I don’t know about you, but in the last three days, what I found the toughest on the Green Smoothie Cleanse was putting all these fresh, organic veggies into the blender without being able to crunch their goodness.
My first meal post cleanse is a salad. I am transitioning out, as I went in which makes today an all raw day. I opted to have the ingredients of a smoothie- before it ran through the blender. In following the Rainbow rules, I ensured the majority was green, but that there was a still a healthy variety of colour in there too.
Keeping today’s post short and sweet (like me), here is my Unsmoothied Fresh Crunchy Salad with some high omega 3 protein from hemp and chia seeds. What was your first chewable meal? What were you longing for during the cleanse?
Unsmoothied Crunchy Salad
6 leaves romaine lettuce, chopped
1 carrot, grated (we know I hate disks of carrot in my salad)
1/3 cup sliced cucumber
1/4 of an apple sliced
2 Tbs cranberries
1 Tbs hemp seeds
1 Tbs Chia seeds
2 Tbs Pomegranate seeds
Dressing
1/2 lemon, juiced
1 Tbs flax oil
1 tsp Dijon mustard
pinch of sea salt
2 tsp agave
this sounds delicious!! I think that will be dinner tonight, since I have all the ingredients!!! I didn’t plan today very well (I should have prepared raw goodies to bring with me to work today!) SO i had a smoothie for breakfast and as a snack I had some cashews (not sure whether those counted as raw!) and some green grapes. Thankfully we have a small restaurant here where I work, which will prepare a fresh salad, I am looking forward to that for lunch in a few minutes!
Sounds like a great salad, and a great transition meal!