Is gluten free cous cous a 'clean' food?
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girlygirlnicole
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Ordered quinoa from asda today and they substituted if for gluten free cous cous, carbs look pretty high and it has some fibre and potien just wondering as I accepted it, or do I bin it as I wanna eat clean only foods?
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Can you tell explain the definition of clean food?0
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foods that are natural from the ground.0
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What's "unclean" about carbs?0
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Or just in general healthy for you, doesn't cause any bloating or have any badness in there.0
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None if healthy but it has 70g of carbs per serving seems a lot. I'd say 50 a meal is ok, just 70 seems a little on the high side .0
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Unless you have Celiac disease or gluten intolerance, there's no reason to limit how many carbs you're eating. It won't make you lose weight any faster to cut out or down on carbs.
Just maintain a calorie deficit, either through diet and/or exercise, and you'll lose weight.0 -
Hate to break it to you but cous cous is pasta. Nothing clean about pasta. Nothing dirty about it either. Eat what you want, and you'll lose as long as you're within your calorie goals.0
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Hate to break it to you but cous cous is pasta. Nothing clean about pasta.
Oh really? I didn't know. Thank you. Straight for the bin then.0 -
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Hate to break it to you but cous cous is pasta. Nothing clean about pasta.
Oh really? I didn't know. Thank you. Straight for the bin then.
Why throw away perfectly good food that fuels your body? Because you want to eat "clean"? I'm sorry but even fruits and vegetables go through some sort of processing before they get to your table. Just eat what you want. Seriously. Smh.0 -
Unless you have Celiac disease or gluten intolerance, there's no reason to limit how many carbs you're eating. It won't make you lose weight any faster to cut out or down on carbs.
Just maintain a calorie deficit, either through diet and/or exercise, and you'll lose weight.
I eat both quinoa and cous cous on a regular basis and wouldn't say cous cous in unhealthy but it is not the same and not really a substitute for quinoa as they are different foods entirely. I prefer quinoa as it has more protein but I like both so I eat both. If you are trying to limit your carbs then you could just adjust other meals to keeps your carbs in check overall and still eat cous cous for one of your meals.
It is a fair point that a deficit is a deficit but at the same time, I don't agree that limiting carbs doesn't help with weight loss as for me personally, if i up my protein and fat and reduce my carbs, over the course of a couple of weeks I will see much faster results than if I ate the same calories but with higher carbs and less protein and fat.0 -
:huh:0
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Hate to break it to you but cous cous is pasta. Nothing clean about pasta.
Oh really? I didn't know. Thank you. Straight for the bin then.
Really hope OP is messing with us.0 -
I'm not... I don't know much about it. I've never had it before lol0
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Unless you have Celiac disease or gluten intolerance, there's no reason to limit how many carbs you're eating. It won't make you lose weight any faster to cut out or down on carbs.
Just maintain a calorie deficit, either through diet and/or exercise, and you'll lose weight.
I eat both quinoa and cous cous on a regular basis and wouldn't say cous cous in unhealthy but it is not the same and not really a substitute for quinoa as they are different foods entirely. I prefer quinoa as it has more protein but I like both so I eat both. If you are trying to limit your carbs then you could just adjust other meals to keeps your carbs in check overall and still eat cous cous for one of your meals.
It is a fair point that a deficit is a deficit but at the same time, I don't agree that limiting carbs doesn't help with weight loss as for me personally, if i up my protein and fat and reduce my carbs, over the course of a couple of weeks I will see much faster results than if I ate the same calories but with higher carbs and less protein and fat.
That's because carbs = water retention and higher glycogen storage. Any extraneous weight loss or gain you experience from cutting them out/down or eating them again is artificial.0 -
Gluten free cous cous sounds disgusting. And that's coming from someone with wheat allergies. Some things just shouldn't be de-wheated and couscous is one.
Op if you want that type consistency food then stick with quinoa, polenta and grits...all of which are naturally wheat free0 -
All I asked was cous cous healthy and clean, I've never tried it, never eating it, and am curious what it is. And everyone's replying telling me not to cut carbs and telling me how to loose weight when they know nothing about me or my goals.
I know how to loose weight, I know a carb free diet isn't healthy. Don't tell me what I know...
I'm eating clean to be lean but my eating clean is having a certain amount of carbs a day too but healthy carbs.0 -
Gluten free cous cous sounds disgusting. And that's coming from someone with wheat allergies. Some things just shouldn't be de-wheated and couscous is one.
Op if you want that type consistency food then stick with quinoa, polenta and grits...all of which are naturally wheat free
Thank you. I haven't tried it but don't think I want to now lol.0 -
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Hate to break it to you but cous cous is pasta. Nothing clean about pasta.
Oh really? I didn't know. Thank you. Straight for the bin then.
How wasteful just because it's not 'clean'0
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