7 Day Detox Diet Plan

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Rather than following an extreme detox plan or detox program that limits just about every food while at the same time getting you to down a nasty ‘detox’ drink every day, this detox plan is safe and sensible and shouldn’t leave you short on nutrients if you follow it for just one week.

 

The 7 day detox diet plan kicks off the detoxifying process, increases you naturally resistance to illness and encourages your brain to produce feel good chemicals.

 

Although this is not really a diet for life and should be only used 3 - 4 times a year, if used correctly it should help you shed off some extra baggage in just seven short days !

 

Below are some detox food that you can include in your seven day home detox. Recipes for detox diet mainly involve vegetables and fruits which you generally have at home.

You can always mix such items in a number of combinations depending upon your taste and mood. Try them out and you yourself would destroy the myth that the raw foods that make up a large part of the detox diet are cold and unwelcoming.

 

Detox Foods To Include In The Detox Diet Plan
Your plan can include:

  • Fruit – your plan can include any fruit including fresh, frozen, dried or canned in natural fruit juice. This includes apples, bananas, pears, oranges, grapefruit, satsumas, sultanas, raisins, pineapple, mango, kiwi fruit, strawberries, raspberries, blackcurrants, nectarines, peaches, melons, star fruit etc.
  
  • Fruit juice – can either make homemade fruit juices or smoothies from fresh fruit, or drink ready-made juices. Make sure ready-made juices are labelled as being ‘pure’ or ‘unsweetened’.
  • Vegetables – you can eat any vegetables including fresh, frozen or canned in water (without salt added). This includes carrots, onions, turnip, swede, sprouts, cabbage, peppers, mushrooms, sweetcorn, peppers, leeks, courgettes, broccoli, cauliflower, salad, tomatoes, cucumber, spring onions etc
  • Beans and lentils – eat any beans, including those that have been dried or canned in water. This includes red kidney, haricot, cannellini, butter, black eye, pinto, red lentils, green lentils and brown lentils
  • Tofu and Quorn
  
  • Oats – sprinkle oats over fresh fruit or use to make porridge, sweetened with honey and fresh fruit
  • Potatoes – all types
  • Brown rice and rice noodles
  • Rye crackers, rice cakes and oatcakes
  • Fresh fish – eat any fresh fish including cod, plaice, mackerel, salmon, lobster, crab, trout, haddock, tuna, prawns, Dover sole, red mullet, halibut, lemon sole, monkfish, swordfish etc. Canned fish in water is suitable too eg salmon or tuna
  • Unsalted nuts – eat any including Brazil, peanuts, almonds, cashew, hazel nuts, macadamia, pecans, pine nuts, pistachio, walnuts etc
  • Unsalted seeds – eat any including sunflower and pumpkin
  • Plain popcorn – without sugar or salt
  • Live natural yoghurt
  • Extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar
  • Garlic, ginger and fresh herbs
  • Ground black pepper
  • Honey
  • Water – at least 2 litres a day. Tap or mineral water is fine
  • Herbal or fruit teas


Foods To Avoid During Your Detox

  • Red meat, chicken, turkey and any meat products like sausages, burgers, and pate
  • Milk, cheese, eggs, cream
  • Butter and margarine
  • Any food that contains wheat including bread, croissants, cereals, cakes, biscuits, pies, pastry, quiche, battered or breadcrumbed foods, etc
  • Crisps and savoury snacks including salted nuts
  • Chocolate, sweets, jam and sugar
  • Processed foods, ready meals, ready-made sauces and takeaways
  • Alcohol
  • Coffee and tea
  • Sauces, pickles, shop bought salad dressing, mayonnaise
  • Salt
  • Fizzy drinks and squashes, including diet versions


Detox Plan Breakfasts

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To help detoxify your body, each morning add 15ml of Pure Plan (available at all good health stores) to 1 litre of still mineral water. This is a mixture of dandelion, burdock, artichoke, fennel, seaweed, wild pansy and tamarind. Make sure you drink the whole bottle during the day.

 

To compensate for any vitamin shortfall, you should also take a Genesis multivitamin pill once a day and two teaspoons of the Swiss Herbal Tonic BioStrath three times a day. These should both be available from health food stores.

 

On top of the daily menus, you can treat yourself to an extra vitality boost by whipping up a fruit smoothie.

 

  • Banana porridge - Porridge made with water and topped with natural yoghurt, banana, raisins and sweetened with honey.
  • Fruit salad with yoghurt and oats - Fresh fruit salad with natural yoghurt and a sprinkling of oats.
  • Fresh fruit smoothie - Fruit smoothie made from fresh fruit, natural yoghurt and honey to sweeten if needed.
  • Muesli and yoghurt - Homemade muesli made from oats, seeds, nuts and dried fruit served with natural yoghurt.
  • Fresh fruit and yoghurt - Fresh fruit and a pot of natural yoghurt sweetened with honey.

 

Detox Plan Lunches

  • Vegetable soup and oatcakes - Large bowl of vegetable or lentil soup (either homemade or supermarket ‘fresh’) with oatcakes
  • Tuna and sweetcorn jacket potato and salad - Jacket potato topped with tuna (canned in water) mixed with sweetcorn and natural yoghurt and served with salad.
  • Mediterranean salad with rice cakes - Rice cakes served with rocket, avocado, tomatoes, fresh basil and black pepper. Plus a handful of unsalted nuts.
  • Avocado and prawn salad - Fresh avocado served with prawns, salad, balsamic vinegar and lemon juice.
  • Jacket potato with grilled cod - Grilled cod fillet served with jacket potatoes and lightly steamed vegetables.

 

Detox Plan Dinners

  • Chinese vegetable stir fry - Stir fry a selection of vegetables such as bok choi, spring onions, mushrooms, bamboo shoots and beansprouts in a little olive oil with garlic and ginger. Serve with brown rice.
  • Baked salmon with jacket potato - Bake a salmon fillet and serve with a jacket potato and steamed vegetables.
  • Tuna and prawns with noodles - Gently fry a selection of vegetables such as onions, mushrooms, peppers, courgette and leek in a little olive oil. When lightly browned, add a handful of prawns. Cook for a few minutes, then add canned tomatoes, tomato puree, black pepper and tuna canned in water. Bring to the boil and simmer until the sauce thickens. Serve with rice noodles.
  • Sweet and sour stir fry with rice - Gently fry a selection of chopped vegetables such as onions, peppers, baby sweetcorn and mushrooms. Add canned pineapple (in fruit juice), canned tomatoes, tomato purée, white wine vinegar and honey. Bring to the boil and simmer until the sauce has thickened. Serve with brown rice.
  • Potato and bean casserole - Gently fry a selection of typical casserole vegetables such as onion, carrots and parsnip in a little olive oil with garlic. When browned, add diced potato and fry for a few minutes. Add fresh vegetable stock, black pepper and your favourite beans. Bring to the boil and simmer until the casserole thickens.

 

Detox Plan Snacks

  • Fresh fruit or fresh fruit salad
     
  • Natural yoghurt mixed with honey
     
  • Plain popcorn
     
  • Handful of unsalted nuts or seeds

 

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