Eating Clean??

SlinkyPinkyBunsOfSteel
SlinkyPinkyBunsOfSteel Posts: 661 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Can someone please explain to me what this means and give some examples of. clean foods?:smile:

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  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    What it means depends on who you ask. There is no set definition for clean eating. For some it is whole, unprocessed foods or foods made with only natural ingredients, like the Clean Eating Diet made popular by Tosca Reno who basically says if you can't pronounce or don't know what the name of an ingredient is, you probably shouldn't be eating it. For others, no processing at all.
    People who follow paleo don't include grains in "clean eating".
    A good article
    http://www.wannabebig.com/diet-and-nutrition/the-dirt-on-clean-eating/
  • Helloitsdan
    Helloitsdan Posts: 5,564 Member
    If you look at an ingredients list and you cannot pronounce anything on it...dont eat it!

    Clean eating is whole foods but try to not use the term all that much.

    Rule of thumb, get in your macros any way you want!
  • jahnlaw
    jahnlaw Posts: 95 Member
    Tosca has several awesome cookbooks.
  • SlinkyPinkyBunsOfSteel
    SlinkyPinkyBunsOfSteel Posts: 661 Member
    What it means depends on who you ask. There is no set definition for clean eating. For some it is whole, unprocessed foods or foods made with only natural ingredients, like the Clean Eating Diet made popular by Tosca Reno who basically says if you can't pronounce or don't know what the name of an ingredient is, you probably shouldn't be eating it. For others, no processing at all.
    People who follow paleo don't include grains in "clean eating".
    A good article
    http://www.wannabebig.com/diet-and-nutrition/the-dirt-on-clean-eating/
    Interesting article. Thanks. :smile:
  • SlinkyPinkyBunsOfSteel
    SlinkyPinkyBunsOfSteel Posts: 661 Member
    If you look at an ingredients list and you cannot pronounce anything on it...dont eat it!

    Clean eating is whole foods but try to not use the term all that much.

    Rule of thumb, get in your macros any way you want!
    I'll go with that! Thanks.:smile:
  • SlinkyPinkyBunsOfSteel
    SlinkyPinkyBunsOfSteel Posts: 661 Member
    Tosca has several awesome cookbooks.
    Ok. Thanks:smile:
  • TheDevastator
    TheDevastator Posts: 1,626 Member
    This is the clean diet from the book Clean.
    I'm trying to stay on it for the next 3 months.

    http://cleanprogram.com/files/elimination-diet-snap-shot.pdf

    I do eat peppers and tomatoes though since I don't have a problem with nightshades.
  • committomittxoxo
    committomittxoxo Posts: 339 Member
    Bump
  • Elleinnz
    Elleinnz Posts: 1,661 Member
    Have a look at thegraciouspantry website - she has great info on clean eating - and fantastic recipes......read her 101 of clean eating, as well as her "shopping list"
  • JennieAL
    JennieAL Posts: 1,726 Member
    It seems to me that "clean" is a relative term. As in, eating "cleaner" than you were. Since there isn't a real meaning for clean eating, I tend to think of it as the next level, goal or hurdle to reach in my own diet. Provided, I do intend to go in that direction. Otherwise, and in general, the terminology just has some sort of moralistic connotation that doesn't sit well with me.
  • TheDevastator
    TheDevastator Posts: 1,626 Member
    The meaning of a clean diet to me is getting rid of foods that are known to cause allergies, high blood sugar or have a lot of toxins in them..
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