What exactly is "Clean Eating"?

@ OdesAngel -- I use seasoning...no dressing. Seasonings have one ingredient.

not necessarily true. Depends on whether you buy only whole seasonings and grind them yourself. A lot of seasonings actually contain fillers, and no they aren't listed on the label. Anything below a certain percentage does not have to be listed. So maybe you aren't eating as clean as you think.

Buy from a reputable company that grinds their spices and mixes their seasonings in small batches and you will not have any fillers.

Or just plant a pepper and herb garden and grow your own.

Nice idea but few people have the $ to build a specialized greenhouse that has different climate controlled sections that recreates the proper conditions to grow cinnamon trees, peppercorns, ginger plants, nutmeg trees (which also produce mace), cardamom plants, etc. Herbs and vegetables like peppers grow well in temperate climates like where I live but the only spices I can grow around here are dill seeds, poppy seeds, anise seeds, and mustard seeds.

I can't grow saffron but that doesn't stop me from planting what I can in my patch of dirt. Cost to construct said patch of dirt = $0

I consider clean eating as a food with just one ingredient. For an example, Chicken, beef, tuna, spinach, lettuce, almonds, rice, potatoes, etc...

We also call it "perimeter shopping". If you only buy food walking along the perimeter of a typical grocery store (milk, meat, fish, eggs, vegetables, fruits), than it's "clean". I rarely get anything else. Maybe once every couple months we get some basic stuff from the isles (grains, salt, sugar, spices)... And we rarely go to restaurants since we do not like their food. But I am a very good cook and our family is spoiled I think

We also call it "perimeter shopping". If you only buy food walking along the perimeter of a typical grocery store (milk, meat, fish, eggs, vegetables, fruits), than it's "clean". I rarely get anything else. Maybe once every couple months we get some basic stuff from the isles (grains, salt, sugar, spices)... And we rarely go to restaurants since we do not like their food. But I am a very good cook and our family is spoiled I think

Onefortyone

I don't eat any of the things you mention on a regular basis and I have never had any sense of superiority over those that eat different then I do. I have no reason to judge what or how others eat.

I eat the way I do because I like it and because I can. Certainly not to impress others or be judgmental.
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We also call it "perimeter shopping". If you only buy food walking along the perimeter of a typical grocery store (milk, meat, fish, eggs, vegetables, fruits), than it's "clean". I rarely get anything else. Maybe once every couple months we get some basic stuff from the isles (grains, salt, sugar, spices)... And we rarely go to restaurants since we do not like their food. But I am a very good cook and our family is spoiled I think

And so is the deli (with it's potato salad, cole slaw, fried chicken, seasoned potato wedges, deli meats,) sausages, hot dogs, ham, cheese spread, the butcher, cage fed eggs, hormone injected dairy, yogurt, cheese, refrigerator rolls (you know those lovely cresecent rolls in a cardboard tube) Cookie dough, packaged tortilla, and oh so many more of my favorite things.

The problem is, clean eating means different things to different people, but usually it means cutting out all junk food, including the pasta you mentioned. Essentially it is eating only whole foods. And suprisingly its not that expensive if you dont try and buy the organic foods, just stick to single ingredient foods and you should be on the right track.

care to elaborate on how pasta is junk food?

Perhaps, you don't understand what pasta is?

Additionally, maybe you don't understand what a 'single ingredient food' is?

Just questions.

It's not junk food, but pasta is heavily processed.

"Clean eating" is like porn vs art: It's hard to define, but you know it when you see it.