Do you feel overwhelmed when you hear about clean eating?

Are you wondering- what would I have to do and how much time would that take?

I will help you and give you some tips on how to give your kitchen a “Facelift”.

Enjoy!

Here are the tips!

Clean out the junk: Throw out the chips, crackers, granola bars, cookies, and other processed junk and plan to make Kale chips or roasted veggies instead. Read food labels, and get rid of every food, which doesn’t have healthy ingredients; preservatives, coloring, high in sodium and etc. Restock with healthier food.

Exchange or eliminate the caffeine. Caffeine is pure acid and an acidic body leads to sickness and poor digestion. You can exchange coffee for yerba mate, macha tea or green tea, which are rich in beneficial antioxidants. (Note: To trick your body into easing off of caffeine, mix it with a coffee substitute—my favorite grain-free coffee substitute, made mainly of roots, is from Mountain Rose Herbs http://www.mountainroseherbs.com. Start by filling your cup with ½ regular coffee and ½ coffee substitute. Reduce the amount of coffee each day by ¼ until you are only drinking coffee substitute.)

Clean the fridge of sugary drinks like soda, tea, juices, and lemonade. Replace these with veggie- and fruit-infused waters and herbal teas.

Ditch the processed pasta (even whole grain), the soy and the beans and replace with zucchini noodles, spaghetti squash and cauliflower rice. There are a few easily digestible beans you can keep, such as mung, lentils and adzuki, but be sure to soak the beans to remove the phytic acid.

Say goodbye to the fancy flours and grains like Kamut, bulgur, spelt and barley, and replace them with coconut flour, almond flour and arrowroot. Enjoy seed-like grains such as buckwheat, quinoa, and amaranth.

Anything with wheat or gluten causes bloating, mucus in the stool and weakened digestion. Read labels. If it contains gluten, throw it out and stock up on fresh fruits, veggies, nuts, and seeds.

Replace butter with coconut oil and ultra-pasteurized milk with homemade or store-bought nut milk or ghee.

Make your own ketchup, or find an organic brand without high-fructose corn syrup such as Annie’s. Note that this has vinegar and vinegar feeds yeast. Here is the link: http://www.annies.com/products/condiments-sauces/organic-ketchup (Note: If you have Candida, I highly discourage you from adding vinegar to your diet. This is very different than Bragg’s raw apple cider vinegar. It is best to avoid vinegar and make homemade recipes from bodyecologydiet.com.)

Make your own honey mustard by stirring in a tablespoon of raw honey, or for regular mustard, find one that does not contain sugar such as Organicville mustard.

Instead of soy sauce, use Coconut Aminos.

Substitute table salt for pink Himalayan or Celtic salt.

Replace sugar with coconut crystals, coconut sugar, raw honey, high-quality maple syrup, monk fruit or stevia (if you suffer from candida, use stevia regardless).

For a healthy salad dressing, whisk together some raw honey, olive oil and Bragg’s raw apple cider vinegar. You can also buy dressings from Primal Kitchen – they have clan ingredients.

Find great kitchen gadgets for your home that make eating veggies fun such as zucchini spiralizers.

Organize your cabinets and trow out all process food!

In Health

Angie

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