Alice Newman - The Clean Eating Cookbook: 50 Quick, Easy and Delicious Recipes Your Family Will Love.

If you have kept yourself surrounded with the latest celebrity and diet news, then you have most definitely stumbled upon a word known as Clean Eating.

It has mostly taken the whole world by storm with celebrities such as Katy Perry, Alicia Silverstone, Jay Lo, Jessica Alba, Miranda Kerr- completely altering their lifestyle thanks to this diet. And their families or just partners seem to be very much happy as well.

Not only that, many restaurants all around the world have grown up branches in various regions that solely provide Clean Eating compatible meals.

But heres the thing, what does exactly Clean Eating mean?

Well, the answer is elementary!

Unlike most of the diets out there, a Clean Eating diet does not try to enforce a bucket load of dietary restrictions! Rather, the core aim of this diet is to help you build up a little and sound mindset that will encourage you to avoid any refined or processed foods and go for natural alternatives.

Sounds easy, right?

Well, it is easy! However, the main difficulty in following this diet comes from the fact that in our busy world, it often gets extremely challenging to find foods that are not heavily processed!

By natural means, Human beings are attracted to fast foods as it saves both their time and money, but they fail to realise that they are losing health in the long run.

However, if you can let go of your unhealthy desires and embrace the art of Clean Eating, you will be able to enjoy the following amazing benefits!

Clean eating diet will:

Help you (your wife or husband, partner), to improve the condition of teeth and gums

Help you and your family to strengthen nails and improve the quality of their hair

Get rid lethargic feeling and provide you with a lot of energy (which can be very useful)

Help your couple to stay away from junk foods

Enhance your immunity and keep you protected from life diseases

Improve your psychological health and give you a sense of mental peace

It also can help you to get better sleep

With better health, you will be able to concentrate on your works and improve your job/educational performance

Not to mention, it will help you to trim down your body fat!

So, I am pretty sure every day you ask yourself what to cook for your partner or family, and at this point, clean eating is the best easy and cheap way to make your day happy. As it doesnt take much time and energy to cook, but this is so healthful, delicious and fast.

Suitable ingredients for Clean Eating

Healthy Fats: It is perfect for you to consume healthy fats when staying on a clean eating diet. Go for the following

Olive oil

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Organic Unsalted Butter

Coconut Oil

Organic Ghee

Sunflower Oil

Avocado

Flours and Grains: Always make sure that you are using 100% whole grain flours that have no additives or preservatives.

Breads

Pastas

Tortillas

Rice

Flours

Soba Noodles

Cornmeal

Bread Crumbs

Dairy: Always go for full-fat organic and grass-fed dairy products.

Plain yogurt

Buttermilk

Greek Yogurt

Sour Cream

Cream Cheese

Cottage Cheese

Milk

Cheese

Nondairy/Protein Alternative: For protein alternatives, it is good to go for unsweetened plain almond, soy sauce, coconut milk, or even rice.

Organic Tofu

Organic Tempeh

Seafood: Sustainable shellfish and fish are your best choice when considering sea foods.

Produce: Organic products such as vegetables and fruits are always ideal for a clean diet. Go for as much as you can.

Meats: When going for meat, it is essential that you go for hormone and antibiotic free organic meats.

Poultry

All-natural bacon

Uncured deli meats such as ham

Lean red meats

Salts and Herb: Salts and herbs are self-explanatory. Use them in reasonable amounts.

Herbs

Kosher salt or sea salt

Nuts: Nuts as seeds are allowed in a clean diet, so use them liberally

Unsalted nuts and seeds

Organic unsalted seed butter/ nut butter

Sweeteners: It is essential that you keep your sugar intake to as low level as possible, but if your sweet tooth is tingling too much! Then only go for the next CE approved sweeteners.

Raw honey

Date sugar

Pure maple syrup

Stevia

Organic Evaporated cane juice

Dark chocolate

Pure vanilla extract

Unsweetened shredded coconut

Juices: Always go for 100% pure juices!

Lemon juice (100%)

100% fruit juice

Cold pressed or homemade 100% vegetable and fruit juices

Thickeners: Some thickeners are allowed in clean diet such as

Arrowroot

Tapioca Starch

Potato Starch

Canned and Jarred Produce: For canned goods such as tomatoes or beans, only go for the ones that are BPA free.

Condiments: One thing to note while purchasing herbs is to look for the labels. Make sure that they contain no additives, preservatives or sugar. Alternatively, if possible then try to make your own.

Hot Sauce

Dijon Mustard

Reduced Sodium Soy Sauce

Vinegars

Misc. Ingredients: Some extra suitable ingredients are

Unsalted tomato paste

Agar-Agar

Low sodium chicken broth

Natural liquid smoke

Unsweetened dried berries

I am sure your partner does not want to eat clean from the Monday (or from any other specific day) all the time.

Here are some helpful tips for you to start clean eating:

1. Make changes to the meals you already enjoy every day. Clean eating doesnt mean you can never eat things your partner love like pizza and spaghetti. Just try to make healthy swaps.

2. Encourage your family to eat more vegetables and fruits. It can be easy salads or just fruit plate with some natural melted chocolate.

3. Add extra veggies to everything.

4. You and your partner, or full family should both understand: WHY youre doing it. Help him/her or them see that this is not just other diet from the internet, but a lifelong plan to keep you very stable and healthy.

5. Dont stress. Take it all slow and easy, step by step, every day.

6. Dont serve full plates, try to make portion less, and after eating you would not feel so heavy.

PS Sometimes try to present food on a plate in an interesting way; it must not be just like in the photo from a book or internet, but in your own creative way.