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Winter Detox: recipes to get into shape and health

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Written by EFW Staff

It’s high time for Winter Detox!

After the huge Christmas binges and Holidays toast, it is time to get into shape and detox the organism. To do this, it is necessary to get rid of meat, sauces, lasagna, preferring a light diet to allow the body to detox and restore the lost energy because of too much Panettone.

If you feel tired, weary, sleepy and without energy, this is the alarm bell from your body that is too stressed because of a diet too heavy to digest.
Hide the leftovers of pot roasts and nutmeg and commit yourself to the Winter Detox.

Winter Detox is a journey that will help you to deflate and restore your energy preferring fruits, vegetables and grain. Here you can find some tips to follow and 4 recipes to start off on the right foot.

Winter detox: what you should get rid of

To detox it would be perfect to reduce for a couple of weeks:

  • Salt
  • White sugar
  • Refined flours, pasta and leavened products
  • Industrial and pre-packed products
  • Alcohol and coffee
  • Meat and cheese

Winter Detox: what you should eat

  • Room for raw food: start the meals with raw salads with fruit and vegetable enriched with vegetable fats like avocado and olive oil or dried fruit such as walnuts, cashew nut and almonds. Apple, pears, spinach and valerian, but also chicory, fennel and oranges… wide room for fantasy.
  • Liquids: extracts, centrifuged juices and smoothies are perfect for breakfast or as a snack. Mix vegetables and fruit to have the right nutrients, without giving up taste. To hydrate your body choose plenty of green tea and detox infusions.
  • Fruit and vegetable: better if seasonal, like cabbage, broccoli, spinach, chard and fennels. Reduce Solanaceae as potatoes, eggplants and tomatoes. Limit the tropical fruit and prefer apples, pears, kiwi, bananas and any kind of citrus.
  • Grains: porridge and oat flakes for breakfast, and for your meals: black rice, basmati rice but also quinoa and amaranth, rich in proteins, or millet and buckwheat.
    Substitute pasta, bread and pizzas with these grains, pretty nourishing without increasing the glycaemic index that much
  • Seeds and sprouts: enrich your soups, smoothies and salads with roasted seeds for a perfect refill of vitamins: linen, pumpkin, sunflower, chia and hemp. Rich in mineral salts and vitamins.

Winter Detox: recipes

Oat porridge and fresh fruit

porridge

For a refill of vegetable proteins, you should choose oat. Pour a half cup of vegetable milk (almond, soy or rice) and half water in a small pot, and make boil. Add three spoons full of oat flakes, a teaspoon of chia seeds, a dust of cinnamon and a teaspoon of honey. Cook for 10’ until it reach a creamy consistency and pour in a cup. Sprinkle with cinnamon or cocoa and decorate, as you like, with slices of bananas, kiwi or walnuts and raisin.

Green pureed soup with quinoa

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Steam broccoli rabe and a white turnip in few water. Once softened, blend them with a small piece of saffron, lemon zest, half an avocado. Season with pepper and sesame seeds.
Aside, boil the quinoa for 15 minutes and mix with the cream. Complete with a drizzle of oil and serve.

Green Smoothie

Start your day with a refill of energy! Blend a Fuji apple together with ¼ avocado, half banana, a teaspoon of honey, and half glass of water or rice milk.

Red Smoothie

This smoothie is perfect for the winter time and foresee pomegranate grains, already shelled, blended with banana and an half apple. Decorate with fresh and juicy red grains.

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