Summer 2009 – Ease-In Day 1 Soup, Salads, No Processed Foods and No Meat

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Summer 2009 – Ease-In Day 1 Soup, Salads, No Processed Foods and No Meat
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Posted on 06. Jul, 2009 by Mike in My Experience, Summer 2009

I planned for three types of eating today: snacks to get me by until I could make and eat some soup, followed by a salad in the evening.

My menu for today included

Snacks for Master Cleanse Ease-In

1 whole grain bun
Organic peanut butter
1 avocado
2 tomatoes
blackberries

Lunch

Veggie Soup

This was only the second time I have tried to make a vegetable soup. The first time was on the Ease-out from Fall 2008. It didn’t turn out great. The veggies were soggy, but the broth tasted okay. The base was mainly onion and mushroom.

Since that time, I have made a few soups with my grandma and my girlfriend, who cooks like a grandma. I think I have the process down, but as they say, practice makes better, and since I haven’t practiced much, I suppose I was asking too much to expect more than a moderate improvement from the last time.

I went shopping on an empty stomach, while coming off a weekend of fast food, so I was craving everything I saw. I probably bought too much, but if there is too much left over, I will just juice it tomorrow.

Vegetable Soup Ingredients for my Master Cleanse

1 large onion
1/2 small red cabbage
4 small beets
3 sticks of celery
4 small red potatoes
2 wedges of garlic
6 large Brussels sprouts

Cumin
All Spice
Garlic powder
Flaked onion

I began by sautéing the onion in a large pot with olive oil. I soon noticed that I didn’t have enough olive oil for my onion – or did I have too much onion for my olive oil? I then realized even quicker that I have no ideas on quantities, but I proceeded anyway – the onion was cooking and the clock was ticking… and besides, I was hungry.

I found more oil, but not until after I’d added some chopped red cabbage to the sautéed onion. I added some cumin and All Spice to the growing base, which was cooking so fast that I had not prepared the next ingredients, so I don’t know, maybe add water now? That decision combined with my first to make two critical mistakes, the first being the overdone onion and cabbage sauté.

So, I had a large soup pot. Too large maybe, but certainly large enough that I decided to add more water than was probably necessary (mistake number two). Now that the water was in, I decided my next ingredient would be the beets. My Grandma always says that to make a borscht, just add beets. While I wasn’t making a borscht, I was adding beets, so perhaps I was still making one by Grandma’s standards.

Having loosely contributed to my girl’s first attempt at borscht recently (by that, I mean I watched and ate), I learned by osmosis that the beets take forever to cook. I would later Google some advice on this, but not until after my potatoes were soggy… oh no, I just gave away the consequence of mistake number 3 – I didn’t cook the beets long enough or early enough, or separate enough, or whatever enough.

At this point, my bed (soup), was made and all I could do was scramble to the finish in an attempt to salvage something soup-like. Grandma also says to throw in whatever is at hand in order to rescue the situation. So I started grabbing more salt (the base was weak from too much water), more spice and onion flakes. Finally, I caved and added a can of pre-made lentil soup. It was organic, at least, containing only pure ingredients, so I was fairly happy with these emergency additives to my fresh soup. They looked like they helped a little.

Well, they did, but only a little. I ate two bowls and my uncle managed one. It’s okay, but certainly not great. I learned some good lessons, and am looking forward to the Ease-Out.

I had planned to make a salad today, but it is late and I am tired. I am going to pass on the salad for now, and juice like a mad-man tomorrow. That soup did me in. Guess I will have another bowl.

Salad

Postponed due to soupiness.

Tags: Ease-In, Master Cleanse Experience

10 Responses to “Summer 2009 – Ease-In Day 1 Soup, Salads, No Processed Foods and No Meat”

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Wanderlusting

14. Jul, 2009

@Nikia: Most people who smoke ending up quitting for the cleanse…you aren’t really detoxing if you smoke during it.

I don’t smoke though but I understant that quitting smoking AND eating at once is double hard. So if it worries you, I would suggest continue smoking, but cut back and certainly don’t smoke more than normal.

As for weed – I almost did (I live in BC) but decided not to. It would have made me super dizzy and would have lowered my willpower. It’s pretty easy to go 10 days without weed, so I wouldn’t smoke it if I were you. It’s not worth it.

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Nikia

14. Jul, 2009

Can you smoke cigarettes? Or weed?

I am 22 and I am like 195 pounds… 5’9 and I’d like to lose 50 pounds. I’d look really skinny, but then I’d be really happy. I’m going to be starting with Ease-In day 1 tomorrow. And I need to know can you smoke cigarettes or weed on the diet because those are two things that I do and will affect my decision to do thise diet.

