The Cleanse
 
Basic Cleanse Instructions
This is not a fast it is an energizing liquid feast that cleanses your body, builds your blood, and provides proper nutrition to restore the fluids and cells of your body.

What to Eat
Eat only high water content/low sugar vegetables and fruits, and healthy oils.
• All vegetables with the exception of potatoes, carrots, beets, and squash.
• Green veggies are best. Aim to eat organic whenever possible.
• Eat three or more avocados a day. They can be added to soups, salads, or eaten plain. A quick breakfast is an avocado and tomato sliced up with some spices. Avocado slices on cucumber are also fast and satisfying.
• Spices, Bragg’s Liquid Aminos, and small amounts of stevia are acceptable.
• Eat plenty of good oils during the day. Add oil to your soups and salads. Choose flaxseed oil, Udo’s Choice, extra virgin olive oil, cold-pressed canola or safflower oils. The oils in the dark bottles in the refrigerated section are best.

Three Cleansing Options
• First choice: Process or blend your vegetables and low sugar fruits in a blender or food processor. The energy usually expended on digestion can now be used to heal and restore your body. The nutrients in the foods are also very easily absorbed when blended.
• Second choice: Eat only raw vegetables and low sugar fruits, but they do not need to be blended.
• Third choice: Lightly steam some of your vegetables, and enjoy in a variety of soups.

Of course, you can combine the three options above. Aim to puree your veggies as often as possible.

What Not to Eat
Anything that will clog your body, including:
• Anything not filled with water or that contains sugar, alcohol, caffeine, yeast, fungus, additives, and preservatives.
- These include: coffee, soda, meat, dairy, starch, bread, mushrooms, nuts, wine, beer, and even high sugar fruits and vegetables such as carrots, beets, squash, potatoes, apples, oranges, bananas, etc.
o Even though fruits can have a cleansing effect, they are high in sugar, which acts like glue in our body, and encourages the growth of yeast, fungus, and their poisons.

Hydration and Cleansing Products
You most definitely want to SUPERHYDRATE with an alkalizing vegetable drink during your cleanse. One liter of greens for every 30 pounds of body weight is optimal. I personally drink and recommend Core Vital's Earth Greens and alkalizer. They taste fantastic and have a very high charge (very high in electron energy). Other products to take during a cleanse include magnesium oxide and fish oil supplements.

What to expect:
• Weight loss, if you need it (around one pound a day). If you don’t need to lose weight, increase your healthy oils and avocados.
• Incredible mental clarity, energy, and wellness after the first few days.
• Symptoms of de-toxification, especially the first few days of cleanse.
- Not everyone experiences symptoms, but many people do. Welcome these symptoms, knowing you are experiencing dis-ease leaving your body. These symptoms may include: headache, nausea, flu-like symptoms, loose bowels, skin rashes, fever blisters, cold sores, etc. Try to focus on how much better you will feel when all of these toxins have left your body. If you have a serious health challenge, these symptoms may last for more than a few days, but for most people they are short-lived.
• When done with the cleanse, you will have learned the wonderful, life-sustaining truth that "green" drinks, vegetables, and low sugar fruits can sustain, satisfy, and energize you.
• Following the cleanse, aim to make 70% of your food choices similar to your choices during the cleanse (alkaline/high water content and low sugar veggies and fruits with healthy oils), and your other 30% from choices such as healthy nuts, seeds, fish, tofu, beans, brown rice, spelt and buckwheat pasta, etc. Shelley Young’s Back to the House of Health I and II cookbooks are filled with delicious recipes that make this way of eating completely satisfying and pleasurable.
• The cleanse will help you break unhealthy eating patterns and will set you on a course of lifelong energy, vitality, and wellness. Enjoy your cleanse!

*These results are not guaranteed.

Raw Soup Recipes

You can make in blender or food processor. They are designed for one meal which makes them very easy to make. Fantastic for a cleanse or any time.

Shopping list for these easy raw soups:Fresh dill, basil, garlic, onion, and parsley. Tomatoes, red pepper, cumumber, green onion, olive oil, avocados, zucchini, celery, spinach, lemon juice, and dried herb spices.

