Beauty Detox Solution on a Budget: Groceries for $60

The Beauty Detox Solution is a program by Kimberly Snyder, which focuses on plant foods to ease digestion, make your body more alkaline, lose weight, improve health, and improve skin and hair. Her plan is gluten-free, dairy-free, mostly vegetarian, and focuses on lots of fruits and vegetables. People often say that these kind of diets are too expensive to follow, but I am going to follow her basic concepts for one week for $5 per person per day. I followed the basic principles of her diet and did notice a great difference in how I felt.

The basic principles of her diet that I am following this week are: warm water with lemon first thing every morning, green smoothie for breakfast, eating "light to heavy" throughout the day (which means saving any protein for dinner), eating mostly raw foods, eating probiotics, and eating tons of fruits and vegetables.

I am going to modify some things. The Beauty Detox is done in stages, with the last stage being completely vegan. That's not realistic for my husband and I, so we are including meat for dinner a few times over the week. She also advocates eating mostly organic. This is difficult to do on a budget, and so I have bought almost nothing organic. I did, however, buy a bunch of parsley and cilantro. We will have about 1/4 cup of parsley or cilantro each with lunch and dinner, which works to cleanse the body of toxins that might be found in non-organic food.

Here is our menu:

First thing in the morning: Hot water with lemon
Breakfast: Green Smoothies
Snacks: Fresh Fruit
Nuts
Lunches: Mediterranean Chopped Salad (2 times)
Lebanese Salad (2 times)
Baby Greens Salad (2 times)
Dinners: Salmon Cakes with Vegetables
Sweet Potato and Zucchini Street Tacos with Beans
Fried Rice
Chicken Calabasa Stew
Butternut Squash and Chick Pea Stew ( 2 times)
With Dinner: Lactose-Fermented Pickles

Shopping List:
7 Bananas
Romaine Lettuce (2 heads)
Baby Spinach (big container)
 10 tomatoes
5 cucumbers
Baby kale, mixed greens or spring mix, or baby spinach (1 big container)
1 bell pepper
2 avocados
1 large or 2 small red onions
Fruit (for snacking)
Parsley
Cilantro
Calabasa Squash or Zucchini (4)
1 pound sweet potatoes
1 bag pre-cut butternut squash (4 cups)
2 cans of Rotel
1 can of diced tomatoes
32 ounces chicken broth
1 can chick peas
1 can black or pinto beans
 Chicken breasts (1 pound)
Package of tuna (optional for salads)
1 can salmon
1 package of steam-in-bag frozen brussel sprouts (or other vegetables to go with salmon cakes)
1 package of frozen peas and carrots
1/2 dozen eggs
Orange Juice (I spend the extra for Simply Orange)

From my pantry: garlic, olive oil, lemon juice, balsamic or other salad vinegar, rice, cinnamon, cumin, corriander seeds, chili powder, crushed red pepper flakes, cinnamon, pecans (for snacking), soy sauce, Siracha chili sauce, raisins