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Christine

12. Jul, 2009

Eased in with fresh pomegranate juice for breakfast. Lunch was carrot, beet and orange juice followed by mango, orange juice. I was just having fun with my VitaMix. Spinich broth for dinner with a couple of sesame crackers. Just had some senna tea before bed. I feel great and skin looks great. Can’t wait to have a salad and some fruits. Yummy avocado with mango…tomato with cucumber. I think its important to take some probiotic (plain curd/yogurt)for intestinal flora

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Paula Hicks

08. Jul, 2009

So many different areas to write in and I want to make sure I am putting my comments in the right spots. Still new to the whole blog/comment thing online. I usually just grab someone out of the friend network and do the cleanse with them and of course last time it was actually my husband who did it with me and wishes to do it again but doesn’t want to start in the middle of the week so he starts on Sat and my job is to get him ready by doing his ease in meals as he comes home from work and also packing him good meals for the day. I am pretty good about not eating the bad stuff till I am way deep in the cleanse and then for some strange reason I give in while milling my own whole wheat berries and making fresh bread for the family- so this time I told them NO BREAD! I don’t want to over think the food thing as I truly believe you can get over it quickly if you just replace the thoughts with all the good you are doing to your body and really let yourself feel that goodness.
I made sure and had plenty of whole foods cut and ready to snack on for the ease in and even over the weekend with friends- we went to a drive in movie and I pulled out the grapes and they were better than any candy or popcorn, and this time a year all the yummies are right at your fingertips so that the rest of the family also has stuff the minute they feel hunger they can reach for something healthy instead of the processed stuff. I am hoping this will actually be the time my teens will try this at least a couple days and see how it makes them feel better.

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Nedje

07. Jul, 2009

@shanette No hun, can’t do coffee… no caffine. I’m not a heavy coffee drinker but I do have a cup sometimes. I hope you are not a heavy coffee drinker becuase from what i’ve heard from others who are they experience bad headaches and go through withdrawl. You should be fine on the cleanse, just follow it eexactly as it is in the book.

Ease In Day Two I just juiced and had a salad. No soup.. it’s only me and that’s just too much for one day.. I took the simple and quick route.

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ilyrlpjr

07. Jul, 2009

Shanette,

No you can’t. It says there that stay away from caffeine. It’s going to be hard when you start the Lemonade cleanse because you would have some caffeine withdrawal so it’s better to stay away right now than later. Good luck to all of us.

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ilyrlpjr

07. Jul, 2009

Ease-in Day 1: I was doing pretty good, I ate garden salad for lunch but then I cheated during dinner, because yesterday is my brother’s birthday. I was thinking of not going to his party but then my mom would ask so many question blah blah, so I came and ended up eating meat and rice and sweets lol. I drank some tea because I couldn’t sleep, for some reason I felt like my stomach is so heavy. I don’t know if it’s because I suddenly ate too much. Anyway, so today supposed to be my Day 2, I’m doing Day 1 ease in and then I’m gonna do Day 3 tomorrow. I’m bypassing Day 2. I just had soup and some mangoes and orange juice. I am not sure if I’m doing the right thing now…

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shanette

07. Jul, 2009

I just found this website and just in time. I decided this weekend that I was going to do this because I tipped the scale at 190. I was just 182 when school ended June 4. I work in the school system, so I decided that I wouold take a break from the Gym and from eating right, and do absolutley nothing until after the fourth. Well we see where that got me. I’m afraid of pills so this will be the best way for me to start “anew”.I juiced yesterday for breakfast and dinner and had a spinach salad for lunch without knowing that there was an ease in day. So i’m ready and focused. Good luck to everyone.
Can I have coffee??

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Valerie

07. Jul, 2009

I’m surprised at what people ate on ease-in day 1! Peanut butter and popsicles?! I wish! I was very strick; had a garden salad for lunch (slept in and skipped bfast!), a strawberry and papaya smoothie for snack, and raided the whole foods salad bar for an early dinner, topping my night off with a cup of homemade soup. I have to admit though that I was really craving meat and cheese all day, I think those two cravings will be the hardest to overcome.

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Lori

06. Jul, 2009

Ease in Day 1 was pretty fine so far.
I admit I did fudge on what I ate but having little resources, I had a yogurt for breakfast, an ice pop (which was mostly water and coloring) as my snack and then some bing cherries later in the evening.
I’m feeling good, I know its not quite processed food free, but it honestly was the best I could do.
I can’t wait for Day 1!!!

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