Getting ready for the holidays? I suggest you keep it CLEAN for the next few days. By clean, I mean, cleaning out the system.
A few tips on how to stay clean:
- ORGANIC dairy, produce, meat and juice.
- Lay off the crackers and snacks in a box.
- Lay off the soft, processed cheese. Choose raw goudas {Whole Foods has them}
- NO NO NO soda please. Don't use the "it's DIET excuse".
- Eat Soup for dinner.
- Fruit for breakfast.
- Salads for snacks.
- Organic poached eggs instead of meat. Add avocado.
- Consume lots of fat and LESS carbohydrates or sugar.
- Goats yogurt or milk instead of regular.
- No cereal. Instead maybe oats.
- Make green smoothies or protein-rich smoothies.
- Sorbet or Homemade Ice cream for dessert.
- Avoid any fast food.
- Throw out your sugar. Yes, throw it out. Use organic local honey instead.
- Eat home cooked.
- Instead of rice, eat vegetables.
- No pizza.
- No cookies. Except for these, of course.
- No cake or pie. I don't care whose birthday it is.
- EAT LESS. Be hungry this week.
- Fill yourself up at home before going out to a restaurant.
- Lay off the booze. Have one glass of wine, instead of a margarita or two or three.
- Have meat only 3 times this week. Make broth from the leftovers.
- Focus on contributing a healthy side dish this year at Thanksgiving. Check out my ideas.
- JUICE IT UP!!!!!!! JUICE everything you have left over - beet greens, beets, carrots, garlic, ginger, lemons, limes, you name it.
Enjoy the Holidays.
Beet Juice Recipe
yields 1 large juice or 2 small ones
1 bunch parsley {I used a lot of the parsley for a recipe, but had tons left over, use the STEMS}
2 lemons
1 large chunk ginger
2 apples
1 cucumber {i like to shave off some of the waxy skin}
1 large beet
In a juicer, NOT a blender, combine the above ingredients. If you have extra apples, juice them for your kids and store in fridge. I always add a cucumber, it's tasteless and really hydrating for them. Add a lemon to that mixture and you have natural LEMONADE!
Kids love this stuff, I'm tell you. So, store it in an airtight container for the week.
Sorry about the mess & the icky clean-up, but it's worth it.
note: I just HAD to share this juice with you because it was ELECTRIC pink and reminded me how insanely healthy it is for you.
Emily
Lovely, simple suggestions. I am glad for the reminder. And I think it's awesome that your ideas are so flexible, not in any one "diet box", I really appreciate that in a foodie/ blogger/ writer and fellow mama.
Juli Novotny
Emily! Thanks for the lovely comment. Nice to hear! I eat a certain way but I realize that other and MOST do NOT eat like me. You don't have to to be healthy. My diet is my way. Your way is your way but there is always room for improvement, if you're looking to be healthy on the inside.
Anyways, thanks again for saying so!
Juli
Melissa
My Dad just gave me his old juicer because he just got a new one that is good for juicing greens, it looks like a car engine no less so I guess it is powerful lol. I was so giddy at finally owning my own juicer that the first thing I did was search beets on your site because I remembered this post....so excited! My Dad is also growing organic wheat grass at his house now...see we can be cool and hip in Upstate NY too! Lol Thanks again for working as hard as you do on this site...it is one of my favorites. So inspirational! 🙂