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 3 - Out The Other Side?

Day 3 of the Clear Skin Programme

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8:01 am

YAAAAYYYYYY! I got through a whole night with no scratching! There is a marked improvement in my eczema. Updated photo on the photos page. Click here to view.

Wow! It's really spurred me on now to continue. I've got a tingling in my right hand as I type that. Psychological?

I changed the recipe slightly again. As you know, I'm drinking the same green juice, three times daily for three days. Today is the last day of that. Well on Monday I did the recipe as instructed but minus the celery. If I'd added that I would never have drank it because it makes me retch, the smell and the taste. So, to replace the celery, I upped the spinach. Yack. I also had to add an unripe avo-piggin-cado (as they've been renamed for the last 4 months!).

Yesterday I did the correct amount of spinach, left out the celery but upped the cucumber. I also had to use an unripe avo-piggin-cado. It was much nicer.

Today, I did the correct amounts (minus the celery) but upped the apple and used a RIPE avo-piggin-cado. Delicious!!!! It tastes so much like my favourite juice the Super Juice. Yummy. Whether it tastes as nice as the day goes on is yet to be seen. I do find flavours change as the day goes on.

Oh and note to self, make sure the blender lid is on straight before filling it with 3 batches and turning it on. I'm still trying to locate places it might have splashed! lol

10:11am

I'm buzzing right now! I've just realised that it is over 12 hours since I last scratched!!!! Having my mid morning fruit snack of pineapple, mango and melon. Mmmmm

12:32 pm

Time for juice number 2. PLEASE let it taste as yummy as this morning....

12:33pm

Brown due to the apples but still tastes yum. I need something to drink juices out of where I can't see the contents. lol

2.32 pm

I just couldn't resist weighing myself....

Well that means I'm halfway to losing what I put on when I was on holiday without my juicer. Yay!

3:48pm

I'm hungry. I've had to reach for a banana. Mmm. One juice left for the day.

I'm on such a high today! Eczema improved, weight loss, mind clear. Yay!

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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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How To Juice Fast

This is a great video if one of your  non juicing excuses is "It takes too long". No it doesn't, as Jason proves in this video.