lymph nodes, abdominal gas, fatigue, muscle pain, skin rashes, smelly sweat or urine, changes in bowel movements may occur. Usually, improvement and good energy are noticeable about week two. Always drink water upon arising. Aloe Vera juice is sometimes helpful. Sashabaw Road Spring Diet BREAKFAST OPTIONS • Fruit, raw (soaked) almonds, kefir or yogurt • 2 poached eggs, 1 cup steamed asparagus, sprouted grain toast with ghee • Vegetable or lentil soup, half an apple or pear • Oatmeal, currants, slivered almonds, cinnamon, sliced apples, unsweetened soy milk • Breakfast apple salad with celery, walnuts, currants, grapes, pineapple, with apple juice and a dollop of plain yogurt • Sliced cucumber, tomato, feta cheese, olives, olive oil, lemon • Blender shake with fruit, green food, oil, rice, soy, or whey protein (Ultra Clear, see below) Ask for a free smoothie handout for other suggestions • Wendy’s Fresh Fruit Bowl with Yogurt • Instant Hot Quinoa Cereal plus fresh fruit, add nuts or seeds • Amaranth flakes, soy milk, banana • Baked oatmeal with currants, cinnamon, walnuts • Blueberries, soy milk, oat granola (no sugar), raw nuts • Avocado, purple onion, grapefruit, olive oil, poppy seeds, lemon • Grilled vegetables with olive oil: peppers, zucchini, red onions, small eggplant, carrots, lemon • Hemp or Flax cereal, banana, soy milk • Ultra Meal Berry shake with raspberries, oil, green food added • Ultra Meal Plus shake with strawberries (lowers cholesterol) • Sprouted grain toast, peanut butter, fresh pear • Sautéed fresh mushrooms, scallions in olive oil, sprouted grain toast, fresh berries • Green fruit: honeydew, kiwi, white grapes, lime juice, soaked almonds or chopped walnuts, almond milk • Eggplant relish (baked eggplant, chopped tomato, green onion, olives, garlic, olive oil) on rice crackers • Artichoke spinach dip (available at Whole Food Co.) rice crackers, plum, peach, nectarine, pear or apple • Sprouted grain tortilla, organic refried beans, sliced avocado, salsa • Quinoa flakes 1/3 cup, I scoop Ultra Clear Sustain, 1 tablespoonful tahini in a cup, add 1 cup boiling • water, stir, cover and let steep. Stir and drink. OK for Candida. LUNCH OPTIONS • Vegetable, minestrone, miso or other with clear broth base soup Garden salad, oil and lemon juice, fruit (try hazelnut oil) • Lentil or split pea or bean soup, salad, fruit. Large green salad with colorful cut up raw vegetables (radish, broccoli,zucchini, tomato, carrot, cauliflower, cucumber) and protein such as garbanzos, tuna, feta cheese, shrimp, turkey, boiled egg or chicken, with flax, olive or walnut oil, lemon juice, sunflower seeds or pine nuts or pumpkin seeds • Brown rice with steamed vegetables, such as spinach, chard, broccoli, onion, sweet pea pods, carrot, cabbage, green beans, peppers, sweet potato, soy sauce, sesame oil, with organic broth or miso. Chinese or Thai food can work here, but NO MSG! • Baked potato with broccoli topping (Wendy’s baked potato works) Mixed salad, grapes. Easy to make at home, too. • Baked sweet potato, raw pecans, steamed broccoli, hazelnut oil Hummus or baba ghanoush, tabouleh, raw carrots or rice crackers • Lebanese, Thai, Chinese, Viet Namese, Italian, delicatessens, cafes can usually provide a good lunch if you choose carefully. • Cobb salad on bed of Boston lettuce: grated raw beet, carrot, daikon radish, raw sunflower seeds, dressing of tahini or peanut butter, rice wine vinegar, stevia or honey, diluted. (Children like this salad because it is tasty and colorful) • Shrimp boiled, 4-6, on a bed of lettuce with sliced radishes, cucumber, zucchini, tomato, broccoli and cauliflower, carrot, with olive oil, lemon or lime juice • Greek salad with feta and olives. Lemon and olive oil dressing. Be careful of too much salt in the dressing. • Salad of mixed greens, garden vegetables with grilled chicken, salmon, tuna, or with garbanzos and boiled egg, olive oil and lemon, herb dressing • Wendy’s Mandarin Chicken salad, but the dressing has too much salt SNACK OPTIONS 3:30-4:00 PM • Fresh vegetable juice using parsley, kale, broccoli, celery, spinach, carrot, beet, cucumber, zucchini, etc. May dilute with water. • Herbal teas • Raw nuts and seeds • Mineral water • Fresh fruit DINNER OPTIONS: Same choices as lunch along with new items below • Stir fry or steamed vegetables with poultry, shrimp. Kroger has easy and good frozen stir fry mixes, or use organic frozen pea pods, broccoli, green beans, sliced onions and peppers with brown rice and a sauce made of arrowroot, Tamari soy, blackstrap molasses, and a little rice wine vinegar. Use plenty of garlic if you like it and can tolerate it. • Clear soup with vegetables and large salad. Thai or Chinese restaurants serve such soups and salads. • Grilled or baked chicken, 2 cups green vegetable, salad • Grilled or baked fish, 2 cups green vegetable, salad. Try Cascadian Farms frozen vegetables steamed. • Borscht with a dollop of yogurt and a salad • Lean Cuisine New Spa Classics with whole brown rice include: Chicken Pecan, Lemon Chicken, Lemongrass Chicken, Rosemary Chicken