Clean Eating Help

I agree with the above post. I don't count any grains as clean- but thats coz I'm paleo. But basically if its had some prior processing then its not generally 'clean'.

You are thinking way too much into it.

Most food is processed in some way. Just make sure you are eating "real" food. Stick to meat, poultry, fish, vegetables, fruit, seeds, nuts and even dairy amd (WHOLE) grains if you like.

Oh and I personally wouldn't worry about every single thing being organic.

read

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/primal-blueprint-101/#axzz24qVTA0NH

Clean eating means "made from scratch" and without any unpronounceable ingredients. If you are reading a label and the ingredients don't sound like something you would call "food" then it isn't clean. For instance, have you ever seen a canola plant? No? That's because it doesn't exits. Canola comes from the rapeseed plant and has to be highly processed because the oil in it's natural form is poisonous to humans.

Eating clean takes some work and some getting used to. I recommend going by food groups or macros first, the most important being cleaning out the fake fats and fake sugars. Avoid any processed fats and oils, as well as getting the HFCS and artificial sweeteners out of your diet.

This will take some work, because they are everywhere! You just have to keep at it and become a food detective, don't give up because you accidentally ate something processed.

She's right.

From a book I recently read . . . To be considered, if not clean, at least healthy and cleanER . . .

Someone in the 1920's must be able to recognize it as food
It doesn't have a label on it that says 'low fat' 'low sugar' 'low calorie'
It has fewer than 5 ingredients (I know some people say no ingredients, but cheese and yoghurt and whole grain bread all have multiple ingredients and I would certainly consider those healthy, basic foods, as I make them all myself)

Basically, you're looking for minimal processing

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What I don't understand - for people here who are adamant about what clean means - is whether what happens after it grows in the ground, swims, whatever matters for it being 'clean'. So if I take the organic tomatoes from my garden, mix it with my organic spices and organic onions and cook it, is it still clean? I made breakfast this morning from materials that were all raised in my yard (including the eggs) but when it was finished being cooked, it was now 'processed'. But nothing was more than 15 minutes from ground/hen to consumption.

I would not consider that processed food. The reason breads are considered processed is because u use flour, not wheat in its whole form and if u buy them store bought alot of times there are additives to keep it fresh. If u are baking it, its much better. What u described above is cooking it is not processed. When u cook something, all of it is still there, like i said breads are different because u use flour, which regular flour (white), is stripped of the nutrients in the wheat. Like they said above, if it comes from the ground or had a mother, that is clean. There would be no additives or fillers in these food because you purchase them in their whole form. Grains are not processed as long as you eat whole grains - quinoa, barley, brown rice etc. take beans for example, if u buy dried beans to cook, that is clean. But if u buy bushes baked beans with bacon, definitely not lol

To make things simple just stick with using only veggies, fruit, meat, dairy and whole grains and you should stay pretty clean. Convenience foods have fillers and junk in them, fast foods etc, that is processed junk.