Clean eating tips and recipes?????

Tosca Reno has great recipe books and a magazine called clean eating. The magazine has a 2 week meal plan complete with shopping lists. I did really well losing weight on it with exercise. It IS expensive though. What I took away from it was I learned how to eat better and now eat mostly clean. There's some great recipes that my whole family loves and it sneaks them in more veggies.
I've noticed some people in the mfp community will turn their nose up to "clean eating" and say it's all calories in calories out doesn't matter what you eat. Which is absolutely true, but I think eating better choices of foods is so beneficial to anyone who gives it a go. Just remember you have to keep your calories within your range no matter how clean you eat.
The meal plans in the magazine helped me so much to learn portion sizes and more veggies. I never felt better! Just be prepared for a grocery bill shock it's expensive buying all the little extras.
Add me as a friend if you want. I have a lot of recipes I can share with you if you'd like.

I love clean eating, but second what pp said about people on here not always being a fan. I just look for recipes that include nothing processed, and would recommend the following:

www.madeleineshaw.com (plenty of recipes on her website although I also have her book which is fab)
www.eat-yourself-skinny.com

I have the following books too which are great for recipes:

Get The Glow (Madeleine Shaw)
Hemsley & Hemsley - The Art of Eating Well
The Detox Kitchen Bible (this one is great as it tells you calories per serving)

I use them all regularly. The only thing I would say is with some recipes in Get the Glow / Hemsley they use a LOT of oil - I tend to halve this and have never had a problem with the end result.

Feel free to add me and view my diary if you like (ignore the weekend I was at parties but normally I eat really well!!)

xx

She isn't mentioned here much but Delia Smith uses mostly natural stuff - check out her website it's pretty comprehensive and I've used her recipes since I started cooking as a teen (a long time ago now!) x

When I want to eat really clean I do a paleo diet for 4 days. This completely cuts out carbs like bread and refined sugar like chocolate. I often get sugar cravings on this diet and so I use raw honey in my tea, etc. You feel totally refreshed as this is what we are supposed to eat and is often referred to as the cave man diet. I find that weight falls off me on this diet and after a day or two I feel very energetic. Check out websites like Paleo leap for yummy recipes and ideas

@tmcat111, that was "Supersize Me", and it made about 22 million dollars. Here's the flip side, a Science teacher who lost weight and reduced his cholesterol numbers by eating exclusively at McDonald's for six months.

I prefer peer reviewed double blind studies over populist documentaries.

There really isn't much mystery in clean eating. Just prepare your meals from whole natural ingredients and avoid premade or overly processed foods.

Some meals I've had lately that would qualify as clean:

Stir fry of wild caught shrimp, broccoli, cauliflower and carrots
Grilled wild caught grouper and salad
Chili
Grilled pork chops and spaghetti squash with mushrooms
Quinoa and kidney bean salad and baked orange roughy
Venison meatballs in marinara and roasted potatoes
Grilled salmon and roasted brussel sprouts
Cajun red beans and rice
Tuna steak and caprese salad

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

There really isn't much mystery in clean eating. Just prepare your meals from whole natural ingredients and avoid premade or overly processed foods.

Some meals I've had lately that would qualify as clean:

Stir fry of wild caught shrimp, broccoli, cauliflower and carrots
Grilled wild caught grouper and salad
Chili
Grilled pork chops and spaghetti squash with mushrooms
Quinoa and kidney bean salad and baked orange roughy
Venison meatballs in marinara and roasted potatoes
Grilled salmon and roasted brussel sprouts
Cajun red beans and rice
Tuna steak and caprese salad

Your food choices look AMAZING! Yummmy!!!