Clean and Lean Diet Recipes | Herbal Goodness

Eating clean is an integral part of maintaining a healthy weight. Even more, eating clean and lean is a key part of energy improvement, restfulness and overall well being. At first glance, ridding your body of excess weight might be the main benefit gained from a clean and lean diet. It also might seem that sticking to clean simple eats is a rigid, hard to maintain way to eat. 

Fortunately, that's not the case. A clean simple eats lifestyle can make you toner. It's also not as hard to pull off as you might think. Keep reading to learn about clean simple eats tips, recipes and advice. Above all, be patient with yourself. After all, if you've spent years eating sugary meals, processed food and food high in carbohydrates, it  may take several weeks to grow accustomed to eating and drinking clean and lean. But, after you see the rewards of your diet change, don't be surprised if you start to absolutely love clean simple eats. In the next section, we'll cover easy ways to get started with clean and lean eating. 

About Better Eating

Although food labels, like the detailed labels on HerbalGoodness super fruits, plants and herbs, offer an insight into ingredients, vitamins and minerals contained in food, reading labels isn't the only way to achieve better eating. To begin, stock your refrigerator, pantry and cabinets with organic foods and foods that have not been processed or that have been minimally processed. 

Also, add more fresh fruit and natural vegetables to your diet. This may be one of the best clean simple eats tactics. For example, instead of munching on potato chips, snack on a banana, apple or papaya. While making salads with HerbalGoodness plants and herbs, try a homemade fruit dressing instead of a heavy processed salad dressing. 

Reduce the amount of refined carbs that you eat. White bread, sugar, pizza dough, many desserts, pasta, soda and a lot of juices are types of refined carbs.¹ Not only are these foods low in vitamins and proteins, refined carbs can cause sugar spikes. In fact, a diet of refined carbs could find you feeling hungry an hour after you eat a meal, not what you want. The good news is that there is help. You have much better food options here at HerbalGoodness and at home.

Clean Recipes for Family and Kids

The sooner that you start clean and lean eating, the earlier you may see the evidence of your efforts. Even more, if you're a parent and you start eating better, you can influence your kids to prefer clean simple eats over sugary, high calorie foods and drinks. Another fact that you may appreciate about cleaning cooking is that this lifestyle change doesn't always require more money or more time. 

In fact, some clean simple eats take less than 20 minutes to prepare. As a tip, to maintain a clean and lean diet, keep fruit and raw veggies in your kitchen. Also, consider stocking up on organic, non-GMO HerbalGoodness herbs, plants, extracts and Matcha and MCT powder. It's these super foods and supplements that you can add to shakes, baked recipes and breakfast, lunch and dinner meals. Here are a few clean simple eats recipes that you can try at home. 

Kale, Herbal Goodness and Orange Salad

This clean simple eats recipe calls for one medium sized orange, four cups of kale, half a cup of red cabbage, 1/4 cup of balsamic vinegar dressing and two teaspoons of Herbal Goodness Guayusa Leaves. 

• Wash the kale under a sink of fresh water
• Rinse and slice the cabbage
• Peel and separate the orange
• Toss ingredients in a salad bowl
• Sprinkle with Herbal Goodness Guayusa Leaves
• Layer with balsamic vinegar dressing 

This clean simple eats recipe is less than 450 calories. 

Salmon and Broccoli Recipe

Here are the ingredients needed for this clean simple eats recipe. 

• 2 slices of salmon
• 2 teaspoons of garlic butter
• 3 broccoli clusters (if you love broccoli, add more)
• 2 teaspoons of HerbalGoodness Papaya Leaves 

Rinse salmon and place in a baking pan. Top with garlic butter and cover with aluminum foil.

Bake salmon in oven at 350 degrees for 20 minutes

Boil broccoli in a deep pot of water until broccoli is tender

Drain broccoli and place in a serving bowl, then sprinkle with HerbalGoodness Papaya Leaves

Remove salmon from oven and place on a plate

Add a serving of the broccoli 

Enjoy! This clean and lean dish makes a healthy lunch or dinner. 

Stuffed Bell Peppers²

You're going to love this clean simple eats recipe. It's easy to prepare and reheat. Ingredients are: 

• 4 large green bell peppers
• 1 cup mushrooms
• 1/4 cup HerbalGoodness Guava Leaves
• 2 teaspoons of diced onions
• 2 teaspoons of garlic
• 2 cups of tomato sauce
• 1 cup of mozzarella cheese
• 1 pound of ground beef or ground turkey
• 1 cup brown rice 

Rinse the bell peppers

Slice the tops off the bell peppers

Boil the rice until tender

Heat oven to 350 degrees

Cook the ground beef or ground turkey, garlic, mushroom and onions in a skillet until lightly browned

Add tomato sauce to the meat mixture

Mix the rice, HerbalGoodness Guava Leaves and beef (or turkey)

Place the peppers on a baking tray

Stuff peppers with the rice and meat mixture

Top with mozzarella cheese

Cook until cheese is golden brown 

Let cool and enjoy a delicious clean simple eats meal! 

It's easy to incorporate clean simple eats into your daily diet when you shop for super foods, super fruit, herbs and plants from Herbal Goodness. Looking to enjoy a gluten free, low carb shake? Blend Herbal Goodness MCT Powder with two cups of almond milk. You could also add Herbal Goodness MCT Powder to two cups of water, ice and your favorite fruit. It's quick, easy and a winner among clean simple eats. 

This is just one way that Herbal Goodness makes it easy to stick to a clean and lean diet. More ways that Herbal Goodness supports clean simple eats is by only sourcing for plants and herbs that are farmed in non-GMO areas. And, HerbalGoodness ensures that its harvested food products are thoroughly cleaned during the manufacturing process. Here's a tip. While shopping for organic super foods to make part of your daily clean simple eats, if you're looking to drop excess weight, consider organic super foods that support metabolism. Carb blockers is another option. 

Types of HerbalGoodness plants, herbs, extract and teas that support metabolism and that are referred to as carb blockers include Guava Leaf Tea, Guava Leaf Extract and Guava Leaves Bulk Herbs. Options for the extract include capsule and liquid form. You can even add Guava Leaves Bulk Herbs to baked and stove cooked clean and lean meals. Click here to get HerbalGoodness organic Guava products today. https://www.herbalgoodnessco.com/collections/carb-blocker-fat-burner 

Resources:

1. Healthline. Franziska Spritzler. 11 Simple Ways To Start Eating Clean Today. April 8, 2019. Accessed July 23, 2020.
2. Eating Well. Victoria Seaver. 14-Day Clean Eating Meal Plan: 1,200 Calories. Published December 27, 2019. Accessed July 23, 2020.