Green Juice: Green juice is a combination of celery, cucumber, kale, romaine, spinach and green apple. ![]() Each of the recipes below are for one juice. Mason jars are an excellent way to store them. I often make my first four juices the night before, and then the next evening make my last two juices for that day and the next four juices for the following day. However, you can certainly make the juices the night before. I do not recommend making all three days’ worth of juices at once, as theywill not be fresh by the third day. Here’s a complete grocery list for a three-day cleanse. Good luck with that.įirst, you’ll need to head to the grocery store. BluePrintCleanse recommends that you do three days of preparation pre-cleanse, phasing out meat and grains and take five days to phase food back into your normal diet: first fruit, then veggies, then legumes, and finally meat and dairy. There are a couple of things you may drink to supplement your juices: green tea and filtered water. It is up to you what time you drink each juice, and this will vary widely based on your schedule. (Pineapple, Apple, Mint), Green Juice, Spicy Lemonade, C.A.B. During those three days, you drink six juices a day in the following order: Green Juice, P.A.M. Here are the basics: It’s three days long. What I’m sharing with you is the final product after my three days of trial and error. I found many different recipes around the web to clone the BPC juices and I’ve combined and tweaked them. I want processed foods and animal products to become the exception, not the rule.Īnyways, I have heard from many of you who like the idea of a juice cleanse, but like me don’t want to drop $250 for three days worth of juice, so I wanted to share the recipes so you too can do the Blue Print Cleanse at home. But when plant-based, whole foods are an equally appealing option, as they so often are, I will make it a point to choose them. I don’t think I will ever fully give up bread or meat or cheese or beer, or anything for that matter (except fake sugar… I would like to give up fake sugar). I also plan to continue to remain aware of what I’m putting in my body. I plan to continue to incorporate them into my regular diet (particularly the green juice and a custom juice I have been making with carrots, apples, lettuce and cucumber). ![]() ![]() Since finishing the cleanse, I have found myself actually craving the juices on a regular basis. It refocused me on consumption for nutrients rather than consumption for entertainment. In some ways I think my life revolves too much around the experience of eating, so in that regard this cleanse might have also been good for me. I missed the pleasure of sitting down to a homemade meal with my husband, or walking up to Barracks Row after work to enjoy a cocktail and some appetizers. I rarely felt hungry or lethargic as I feared might be the case. The cleanse itself was not that bad physically. I didn’t do this cleanse for weight loss, but because I’m sure some of you are curious, over the three days, I lost five pounds (I’m sure that this was mostly water weight, because I’ve since found it). I hadn’t weighed myself since the batteries on my scale broke several months ago, but out of curiosity I replaced them right before the cleanse. It made me wonder whether gluten and all the crap in the processed food I eat causes fatigue that I’ve come to accept as the status quo. I was waking up before my alarm and having good morning workouts. I also found that I had a good deal of energy. I felt like I was treating my body right with all of the vitamins and minerals in the ridiculous amount of fresh produce I was juicing each day. ![]() As many of you know, last week I did a three day Do it Yourself Blue Print Cleanse, making all of my juice from scratch in my new Breville juicer (read my summaries of day 1, day 2, and day 3 here).
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