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.

They do look a little shriveled the next day but roasted is my favorite way to eat them. I roast everything...peppers, potatoes, cabbage, cauliflower carrots...if it is a veggie...I roast it.

@furbuster I assume we are talking cabbage, cauliflower, brussel sprouts???

I have never cared for steamed vegetables...something about the texture. So yes to me roasted is better than steamed. I like the hint of caramelization that roasting gives.

My favorite...roasted brussel sprouts. I roast them till they char a bit.

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?

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

Yeah, I think most people basically have a grip on what others mean when they use it. Some have different takes, but more or less it's veg, fruit, whole grains, meat, nuts, sometimes dairy. (Maybe those are organic or pesticide free or local or sustainably sourced, maybe not, but in terms of food items, that is what people roughly mean. I hope I have cleared this up for everyone now and forever.)

Anyway, when I want a meal that doesn't involve a ton of processing and is nutritionally balanced, and involves ingredients like the ones I mentioned, I do some kind of salad and some kind of meat. I just google for recipes featuring the ingredients I want to use.

My favourite recipe site is the BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes

It has recipes from lots of good chefs.

Or, just Google foods you feel like eating and the word 'recipe'.

Furbuster wrote: »

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?

I care about communication and making it clearer.

I also think WinoGelato is correct, and that's why I ask why they think they need something other than a normal cookbook or website (which I gave lots of helpful information about). IMO, asking what they consider "clean" is the only way to usefully address the question.

The other possibility is that they have really never looked at recipes or cookbooks at all, and in that case too I think it's helpful to explain that most cookbooks show how to cook and combine whole foods, so should fit the normal definition of "clean."

And I still don't know what a "clean eating cookery book" is.