Day 6

I am absolutely exhausted!  I don’t know if I can really blame it on the cleanse, or the weather, or the busy weekend of births, or working this afternoon and not getting the ever important nap.  Whatever the reason though, I am super tired!  And, the one thing that was looming over me when I woke up this morning- JB invited friends to dinner.  Friends?  Coming to eat at my house on the first part of our cleanse?!  Are you kidding me?!  What am I supposed to do?  Go, “Welcome, have some salad!”  I racked my brain all morning over what to make that we could all enjoy.  And, on the way to the farmer’s market, I came up with stew.  I think the drizzling outside gave me inspiration.  Thank goodness it did…  The stew was a hit!

The recipe?  Throw every vegetable in your fridge into a crockpot, season and enjoy!  So simple and so yummy!  Ours had:  bay leaves, sea salt, black pepper, okra, a little bit of sweet corn, organic stew meat (JB had to pick this out), tomatoes (large organic fire roasted can of stewed tomatoes), sweet potatoes, peas, squash and zucchini.  We served it over brown rice.

We ate lunch out because it was a very busy morning.  We went to a Thai restaurant and had a Thai coconut soup and veggie rolls.

For breakfast, I had a grapefruit, just like yesterday.  In about a half hour later, I was really hungry, so I had my smoothie as a snack.  The smoothie this morning was made with frozen pineapple, a little bit of frozen banana, a lot of fresh spinach, organic shaved coconut and coconut milk and water (along w/ whey protein and SP Complete powders). 

I am ready for bed, and hope a good night’s rest brings lots of energy in the morning!