Quantum Wellness Detox Diet Recipes

Wellness and fulfillment are qualities everyone hopes to incorporate into their lives. One detoxification program designed by Kathy Freston claims to do just that. Freston calls her detox program Quantum Wellness. Its eight pillars promote a healthier life through meditation, a system of daily goals, exercise, and a vegan diet. The Quantum Wellness book contains 45 vegan recipes; each of these meals excludes meat, dairy, alcohol, caffeine, sugar and gluten. The recipes are safe for diabetics and individuals with most food allergies.

Quantum Wellness

• The main focus of the book is conscious eating. Most of us often eat unconsciously and do not even know what and why we are eating. Quantum Wellness challenges the reader to go on a 21 day vegan detox diet to promote conscious mindful eating. Mindful eating is important because it helps us stop our bad eating habits and focuses on eating for sustenance and nutrition rather than in response to boredom, various emotions, gluttonous urges, and pleasure seeking. The book uses a vegan diet plan because the author considers vegan diets are healthier and more humane. The book talks a lot about how inhumane commercial slaughterhouse practices, the fact that many animals we eat for food are pumped full of hormones. Meat and dairy prices are also very high. Eating a vegan diet will help you emotionally, nutritionally, and also financially.

Recipes

• The Quantum Wellness diet excludes animal products, meat, caffeine, alcohol, and sugar. Recipes that are acceptable to eat while on the diet include: steel-cut oatmeal with walnuts, raisins, and agave nectar; a tofu scramble; and a tofu wrap. Ingredients in the tofu scramble are one sweet onion cut into chunks, 5 minced garlic cloves, 2 tbsp. nutritional yeast, 1/2 tsp. ground ginger, 1/2 tsp. chili powder, 1/2 yellow or green bell pepper, seeded and chopped, 1 pound firm tofu cut into bite sized pieces, 2 to 3 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil, fresh ground pepper to taste, fresh snipped chives to taste, and tamari to taste. You heat the oil in a skillet and add the onion, garlic, yeast, and spices, letting them cook for a few minutes. Then add in the mushrooms and peppers, cooking until they are tender. Next, simmer the tofu and tomatoes and sprinkle in the remaining ingredients.

  The tofu wrap ingredients include 4 tbsp. oil, 1 tsp red pepper flakes, vegan steak seasoning, 2 chopped hearts of romaine lettuce, salt and pepper to taste, 4 crushed garlic cloves, lemon juice and zest, and 2 spinach tortilla wraps. Start by heating 2 tbsp. oil in a pan. Then add in the red pepper, steak seasoning, garlic and cook for 10 minutes. Add in the tofu, simmering until it is browned. Allow the ingredients to cool and then mix them into a bowl of lettuce. Add in the lemon zest and juice, salt, remaining oil and pepper. Then slightly heat tortillas and fill them with the lettuce mixture, and wrap them up.