Sat 23 Oct 2010
Wild Rose De-Tox Recipe: Breakfast Smoothie
Posted by Corilee under Health & Food , Wild Rose D-Tox[4] Comments
Detoxers often shake in fear of the thought of breakfasts for 10 days while detoxing. Because if you don’t like hot cereal your options are incredibly limited. You can do an egg and some sauteed veggies.
I do that and add a bit of brown rice too, getting it toasty in the pan. Then I clear a spot in the middle and add the egg. It’s not eggs and bacon with toast but it has some flavour and fills me up when I need a decent breakfast.
Lately in my non-detoxing life I’ve gotten into smoothies. It took a long time because I could not find edible protein powder. I find plain ol’ fruit and stuff does not stick with me. My naturopath had told me that I need to eat more protein for breakfast and suggested smoothies but I had had a rough history with the chemical powders.
One time I bought one of those huge containers of protein powder from some weighlifting store. I don’t know why the containers need to be so huge, to make you feel like you’re already big and strong?
It was some fruity flavour an it tasted like eating some Wild Berry Body Shop product. It. Was. Awful. And I couldn’t throw it away for the longest time because it had been so expensive and I kept hoping I would try it again and finally Honeybunny got sick of looking at it and did it for me.
Then I heard about Whey Gourmet, people said it tasted much better. So I played it safe and tried the Vanilla flavour with fruit and juice or milk and it worked. Woohoo! I’d found a smoothie that tasted good! When Whey Gourmet went on sale at my store I splurged on the chocolate and while it does taste a bit chemically, mixed with a ripe banana and milk, I can live with it, yum.
I’ve gotten hooked on drinking smoothies before morning workouts because they digest fast and easy and I don’t “enjoy breakfast all over again” when I start working hard, like I do with solid breakfasts. The other benefit to smoothies is that they’re much easier to consume in the car than other crumby crumbly breakfasts. I just pour it into a big water bottle and drink it with a thick straw (thank you MacDonald’s).
So when I was getting ready to start this fall’s detox I thought, damn how will I get my smoothies fix?? Protein powder is definitely not on the food list. So here’s what I did:
Detox Smoothie
Ingredients: Half a carton of silken tofu, 1 cup of frozen berries, 1/2 cup of unsweetened soy milk, 1/2 cup of juice
Directions: Whir the ingredients up in a blender, pour it into a 3 cup container and enjoy.
The food lists say that you should drink juice and soy milk “in moderation”, whatever that is. But I figure half cup of each is probably safe. I found my detox smoothie stuck with me as well as my usual ones and tasted great.