1. Anyone else the only one in their house doing the Cleanse?
Bfast & Lunch & snacks will be fine, but I plan our Dinner menu and Matt won't eat Cleanse friendly. We alternate nights cooking, too, adding a little frustration to my end now as I'll be prepping mostly. I've been planning Week 1 dinner for the past 2 weeks, and did settle on a few Dinners that will be similar to our usual menu items. But there are a few nights where I need to just make mine separately. Tonight's dinner was a surprising success though- we had Curry. I made vegan curry and this as a naan substitute, and Matt made chicken korma, had store-bought naan- whatevs. Mine was better so the extra work on my end paid off. Friday will be pizza night, and i'm excited to try this cauliflower crust with lots of veggies.
2. Cleanse grocery shopping at Super Target is possible.
I was all "i don't want to visit 3 different grocery stores today, so let's do this Target". BAM. Success. $11 for 30oz of raw mixed unsalted nuts? I'll take it. $3.12 for 1 head of cauliflower? Not so much. Brought my coups so I saved like $14 combined with my RedCard %. (sidebar: saw today they put a Piggly Wiggly near me. I will need to stop in, I don't think I've ever been to one.) I really wish the price of cherries would go down. $5.99/lb almost everywhere, and that's just to rich for my blood.
3. Where does honey fit in?
It's not really added sugar, or sugar at all really. I've thought about incorporating it. Because making this faux strawberry jam, could help create a seriously good pb&j sandwich on this bread.
4. Don't really like drinking water.
Honestly I don't drink much throughout the day. I have 1 cup of coffee in the morning, and usually go all day without drinking anything else. Then have water with dinner. (I know this is a horrible habit. I'm just not thirsty though).Thinking about making some of this flavored water.Colleen & Matt let me borrow their juicer, but dang it's expen$ive to juice stuff. What am I going to drink? I did buy almond milk, so I'll do some banana & pb smoothies with that. Straight, blegh.
I'm the only one doing the cleanse in my house, which is too bad because it would be a lot easier and more fun if we did it together. That said I don't want to use it as an excuse to fall short. Practically speaking this means he'll gladly eat what I make for most dinners but we will do our own things for lunch and I'll be more protective of certain things that I don't want him to eat, because I need 'em. He got unhealthy food at the store I think just to counteract my planning! It also means - and this might be more applicable to you - that he'll probably supplement my cleanse food with non-cleanse stuff. So I'd bet that I'll make something cleansey for dinner, and he'll take it upon himself to cook the meat/cheese/etc he feels like he needs. Maybe that could be a solution for you?
ReplyDeleteJennifer, I love your idea for something bread like. I'm going to try this out for something breakfasty.
http://www.tessadomesticdiva.com/2012/03/5-minute-muffins-high-protien.html
As for the water question, I love water with a squeeze of lemon, lime, and you can do any variation of fruits, vegetables, herbs. You could also blend some crushed watermelon, etc. what about different kinds of tea or carbonated water? I practically live on la croix or other soda water and love a good mint tea because it's such a dramatic refreshing change to fruit teas.
Dinner went well this past week. I worried about it but shouldn't have!
ReplyDeleteLove the idea of frozen watermelon cubes in water. Too bad we do the cleanse during winter when produce is so damn expensive. I will keep it in mind for my summer water for sure.