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Clean Eating
Hello! This is my very first thread!
I have been reading here and there about 'clean eating' and would love to hear from any planeteers who are interested in it, or are doing it. Any tips, recipes, or experiences you'd like to share are welcome in this thread! From what I understand at this point, clean eating focuses on a diet made up of whole, natural foods. For most people this means fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, whole grains and lean meats. It means cutting out processed food and ingredients we can't pronounce. I'm slowly adding clean eating into my routine. What are you all doing with your food? |
I do this as much as I can. I've also heard this called "God's food."
On a little tangent, I grew up in Cincinnati with lots of not so clean eating of Larosa's pizza and Graeters icecream :) |
Great thread, FC! - I have also seen this referred to as "raw food diet" or maybe I have this confused?
I will say that I feel significantly better when I cut out processed foods :) |
Sounds like the raw food diet I tried. Only one type of raw food at a meal(meat,fruit,milk). You are able to eat raw veg. with any other category. Nothing in the way of starches, rice, potatoes, squash, beans, soy, barley. It had some good qualities, but if you're vegetarian, it isn't enough protein. The raw sprouted crackers and bread type foods available are horrendously priced.
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Due to health issues, I've had to cut out anything processed in any way. Clean eating makes your body feel better. Here is a great introduction/resource: http://cleaneatingonline.com/
The site offers menu planning, recipes and an online newsletter. I think they are on facebook too. |
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Didnt mean to derail here. Just curious. |
The difference between clean and raw is you can cook clean food by conventual methods..
Raw foods should never be cooked.. althought they can be *cooked* by dehydration... I love.. love.. love.. Slow foods, clean foods raw foods... I am so very attracted to eating food the way they were meant to be ate.. For me.. eatting processed foods is a slow death of the soul.. But the problem is.. they taste so damn good... |
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Wooopies... I don't know anything about the raw food diet.. There is a food movement called Raw Foods as well... |
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Lolololol... My son is hooked on plain fresca.. He did a lil snoopy dance when I would bring it home... Lol.. I alway thought of fresca as a diet drink, but he thought it was just goodness in a can.. |
This thread inspired me to go check and see if we have a local Farmer's market in our area without having to dive all the way to Little Rock.
I found one that is open Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday. Guess where I'll be on my lunchbreak tomorrow :) |
I have chosen to stop drinking diet soda. :|
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I'm working on cutting back on sodas and other drinks that are mostly sugar or chemicals that taste like sugar. Not all the way yet, but I'm making progress! I really think taking small steps is the right way for me. It feels so much more *doable* this way. What else are you all doing? ~Clever |
I have moved toward clean eating since I moved back to Ohio. I use to buy frozen foods, packaged meals in boxes and bags, and canned goods. Now you wont find these in my house, except for the occassional rare frozen pizza and ice cream. When I think back on how many mac and cheeses, hamburger helpers and hot pockets I use to eat, I groan. I cant eat those things anymore. In fact, even fast foods hurt my stumach if I indulge in them.
I eat alot alot alot of fresh fruits and vegetables. I buy chicken from the stores but am looking for a source that is more local in hope to get away from the chemicals they pump into them. I just heard they shove sugar into chicken to make it more tasty for our palates. Really??? I am not much of a red meat eater. I am gardening so I can can and freeze my own foods. My big downfall is the dang candy I consume and that has SO much trash in it, along with the processed sugar. I have a helluva sweet tooth. I go thru rounds of getting away from it and then I find myself going back to it. Its a never ending battle with sugar and me... oh and I love Fresca and yes I do buy it on occasion. Dont get me started on diet sodas. I buy some every week but I have cut way down. I buy caffeine free if I buy them. life is a journey with alot of processes to go thru...all I can do is try and when I fall off my route, to climb back on it... |
~for me, I stay as close to Mother Nature as I can. Raw fruit and veg. No dairy, grains, pasta, meat etc. Simple, gorgeous, fresh, easy, practically pick and eat!
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Lovely thread fetching :rrose:
My diet used to be pretty atrocious...single, working mom, long commute, going to school at night and on the weekends, tired all the time and living on fast food (as in McDonald's 5 to 7 times a week), processed food, several Cokes a day, etc. The crazy part is that I know how to cook from scratch, have done preserving (jams, pickles, etc.) since I was 10...just didn't have the time and energy and focus to get it done. Well...turns out I was undiagnosed diabetic, and while part of my exhaustion was my schedule, part of it was the effect of my diet on my diabetic body. Since then, I've virtually stopped with the fast food (maybe once or twice a month), eliminated regular soda, and gone back to cooking the way I know how to cook...with almost everything from scratch. I avoid high fructose corn syrup completely and cane sugar as much as possible. I use stevia for making my iced tea, although I haven't figured out how to bake with it yet. I bake my own bread sometimes...and if we're having treats it's home-baked cookies or cake so that there are no artificial colors or preservatives, and I can go easy on the sugar. Our only non-homemade splurge is ice cream....which I have occasionally cuz I'm human :) Lately I was having some negative reactions to my diabetic meds, and cut out both diet soda and coffee. This is very, very tough for me...cuz it means that my okay beverage list is now water, tea (hot or iced), or an occasional glass of red wine. Pretty limited. I figure that the foods our bodies have been eating for hundreds of years are okay...so I eat butter and eggs (and have no problem with them), lean meats, all fruits and veggies...and basically just try to keep it simple. It helps. :) |
Thanks for this post Jo. I've been pre-diabetic for a number of years and have steadily improved my knowledge of healthy eating and the actual doing of it over the past three (and have lost some weight along the way). I gave up coffee and all caffeine and have found that really helpful. I switched from white/bad carbs to pure whole grain carbs and love that! I now have a job at a school instead of working long hours at a hospital. This has helped tremendously because I can come home and cook healthy dinners for BB and me (who, thankfully, eats whatever I cook). I still drink diet soda sometimes, though my primary drink is water. How does it help to give up diet soda in regard to diabetes? Maybe you'll answer will motivate me :)
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The diet soda thing is tricky as there are many opinions on both sides. Most doctors tell diabetics to use artifical sweeteners because they don't raise blood sugar. However, there's some evidence that they actually activate incretin in the brain, which makes us both crave sweets and absorb glucose (sugar) more effectively. So, you might not get any sugar from your diet soda, but it will make your body suck up more of the sugar in everything else you eat, and make you want to eat more sweet stuff overall. Here's a link to an article that explains it better than I can. I used diet soda as a crutch (cuz I still miss my coke...sob), but it actually makes it harder to stick to my diet. I do better when I eliminate it completely and drink iced tea instead. Ironically, stevia (which is an herb) sweetens without calories, is totally natural, and appears to have a stabilizing effect on diabetic blood sugars. Give it a try! :) |
Thank you for this explanation and the link. Very helpful! I really want to learn as much as I can to care for my health. I love to find new tips like about Stevia. I will try it. And, yes, the change in schedules makes such a difference! It was actually BB (my husbutch) who told me that my days of working until midnight 7 days a week sometimes HAD to stop. Yes, I make less money but what a difference in quality of life. I wouldn't trade it for the world!
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