What is clean eating? In a nutshell.

A good quote I once read in the book "food rules"

"if someone handed it to you through the window of your car, it's not food!"

Clean eating! Thank you for sharing!

Thanks for sharing.

Just out of curiosity, why would someone who eats clean do 5-6 small meals a day, as opposed to say, 3 moderate meals with several snacks throughout the day?

I practice mainly clean eating (not 100% but mostly) and I just don't have it in me to eat frequent small meals. So I do snacks between each main meal and watch my portion sizes. I just never have understood what meal frequency had to do with clean eating.

Eating clean is the practice of eating whole, natural foods such as fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, and complex carbohydrates. It also means staying away from the junk that typically makes up the Standard American Diet (S.A.D) These types of food include man-made sugar, bad fats (hydrogenated, trans-fat), preservatives, white bread, and any other ingredients that are unnecessary. An easy way to remember if a food is clean is: "if man made it, don't eat it."

A person that eats clean generally practices the following:

Eliminates refined sugar
Cooks healthy meals
Packs healthy meals
Makes healthy choices when dining out
Drinks a lot of water
Eats 5-6 small meals per day
Eliminates alcoholic beverages (or significantly limits it)
Always eats breakfast

LIKE
I also read this somewhere
"If it didnt have a momma or grow on the earth.. DONT eat it"

Eating clean is the practice of eating whole, natural foods such as fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, and complex carbohydrates. It also means staying away from the junk that typically makes up the Standard American Diet (S.A.D) These types of food include man-made sugar, bad fats (hydrogenated, trans-fat), preservatives, white bread, and any other ingredients that are unnecessary. An easy way to remember if a food is clean is: "if man made it, don't eat it."

A person that eats clean generally practices the following:

Eliminates refined sugar
Cooks healthy meals
Packs healthy meals
Makes healthy choices when dining out
Drinks a lot of water
Eats 5-6 small meals per day
Eliminates alcoholic beverages (or significantly limits it)
Always eats breakfast

What are "healthy" meals/choices exactly?

I'm definately not a person that eats clean :noway: :indifferent: :frown:

NOT REALLY - Eliminates refined sugar
LIKE TO THINK SO - Cooks healthy meals
LIKE TO THINK SO - Packs healthy meals
TRY TO - Makes healthy choices when dining out
TRY TO - Drinks a lot of water
NOPE, MY DAY WONT ALLOW - Eats 5-6 small meals per day
DEFINATELY NOT LOL - Eliminates alcoholic beverages (or significantly limits it)
95% OF THE TIME IF HUNGRY - Always eats breakfast

Another important principle in clean eating is that you must COOK. You cannot eat clean by unzipping packages, microwaving, or just adding water. My diet is pretty clean, but imperfect. I continue to have a cheeseburger weakness and as a baker, I am not anti-refined sugar or all purpose flour. I simply limit their use. But as a general practice, I make what I eat, down to the taco seasoning, the chicken stock, and the salad dressing. But I am far from a zealot. I don’t bake my own bread, can my own tomatoes, or make my own mayonnaise. There are limits to all resources, including my time and energy.

I do find, however, that especially when I am on target with eating my fruits and vegetables in meals, that I am amply full for hours. Eating 5-6 meals a day simply doesn’t work for me (particularly because it doubles the number of times I would have to think about preparing and eating food, and I already spend enough of my day doing that).

Eating clean is the practice of eating whole, natural foods such as fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, and complex carbohydrates. It also means staying away from the junk that typically makes up the Standard American Diet (S.A.D) These types of food include man-made sugar, bad fats (hydrogenated, trans-fat), preservatives, white bread, and any other ingredients that are unnecessary. An easy way to remember if a food is clean is: "if man made it, don't eat it."

A person that eats clean generally practices the following:

Eliminates refined sugar - Try but not always successful (I've gotten a whole lot better, though). And I try to stay away from fake sugars but sometimes doesn't happen.
Cooks healthy meals - Do my best but occasionally give in to boxed food or pizza, my weakness.
Packs healthy meals - Do my best - keep a lot of healthy snacks at my desk and try to have a salad for lunch.
Makes healthy choices when dining out - Don't eat out much. When the plans are there I usually plan on eating what I want but I don't STUFF myself anymore.
Drinks a lot of water - YES
Eats 5-6 small meals per day -YES (almost all the time)
Eliminates alcoholic beverages (or significantly limits it) - Never was much of a drinker
Always eats breakfast - For the first time in my life YES and I love the difference in my day

I basically do all of that Haven't really had any alcohol for... a year and a half or something like that and feel all the better for it