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February Healthy Challnege: 5 Day Menu Plan Session 1

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It’s almost cleanse time! You should be starting your pre-cleanse activities now and ones of them is to do some grocery shopping! Here is a five day menu plan for the cleanse. Feel free to take inspiration from these ideas and add in snacks where needed (approved snacks include fruits, nuts, fresh vegetable juices, etc). I have also included a number of other recipe ideas.

Day 1:

Breakfast: Grilled Brown Rice Tortilla stuffed with almond butter and banana
Lunch: Mediterranean White Bean Salad Box with flax crackers (no pita)
Dinner: Quinoa Chili with a big green side salad and homemade guacamole

Day 2:

Breakfast: Green Monster Smoothie
Lunch: Quinoa Chili Burrito using a Brown Rice Tortilla with veggies and homemade guacamole
Dinner: Lettuce Wraps with Pecan Chard Pate* and Roasted Tomato Soup

Day 3:

Breakfast: Mood Boosting Breakfast Oats
Lunch: Mega Green Salad with all your favorite fruits and veggies and leftover Pecan Chard Pate*
Dinner: Curried Quinoa and Cranberry Salad with Roasted Sweet Potatoes (make extra) and Sauteed Kale

Day 4:

Breakfast: Leftover Curried Quinoa and Cranberry Salad
Lunch: A big green salad topped with roasted sweet potatoes, dried cranberries, slivered almonds and drizzled with homemade maple balsamic dressing (olive oil, balsamic vinegar, maple syrup and dijon mustard)
Dinner: Sweet & Smoky Sweet Potato-Carrot Soup with brown rice (or your favorite cleanse approved grain), white beans and roasted broccoli

Day 5

Breakfast: GF Oats topped with your favorite (unsweetened) dried fruit and nuts or nut butter
Lunch: Greens tossed with quinoa and topped with your favorite veggies and a sunshine burger and top with homemade tahini dressing
Dinner: Tahini Roasted Veggies with brown rice and a green salad

*Substitute coconut aminos for soy sauce or add more water and sea salt to taste

For menu planning tips go here.

Other Cleanse approved recipes:

February Healthy Challenge: 10 Day Cleanse

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There are many types of cleanses out there from juice cleanses, raw food cleanses, lemonade cleanses, etc. This cleanse is different. We won’t be restricting calories or drinking spicy lemonade all day but rather we will be eliminating foods from our diet that can make us feel sluggish, bloated and cause cravings.

What this cleanse will include:

  • Gluten Free Whole Grains
  • Fruits
  • Vegetables
  • Beans, Legumes & Lentils
  • Nuts & Seeds
  • Healthy Fats: organic, first-pressed, cold-pressed (no heat used to extract the oil) and unrefined extra virgin olive oil, coconut oil, and unrefined sesame oil. Also whole nuts and seeds or nut butter, the fats in whole foods such as avocados and coconuts.
  • Natural sweeteners: Grade B Maple Syrup and Dates.

What won’t be included in the cleanse:

  • Animal Products.
  • Wheat.
  • Gluten.
  • Soy.
  • Caffeine
  • Alcohol.
  • Refined and Added Sugar.

The cleanse will last 10 days and your are welcome to challenge yourself to the whole month if you’d like!

There will be four different start dates (February 1, 8, 10and 18th) and I will be posting a new five day sample meal plan at the start of each cleanse period. Also as part of the cleanse challenge you will have one task each day to complete and submit to me.  Once you have completed all day 10 tasks and submitted your proof for each your name will be entered to win a box of whole food goodies.

If you would like to participate please fill out the form below:

If you enjoy this challenge stay tuned for my other monthly challenges which include a 30-Day Yoga Challenge (March), a Hydrate Yourself Challenge (April) and more to come over the year.