10 Steps To Clean Eating

You hear about ‘clean eating’ or ‘clean food’ often when you’re about to take on a healthy lifestyle and change your diet, but what exactly does it mean?

- Lesley Maxwell

Clean food is food that contains just one ingredient: itself. And you can put these clean single ingredients together to make a delicious meal, such as chicken, sweet potato, broccoli, Himalayan rock salt, and herbs and spices to taste. 

In other words, clean foods are those that don’t come in a package with a host of ingredients you can’t pronounce, plus a list of numbers that represent artificial ingredients, preservatives and colours. 

To help make it seem less complicated, below are 10 easy steps to get your ‘clean eating’ underway.

THE TEN STEPS TO CLEAN EATING

When you’ve made the decision that you want to eat super clean and improve your health:

1 Make this your ‘day one’, not just ‘one day’. Clean out your pantry. Do this after eating a meal as you’ll feel satiated and be more ruthless in throwing out sweet foods or biscuits. I often hear people say they need to eat everything first rather than throw anything out before they begin their new super clean eating lifestyle. 

2 Cut back on, or better still, eliminate soft drinks and sugar in your food and beverages. Begin by weaning yourself off sugar over a few weeks, as sugar