Pre-Cleanse and During

Food pictures are from Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon and then I did a juice cleanse up until just right now when I decided to have some edamame haha I'm going to do mainly juicing/smoothies for the next few days though.

Nachos! Quinoa tortilla chips, quinoa, black beans, black olives, a sauce using nutritional yeast/spices/water/bit of coconut oil/cornstarch, bell peppers... 

Easter morning I made donuts for my husband and I but added some cocoa powder. Uhh they didn't really turn out right haha I think if the batter had sat for longer they would have risen properly. How ironic on Easter that my donuts did not rise up ;)

A better picture of that delicious moussaka (without fake meat) I made from the Native Foods cookbook. Soo good! My husband didn't like it though (found it too mushy) so I had to eat the entire casserole! Normally I am sick of a meal once I've had it twice in a row but I happily ate this four days in a row!

Easter dinner was... Native Foods Cafe! haha I tried the portobello sausage burger and omgggg. So good. Their burgers are the closest thing to "greasy diner food" I've had without being that. Like they aren't greasy but they feel like comfort food. I don't know... just try them.

Made a quesadilla out of leftover nacho bean mixture with some Daiya and dipped it in leftover sauces from Native Foods (ranch and chipotle). Whoa, this was good! They have the BEST dips I've ever had, non vegan included.

My favourite snack lately is the homemade bagels topped with sunflower seed butter, chia seeds and cinnamon!

Curry, of course! This was more like curry soup with some quinoa haha

Onto the cleanse! You can find all of the recipes in my "spring cleanse" (I didn't do the full 5 days) in my Juice Cleanse Facebook Group. :)  I did three juices and a smoothie each day. I don't always include smoothies but when I want to keep up with my workouts, it gives me a nice boost of energy for that.  Aren't juice cleanses so pretty?  hehe

Chlorophyll

I've been making a point to have a lot of fresh juice and smoothies, avoid too much added sugar and cooking from scratch more lately. 

I prefer them in the shell as edamame but still tasty! Leftovers are going in a sandwich tomorrow, I think.

Yummy green curry over brown rice. Not a great picture. I've been making this a lot lately using green curry paste and canned coconut milk.

Delicious juice.

Husband and I had brunch at Hill St Cafe last weekend and their special was sweet potato waffles topped with apple crisp- both vegan! It was heavenly. It was also half price since they accidentally didn't put my order in and I had to wait a while haha

More juuuuice. Kale makes my juices look nasty haha

 This meal wasn't made from scratch. The salad and falafel are both from a box. 

Grape leaves stuffed with leftover tabbouli and falafel.

Homemade granola from the Forks Over Knives cookbook. Loved how this turned out! You make a date syrup so there is no processed sugar. It's just oats, dates, vanilla, cinnamon, water, orange zest and then I did dried cranberries.

Made some chili and bread!

Beet juice

Homemade bread! I used this recipe with sunflower seeds. It's so good. I'm so happy my inlaws gave me their old bread machine!

I bought carob powder for the first time and love it! It's delicious. This is "hot chocolate" using agave nectar and almond milk. Not as chocolatey but really delicious.

I came up with this cookie recipe and omg, I ate these so fast haha I'm going to make them again thi weekend so I will take more pictures and get the recipe posted!

Decided to treat myself to some new chai tea and made myself a latte. 

Ugly but delicious sandwhich on homemade bread.

Greek pizza on Archer Farms pizza crust.

Green juice for husband and I this morning. Oranges, kale and carrots.

Breakfast this morning was banana vegan french toast topped with banana and coconut. I used the bread below to make it.

I used this raisin bread recipe but followed the directions in the first comment (except I used raw sugar not brown sugar and dried cranberries not raisins). I like this because it's sweet but not overly so. I'd forgotten how moist homemade bread is, ugh, so good.

 I bought a chorophyll mix recently called "chloro-combo". I kept reading about the benefits so I finally got my hands on some! This  one is mixed with alfalfa leaves, ginger root and peppermint leaves. I haven't tried it in just water yet but I love it with almond milk, ice, banana and spinach (like in the picture)! It just tastes like peppermint, really good.

CSD Eats

I am pretty much melting today. My brain is mush. It's over 100F! I realize that's old news if you live in Texas, Nevada etc but it's hot for San Diego. Too hot!

Here is what I've been eating lately on the Crazy Sexy Diet cleanse! I've been taking pics of almost everything but some meals (mostly repeats) are left out.  So just use your imagination and click to enlarge. These are in order starting with yesterday. Monday was a juice cleanse day.

homemade popsicle (banana, pinapple, coconut milk)

wrap (spinach, chickpeas, eggplant, carrot, cucumber, sundried tomatoes, tomato, mustard, gf tortilla)

wrap (gf tortilla, olives, sundried tomatoes, Veganaise, spinach, carrot, chickpeas, tomato)

green juice (apple, pear, kale, ginger, spinach, celery, lemon)

avocado pasta with gf noodles

LOVE these; would be a great party appetizer. recipe here.

smoothie (spinach, soymilk, flaxmeal, spinach, banana, unsweetened cocoa powder)

the best shake (frozen banana, soymilk, unsweetened cocoa powder)

harvest soup CSD book

not a great juice

carrots + hummus <3 p="p">

really good salad (spinach, carrot, zucchini, tahini dressing, avocado, black beans, brown rice, chickpeas, hemp seeds)

avocado toast and salad (spinach, hemp seeds, tahini dressing, red cabbage, carrot, cucumber, tomato etc)

green smoothie

cookie I came up with using oats, unsweetened cocoa powder, agave nectar and soymilk

veggies + hummus

buddha bowl from CSD book

homemade gf oat waffle with almond yogurt, strawberries and cinnamon

veggie salad

Mexi wrap

frozen banana + almond butter sorbet

oranges + carrots

strawberry peach smoothie

gf chips and salsa

gf toast with almond butter

juice

Follow Your Heart quesadilla on gf tortilla with spinach and tomato

Still really loving this cleanse. It feels great to be eating so clean. I'm even down a few pounds.