With the holidays officially behind us and a brand new year ahead, my husband Allen & I wanted to kick off 2014 with a renewing detox. We felt it would be a great way to give our immune systems a boost by ridding them of the impurities that undoubtedly built up over the very indulgent holiday season. This is our first time doing a weeklong detox, so we definitely wanted to avoid any extreme juice-only cleanses. Instead, we chose a food-based plan consisting of nutrient dense foods that are easy on the digestive system.

After researching several detox plans/rules, I pulled together a week’s worth of recipes below drawing heavily from Whole Living’s detox menu and Goop’s winter detox, since they share the same medical expert. I tried to choose recipes that had a lot of overlapping ingredients to cut down on costs and chopping/prep. On Sunday…