Clean Eating for Beginners - Eat Clean Food List When you first get start eating clean, the most overwhelming part will be how to do your grocery shopping. You've been shopping for years and you automatically go to certain aisles looking for specific products and all that's about to change.Clean Eating for Beginners - Eating Clean Food List

1. August 22nd, 2014 Published by: Eating Clean Magazine
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Clean Eating for
Beginners - Eat Clean
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Clean Eating for Beginners –
Eat Clean Food List
Clean Eating for Beginners – Eat
Clean Food List
When you first get start eating clean, the most overwhelming
part will be how to do your grocery shopping. You’ve been
shopping for years and you automatically go to certain aisles
looking for specific products and all that’s about to change.
Shop the Perimeter!
To some extent, the old adage still rings true, “Shop the
Perimeter.” You’ll notice that in most grocery stores this
includes fresh fruits and vegetables, fresh baked breads, meat/
poultry/fish counters, and dairy.
Avoid the Inner Aisles!
Inner aisles, you’ll notice, are filled with chips, cookies, soda,
canned/jarred foods, etc. – anything with a long shelf life. We
don’t want these items on our Clean Eating Food List. They
are all processed foods to some degree. They are foods that
are no longer in their natural state. In fact, some of them don’t
even have a natural state!
Read the Labels!
Above all, always read food labels. You will be amazed at
what you once thought was healthy. If you don’t recognize an
ingredient, don’t eat it. If it sounds like something from your
7th grade chemistry class, don’t eat it. If it has added salt,
sugar, or artificial anything, don’t eat it.
Here is a general breakdown:
Fruits & Vegetables – Lots and Lots of Vegetables and
some fruit!
Opt for locally grown produce. It’s fresher and hasn’t left an
ugly carbon footprint on it’s way to your table. Organic is the
next best choice but not always necessary. The basic rule is
that if it has thin skin, like tomatoes, buy organic. If it has
a thick skin, like butternut squash, organic isn’t necessary.
Although, once you start eating clean, you will probably want
all organic. Focus on huge amount of veggies at every meal
and save the fruit for dessert.
Check out this list of high pesticide produce from
Environmental Working Group.
Protein – Include at Every Meal
Opt for lean cuts of pastured, grass fed beef, farm-raised
chicken, and wild caught fish from sustainable fisheries. Get
local eggs if you can. (Don’t you ever wonder how they get all
those eggs to be exactly the same shape, size and color?)
Dairy

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Be careful of products labeled “low fat” or “non fat.”
Oftentimes there are other ingredients added during
processing. When possible, buy organic Almond or Soy milk,
plain Greek yogurt, and real cheese.
Grains
Make sure the label doesn’t say anything other than the actual
grain and make sure it is the whole grain, ie 100% Whole.
When buying bread, opt for sprouted, multi-grain such as
Ezekiel (found in the freezer section).
Legumes
Buy dry legumes in the bags, not the stuff in the cans. They’re
a little more work to cook but it’s well worth it. You won’t end
up with some soggy mess! And make sure the label has only
one ingredient, ie Black Beans.
Nuts/Seeds
Your clean eating shopping list should include some nuts and
seeds. Again, you want nuts to have only one ingredient –
the nut! At several grocery stores you can bag your own raw
nuts. Almonds and Walnuts are great choices. And seeds like
sunflower, pumpkin and chia are great in salads.
Here’s a great printable Eating Clean Food List by
Blogilates.com to get you started in the right direction.
Here’s another Clean Eating Grocery List from The Gracious
Pantry.
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