So it is officially Spring and that means a time of change,cleaning, flowering open, getting ready for Summer….which is a whole different lifestyle. No more hunkering over good books and hot cocoa and hot crock pot meals, break out the bikini, the flip flops the hat and get ready for sun and adventure and baseball and flowers and flowing water and green trees. So to bring in the Spring season, Eli and I decided to do a three week cleanse. Wow. Let me just say, three weeks has never gone by so slow! And….I’m not sure if I could have done it without Eli.
For the cleanse we had liquid breakfast (see blueberry,almond milk chocolate smoothie, surprisingly delicious) very healthy lunch and then liquid dinner, which at first were zuccini and butternut soups brought to work in our water bottles, until we were too grossed out to include dinner in our repitoire. So the mornings consisted of a trip to the sunny whole Foods in our neighborhood. While the world around us woke to baked muffins with blueberries and rich espresso drinks (at least this is what I imagined) Eli and I were foraging the store for vegetables and asking lots of questions “what is a jicama?” “Whats the difference between shallots and green onions”, “Where do we find brown rice sweetner?” “Where can we find a gluten free Tamari sauce?” “Do you have coconut oil?” “Why is it solid? “……..ect. We leaped into the world of food and learned all about it. And I must say, I am very glad I have NO special dietary needs (like, no dairy, or gluten) its practically a full time job.Read More »CLEAN