January Cleanses & Detoxes Recipe

I just completed a 3 week clean eating program throughly Prescribed Nutrition. It was great & I learned a lot about changing eating habits, how I can feel better through food, yet still enjoy eating. It was lifestyle changing. Great program.

Is there any specific reason for having a picture of persimmons on this page other than they are very pretty.
Where I live they are now plentiful and my home is loaded with them.

Well put Heidi. I welcome any sort of detox/diet/cleanse if it’s the start of a new way of eating and/or treating your body.
Loving the link share as well!

Heidi, thanks for sharing all these resources! Although I’m not big on the idea of cleansing, easy and healthy recipes are what always bring me back to the kitchen after relying on takeout and party food over the holidays. Your own Lively Up Yourself Lentil Soup has been my personal “reset” meal for several years!

love this post so much! I too am not one for detoxes / cleanses (I try to shepherd myself away from black-and-white thinking) but I do love the spirit behind eating simply and nourishing intentionally. I love the Full Moon Feast book, and another one along the same lines (if you’re as concerned about lunar cycles as I am) is called The Way of the Happy Woman (given its hokey title, it’s surprisingly good). I truly believe that living in attunement with the seasons–emotionally, mentally, physically–is a kind of simple and ancient wisdom that would help us all to be kinder to ourselves and to others. Your blog, of course, always reminds me of the beauty of eating whole foods and the possibilities of nourishing oneself creatively and aesthetically. Cheers to a new year Heidi!

You put it perfectly, Heidi. My job is to help people establish new, healthy and sustainable wellness habits. Sometimes it’s through a full-on detox, and other times its through gently coaching them through one change at a time – but the goal is always to eat, cook and LIVE with intent and mindfulness. Regardless of the approach, good, *real* food and kindness towards oneself is always the cornerstone.

Hi Heidi! We bought one the wonderful Ceramic steamers and were wondering if you had any great recipes to suggest. We have steamed some salmon and veggies. So good. But we want to venture out. Tried to search recipes on Pinterest to no avail.

I like your balanced approach to cleansing, Heidi. As a Health Coach I also believe in the positive effects of whole, plant-based cleanses. They give us a renewed focus on gentle self-nourishment and mindful eating. And they’re great for resetting unfavorable eating habits and creating more favorable ones, ones that can be weaved throughout our normal lives (beyond the week-long cleanse) so that we can be work to support our body’s cleansing functions throughout the year. Love your link line-up. Thanks for sharing your thoughtful perspective!

For some reason, I love reading about detox diets! I hardly follow any of them to a T, but I love to learn all about them. I’d rather take a healthy approach all year, like you, than a big push in January.

I’ve done the GOOP detox several times and would recommend it.

Hi Heidi – thank you so much for this. Along the same vein as you, I love looking through different cleanses/detox diets. I look forward to January because that seems to be when they all appear. I’ve kept the BA Food Lover’s Cleanse menus/recipes for the last few years and I tend to go back and recycle some of them. It’s fun to try to put together a two-week plan for myself; I look at it as kind of a challenge to tackle some new recipes and stick to a plan rather than to really be on a detox diet or cleanse. I hadn’t seen some of these so thanks for sharing this list!

I love your little (link, link) bit. 🙂 Thanks for the great inspiration! Anything that keeps us focused on eating more greens and wholes (grains, veggies, whatever) is always a welcome treat.

As I read this, I was drinking my green smoothie from the My New Roots winter weekend cleanse. I couldn’t manage to do the full-on cleanse, but the smoothie is surprisingly tasty and filling.

I so agree, Heidi! People are free to follow their curiosity to new things, and integrate the ones that work for and better them into their life. An open, albiet critical mind, is important.

I’m pretty dubious about a lot of the detox diets (there’s a reason why you have a liver, after all), but this month we’ve been getting back to a primarily vegetarian diet and that’s felt right. December and early January weren’t great that way and I’ve been really disinterested in eating meat lately, which is probably a good thing.

While I appreciate everyones effort towards sharing healthy recipes (“detoxes” etc), I wish more people would incorporate lean protein like chicken breast or fish. It helps you stay full and stick to lower calorie meals, which in turn helps you stick with the diet or lifestyle choice longer.
Of course, I understand some people don’t eat meat, but there are plenty of low calorie whole food alternatives! Thanks for sharing these meal ideas!

I have never been one to follow detox’s or cleanses, as my eating never really changes that drastically that I feel the need for a full “reset,” but I do enjoy seeing what others are up to and incorporating new things/ideas into my lifestyle.

Firstly, Jessica’s book is my absolute favorite. I return to it season after season moon after moon! I interviewed her for the ten week course I teach because I wanted to be sure to include her earthy grounded foodways into healing and diet. I just finished co leading a two week cleanse with Claire of VidyaCleanse dot com, worth putting on your radar for her gorgeous whole foods recipes. With the Ayurvedic awareness, we discussed how cleansing this time of year may be cultural, but not usual for our physiology. We focused on self care and Winfrey whole foods. It was very successful, meaning people enjoyed it, felt good, and got new recipes 🙂

LOVE the whole loving actin plan. I have done it twice, and truly the recipes are so filling and satisfying, it doesn’t feel like a diet at all. And I sleep so much better while eating like that as well, it’s crazy!

Hi Heidi – thank you so much for this. Along the same vein as you, I love looking through different cleanses/detox diets. I look forward to January because that seems to be when they all appear. I’ve kept the BA Food Lover’s Cleanse menus/recipes for the last few years and I tend to go back and recycle some of them. It’s fun to try to put together a two-week plan for myself; I look at it as kind of a challenge to tackle some new recipes and stick to a plan rather than to really be on a detox diet or cleanse. I hadn’t seen some of these so thanks for sharing this list!

Reading this as I chow down on your healthy Double Broccoli Quinoa. I have never chimed in here before but just had to say how much I LOVE this recipe. I make it about once a week and devour it each time. Sometimes with little tweaks, like leaving out the 1/2 & 1/2, or adding a little dollop of tahini on top. I never get sick of it! Just wanted to say thank you!