Spring Cleaning with a Raw Food Detox

The daffodils are over, and bluebell season is well underway.

We had a lovely (if a little soggy) camping trip to Devon, and now Joe is back at school.

I have just started a 100% raw food detox.

I'm not doing a total juice fast, but will be enjoying raw juices, green smoothies, and whole fruit and vegetables. I'm going to keep my fat intake down, and just have a few soaked almonds in my tea time smoothie. At least that is the plan. I may have my favourite raw protein smoothie at lunch time too?

Yesterday I had the last toast I'll be having for a while, as I get bad hayfever if I eat wheat in the spring and summer. It would be doubtless be better if I didn't eat it at all, but I'm not quite there yet!

For dinner last night I had a green smoothie (1/2 a mango,2 handfuls baby spinach, handful of soaked almonds, and a small ripe banana), and later on I had a green juice (3 apples, 3 long stems and leaves of stinging nettle, and 1/2 a lemon). Just before bed I munched an apple.

Today so far I've enjoyed:

• orange juice (from 4 med. oranges)
  
• an apple
  
• some rocket from the garden
  
• green smoothie with spinach, pineapple and banana
  
• two carrots

Been working on my website, and haven't done any yoga. Hopefully I'll get back into it soon.

School Holidays

Its the first week of the school holidays are the weather is very wintery. We've had snow (very unusually for the south east of England), and hard frosts at night.

I'm finding it impossible to eat all raw at the moment, but my new Samson Juicer is being used every day. I've discovered it makes lovely orange juice, and grapefruit juice - and I'm back in love with carrot and ginger juice in this chilly weather.