Yesterday, I shopped at Whole Foods and Rainbow Grocery in preparation for the cleanse. I'm now out $437 and I still need to go to Trader Joe's. Granted, I had to stock up on many condiments (gluten-free soy sauce, etc.) that I wouldn't have to buy every time were I to eat this way permanently. Also, I purchased several brands of certain things -- soy cheese, for example -- to determine which appealed most. I also went crazy on the cleanse-compliant snack foods because that is where I fear I could slip up -- I want to have a lot available to me so I don't.
Breads were the hardest products to find. If they were gluten-free, they often had eggs or sugar. Similarly, yogurts were tough -- coconut-milk yogurts sound great but they contain sugar. Sugar is, in fact, the element of this cleanse that I am most worried about. I now realize how dependent I am not only on my sugar fixes (from mid-afternoon "Heavenly chocolate-chip cookies" from Noah's -- and they ARE heavenly -- to my nighttime peanut butter-chocolate chip concoctions) but also on products that contain sugar, including products (like salad dressing!) that aren't even sweet! This is going to be my greatest challenge. I just don't know if Medjool dates are going to cut it.
I am grateful, however, that we live in San Francisco where excellent organic produce is the norm and places like Rainbow Grocery have so many options for vegan and gluten-free eaters. Leslie
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