Recipe: Warm, Organic, Free Range Chicken & Avocado Salad

This is from the Jason Vale Clear Skin Programme with my own notes below of how I altered it.

Warm, Organic, Free Range Chicken & Avocado Salad.

Ingredients

2 skinless chicken breasts (free range organic)

1 large ripe avo-piggin-cado (as they're known)

50g fresh parmesan

Virgin olive oil

1 bag wild rocket

1 lemon

How to make:

Place the chicken under the grill and grill for 20 minutes until cooked. Meanwhile simply wash the rocket and place in a salad bowl.

Remove the avo-piggin-cado flesh, chop into generous chunks and add to the rocket.

Remove the chicken from the grill, cut into generous chunks and add to the salad.

Using a peeler or sharp knife, *shave* thin slices of the parmesan over the salad.

Cut the lemon in half and squeeze the juice over the salad along with the olive oil.

Pour the pesto over the salad and serve.

My Personal Notes:

Well, firstly it didn't have pesto in the ingredients but I figured maybe it needed to be in it? I added just a teaspoon as I've not had it before. I grilled the chicken for 6 minutes on my George Foreman grill. I didn't use a whole bag of rocket as that seemed a bit extreme. However, I had a bag of watercress, spinach and rocket which I used a couple of handfulls of. 

I also dithered about using parmesan because of the whole dairy eczema thing. However, as its a clear skin programme aimed at eczema and psoriasis I figured I'd try it out. 

It turned out to be very yummy! 

Day 2 - Jason Vales Clear Skin Programme

Day 2 of the Clear Skin Programme

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11:16 am

 I'm at my Mums for the day which means things are extra tough because I love her cooking. We're not going home until about 7.30, so it's going to be a long day. I've just visited my Nan who greeted me with the words "I've baked you some of your favourite gonger cake!"

ARGH! Luckily my Nan understands my plight with my eczema so she was fine when I told her what I'm doing.

13:43 pm

I'm hungry. I've had a bowl of raspberries and that's taken the edge off. I've stupidly left drink number 3 at home (I picked up one flask for lunch but forgot tonights. Duh!

4.37 pm

I've had to go upstairs at my Mums and watch TV for an hour. I couldn't bear the smell of the meat cooking. I'd like to say that its because I know it's bad for me, but that's not the reason. Quite simply it's because I'm hungry! Oh the smell of carrots is divine!

I swear my eczema is worse than ever but it was said that it could get worse before it improves.

7.58 pm

Well, I've finally had my last juice of the day. I'm quite embarrassed to admit that I'm looking forward to Blue Sheet Hour. I can't remember if I mentioned it yesterday. If I didn't then it's when I get to cover my body in coconut oil, lie on the bed with my eyes closed and listen to Jason Vales hypnosis CD. Bliss!

I've also uploaded a before photo which you can view on the photos tab above, scrolling down or by clicking here

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Day 1 - Jason Vale Clear Skin Programme

Day 1 of the Clear Skin Programme

1.13pm...

I've filmed the first entry of my video diary which you can view by clicking here

2.02pm...

I'm sat here sipping my second Ultimate Skin Cleanser juice. After 5 hours in the fridge it still tastes the same but is a bit darker in colour. If you've watched the video below, then you will know that I've not put the celery in it. I hate celery with a passion. People keep telling me that if I keep drinking it then I will grow to like it. After four months of testing that theory, I've come to the conclusion that I won't!
For my mid morning snack I had some raspberries. I LOVE raspberries. I think the berries I'm to avoid are strawberries

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5.27pm...

Oh my God! It's ridiculous! I'm not even at the end of Day 1 and I'm going insane!

I've never done a detox alone before. Hubby has always done it with me. However I'm doing this Clear Skin Programme alone (in this house I mean). Right now, my hubby is cooking chips (yeah Mr Healthy had lapsed somewhat) and paella. It smells heavenly. My stomach is rumbling something chronic. :-(

Just as with the 5/5, my headache is already threatening to hit. This makes resisting the food even harder.

So far today I've had a banana followed by an Ultimate Skin Cleanser, some raspberries, another Ultimate Skin Cleanser and some grapes. Not all at the same time of course!

I've got another Ultimate Skin Cleanser to go but it won't be enough.

Argh the smell of food!!! Just two more days of this, two more days. 

Right, I'm off to listen to the first of the CDs. I completely forgot to do that yesterday! I've bought my coconut oil ready for Blue Sheet Hour later. I must get his other CD copied onto my phone so I can listen to that at the same time. See you tomorrow!

 

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Spring Detox Starts Monday!

I've not posted for a while but this is due to a busy life. When I do get on the laptop I'm sorting out the facebook group of the same name. Click here to join

We have 187 members to date and I'm anticipating quite a lot more once the detox starts on April 8th. Well, this will only happen if somebody mentions it on Jasons page of course.

I can't believe that 3 months down the line the group is still so popular. I originally started it just to keep in touch with about 10 of the people that I'd got used to reading on Jasons page through the Worlds Biggest Juice Detox in January. It was supposed to be continued support. Word got out and it got busier and busier and as a result I've made LOADS of  new friends. :-)

The group has got me through many blips and I can say without a doubt that if it wasn't for the group I'd have gone back to my old ways.

Today I asked in the group what the most inspiring things that Jason has said that stick in their minds. I have a terrible memory so will paraphrase my favourites.

Eat it and shut up, or don't eat it but SHUT UP! I hear that when I'm having a craving of some sort.

I also like the one about moping around hoping I won't eat something that I don't want. Or something like that. It is soooo true.

So, an update on where I am just before the Spring Detox starts. I weigh 10stone 1 pound which means a total of 16 lb loss since January 7th. I would give my measurements but its something I didn't do. I'd love to know how many inches I've lost. I can say that I've gone from a supermarket size 14 to a supermarket size 10. Admittedly they are slightly stretchy jeans but I do have a pair of supermarket size 10s that I can very nearly do up. I use the phrase "supermarket jeans" because I know that Next and other high street would label those as size 12. I say that because I bought some size 10 Next jeans that I plan to get into!

So, nearly time for the Big Juice Spring Clean. (also known as 5lb in 5 days) If you haven't yet got Jasons book then the link is below.