RAW RAW SIS BOOM BAH DAY 2!

So, because I'm lazy and don't feel like blogging the days events, and also because I promised, here is the menu for day 2 of the raw food cleanse.  Stay tuned for day #3, which may come later tonight if I get through this mountain of laundry.  How many clothes did I wear this week??

RAW FOOD CLEANSE DAY 2 

Upon waking start off your day with 32oz (4 C) water with lemon

Breakfast:

Detoxify and energize with 16-32 oz green based juice throughout the morning.  You'll remember this from my previous blog about choking down the green paste.  Good luck to you if you try to do this one.

Here are a couple of options to choose from:

Daily Green

2 cups fresh spinach
6 celery stalks
1 medium cucumber
1/2 bunch flat leaf parsley

Run all ingredients through a juicer and enjoy!

Green Goddess

2 cups kale
4 celery stalks
2 organic apples
1 inch piece of ginger root 1 lemon peeled
1/4 bunch flat leaf parsley

Run all ingredients through a juicer and enjoy!

Helpful notes:
If the green goddess juice is too tart, add another apple to sweeten it up.
If you don’t have a juicer and can’t borrow one then you can blend everything in your
high speed blender.
If using a high speed blender to prepare your green juice, remove stringy bits from the
celery (I never did figure out how to do this so I just put it in the blender.  It's going to be disgusting no matter what you do, string is the least of your concerns), juice the lemon, you may want to grate the ginger root to your taste, de-core apples, and de-vein the kale.

LUNCH

Enjoy a large raw green salad.
Kale salad as yesterday or mixed field green salad loaded with fresh vegetables

Dressing options:
Apple cider dressing or lemon and olive oil dressing or try the honey mustard dressing below.

Honey Mustard Salad Dressing:

1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup filtered water

Blend all ingredients well

MID AFTERNOON BREAK

Enjoy an herbal tea of your choice or have a nice hot cup of lemon ginger tea. This will be your saving grace as your choking through the green juice.  Just think about that delicious tea you'll get to have.

Lemon Ginger Tea

2 or more slices of ginger root (I love ginger so I tend to add 3-4 thin slices) 1 lemon wedge
honey to taste
Add hot water, let steep for a few minutes and enjoy!

Mid afternoon or earlier prepare a pot of Balancing Broth as follows:

Balancing Broth

In a large pot add the following ingredients:

1-2 medium onions
4 carrots cut into quarters
4 celery stalks cut into quarters
2 medium potatoes quartered, scrubbed and skin on 2 cups broccoli
4 cloves garlic, crushed
1/2 cup fresh flat leaf parsley
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1 teaspoon dried basil

Cover with 10 cups of filtered water and bring to a boil.
Continue cooking over low heat for 1 hour.
Allow it to cool and store in your refrigerator for up to one week. Or it can be frozen for use later as a vegetable stock.

Diner:

1 large bowl of balancing broth with a few of the vegetables.

Prepare a large raw green salad as the night before. Toss with dressing of your choice from the recipes provided.

Finish your night off with an herbal tea or ginger tea.

Cheers,