One Week Wholefoods Challenge – Feb 2012!
February 12, 2012 | Posted by Annette @ Wellness WA 
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Roll up, roll up! It’s time for a bite sized challenge that will kick-start your wellbeing and have you equal parts zinging with energy and cruising with calm. Sound good? Then read on.
So here’s the deal:
♥ For one week from Monday 13th of February – Sunday 19th December I am going to be doing my darnedest to eat only wholefoods. This means no junk food like: chips, chocolate, burgers, icecream, candy, biscuits etc. I would like you to join me if you feel so inspired!
♥ What can we have instead?
Instead we will feast like Kings, Queens & other noble folk on everything that is GOOD FOR US! 🙂 This means wholefoods and herbal teas, smoothies and lean sources of protein – I would encourage you to cut out as much meat as possible for this one week, if you eat it, otherwise try and get free range! You can get all your protein needs met from vegetable sources such as lentils, chickpeas, beans, avocados and, my favourite, quinoa!
♥ How do I keep track?
Commenting on this post! I’ll be coming back and updating my diet day-by-day so you can check out what I’ve been eating, I’d love you to share your daily menus (and how you’re feeling) in the comments section below and ask any questions you need answered + check out what other healthy delights participants have been tucking into.
♥Recipes & resources:
These links should help you on your way! Remember, if you have any questions or need support then post a comment below, lets try and help each other out 🙂
Recipes
♥ Fresh & Easy Summer Quinoa Salad – a staple of mine.
♥ Stove cooked porridge, plus roasted almond snack
♥ The Amazing Epic Salad of Goodness / Life (TM) – !
♥ Mango, Avocado & Butter Bean Salad
♥ Amazing looking superfood salad
♥ A Basic Green Smoothie Recipe
♥ Green smoothie #1
♥ Avocado, apple & berry smoothie – a fun twist on the regular green smoothie.
♥ Blueberry, banana & cashew butter smoothie
♥ Healthy, snacky, fruity balls
♥ Superfood Raw Fudge Balls – perfect for dessert, or when you just want something sweet!
Resources
♥ List of whole foods from WH Foods – this website is the BEST resource! They have tonnes of recipes, all super healthy and tasty. Make good friends with this page!
♥ Teresa Cutter – healthy Aus chef with incredible whole foods recipes.
PS. If you have any fantastique links to recipes etc please mention in the comments and I will add to the resources list!
SO LETS GET STARTED! Kick off monday morning with a healthy bang, personally I’ll be having a green smoothie to start my day. Comment below to get started! XOXOX
Monday
Breakfast
Green smoothie consisting of – frozen banana, 2 handfuls of baby spinach, large glass of water, 1 cup of frozen blueberries, 1 tbsp pepitas, 1 tbsp organic beauty oil, 1 tbsp liquid vitamin b, 1 tsp floradix (mega smoothie!)
Lunch
Chickpea, avocado, cucumber, pineapple & black sesame seed salad (so good)
Snack
Bowl of Anskos brown rice porridge w/plum, apple & cinnamon
Dinner
2 x avocado on rye toast w/salt, mashed chick peas & sweet potato.
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Breakfast
1 x Nudie Orange, Pineapple & Mango Smoothie (Had a crazy morning and was in a giant rush!)
Lunch
Mashed sweet potato and chickpeas
Dinner
Salad – 4 bean mix, dried cranberries, avocado, tomato.
Salad – cucumber, tomato & lettuce
Coconut water
Hummus & healthy crackers
Strawberries
(Valentines picnic!!)
Snacks
Sicilian herb & garlic roasted chick peas
&hearts (Wednesday, if you didn’t guess!)
Breakfast
Quinoa, pepitas & banana mixup
1 x Reboot Your Life Very Berry Good juice – and wow, was it good! More to come on this…
Lunch
Leftover four bean salad with quinoa & diced yellow capsicum and tomato
Green juice from PAWS Cafe
Dinner
A large corn cob, quinoa w/pepitas & lightly steamed zucchini
Snacks
Raw apple crumble with cashew cream from the PAWS Cafe (ahhh-mazing!)
Disclaimer: I’m no doctor, if you have a medical condition or are currently undergoing any form of medical treatment or taking medication, please check with your general practitioner before commencing any new program of eating.
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Tags: green smoothies, healthy challenge, teresa cutter, wellness wa, whole foods | 
19 Comments »
Looking forward to joining you all 🙂
Welcome Chizelle! 😀 Can’t wait to see what everyone will be eating for the week. x
I’m in, I’m in! Are there any no-no’s apart from junk? xx
I’m going to be trying for as little processed food as possible, and no coffee (which is easy for me since I don’t drink it anyway, ha!) but really it’s up to you how far you’d like to take it 🙂
If you want to switch some tea and coffees for something more herbal – peppermint or rosehip would be great – then please do so!!!
