Detox snacks

Healthy Snacks For Your Detox

Planing is important to help make the food changes required for a good liver or system cleanse. We love to snack and having a list of healthy snacks for your detox can be very handy when you just need something to munch. Here is a good list to chew on. And, of course, organic whenever possible.

Snacks Not Packaged

• Apples, celery, or carrots with almond or sunflower butter (cane sugar an ingredient) or tahini
• Celery or carrots with hummus
• Raw nuts, seeds and nut butters (excluding peanuts) i.e. pecans, sunflower seeds, hazelnuts, pumpkin seeds, walnuts and tamari almonds; you may mix with a little dried fruit such as raisins or cranberries. All dried fruit should be used sparingly and un-sugared.
• Baked chicken legs and wings
• Hard boiled eggs
• Just water: Eight to twelve 8 oz. glasses of filtered or bottled water per day

Pre-prepared or Pre-packaged Snacks

• Baked sweet potato chips, Terra chips
• Baked apple chips, Baked carrot chips
• Salad dressing like Newman’s Own or any dressing prepared with cold pressed/organic oils and no additives or preservatives
• Ryvita, Wasa, Japanese rice, Mary’s All Gone or Sudajan crackers Brown rice snaps or unsalted rice cakes with almond or sunflower butter (cane sugar an ingredient)
• Hummus, Tempinada
• Organic beans
• Thai noodle dishes (any rice noodle packaged with seasoning) avoid products containing: msg or hydrogenated and trans fats
• Acceptable sweeteners are Agave Sweetener or Stevia found at health food stores and in some supermarket health food sections

The Avoid List

• All foods made with trans/partially hydrogenated/hydrogenated fats and msg
• All pre-packaged or pre-prepared foods, unless they are included in the above list
• All sugars and artificial sweeteners (unless they are included in the above list), alcohol, sodas and fruit juices