Happy New Year. I am so ready for 2020, are you? For the past four years I have been curating clean-up plans for all of you. Due to life happening the past month and, to be honest, during the last year, I have not been able to produce the level of plan that I typically like to share. That being said, I have four years of plans readily available for your cooking pleasure (not to mention a website full of simple, whole food, plant-forward recipes.) There are over 80 original recipes for you to choose from in the clean-up plan tab that take you from breakfast, lunch, and dinner to snacks and desserts. My clean-up plans are not about detoxing, diets, or restrictions, but about gently encouraging you to get back into your cooking routine and focus on real whole foods that make you feel your best.
Read morewelcome to the annual crunchy radish clean up + the past 3 years of meal plans
Happy New Year! For the past three years I have featured the crunchy radish clean up plan on my site to help get your January started on a healthy note. If you are new here, I always like to state that I don’t believe in detox’s or cleanses, but do appreciate a few days of strict, regimented eating of REAL WHOLE FOODS. The last two months of the year feature lots of opportunities to indulge and to overdo it. People are inundated by holiday parties, family celebrations, and any excuse for sweets and drinks. Come January 1st, most people crave a fresh start. Enter the crunchy radish clean up. This year’s clean up plan is 3 days, but feel free to reference the past 3 years of plans listed below if you want to continue for longer.
Read morecrunchy radish clean up: day 1
Day one kicks off with a refreshing ginger mango spinach smoothie, followed by a snack of sweet potato wedges. Lunch is a protein filled lentil soup with a massaged kale salad with chickpeas and buckwheat groats for dinner.
Read morecrunchy radish clean up: day 2
Day two starts with a hearty and nourishing bowl of muesli. For snacks, enjoy cucumber with hummus and sweet potatoes with tahini. For dinner, have a virtuous bowl of spaghetti squash with arugula spinach and hemp seed pesto topped with za’atar roasted tomatoes.
Read morecrunchy radish clean up: day 3
You’ve reached the third and final day of this years clean up! Want to keep going? Refer to the last 3 years of plans here and curate your own! Day 3 begins with the go to crunchy radish “house” smoothie. For snacks enjoy Persian cucumber with hummus and super seedy crackers with avocado. For lunch lean on leftovers of filling and nourishing lentil soup with spinach and lemon. For dinner get your crunch on with brown rice with roasted purple cabbage and broccoli with tamari roasted almonds.
Read morecrunchy radish clean up: day 5
I love dishes that encourage a myriad of interpretations and allow you to utilize what you have on hand. Baked oatmeal is one of those meals. I've made versions of the bake with fresh and frozen berries, depending on seasonality, and have added bananas, apples and pears as well as various types of nuts and unsweetened coconut flakes.
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