Detox: Your diet

Visit the Somerville Winter Farmers’ Market
The Armory in Somerville is hosting a gathering of local farmers and their produce for your grazing pleasure. Saturdays from 10am to 2pm January through March, you can expect lots of leafy greens and root veggies from the Western Mass-based Enterprise Farm and Winter Moon Farm, plus apples and honey from Shelburne’s Apex Orchards. Stillman’s and Austin Brothers Valley Farm will be bringing a variety of meat, poultry and eggs, while Globe Fish will provide fresh seafood. Taza Chocolate reps will make the short journey from their Union Square factory (and no doubt bring a ton of those little nibs for sampling). A smattering of wineries will provide the winter warmers. Expect tons of baked goods to boot. 191 Highland Ave, Somerville (617-718-2191, artsatthearmory.org)

Take a cooking class
If you use your piss-poor cooking skills to justify your takeout habit, the Boston Center for Adult Education is calling your bluff. Its Basic Cooking classes can teach you vital kitchen skills—like how to read recipes, shop for ingredients and even use knives properly. Hey, you gotta walk before you can run (please, no running with knives, though). The $200 for tuition and materials might seem a bit steep, but think of how much money you’ve wasted throwing out styrofoam containers of pad Thai that has, um, turned. If you’re looking to improve another area of your life, the one-session Dinner to Impress A Date is an attractive option. If that fails, there’s also Cooking for Singles. 122 Arlington St, Back Bay, Boston (617-267-4430, bcae.org)

Join a CSA
For those unfamiliar, a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is a system in which an individual or group signs up for a pre-paid subscription to an area farm’s produce for the season. Essentially, you pony up the cash ahead of time and your friendly regional farmer delivers you a box of fresh veggies or other items (think honey, fresh flowers and baked goods) on a regular basis throughout the season. You don’t really get to pick exactly what produce you’ll receive, but it’s a great way to experiment with vegetables you wouldn’t necessarily think to pick up at the supermarket. The whole situation is bound to force you to stay away from unhealthy munching, since you already paid for all these damned vegetables. Check out farmfresh.org to find a farm that delivers the goods you want to a spot near you (many have pick up points in Cambridge, Brookline and JP). Don’t want to leave your house? Try a service like Boston Organics (bostonorganics.com), which will deliver a customized box right to your door.

Take it slow
Slow Food USA envisions a world where everyone eats food that is good for them, good for the people who grow it and good for the planet. A massively global grassroots initiative, the slow food movement aims to shift our focus away from the factory-produced garbage we’ve gotten so used to consuming. A tax-deductible $25 gets you a membership to the Boston chapter and access to events, activities and tastings based around promoting biodiversity and sustainability. slowfoodboston.com

Check out Stir
Culinary celebrity Barbara Lynch and her cronies will teach you how to cook all classy-like at this swanky South End showplace kitchen. Interested? Sign-up ASAP, because the small classes fill up fast. Choose from course offerings like Eating Well for Life ($185), in which Lynch and nutritionist Julie Starr will lead a discussion on incorporating nutritious and tasty meals into your daily life, a knife skills seminar ($40) or the self-explanatory Scotch ($145). 102 Waltham St, South End, Boston (617-423-7847, stirboston.com)

Try a Healthy Restaurant

Centre Street Café
Centre Street prides itself on both its relationships with local farmers and its kick-ass brunch. The food is as fresh as it gets; sometimes the items on your plate were picked that very morning. We’re fans of Centre Street’s One Pot Meals and the restaurant’s sense of humor (the menu jokes that the catch of the day is from Jamaica Pond). How very local. 669A Centre St, Jamaica Plain (617-524-9217, centrestcafe.com)

Clover
With a fleet of food trucks and a recently-opened flagship restaurant, the people at Clover are doing their best to provide the people of Boston with delicious and healthy food. The rosemary fries are always a crowd-pleaser, as is the ever-changing beverage menu, where you'll find creative concoctions like blueberry agua fresca and basil lemonade. A rotating list of tasty flatbread sandwiches and inventive options for breakfast (like homemade popovers) keep customers coming back on a daily basis. Clover HSQ: 7 Holyoke St, Harvard Square, Cambridge (@cloverhsq, cloverfoodlab.com); Clover Food Lab MIT: 20 Carleton St, Kendall Square, Cambridge (@cloverfoodtruck); Clover Food Lab Dewey Square: Financial District, Boston (@cloverdwy)

Life Alive
This Central Square juice bar and vegan stronghold looks a bit like a pretentious Rainforest Cafe—but it’s because their food is made out of nature. The proprietors have taken on the lofty goal of nurturing both the bodies and souls of their costumers. Their efforts have yielded a menu stocked with surprisingly large, veggie-packed entrees and some damn good smoothies. 765 Massachusetts Ave, Central Square, Cambridge (617-354-5433, lifealive.com)

Prana Café
While the decor is not for those averse to pastels, Prana Café does not mess around when it comes to raw food. Everything is fresh, organic and mighty tasty—from the miso soup starter to entrees like lasagna and the rotating pizza du jour.  And because raw food isn’t about deprivation, Prana offers a range of rich desserts (try the chocolate tort with whipped “cream”) and a selection of vegan/raw beer and wine. 292 Centre St, Newton (617-527-7726, eatatprana.com)

Veggie Planet
There’s a lot to love about Veggie Planet. Not only does it share space with the legendary Club Passim, but the resto cooks up some out-of-this-world healthy eats, as the name suggests. The menu is strictly vegetarian, but carnivores won’t miss the meat when they’re munching on plates stacked with Veggie Planet’s delicious and healthy entrees. Here’s how it works: you pick your vehicle (that’d be pizza crust, coconut rice or an omelet, depending on the time of day) and then you pick your entree to be served up on said vehicle. Think outside the starch and go for peanut curry pizza or a Caesar salad omelet. 47 Palmer St, Harvard Square, Cambridge (617-661-1513, veggieplanet.net)