Favorite Clean Eating Recipes

ClarityPeace wrote: »

Furbuster wrote: »

CassieFindley86 wrote: »

What are your favorite clean eating recipes?? Looking for new ideas

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I also make a huge tray of roasted veg to last me 2-3 days and keep this in the fridge for snacks/sandwiches/wraps/ pasta etc.

What roasted veggies do best/taste ok still day 2.. they look horrific after day 1 to me.

I use sweet peppers, mushrooms, squash, onion, garlic those sort of Mediterranean things. With oil and herbs - the oil preserves them. I actually prefer them cold

christinev297 wrote: »

StephanieOugh2014 wrote: »

Boy people get real mad about that term. In my opinion it means meals created from whole foods rather than processed items that might contain items like corn syrup or other delicious but unhealthy if consumed a lot items. Marshmallow fluff would be not clean eating but an apple would.

Everyone knows what clean eating means. Some just hate the term and like to argue the point

No, we don't. What I consider "clean" isn't the same as yours though there would be similar ideologies. I consider my wheat bread, Swiss cheese, peanut butter, and cucumber sammich "clean" while many would not because 3 out of 4 items are "processed", from a package, have more than 1 ingredient, have HFCS and/or other "I can't pronounce it" chemicals.

Since you know what "clean eating" means, please post the definition and clear it up for the rest of the class.

She asked for recipes people...why turn it in to another opportunity to push the point of...what does "clean" eating mean.

OP...you can take most recipes and use fresh ingredients.

Example...I make chicken salad using a store bought "lite" mayo...you could make your own mayo instead.

I use this site a lot...skinnytaste.com. The recipes are easy to modify and many of them don't use processed ingredients except for olive oils...cheese...and a few other things.

I don't eat "clean" I suppose based on other peoples standards but I do try to limit them because of sodium. I use them sparingly. I just adapt the recipes that I have always used.

Annie_01 wrote: »

She asked for recipes people...why turn it in to another opportunity to push the point of...what does "clean" eating mean.

She was given recipes (my first post contains numerous options) and the point of saying "why clean recipes, what does that mean?" in my initial post was to open her up to the realization that she could usefully look at just about any cookbook or recipe site.

The argument over "what is clean eating" really began when people popped in (after she had been given a variety of helpful answers to her question) to claim that we all knew what "clean" meant when that was the point, we don't.

(But if "clean" means no flour, skip the recipes with flour or leave it out, depending. I always modify recipes.)

lemurcat12 wrote: »

WinoGelato wrote: »

StephanieOugh2014 wrote: »

Boy people get real mad about that term. In my opinion it means meals created from whole foods rather than processed items that might contain items like corn syrup or other delicious but unhealthy if consumed a lot items. Marshmallow fluff would be not clean eating but an apple would.

Darn, I guess I have to burn my "101 Things To Do With Marshmallow Fluff" cook book then.

I wonder if it's okay if you make the marshmallows and then the fluff from scratch?

There's actually an entire cookbook devoted to marshmallows that I found when I searched for the history of the marshmallow/sweet potato dish during another discussion (it and cooking with marshmallows was super popular in the early 1900s, apparently).

Here are some recipes from epicurious: http://www.epicurious.com/archive/howtocook/primers/marshmallows

So "clean" or not? Luckily, I do not care.

;-)

I've made marshmallows from actual marshmallow root! This is a marshmallow:

You can roast brassicas? I had no idea. Better than steamed?

Good-oh. I'll be trying that = less effort. Cheers

zyxst wrote: »

christinev297 wrote: »

StephanieOugh2014 wrote: »

Boy people get real mad about that term. In my opinion it means meals created from whole foods rather than processed items that might contain items like corn syrup or other delicious but unhealthy if consumed a lot items. Marshmallow fluff would be not clean eating but an apple would.

Everyone knows what clean eating means. Some just hate the term and like to argue the point

No, we don't. What I consider "clean" isn't the same as yours though there would be similar ideologies. I consider my wheat bread, Swiss cheese, peanut butter, and cucumber sammich "clean" while many would not because 3 out of 4 items are "processed", from a package, have more than 1 ingredient, have HFCS and/or other "I can't pronounce it" chemicals.

Since you know what "clean eating" means, please post the definition and clear it up for the rest of the class.

I don't follow clean eating. But to me, it means fresh whole foods, no biscuits, chips, junk food or take away etc etc
This is what it seems to mean to 99% of the posters who post here.But I have yet to see one who follows it 100% of the time though.
It's a nice idea, but honestly would be far too difficult to follow for each and every meal, every single day...

