Clean Eating - UK

I'm a clean eater too. I get everything from Tesco online (lots of dry beans, lentils, chickpeas, couscous etc etc etc) and I Mae me food from scratch. It's actually very easy and quick. Check out bbcgoodfood.com for ideas. I end up cooking a lot of vegetarian meals and we eat meat 1-2x per week to keep costs down. They have a healthy food section. On the website and most things take around 30 mins or less to cook.

Hello,

Im not based in the UK but my husband and I have both lost 30 pounds from clean eating and Im happy to share any recipes or tips about the clean eating lifestyle. Working on starting a blog about it because its been so life changing for us.

OK, I really hate the term "clean eating", but if what you are really talking about is "cooking from scratch and not just opening/assembling packets and pre-made things" then I'm with you all the way. I'm just not in favour of excluding any food in its natural or minimally-processed form (i.e. butter, flour, pasta) unless advised by a medical professional following appropriate tests. As my old boss used to sa, "there's a lot more cases of people dying from NOT eating food than dying from eating food.":bigsmile:

I love to cook - its how I eneded up here in the first place:ohwell: My go to site for recipes is the bbcgoodfoood site - it has all the recipes from all their magazines and tv programmes (including Good Food, Delicious, Olive etc) and you can put in 3 ingredients and get recipe suggestions - you can then refine the results by low calories, low fat, vegetarian etc.

I eat clean most of the time but I also like to have a treat now and again. Processed foods are out normally for instance but now and again (less then once per month) I will have bacon. I think the term 'clean eating' has become so confusing that nobody really knows what it means. Certainly, my wife and me cooked virtually everything from scratch even soups and eat the usual fruit and veg. However, we also like Greek yogurt with honey. We also both love wine as although we are both healthy middle-aged people who do a lot of exercise we like to live.

We have a Wholefoods store in our town and they sell a wide variety of 'clean' foods and also a farm shop just a few hundred yards up the road. We do shop at Asda, Tesco etc as well though but their selection of really healthy foods is pretty limited other than fruit and veg.

Regarding exercise, I am not a bodybuilder but I do eat to lose body fat and to look lean with muscle. My wife is a powerful swimmer.

Had a quick at your website and I hope it develops into something bigger for us in this tiny island!

Thanks Kelvincornish!

Hi, I know this is old post but feel free to add me. I don't really know what eating clean technically means but I don't eat much processed food and definitely no ready/dried meals. I cook loads and everything from fresh. I get basically everything from Tesco but also farmers market and butchers. I'd love to see more British food diaries to get ideas for meals.

Hi Charlie,

There's a lack of clean eating information in the UK because it's complete and utter claptrap. Due to us having a National Health Service, it is much harder for such practices to become commonplace because the majority of the healthcare system has to have some scientific background behind it before the budget will be spent on it.

I'm hoping they will remove your account for spamming soon.

Hi Charlie,

There's a lack of clean eating information in the UK because it's complete and utter claptrap. Due to us having a National Health Service, it is much harder for such practices to become commonplace because the majority of the healthcare system has to have some scientific background behind it before the budget will be spent on it.

I'm hoping they will remove your account for spamming soon.

Whos Charlie ?

The post has been deleted for spam. They also pulled it out of the quote I had in my post, even though I had removed the website from it.

Hey, sorry for any upset. I didn't realise I couldn't offer my own website as a reference to others. It wasn't intended as spam just a resource for clean eaters in the uk. Sorry for not understanding the forum rules better!