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Sweet Potato and Apple Dessert Soup
After all of the savory soups you'll eat during this detox, this sweet dessert soup will seem extra tasty.
Ingredients
• 1 lb sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
• 2 medium apples, cored and cut into chunks (leave peel on)
• 1 tbsp chopped ginger
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 cup apple cider
• dried apple chips (optional)
Directions
1. Combine all of the ingredients except for the dried apple chips in a large pot and bring to a boil.
2. Reduce the HEAT, cover the pot and let simmer for about 30 minutes, until the sweet potatoes and apples are soft.
3. Let it cool down a bit and then puree in batches in a blender until smooth.
4. Before serving the soup at your desired temperature, top with a few dried apple chips if desired. Makes 4 cups.
Dr. Oz's 3-Day Souping Detox Instructions
In this plan, you'll eat soup six times a day. There's no need to count calories and you can have as much soup as you want at each sitting. Print this one-sheet to keep on your fridge to help you with the plan.
Base Soup
The base soup in the three-day soup cleanse has the core four detox ingredents: mushrooms, broccoli, tomatoes and artichoke hearts. Prep this soup in advance of your cleanse to make mealtime during those three days more efficient.
Ingredients
• 8 cups vegetable stock
• 3 oz sliced shitakes
• 9 oz artichoke hearts
• 28 oz can chopped tomatoes
• 2 cups broccoli
Directions
Put all ingredients into a large pot, bring to a boil, reduce the heat and let simmer for 1 hour. Makes 14 cups.
Dr. Oz's 3-Day Souping Detox Instructions
In this plan, you'll eat soup six times a day. There's no need to count calories and you can have as much soup as you want at each sitting. Print this one-sheet to keep on your fridge to help you with the plan.
Breakfast Berry Soup
Kefir has three times the amount of probiotics that are in yogurt, so beginning each day during the three-day soup clease with this recipe will give your digestive system a huge boost for the detox.
Ingredients
• 2 1/2 cups blueberries (fresh or frozen)
• 2 1/2 cups strawberries (fresh or frozen)
• 1/2 cup kefir
• 1 lime, zest and juice
• 1 tsp chili powder
• 1 tbsp maple syrup (optional)
• Sliced fresh strawberries - optional topping
Directions
1. Gently simmer the berries until quite soft, for about 10 to 15 minutes.
2. Transfer to a blender and add kefir, lime juice and zest, chili powder and maple syrup. Blend until smooth.
3. Serve topped with sliced fresh strawberries. Makes 3 cups.
World's Largest Bug
Providence, Rhode Island
While giant cockroaches may be biding their time in a bid for world domination, America has been infested with other giant bugs for a long time; a huge praying mantishere, a humongous horse flythere, a titanic killer beeway down there. And shocking numbers of VW beetle "spiders"scuttle in the margins.
But for decades, Providence, Rhode Island has been home to the biggest creepy-crawler of all.
The "Big Blue Bug" of Providence is a termite, 58 feet long, which is 928 times actual termite size. It was built at a cost of $20,000, made of steel and fiberglass, and weighs two tons.
The termite nests on the roof of New England Pest Control (which renamed itself Big Blue Bug Solutions in 2012), as if SCANNING neighboring Massachusetts for something large, tasty, and wooden. The termite was originally painted purple, the color of a swarming Reticulitermes flavipes. Then the paint faded to blue and everyone started calling it the Big Blue Bug. This had a catchy ring, and New England Pest Control wisely began referring to itself as "Home of the Big Blue Bug" and repainting the termite a vibrant blue every few years. In 1990 a local radio contest rechristened the bug "Nibbles Woodaway" -- a clever name, but most folks in Providence still call it the Big Blue BUG.
David Pontes, general manager of New England Pest Control, told us that 35,000 people a day drive by the termite, which is only a few feet from an elevated section of Interstate 95. "The bug is what brings the business in," he said. "We do way over a million dollars a year in termite work alone."
What's perhaps most impressive about the bug is that it's acquired the status of a national celebrity. It's made appearances on Oprah! and in the movie Dumb and Dumber. It's featured on a big map of wearily familiar attractionsat the airport in Denver, Colorado. David told us that fans from around the world have requested (and received) over 50,000 8x10 publicity photos of the big bug.
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