BluePrint Cleanse Review

I promised this post a long time ago, and I have been so bad at blogging this month. The reason, I must confess is that I am moving for the first time in 3 years. Which is the longest I have ever stayed in any one apartment since I moved to LA, 7 years ago. Needless to day I have ALOT of stuff to get rid off and pack. Anyhoo... in the previous post I think I mentioned my frustration with starting the Blue Print Cleanse. Once I started the cleanse I was so happy. I was actually never hungry during the cleanse. There was a brief moment in between juice 3, 4 and 5 of the first day where I thought I was hungry. Key word here, "thought". But it turned out to be more the not chewing thing and more a general getting used to that much fluids in my body and things flushing out.

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BluePrint Cleanse

I have never been a proponent of detoxing your body in extreme ways. I am a firm believer that your body was made to naturally detox. I am a runner and avid outdoors girl and I believe that all the good fresh produce I eat, the nearly 120 ounces of water I drink and my daily sweat is about all I need to detox. Though back when I was bartending in Hollywood, about 5 years ago, I did try the Master Cleanse. It was the most awful experience. I was so sick, I had to be sent home from work on the second day. It was supposed to last for 7 days. That didn't happen. I vowed to never do a juice cleanse again!

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Little Tokyo Food Tour

Last Saturday I scheduled a Six Taste food tour of Little Tokyo as part of the Georgetown University Alumni group of Los Angeles. Of course planned months in advance, no one could have predicted that just days before this tour, would provide us with one of the most devastating disasters in Japanese history.

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Winter Fruit Salad with Zabaione

Fruit salads are usually reserved for those hot summer days when you don't want to turn the oven on to bake something. But I found that January is also a perfect time to re-visit the fruit salad. It's fast, no-cook and a healthy dessert with which to start the New Year.

This recipe came to me out of the need to bring a dish to my monthly book club meeting. This month I thought this salad would be the perfect contribution for a fulfilling and healthy dessert, because I was sure we had all been depriving ourselves since the New Year began a few weeks ago.

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