Anyone care to share their food diary for the day so far? 🙂
Day One-derful…
ACV & water, green juice, avocado on spelt toast sprinkled with Chia seeds (the grown up girls fairy bread?), fruit & organic yoghurt with buckwheat tips and almonds, quinoa chickpea and rocket salad with lemon-y dressing (thank you Louis Baxter inspiration)… Now my hardest descision is raw gogi cacao or almond milk chai tea for dessert!?
Everyone else? aaandd go!….
Hello!
My day has been:
Breafkfast: home made hazlenut+vanilla muffin (sugar+wheat free) with sheep natural yoghurt and organic rasperries
Lunch: salmon+avo sushi plus miso – on the run this was the healthiest I could find! But white rice doh!
Dinner: baked salmon with quinoa, roasted pumpkin, zuchini, garlic, lemon, mint+more avo
Snack: Artisana raw cocnut butter (to die for!), organic cashew butter, spirulina, barley grass juice
Yuuum! I love reading what others eat so please post!
Day 1 (yesterday) – brekkie: banana/yoghurt/maca powder/chia seeds
Lunch: homemade spelt pizza with roasted veg
Snacks: 1 clementine and some raw nuts
Dinner: fried rice
Late night snack: yoghurt!
No junk! No coffee! Yay 🙂
Everyone’s meals sound SO yum! I’m all for small changes & have been having lots of herbal tea (instead of black tea) 🙂 And coconut water with hibiscus is really delicious & a refreshing “pick me up” afternoon drink!! x
LOVING reading all your meal plans, so inspiring.
Karen, your muffin sounds incredible and Sarah I love your whole day of eating!!!!
YUM. I’ve been updating mine as I go along, stay strong everyone 🙂 xox
I am giving it a shot too! Not completely whole, but close!
Today I had delicious grapes, strawberries, yoghurt and muesli for breakfast, vegetable and prawn stir fry for lunch, almonds and tuna for a snack, roast zucchini, tomato and haloumi for dinner, and for a snack I made some sugar free bran, date & banana muffins!
After a 10 day gourmet holiday in Tasmania and a weekeend of cheese board indulgence in Rotto it’s time to detox…I started Monday too.
On the menu today:
Breakfast – two scrambled eggs on organic ryvita (you should always have proteins in your breakfast)
Snack – a banana, a handful of almonds and four brazil nuts.
Lunch – quinoa salad with grilled zucchini and eggplant, feta and lots of parsley (great diuretic if feeling bloated)
Snack – five strawberries
Dinner – grilled home made koftas with cucumber and yoghurt salad, tomato and parsley salsa and a healthy green salad sprinkled with finger limes (never tried before, quite fun)
Drinks – a couple of cups of oolong tea (aids weight loss), decaf green tea and coconut water.
Sorry!!!! Completely forgot to come back and fillin what I’m up to.
As you may (or may not) know I am participating in a 365 day challenge of The Earth Diet – 365 Days sugar free, preservative free, MSG free, chemical free, GMO free, flavourings free, hormone free, artificial anything free.
Today was day 199!
I started the day with 2 litres of water, followed by a litre of Green Smoothie. I usually do a litre of Green Juice but I have been very slack this week and been juiceless 🙁
Lunch was roast vegetables and dinner was pumpkin soup.
I did have another litre of water on it’s own and 1 litre of water with fresh lemon and a pinch of celtic salt, 2 x soy flat whites and 1/2 dozen squares of raw chocolate.
I’ll come back tomorrow and keep you up-dated 🙂
Managed to do a healthy Valentine’s dinner apart from the wine! Smoked salmon with avo, fresh tuna steak with home-made salsa verde, portabella mushroom baked with fresh goats cheese and spinach and berries+natural yoghurt for pud 🙂
Yesterday I had:
Bfast: natural yoghurt, berries and cashew butter
Lunch: rye toast topped with fresh goats cheese+avo
Snack: home made coconut ice cream…simply frozen organic coconut cream! With kiwi+strawberries, handful of nuts
Dinner on the run: brown rice tuna sushi (thanks Nippon!)
Drinks: water, rooibos tea, green tea, super greens powder drink
I’ve been to Organic on Charles today to stock up. Planning a dinner of quinoa with a homemade sauce with basil, tomatoes, leeks, zuchini, garlic and pumpkin, with some organic trout fillets….
Day 200 of my Earth Diet challenge!!!
Celebrated it with loads and loads and loads of Green Smoothie and am finishing up with organic pumpkin soup
I was very tempted by an after work drink but declined, came home and cooked a yummy concoction of roasted asparagus, tomatoes+pumpkin served as a warm salad with chickpeas, vegan pesto, avo and crumbled sheep milk feta. YUUUMMM!
I want to come to your house for dinner Karen! Hehe 🙂 XX
I love this challenge – have been currently diagnosed by my naturopath as being too acidic and having too much yeast in my stomach/intestines so am following the Candida diet. Great help for some meal ideas through everyones posts 🙂