I've only ever met one person who I'd class as a clean eater. Everything she ate came fresh off the farm. She made everything from scratch, such as flour, bread etc and if she couldn't, she didn't eat it.
my mum also followed it briefly when my dad was diagnosed with cancer. Our house looked like an organic fresh foods market! And no, it didn't save him..

Furbuster wrote: »

However, modern food production has become so sophisticated that simply eating whole foods can be a challenging proposition these days."

This isn't true at all. Eating whole foods is completely simple.

The issue is whether there's a reason to avoid more convenient options if they make it easier for you to eat lower calorie or healthy. For example, when I'm not getting spinach from the farm I have a CSA with, I typically buy the bagged kind, and same with kale and same with arugula. When I buy at the green market I seek out the places with pre-washed, bagged greens. I do this because I know it increases the ease of using them and thus the chance I will. Same with baby carrots.

To make the perfect the enemy of the good and say it's not worth getting veggies unless they are completely unprocessed (while still getting out of season veggies much of the time) seems to me a bad idea.

Another poster was told she should not do fruit cups, but I can see why a fruit cup might make it more likely someone would eat fruit than requiring that you buy whole melons and cut them up, say.

If you don't yet like plain yogurt but do like flavored greek yogurt and it fits in your macros, why define it as "bad"?

I find smoked salmon (which is processed, including with a bit of sugar) a delicious addition to breakfast or a pasta dish and it helps me meet my macros, what's wrong with that?

Tomatoes out of season are tasteless (IMO), and a pain to peel and seed, whereas there are high quality canned tomatoes available, what's wrong with them?

There are good premade breads available and not everyone has the time to bake bread or the interest.

Same with pasta (and many traditional Italian dishes are better with dried pasta -- see the cookbook I referenced above).

Same with canned beans--I prefer dried, but for many kinds the time difference is huge and including more beans in your diet is usually healthy. Same for tinned and frozen fish and frozen veggies.

I could go on.

On the whole I often prefer whole foods (and could eat all whole foods if I thought there was a reason to) but this idea that it's necessarily beneficial is wrong. AND the idea that it's difficult is wrong.

That said, I still have no idea what it means (no sugar, no flour? are those "whole foods" or not, as they are obviously highly processed yet you can bake with them at home) and more to the point I see no reason why a regular cookbook wouldn't largely serve. Why are the cookbooks I mentioned above "unclean" if you think they are (which presumably you do if cooking "clean" is so complex.)

For someone that doesn't care about it lemurcat you don't half labour a point and go on about it! Maybe you do care and secretly read clean eating cookery books in private eh?

IsaackGMOON wrote: »

jennifer_417 wrote: »

IsaackGMOON wrote: »

jennifer_417 wrote: »

IsaackGMOON wrote: »

jennifer_417 wrote: »

IsaackGMOON wrote: »

Mud, dirt, stick and rocks are a favourite. They're clean, right???

Nah, bruh, you gotta wash that stick off first. It doesn't just come clean. I'm sure the mud and dirt will be fine if you mix a little bleach in with it.

I've been doing it wrong all this time???!?!?!"?!?"

better go detox from all those chemikillz and toxins

Yeah you better! I have some tea I'd be glad to sell you to help with that!

I tried it and im not losing any weight??????

You must be in starvation mode. Eat more!

but my personal trainer @ the gym said no carbs after 6pm and I can on only eat organic???!?!?!? IM DOING EVERYTHING RIGHT

Ooohhh sorry, here's your Special Snowflake Pass. Have a nice day.

But ok some ideas:

Salads:
- asparagus (boiled or steamed and then cooled) with cherry tomatoes, avocado, small amount of lentils, olive oil, bit of lemon, salt - had this tonight
- shredded red cabbage with apples and carrots, dressed in olive oil + balsamic vinegar (and a bit of sugar, optional)
- baby spinach, walnuts, goat cheese (if you're counting that), sliced pears
- lentils with roasted or sauteed (in OO) red or yellow peppers, zucchini, garlic, OO, balsamic vinegar, pinch of sugar (optional), salt
- when I'm lazy, i just have spinach & OO/balsamic
- tomatoes with green onions, salt, OO
- diced cucumbers with white vinegar and OO and of course salt

Meat: I pan-fry or roast/bake it. Pan-frying is faster. I would grill but need better ventilation for that.

I always assume that questions like the OP posed, looking for clean eating recipes, are inspired by the fact that they themselves don't have a clear understanding of what the term means and are therefore hoping for a book filled with explanations and acceptable foods to eat. Because I feel like if you follow "clean eating" and are confident in your definitions of what is clean and what isn't, then you could just take any recipe available online or in any cookbook, and make it "clean".

The fact that people are asking for special recipes tells me that they do not have a clear set of rules in their head.