The grocery store tour...

The first adventure was the grocery store tour...our cleanse leader Coralie was generous with her time by arranging to have a local Superstore open at 8 am on Sunday morning to allow us to explore the vegan, organic and food sections of the store...did I mention this cleanse was Uber vegan?

No?...well no meat or fish, cheese, milk or other dairy, no wine, coffee, tea or pop...no processed food...no breads...I could go on...

But what is left is surprisingly large...organic fruit and veggies, sweet potato, grains (like Quinoa (pronounced „KEEN-WAH”), Spelt, Kamut, Steel-cut and Scottish Oats), Beans (legumes) and Lentils...Nuts and Seeds...Small Amounts of Real Organic Maple Syrup, Agave, Yacon Syrup, Honey...Brown Rice, Brown Rice Pasta and Brown Rice Tortillas...Olive, Flax Seed, Hemp, and Coconut Oil...

We spent 2 hours in the store, and I was amazed at what I did not even know was on offer...AMAZED!!!

Needless to say my cupboard had NOTHING in it that remotely was needed by this cleanse...I take that back, I had one bottle of apple cider vinegar and one bottle of pure organic maple syrup...

So some shopping was and has been in order...and I have been slowly stocking up on some of the items I need...

I was warned by several folks who had done this, to do some preliminary getting ready this week before the `real cleanse`...as it is a detox, you can get lots of the following:

 Headaches
 Lethargy
 Bloating
 Diarrhea
 Vomiting
 Dizziness
 Constipation
 Irritability

Not everyone gets all, and some get none...but rather than be surprised, I have been weaning myself of sugar and coffee mostly, today and will do that for the rest of this week...;-) trying to ensure that the move to the real cleanse will be less traumatic to my system ;-)

To help with this...only one cup of coffee today (and I love my COFFEE) and I had a salad (spinach and peppers) with the cleanse basic dressing and it was YUMMY (see if I still say that in 6 weeks) LOL

The dressing was simple: minced garlic, juice of half a lemon, olive oil, pepper to taste, and 1 tbs maple syrup (optional)...I put that in...wisked it and let the flavors sit for a bit...so good!

Well enough for now...Day 2 of the pre-cleanse tomorrow! ;-)