It's been revised since my attempts three years ago, and in more doable steps. There is the overall lifestyle plan, and within that, are the diet changes we're striving for as a family.
Overall Lifestyle Plan
(*astericks mean already accomplished personally
** mean currently working on)
Phase I:
Break Sugar Addiction*
Break Caffeine Addiction*
Begin replacing processed foods with whole foods*
Phase II:
Change Diet by:
Learning different rices and grains and how to use/cook with new recipes **
Develop raw and whole food snacks **
Learn cooking vegetarian *
Phase III:
Move to cloth products (paper towels, tissues, napkins)
Get rid of plastic containers and move to all glass
Phase IV:
Phase V:
Expand gardening, preserving and root cellar knowledge**
Phase VI:
Go to all natural, home-made beauty and toiletries
Phase VII:
Provide our own eggs, meat, and milk with our livestock
Phase VIII:
Make own condiments and cheeses
Phase IX:
Learn herbs and wild plants and medicinal and dietary uses
Learn essential oils and medicinal uses
Phase X:
Self-sustaining with greenhouse and aquaponic/greenhouse set up
Self-sustaining with wind and solar energy
Dietary Plan from Phase I and II of Lifestyle Plan
Stage 1:
Whole grain cereal and/or nut butter on whole grain/gluten free toast for breakfast (we have bad breakfast habits)
+ fresh juiced veggies and fruit
Cut one sugar and processed food snack per day and replace with whole food and/or raw. *
Cut one cup of caffeinated coffee *
Stage 2:
Add a morning smoothie to the morning snack routine, complete with fresh juice from breakfast, flax/hemp/chia seeds, probiotics, kefir, spinach, maca powder.
Eventually add in Bragg's ACV and wheatgrass, as tolerated.
Delete another sugar/processed snack and replace with whole food/raw snack.
Cut another cup of caffeine out. *
Stage 3:
Have all morning snacks be raw and/or whole foods
Stage 4:
Have all afternoon snacks be raw and/or whole foods
Stage 5:
After supper snacks---only raw foods.
Stage 6:
Have supper be a light supper, based on vegetarian/whole food/ raw foods
Stage 7:
Whole food lunches (big meal of the day), 75% of the time being vegetarian with the 25% of meat being organic meat only
Stage 8:
Begin sprouting
Stage 9:
Begin dehydrating foods
Stage 10:
Begin making fermented foods/drinks
End goal:
10% or less processed foods within diet
90% whole food diet, with 75% being vegetarian and 50% raw
