When my plane was delayed in Jiuzhaigeo China, as well as now where my Service Center took away my DVD player (when I am recovering from surgery!) I have relied on Kimberly Snyder's book The Beauty Detox Solution.  You can check out her blog here . It's worth looking at, it's much better than my blog. Plus she is so pretty and smart.

I haven't been eating so good these "recovering" days; a lot of malt shakes a lot of guacamole. My body feels gross.

Anyways, I think I am going to try to follow her detox. It's hard because I don't have a juicer one of the most basic essentials. There is a lot of her ideas which just arn't accessible in China, such as using unpasteurized miso paste in your salad (substitute kimchi), gluten-free crackers and grapeseed oil. Hell, it's even hard to find avocados in Carrefour.  But there are many things that I can do! I already don't eat dairy for the most part, so cutting that out isn't a big deal. And I could always eat more vegetables! 

This is the recipe for her "morning smoothie" which is an ideal breakfast.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups water
1 head organic romaine lettuce, chopped
3-4 stalks organic celery
1/2 head of a large bunch or 3/4 of a small bunch of spinach
1 organic apple, cored and chopped
1 organic pear, cored and chopped
1 organic banana
Juice of 1/2 fresh organic lemon

optional:
1/3 bunch organic cilantro (stems okay)
1/3 bunch organic parsley (stems okay)

This is a lot of food when you think about it. Like a lot of bulk.  But it's blended!