O.h.m.y.g.o.d.i.a.m.s.o.b.o.r.e.d.w.i.t.h.t.h.i.s

But the good news is that today is day 7 of detox, and that means I am finito after dinner tonight!  Wahooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I didn’t have time to make my secret spinach smoothie, so breakfast was at the office… greek yogurt mixed with a little stevia and organic raspberries.

lunch was split pea soup from soup co (same as day 2, I forgot to snap a pic!),

and then an apple & string cheese for a snack later

I’m seriously so bored with veggie burgers… but it was exciting to roast some fennel for dinner. I’ve never cooked fennel before, it’s really delicious! Cut the tops of the bulbs, slice each bulb in half lengthwise, and then slice each half into strips. Toss in olive oil with salt and pepper, then spread out onto a baking sheet and bake at 400 degrees for an hour, flipping the pieces around a bit after half an hour.

Served with brown rice, corn, a veggie burger with caramelized onions, and butternut squash… not bad.  Actually, I think I’m veggied out.  D & both agreed we weren’t dying for the butternut squash so it is now in the freezer and will become soup at a later date.  A couple bites of corn and half a veggie burger later I was done… full from snacking on fennel as it cooked?  Fed-up? I don’t know, but once those plates were gone from our laps detox was officially over!

And what better way to celebrate than a glass of bubbles while watching an old Barefoot Contessa episode?!

Yipee!

Sunday Not-so-Funday.  It is Day 6 and I have to admit, I’m beginning to feel a bit bored with the food options… there’s only so much creativity I can muster with these food choices!  But the end is in sight!  Only one more day after today… hurray!

Another sneaky spinach smoothie for breakfast with a cup of decaf PG Tips tea w/ fat-free half and half… even though D saw me putting the spinach in the blender, he was impressed with the fact you can’t taste it at all!

snack time!

half a string cheese for me, half a string cheese for D

(time to go grocery shopping!)

 hummus with carrots & cucumber

(kinda cheating – really should have made the hummus myself)

lunchtime…

leftover lentil soup – I was actually really full from the hummus & veggies, so I only had a couple of spoonfuls.  D had the leftover pepper from last night’s dinner – it smelt as good reheated as it did the first time!

 we grazed on the cheating cashews in the afternoon

and I sliced up a pear for us to share

 we then went on a great run down by Fort Mason and along Crissey Field…

what a pretty sunset on the Golden Gate Bridge!

And afterwards we hit up the Marina Dateway, oops I mean Safeway, to stock up on some fun goodies in preparation of my parents coming up to visit this week.  The New York Cheddar Kettle Chips are calling my name from the cupboard, but I am adamantly ignoring them!  I think the ingredients for my dad’s version of a Sea Breeze – Kettle One Vodka, Grapefruit Juice and Guava Juice – might be calling D’s name right now from our fridge & freezer.  Is it Tuesday night yet?!

Oh yes, dinner – forgive my momentary distraction – green beans cooked with chili, garlic, shallot & onion, corn, brown rice w/ a sprinkling of soy sauce, and a TJs freekah burger w/ caramelized onions.

and then some more cut up pear for dessert

Here’s to the last day of detox tomorrow!

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Another day, another secret spinach smoothie – this time in my flashy red cup.
Note to self – buy a cute to-go container for smoothies!

  tea and grapes

 lunch at Plant Cafe with my fellow detoxer, Sara!

an arugula salad w/ grapefruit & avocado (cheating- no avocado allowed) tossed in a macadamia nut dressing (cheating – no nuts allowed) & butternut squash soup

So I planned a “surprise” for our Friday dinner and have been talking about it all week to D… I must say, he was pretty curious by the time I arrived home w/ my secret package.

Curious yet?  It’s really really exciting…

Okay, okay… I’ll tell you!  Plant Burgers for dinner!  With oven baked sweet potato fries (allowed!  just no regular potatoes… or at least that’s how I read the rules), sauteed spinach & leftover quinoa from last night.

I hope that wasn’t a let down.  But when you’re on your fourth day of detoxing I promise you, you will be so excited about things like this!  Plant Burgers really are delicious – they’re made w/ beets so they’re this bright pink color, and they also have lentils, mushrooms, cashews, & bulgar wheat mixed in.  Topped with some melted light cheese, caramelized onions & a tomato chutney from Plant Cafe – well, it made my night to not be grabbing another veggie burger from the freezer.  If you don’t live in SF and want to experience the fabulous Plant Burger I found a recipe online which looks pretty close to the real thing- check it out!

 and then some late night ”get some zzz’s‘ tea (another favorite from Republic of Tea) & blueberries

See, this detox isn’t so bad!

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Another ‘secret’ spinach smoothie to start of the day… just a handful of spinach thrown in with whatever fruit you like.  I used approximately 6 oz of greek yogurt, 1/2 a banana, 6-7 frozen strawberries, 1/2 cup frozen raspberries, 1/2 cup frozen wild blueberries, and 1/2 cup orange juice.  I’m going to sneak it into D’s smoothie on the weekend and see if he notices.

 string cheese snack!

Tea Time… it’s the Republic of Tea’s “Get Lost” and is supposed to help curb your appetite.  I’m not sure if it works or not, but I love the flavor – it’s made with organic rooibos and has hints of cinnamon, orange, carob & banaba leaf (whatever that is?)… yum.

I ended up not eating lunch.  Maybe it was the special tea?  More likely it was splitting headache I’ve had for two days – mum thinks my headache is bc of all the toxins I’m getting rid of by doing this detox, I think a sinus headache is more likely the culprit.  Either way, lunch was not on the menu today.  But, by the time I was done with my Bar Method class my stomach was a rumbling. So what does one snack on while detoxing?  Baby Corn of course!  Heated quickly in a nonstick pan with olive oil spray.

As well as some green grapes, ice cold from the fridge.

Am I weird for liking my fruit as cold as possible?

A little later I put out a veggie platter w/ some hummus.

Hummus probably is considered cheating as it’s made with Tahini,

but I figure it’s close enough!

And finally the main course – a Trader Joes veggie burger with quinoa sauteed with onion and garlic, topped with chopped raw peppers.  The veggie burger was surprisingly good – they’re new at TJs, and made with freekeh (I thought it was pronounced ‘freaky’ but just found out it is pronounced ‘freek-ah’) which I have been hunting for incessantly without any success.  It was my first time cooking quinoa but it’s really easy, just like couscous… I sauteed a large chopped yellow onion with some garlic in a teeny bit of olive oil, added in the box of quinoa (from TJs as well) with just under six cups of water (you can use stock – it would taste better) and cooked for approximately fifteen minutes until all the water was absorbed.  Off the heat I added the juice of two lemons, salt & pepper, and some chopped basil & then topped with some chopped peppers.  It was a nice change of pace from the brown rice.

 blueberries for dessert

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