Clean eating?

Diatonic12

Clean Eating assigns moral judgment to foods. Whenever someone tells me they're eating clean, all I can think of is Dirty Deeds...and they're done dirt cheap.

AnvilHead

A great read on "Clean Eating" here (links to 106 studies in the footnotes, for those who like that kind of thing): https://completehumanperformance.com/2013/08/20/clean-eating/

lynn_glenmont

bostonspingirl wrote: »

amusedmonkey wrote: »

bostonspingirl wrote: »

Clean eating usually requires eating unprocessed and unrefined products, such as whole grains, fruits, vegetables, lean meats and other foods that don't contain artificial ingredients or preservatives.

Basically, if I wouldnt give it to my baby and children im not eating it either.
Real food. Homemade. Simple ingredients.

No white bread, pasta or sugar. So wheat bread and pasta.

https://www.cleaneatingmag.com/clean-diet/what-is-clean-eating

Tosca reno has books clean eating diet and cookbooks that are fabulous.

https://www.toscareno.store/products/eat-clean-diet-cookbook

So, no honey, citrus, chili, milk, or solid foods. Got it!

Actually baby is 18 mo. So he has those things. What I meant was your not about to give a baby/toddler fast food, over processed, cookies and cakes. More real foods. Fruits, veggies, protein, whole grains, healthy fats, full fat dairy, etc.

You clearly have never been to a fast-food restaurant in America and looked around at the families eating there.

Strongfitmama100412

lynn_glenmont wrote: »

bostonspingirl wrote: »

amusedmonkey wrote: »

bostonspingirl wrote: »

Clean eating usually requires eating unprocessed and unrefined products, such as whole grains, fruits, vegetables, lean meats and other foods that don't contain artificial ingredients or preservatives.

Basically, if I wouldnt give it to my baby and children im not eating it either.
Real food. Homemade. Simple ingredients.

No white bread, pasta or sugar. So wheat bread and pasta.

https://www.cleaneatingmag.com/clean-diet/what-is-clean-eating

Tosca reno has books clean eating diet and cookbooks that are fabulous.

https://www.toscareno.store/products/eat-clean-diet-cookbook

So, no honey, citrus, chili, milk, or solid foods. Got it!

Actually baby is 18 mo. So he has those things. What I meant was your not about to give a baby/toddler fast food, over processed, cookies and cakes. More real foods. Fruits, veggies, protein, whole grains, healthy fats, full fat dairy, etc.

You clearly have never been to a fast-food restaurant in America and looked around at the families eating there.

I choose not too. I honestly follow an 80/20 rule. 80 percent of my diet is real foods 20 percent are treats etc.

Yes my kids have treats. But there main diet is real foods, fruits, dairy, protein, whole grains and veggies.

This is how I choose to eat. Im not dieting. This is a way of life for me. I dont cut out a food group. I eat when hungry stop when full. Balanced meals. I dont usually count calories but I am now because Im in a contest at work so really want to lean out and drop the last 10 vanity pounds.

The question was what is clean eating. This is what it is to me.
Food to me is fuel, medicine for your body.

Lastly, I dont feel good when I eat out so choose not too. Eating whole foods makes me feel so good. No stomach issues or headaches.

AnnPT77

"Clean eating" is iteration # 3,524 of food as religion. Sin and suffer, sin and repent, do your penance (a.k.a. detox and cleanse), repeat.

I'm an agnostic, as always.

lynn_glenmont

bostonspingirl wrote: »

lynn_glenmont wrote: »

bostonspingirl wrote: »

amusedmonkey wrote: »

bostonspingirl wrote: »

Clean eating usually requires eating unprocessed and unrefined products, such as whole grains, fruits, vegetables, lean meats and other foods that don't contain artificial ingredients or preservatives.

Basically, if I wouldnt give it to my baby and children im not eating it either.
Real food. Homemade. Simple ingredients.

No white bread, pasta or sugar. So wheat bread and pasta.

https://www.cleaneatingmag.com/clean-diet/what-is-clean-eating

Tosca reno has books clean eating diet and cookbooks that are fabulous.

https://www.toscareno.store/products/eat-clean-diet-cookbook

So, no honey, citrus, chili, milk, or solid foods. Got it!

Actually baby is 18 mo. So he has those things. What I meant was your not about to give a baby/toddler fast food, over processed, cookies and cakes. More real foods. Fruits, veggies, protein, whole grains, healthy fats, full fat dairy, etc.

You clearly have never been to a fast-food restaurant in America and looked around at the families eating there.

I choose not too. I honestly follow an 80/20 rule. 80 percent of my diet is real foods 20 percent are treats etc.

Yes my kids have treats. But there main diet is real foods, fruits, dairy, protein, whole grains and veggies.

This is how I choose to eat. Im not dieting. This is a way of life for me. I dont cut out a food group. I eat when hungry stop when full. Balanced meals. I dont usually count calories but I am now because Im in a contest at work so really want to lean out and drop the last 10 vanity pounds.

The question was what is clean eating. This is what it is to me.
Food to me is fuel, medicine for your body.

Lastly, I dont feel good when I eat out so choose not too. Eating whole foods makes me feel so good. No stomach issues or headaches.

My point wasn't what you do. My point was that you made a statement about what other people do ("your not about to give a baby/toddler fast food, over processed, cookies and cakes") that in my experience is clearly contrary to fact. People feed fast food, processed food, and cookies and cakes to their kids all the time.

Also, as a general rule for clean eating (again, in your earlier post by using the second person pronoun, you phrased it as what people in general do, not what your own approach is), the description "only eat what you would feed your kids" is no more helpful than a lot of the other definitions of clean eating -- e.g., only eat food with ingredients you can pronounce (unless it's in a foreign language I'm completely unfamiliar with or a foreign script that I can't read, I can pronounce it, and so can a lot of other people), only shop the perimeter of the grocery store (I can get chips, cookies, heavily processed cured meats, breaded & fried frozen fish, ice cream, alcohol, pudding, cake and pies from the bakery, etc., on the perimeter of the grocery stores I shop at), don't eat food with more than five ingredients (so, a bag with more than five varieties of rinsed micro greens is dirty, but potato chips (potatoes, salt, oil, maybe ascorbic acid) is clean.

Many of the definitions of clean eating have at least a kernel of wisdom in them in terms of guiding your eating choices, but pretty much all of them require massive amounts of qualification, explanation, and parsing before they're worth adhering to. It's a good idea to know what's in the food you eat, but doing research on common food ingredients is a better reaction than eliminating foods from your diet because you can't pronounce them.

WinoGelato

bostonspingirl wrote: »

Clean eating usually requires eating unprocessed and unrefined products, such as whole grains, fruits, vegetables, lean meats and other foods that don't contain artificial ingredients or preservatives.

Basically, if I wouldnt give it to my baby and children im not eating it either.
Real food. Homemade. Simple ingredients.

No white bread, pasta or sugar. So wheat bread and pasta.

https://www.cleaneatingmag.com/clean-diet/what-is-clean-eating

Tosca reno has books clean eating diet and cookbooks that are fabulous.

https://www.toscareno.store/products/eat-clean-diet-cookbook

Wheat bread and pasta are still processed... and fruits and vegetables have sugars in them....