Born from a Passion for Healthy Nutrition
The Real Food Cleanse is a comprehensive program designed by Raquel Wolf-Jadeja Certified Holistic Health Coach and Chef & Owner of The Onion Tree, Jay Jadeja. The Real Food Cleanse is based on eating whole foods that nourish and naturally cleanse the body to bring you greater health & vitality.
Meet The Real Food Cleanse Team
Jay (Chief Cook & Wino) and Raquel Wolf-Jadeja (Resident Health Coach, Founder of The Real Food Cleanse) at The Onion Tree in Sea Cliff, NY.
Jay graduated with Honors from Hotel School in Switzerland (way back when 1991) and worked his way around restaurant kitchens & bars in Europe (UK, Switzerland, Germany, Italy & Cyprus), India and Australia through the 90s arriving on Long Island in 2001.
After a couple of crash courses at the Culinary Institute of America in 2002, Raquel graduated from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in 2012. Raquel is also the founder of Happy & Healthy Naturally and The Real Food Cleanse.
They met in 2002, promptly fell in love & got married in 2005.
We share a strong passion for doing our part to help heal Mother Earth through empowering individuals to reduce their chemical exposure and find their inner health and vitality. Together, we have two sons ages 6 and 2 who are our source of daily inspiration. In 2005, just after we tied the knot, Jay suffered heart attack and was hospitalized for 3 days while the recovery lasted much longer. At the time we owned wildFlower – a small but very special restaurant on Bleecker Street in Manhattan. The stress we were under was extreme and our lifestyle was suffering with a laundry list of terrible habits including working 7 days a week, eating pizza for dinner most nights (usually at 3am in the car ride home!), not taking time for ourselves or each other, and living in a constant state of survival. Our ailing health showed!
That seems like a lifetime away today, however, Jay is a non-smoker, much recovered from his ailing heart. We just celebrated our 16 year wedding anniversary, have two beautiful sons together (Jonah & Julian), we moved out of the city and now live in Long Island where we also own our labor of love - The Onion Tree, and have truly turned around our health.
This change did not happen overnight – it happened by taking baby steps every single day that continue to add up. Have we reached the goal post? No! Definitely not – after all we own a restaurant (think long, endless hours, working weekends and holidays, late nights, long drives), each work full time, have two young kids – life is crazy!
BUT NOT CRAZY ENOUGH FOR US NOT TO LOOK AFTER OURSELVES. FOR OUR CHILDREN & MORE!
And that’s how we know you can do this. Because if we can – you can too! We want you to know this cleanse is about much more than detoxing – it is about taking charge of your health. Followed correctly, this cleanse will put you on the road to health with tips and know-how to stay on this journey for the long haul. Health is wealth and you are about to embark on a journey towards health & happiness – which is true wealth.
Jay graduated with Honors from Hotel School in Switzerland (way back when 1991) and worked his way around restaurant kitchens & bars in Europe (UK, Switzerland, Germany, Italy & Cyprus), India and Australia through the 90s arriving on Long Island in 2001.
After a couple of crash courses at the Culinary Institute of America in 2002, Raquel graduated from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in 2012. Raquel is also the founder of Happy & Healthy Naturally and The Real Food Cleanse.
They met in 2002, promptly fell in love & got married in 2005.
We share a strong passion for doing our part to help heal Mother Earth through empowering individuals to reduce their chemical exposure and find their inner health and vitality. Together, we have two sons ages 6 and 2 who are our source of daily inspiration. In 2005, just after we tied the knot, Jay suffered heart attack and was hospitalized for 3 days while the recovery lasted much longer. At the time we owned wildFlower – a small but very special restaurant on Bleecker Street in Manhattan. The stress we were under was extreme and our lifestyle was suffering with a laundry list of terrible habits including working 7 days a week, eating pizza for dinner most nights (usually at 3am in the car ride home!), not taking time for ourselves or each other, and living in a constant state of survival. Our ailing health showed!
That seems like a lifetime away today, however, Jay is a non-smoker, much recovered from his ailing heart. We just celebrated our 16 year wedding anniversary, have two beautiful sons together (Jonah & Julian), we moved out of the city and now live in Long Island where we also own our labor of love - The Onion Tree, and have truly turned around our health.
This change did not happen overnight – it happened by taking baby steps every single day that continue to add up. Have we reached the goal post? No! Definitely not – after all we own a restaurant (think long, endless hours, working weekends and holidays, late nights, long drives), each work full time, have two young kids – life is crazy!
BUT NOT CRAZY ENOUGH FOR US NOT TO LOOK AFTER OURSELVES. FOR OUR CHILDREN & MORE!
And that’s how we know you can do this. Because if we can – you can too! We want you to know this cleanse is about much more than detoxing – it is about taking charge of your health. Followed correctly, this cleanse will put you on the road to health with tips and know-how to stay on this journey for the long haul. Health is wealth and you are about to embark on a journey towards health & happiness – which is true wealth.
