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Alkaline Detox & Cleansing Recipes
Recipes to Help You Cleanse & Detox Your Body
Your Dream Health, Energy & Vitality

2. The Alkaline Cleanse
What is an Alkaline Cleanse
Put most simply, an alkaline cleanse involves consuming raw, fresh, alkaline soups, juices
and smoothies for a period of between 3 and 10 days (and beyond for some!).
The sole aim of an alkaline cleanse is to flood the body with an abundance of easily ab-
sorbed and assimilated alkalising nutrients so that the body can detoxify, cleanse and re-
build itself.
In simple terms, you give your body all the good stuff it needs, and none of the bad stuff
that harms it, in a way that it is as easy as possible for your body to digest and use (i.e. as a
liquid).
This might sound like you are starving yourself, but in reality the opposite is true. You con-
sume a LOT of nutrients, a LOT of calories and a LOT of food! You don’t go hungry. If you feel
hungry, you have some more.
What Else? Surely there is something else?
True, you also consume a lot of water during the cleanse. Good quality, clean, pure water. I
also like to have herbal teas, ginger tea especially, alongside warm lemon water.

3. What Should We Avoid?
Everything else! If you are consuming only fresh, raw, cleansing, alkaline soups, juices and smoothie
don’t really need to know a full and exhaustive list of things you will be avoiding! But if you are new
ing there could be some gray areas for you, so here is a selection in no particular order.
Foods To Avoid While Cleansing (and when alkalising in general!)
Sugar
Saturated fats
Trans fats
Crisps
Chocolate
Fizzy drinks
Bread
White pastas, rice, noodles etc
Simple carbs
High sugar fruit (all fruit except lemons, limes, grapefruit, avocado, tomato)
Alcohol
Tobacco
Dairy
Meat
Refined foods
Frozen foods
Condiments
Yeasts
Fermented foods
Eggs
Mushrooms
Caffeine
Corn
Anything microwaved

4. Exercise on the Alkaline Cleanse
While cleansing it is a great idea to keep active, but try to make sure it is aerobic and not
anaerobic (resistance) training. It is not a good idea to over-exert yourself. Walking, light jog-
ging or even better rebounding is excellent.
Exercising aerobically helps to flush your body of toxins through your sweat, breath and
lymph (rebounding is especially good for pumping your lymph around your body!).
Anything too strenuous such as resistance training can cause dizziness and weakness, and
some anaerobic exercise, while good for you, can lead to the temporary production of acids,
which is exactly what you are trying to avoid during the cleanse.
Remember – our aim is to make it as easy as possible for the body to heal itself.
Stick to exercise that, intuitively, you know will help with this!
If you have any questions you can contact me on ross@energiseforlife.com
Happy cleansing!
Energise Ross

5. Energise Alkaline Green Drink
The core green-drink and our most popular recipe!
Serves: 2
Preparation Time: 10 Minutes
Ingredients:
2 sticks of celery
1 cucumber ( medium to large)
2 large handfuls of spinach leaves
1 large handful of lettuce ( any-
dark green preferably)
Optional:
Lemon/Lime - freshly squeezed
Green powder
pH drops
Kale
Parsley
Any other greens (just nothing
onion or garlic-based!)
Instructions:
1 Thoroughly wash all of the ingredients and slice thinly enough to
pass through the juicer. I recommend that you cut the celery into
quite small pieces as the stringy fibres can get caught up in the
juicer, especially if you are using a masticating juicer.
2 Once all of the ingredients have been juiced, add the green
powder and pH drops and stir thoroughly. If you find the taste
too ‘vegetable-y’ you can squeeze in fresh lemon or lime. This
makes it both more alkaline and tasty!
Note: This is a highly alkaline green drink. I personally drink this
more than any other juice or smoothie. It is fresh, nutritious and
keeps me buzzing for hours!

6. Ultimate Alkaline Liver Cleanse Juice
The Easiest, most cleansing juice for the liver - and it is just so refreshing.
Serves: 2
Preparation Time: 5 Minutes
Ingredients:
2 large grapefruits
4 lemons
300ml of water (preferably filtered)
2 tablespoons of Udo’s Choice (or
cold pressed flax oil)
1-2 cloves of fresh garlic
2 inches of fresh root ginger
Optional:
A clash of cayenne pepper!
Instructions:
1 Squeeze the juice of the grapefruit and lemon into a blender by
hand.
2 Next, grate the garlic and the ginger, and then using a garlic
press, squeeze this into the juice.
3 Now add the water, Udo’s Choice and blend for 30 seconds.
4 Add more ginger/garlic to taste and enjoy cold!

7. Alkaline Avocado Power Shake!
Filling, nutritious, alkaline and satisfying - keeps you on top of your game for hours!
Serves: 2
Preparation Time: 15 Minutes
Ingredients:
1 cucumber
2 tomatoes
1 avocado
1 handful spinach leaves
1 lime
½ red pepper
½ teaspoon vegetable stock
1 scoop Mega Greens (optional)
1 scoop Super Soy Sprouts
(optional)
1 tablespoon Udo’s Choice
(optional)
Instructions:
1 Wash all of the ingredients thoroughly and then chop the
cucumber, tomato, pepper and avocado roughly.
2 Dissolve the vegetable stock in a small amount (50ml) of warm
water.
3 Place the avocado and stock in the blender and mix into a paste.
4 Next, add the high water content ingredients (cucumber, tomato
etc) into a blender and blend until they are becoming more
liquid.
5 Finally add the spinach, lime and supplements and blend until all
ingredients are thoroughly mixed.
Serve in a tall glass.

8. Alkalising Raw Soup
High in good fats and also cucumber which is well known for its cleansing properties
Serves: 2
Preparation Time: 20 Minutes
Ingredients:
1 avocado
2 onions
1/2 red or green pepper
1 cucumber
2 handfuls of spinach
1/2 clove of garlic
Bragg Liquid Aminos to taste
100ml of light vegetable Bouillon
(yeast free)
Juice of 1 lemon or lime
Optional: coriander, parsley,
cumin.
Instructions:
1 Blend the avocado and stock to form a light paste, then add the
other ingredients and blend.
Simple as that!

9. Alkalising Cucumber & Watercress Soup
Fast, filling and highly alkaline raw soup
Serves: 2
Preparation Time: 30 Minutes
Ingredients:
1/2 bunch of spring onions,
chopped
1 large cucumber, deseeded and
chopped
2 bunches of watercress (or as
much as you like, to taste, keep
adding more and more if you like!)
1¾ pint water yeast free
vegetable stock (cooled)
(Himalayan) Salt and freshly
ground black pepper
Instructions:
1 Chop, slice and dice all of the ingredients and place in a blender.
2 Make the stock by putting a small amount of hot water onto the
stock cube or bouillon and once melted, top up with cold water.
3 Add this to the blender too and then blend it all up! Serve chilled
with an ice cube per bowl.

10. What happens next?
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Energise Ross