Gearing UP!

ok, I just made my recipe and grocery list for WEEK 1!  Here's what I'm planning. We're going shopping tomorrow.  I think I took all of these recipes from the 2012 or the 2013 Whole Living Action Plans.  

Breakfasts:  Smoothies.  We don't have to do much prep here.  We make smoothies a lot year round.  I will either do a fruit smoothie (frozen banana, frozen berries or frozen mangos, and OJ) or this winner.  

Lunches and Dinners (guessing we'll make the soup tomorrow and have it for lunch on Monday, then for the rest of the week have dinner leftovers for lunch the next day):

Red Lentil & Sweet Potato Stew

Cauliflower "Rice" Stir-fry

Roasted Portabellos with Kale

Kale Slaw with Red Cabbage & Carrots

Spiced Butternut Squash and Apple Soup

Beet, Avocado, & Arugula Salad with Sunflower Seeds

Snacks:  We do a lot of nuts, maybe we'll make kale chips.  Popping an almond inside of a date is a nice little sweet snack.  Oh! We just started eating guacamole with sliced radishes!  I know, you'd think you might miss the tortilla chips, but we don't.  There's still a crunch!  Why hadn't we thought of this sooner in life??

**Also, just a note for those of us remembering back to last year's Week 1.  I know. It was a cranky, kind of brutal week.  I'm not feeling bad about this year's Week 1 at all though.  I think having the lentils will be HUGE and now I feel like I've got a wider array of recipes to choose from.  They'll be healthy but more filling.  No one is putting any restrictions on portion sizes.  That's not what this cleanse is about.  So I'm feeling good about this.  Still, this past week and this weekend we've been eating like we're going to die next week.  Whatevs.