Ah it’s that time of year again, I’ve bought the kit and stocked the kitchen.  I’m also enjoying an artery-clogging meal of this amazing baked rigatoni dish I found in a Donna Hay cookbook. 

The pasta is gooed up with ricotta, parmesan, eggs, and sour cream and I added garlic and crisp bacon for good measure.  And I’m getting extra enjoyment cos I won’t be having any of *that* stuff for 12 days.  But it’ll feel good to mark the dismissal of winter food eating and remind myself what a green veg looks like. 

Here’s what I got in case it’s helpful to any other detoxers out there:

- the biggest bag of organic brown rice I could find - repeat it with me “brown rice is a detoxer’s friend”

- puffed rice cereal

- unsweetened plain soy milk (it doesn’t taste great but what else are you going to put on the cereal?)

- frozen veggies for when I get lazy

- frozen fruit for putting on cereal or whirring up a smoothie with soy milk

- eggs (I’m going to fry up some peppers and onions the night before, and then throw them in a container with a beaten egg and cilantro to nuke for breakfast)

- chick peas to make this recipe in the slow cooker

- almond butter to put on anything that doesn’t move for snacktime (or I’ll make oat cakes on the weekend)

- brown rice cakes - see “almond butter”

- pistachios - I noticed these babies hiding on the 20% list of page 13.  You can bet I’m going to be cracking a handful of those babies with a piece of fruit at snacktime

- the costco-size bag of almonds - repeat it with me now “almonds are a detoxer’s friend”

- a box of organic chicken stock (you have to check these carefully to make sure they’re not full of MSG and unprounceable ingredients)

- lentils to make an indian lentil rice thing, stay tuned for the recipe

- ground pork to make some kickin’ thai meatballs, stay tuned for the recipe

- a bag of sliced up cabbage for coleslaw, hopefully I’ll get to that recipe too

- some new vanilla roobois tea to trick myself into thinking I’m drinking red wine (I’ll be much too sober for it to work, but I can try)

I’m feeling virtuous already.