Yesterday was the first day of our 14-day raw foods cleanse. Our goals are to clear our systems of processed food, step back from our regular eating to maybe get used to lightening up our diet, and hopefully shed a couple pounds.
The first two days we're going completely raw, and then the rest of the time we'll be having cooked, but very healthy, dinners.
Luckily our Vitamix blender arrived, so we started Saturday off right with a pineapple, mango, banana and strawberry smoothie. Then we each had fresh fruit of our choice; I had cherries, NT had grapefruit and AS had an apple. A bit later I made a carrot-orange-apple juice for us all.
Lunch was a salad of greens, avocados, raw corn, red bell peppers and tomatoes, with a dressing made of garlic, olive oil, honey, lemon juice, cayenne pepper, salt and herbs.
For dinner, we treated ourselves to dinner at Ecopolitan, a raw-foods restaurant just blocks from our place. I had the "eco-burger," which was a mushroom-walnut patty on crunchy raw bread. The pickles, ketchup and mustard were amazing; they tasted just like the real thing but better. I also had a kale-apple juice.
So far, so good! I'm also giving up caffeine and alcohol for the duration, so I feel a bit sleepy today and might have a touch of a caffeine-withdrawal headache. But I'm munching on a bowl of Rainier cherries, so life's not too bad. 
First day of raw foods
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