Clean Simple Eating, What is it?

Clean Simple Eating, What is it?

Clean simple eating is defined by eating simple, whole foods without artificial ingredients by most people. The goal is to remove as much of the processed foods, refined grains, added sugars, trans fats, and heavy saturated fats. A small portion of people will then start to remove dairy, gluten products, and soy as they may not add any additional benefits other than filler.

You will try to stay away from foods with added sugar, salt or that are highly processed. Usually those will include packaged foods like donuts, premade microwave meals, and there ingredients list are filled with very long or technical terms. Note that you can have foods that are cooked, pasteurized and preserved. Not everything has to be eaten in it’s raw form. We still need variety that the other cooking or preparation methods can provide.

This also means that you will be going to get your groceries every three to four days to keep everything fresh. Making sure that you have a shopping list of what you need or want to get will keep you from going to the simple packaged food especially at the beginning.

When you first start out trying to change to eating simple and clean, having some resources like a quick shopping or grocery list will keep your mind off of the easier packaged foods. Having a meal plan for the week is going to help you save money, spend less time looking for the foods you want, and you’ll start keeping track of what a good price is for the foods that you eat regularly. Don’t get caught up on trying to change over all at once. This is something that will take you time to complete for most people. Starting out by just removing those easy one box meals or the one pan meals will help a ton. Not to say that can’t be something you reach for once a month, or allow your kids to help make something that they remember eating when they were younger. It’s all about finding that middle ground for you and your family of time and wasting less money. If you take a package of premade cookies and a bag of apples, your going to want to grab more cookies before you go to grab another apple to eat.