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On January 3, the next stage of Clean in ’14 begins. In 2012, Monday breakfast through Friday breakfast were clean and Friday lunch through Sunday dinner were fair game.

This year, all meals Sunday breakfast through Friday breakfast are clean. In 2014, all but one day of the week will be clean.

Clean (to me) simply means as unprocessed, whole and organic as possible.

In addition, we’ll continue to move to a more plant-based diet. This year, I’m also aiming to sneak in one vegan meal a week.  ‘Sneak’ because its just easier with my handsome counterpart. As learned with the introduction of tofu, he will eat almost anything in front of him and it’s best to not complicate that with a bunch of preparatory conversation about alternative food.

I’ve never (knowingly) cooked an animal-free meal and I’m excited to decrease both meat and animal products in my diet. Inspirations have come from this blog and this athlete’s semi-vegan diet. Though it’s doubtful I’ll ever be categorized as a veg-anything, I do envision a heavily plant-based diet down the road.

And I’m sure as I sneak more tofu into the menu at home, as TB will no doubt be sneaking out more for burgers. Pick your battles. He drinks significantly less Diet Coke today than he did six months ago. That’s a check in the win column.