Gazpacho:
21/2 Roma tomatoes, seeded and cut into 1/2 inch pieces
1/4 red bell pepper, cut into 1/2 inc
1/4 cucumber, peeled and cut into
1 green onion cut into 1/2 inch pieces
1 tablespoons chopped parsley
1 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 tsp. Real salt
Dash or two of black pepper
Dash or two of cayenne
1/2 avocado
Place the tomatoes, pepper, cucumber, green onion, parsley, olive oil, garlic, salt, pepper, and cayenne in a food processor with S blade. Pulse until blended but still chunky. Serve right away or chill for 2 hours for chilled soup. Garnish with avocado if desired.
From Raw Food Made Easy by Jennifer Cornbleet

Zucchini Soup
1 small zucchini, chopped
1/2 cup water
1/2 tomato
1 celery stalk, chopped
2 green onions
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon crushed garlic
dash cayenne
dash salt
1 cup chopped spinach or chard
6 fresh basil leaves
1/2 ripe avocado
Place zucchini, 1/2 cup water, tomato, celery, green onions, lemon juice, garlic, cayenne, and salt in blender or food processor and process until smooth. Add the spinach and basil and blend again. Add the avocado and blend until smooth.
From Raw Food Made easy by Jennifer Cornbleet

Cream of Cucumber Soup
4 romaine lettuce leaves, chopped
1 cucumber, peeled, seeded, and chopped
1/2 cup water
1 Tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1/2 tsp. Crushed garlic
1/4 tsp. Salt
1/2 ripe avocado, chopped
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon minced fresh herbs
(dill, mint, tarragon, or cilantro), or 1 tsp. Dried.

Place the lettuce, cucumber, water, lemon juice, garlic, and salt in a blender and process until smooth. Add the avocado and olive oil and blend again until smooth. Add the herbs and blend briefly to mix. Serve immediately. For chilled soup, refrigerate for 2 hours before serving.
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Cream of Tomato Soup
3 ripe tomatoes, chopped (the recipe says seeded, but I like the seeds)
1/4 cup water
1/2 tsp. Crushed garlic
1/4 tsp. Onion powder
1/4 tsp. Salt
1/2 ripe avocado, chopped
1 tbls. Minced fresh dill weed or basil or 1 tsp. Dried
1 tbls. olive oil Place the tomatoes, water, garlic, onion powder, and salt in a blender and process until smooth. Add the avocado and olive oil and blend again until smooth. Add the avocado and olive oil and blend again until smooth. Add the dill weed and blend briefly. Just to mix. Serve immediately. For a chilled soup, refrigerate for 2 hours before serving.
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Cream of Zucchini Soup
1 zucchini, chopped
1/2 cup water
1 celery stalk, chopped
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1/2 tsp. Crushed garlic (1 clove)
1/4 tps. Salt
1 dashes cayenne
1/2 avocado, chopped
1 tablespoon’s olive oil
2 teaspoons minced fresh dill weed or 1 tsp. Dried

Place the zucchini, water, celery, lemon juice, garlic, salt and cayenne in a blender and process until smooth. Add the avocado and olive oil and blend again until smooth. Add a little extra water to thin if necessary, and blend briefly. Add the dill weed and blend briefly, just to mix. Serve immediately or chill for 2 hours. To warm heat gently on stove for a few minutes.
Adapted from "Raw Food Made Easy" by jennifer Cornbleet

ZUCCHINI SOUP
6 medium zucchini
1/2 t real salt
1/2 t garlic powder ( or garlic cloves to your liking )
1/2 t mixed herbs ( Spice Island "fine herbs" )
[u]Or mix your own:
1 T sweet basil
1 T oregano
1 T tarragon
1/2 T marjoram
1/2 t thyme
1 t sage
1 t minced fresh rosemary
[u]Choice of:
2 10 oz container vegetable broth + 2 c water
OR
2t bouillon ( Rapunzel vegan vegetable bouillon ) + 4 c water
OR
4 c homemade vegetable broth
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Wash zucchini, remove ends, & cut into chunks.
Put into pot with remaining ingredients.
Cook 15 - 20 minutes or until zucchini is soft.
Whirl soup in blender or food processor with steel blade or
put through a sieve.
Serve warm. It's very delicious !!!
Recipe is from:
"The Allergy Cookbook"
By Ruth R. Shattuck
Submitted by : Laura Caracappa

Two Popular Cleansing Soup Recipes from Dr. and Shelly Young

AsparaZincGusto Soup
12 stalks Asparagus, trimmed
1 Avocado
5-6 large Tomatoes
1 cup fresh Parsley
3-5 sun-dried Tomatoes
_ cup dried Onion
4 cloves fresh Garlic
1 Red Bell Pepper
Bragg’s Liquid Aminos, to taste
1-2 tsp. Herbes de Provence
2 tsp. Deliciously Dill
2 Lemons or Limes, cut in thin slices
Blend all ingredients (except lemon/lime) in a food processor or blender until smooth. Warm in skillet until just warmed, not cooked, or serve cold. Garnish with lemon or lime slices.

Green Raw Soup
1-2 Avocados
1-2 Cucumbers, peeled and seeded
1 Jalapeño pepper, seeded yellow Onion, diced
Juice of Lemon
1-2 cups Water or Veggie stock
3 cloves roasted Garlic
1 Tbsp. Cilantro
1 Tbsp. Parsley
Blend all ingredients in a food processor or blender and serve.