Hip Chick Digs

City girl gets her hands dirty planting an edible garden and raising urban chickens

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The Cleanse: Final Week

March 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment

We have been experimenting with a cleanse diet for the last three weeks. There are several cleanse diets out there and we used one a friend has done for years. The rules are as follows:
*No caffeine, alcohol, drugs of any kind, processed sugar, table salt (sea salt only), meat, dairy, processed foods, unnatural preservatives, all [...]

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The Cleanse: Week 1

February 25th, 2009 · 4 Comments

The first week of a four week cleanse is now behind me. The first two days were pretty rough, as I had an amazing headache from caffeine withdrawal. Day 3-7 was a juice diet, where you can eat any fruits and veggies, but they must be pureed. About Day 4 was when I actually started [...]

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The Cleanse

February 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments

I’m doing a cleanse. Yes, a rid-your-body-of-toxins-hippie-cleanse-detox-thing. It’s hard to say when this idea came about for me, but it was at least a couple years ago. The idea of going on a restricted diet, with no processed foods, seemed like an interesting way to make a fresh start on spring.
In general, I tend to [...]

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