Andrea the Gastronaut

I wanted to do a significant post about this on Saturday or Sunday to provide one week notice but the other post took over. Instead, here’s what I’ve got time for before I head to work (I’m a slow blogger):

This time it’s on a weekend, which I think makes it even easier. In the past – and she’s facilitated, what, four of these now? – it was during the week. I imagine that a weekend Friday-Sunday smoothie cleanse is ideal because it removes the challenge/excuse of planning smoothies for work. The remaining challenge is social commitments, but weekends are a good time to relax and recharge and take a break from the social commitments. Personally, most of my social plans tend to be during the week. Some weekends I want to be a hermit.

I encourage you all to participate in this relatively simple, three-day, mid-summer cleanse. You may be skeptical but it’s worth a shot, right? You might get something out of it. If you don’t feel positively affected by it in any way after participating fully and with an open mind you’ve got more ammo for your argument about why you think they’re pointless. (I believe that you don’t know unless you try and one can’t insist that something health related doesn’t work without having experienced it.)  Here’s what Meghan says to first timers, cynics and those who live “on beer and fast food”.

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Of course, if this weekend doesn’t work for you you could do a three-day cleanse on your own if you feel like you could fully participate without the support, or wait for Meghan’s next facilitated cleanse. If memory serves (Meghan, help me out here?)  since spring 2009 she’s lead 3 or 4. Knowing her she’s got the next dates planned. I can see how a weekend at a cottage with barbecue and frosty alcoholic beverages (even Smirnoff Ice) would be more appealing than 3 days of nothing but smoothies. Hell I want such an invitation (minus the Ice). In this case I’d actually encourage you to wait for the next facilitated cleanse if it’s your first time so that you can get the support, but that’s just me. Why not buy the tutorial now if you haven’t already, read through it, and participate when the timing is best for you? Or, incorporate some of the ideas into your every day life now and do an actual cleanse when the time feels right. Every change, no matter how small, makes an impact.

This edition has recipes submitted by her blog readers. One of those recipes came from me, another from my sister. It really is new and improved.

Click here to hear how you can win a copy of Meghan’s brand spanking new Guided Meditation Program! Enter by day end Friday.

I’ve started tweeting “smoothie of the day” (sometimes referred to as “SmOTD”) every morning from Monday to Friday. I’ll try to get into the habit of hashtagging these.

Eat well, be well.

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Meghan’s running another contest. The winner will receive a delicious assortment of teas from nourishtea as well as the box collection of e-guides from Meghan valued at over $130.

Pop on over to her blog, check out the contest and tell her your favourite herbal tea or tea blend. If you feel so inclined, tell her that I sent you.

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As I mentioned a couple of weeks back, Meghan’s updated her Green Smoothie Cleanse tutorial.

The next three-day challenge begins on August 6!

Read all about it here and watch her video.
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This edition has recipes submitted by her blog readers. One of those recipes came from me, another from my sister. It really is new and improved.

It’s smoothilicious!

Eat well, be well.

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From Meghan Telpner’s well-being arsenal comes her latest tutorial, Healing with Everyday Superfoods. Take a look. The cover is one of my favourite colours.

5 Days Healing with Superfoods

The first group challenge will start on Sunday, April 18th. The tutorial is now available for purchase, for the low price of $12.

You don’t have to participate in the group challenge in order to use the tutorial but here are a some advantages to the group challenge:

• Themed posts on Meghan’s blog all week.
• Twitter coaching (@meghantelpner)
• Group support through Meghan’s blog.

5 Days Healing with Everyday Superfoods, in Meghan’s words:

If food is what is making us sick in our society, what if we amp up our diets and use food to resolve the problem too. What if we looked at food as our fuel, as our medicine and made it easy, delicious, and so uber powerful that our body had no choice but to heal and repair itself? That is what this tutorial is about.

The more I began to learn about the healing properties of these superfoods, the more of them I wanted in my diet. What was missing for me, in everything I was reading, was the inherent lack of practicality. Some might argue that being able to throw everything into a blender, stir it together, and drink your meal down is the ultimate in practical. True, it might be for some people. But what about the people who have families to feed, who want to sit down to a meal with others, who get genuine pleasure from being in the kitchen and finding creative ways to blend raw superfoods, cooked superfoods and plain old whole, unprocessed foods into delicious meals?  That is where this tutorial comes in.

I will show you how to incorporate these superfoods into your everyday eating.

The guide contains 60 + pages of info including (but of course not limited to):

•    The Definition of a Superfood
•    Benefits of Whole Foods
•    Food as Fuel
•    Food as Medicine
•    Challenges with Food Guides and Diets
•    Calories Versus Nutrition
•    Benefits of Raw

Additional Resources
•    Conscious Eating
•    Sprouting 101
•    Food and Mood Journal
•    Whole Foods Shopping List
•    Blank Meal Plan Template

Even if this is not a program you want to follow full on right now, or even in the near future, the information included will  enlighten many of your food decisions and help you to understand how easily you can super-power your eating everyday!

You can read more about the Healing with Everyday Superfoods tutorial on her website here and here.

Also check out Meghan’s other e-tutorials: Green Smoothie Cleanse, Low GI eating, 5 Days Vegan, and The Lunar Cycle: Hormone Balance.

Meghan’s tutorials are her answer to the many questions and comments she gets via email and on her blog from people who are feeling challenged in their endeavors to transition to a healthier way of living but don’t know where to begin. She synthesizes years of nutrition education, kitchen experience, teaching experience, client/consultation experience, and her big book shelf into the vital information you need to know in one concise package. The guides are interesting, inspiring and at some points quirky, like Meghan herself. Meghan tries to make the meal plans and recipes easy, achievable and sustainable.

Regarding her e-tutorials, she says: “I am in no way working to convert anyone to any single way of eating, only to explore new and healthy foods, and new and healthy practices so my readers can decide what works for them and what doesn’t on an individual basis.”

Visit Meghan’s store to see everything she has to offer (for sale, that is).

Eat well, be well.

Edit: No, I’m not running a contest. Maybe I will in the future but I don’t think I have enough readers to make it fun. I’d want people fighting for it.

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