As much I love Keto... sometimes it feels processed & not too healthy! That is why I had a close look on this issue and come up with the following. What means actually Clean Eating as such; it is about eating whole foods, or "real" foods — those that are un- or minimally processed, refined, and handled, making them as close to their natural form as possible. However, modern food production has become so sophisticated that simply eating whole foods can be a challenging proposition these days. Here a list of things you should not eat while sticking to a Clean Eating Plan:
Refined grains
E.g. White rice, white flour, grits and cream of wheat
Pesticides, Additives & Preservatives
Mainly GMO & no organic production
Unhealthy fats
E.g. Butter, margarine, shortening, beef, pork fat, fatty cuts of beef, pork, lambdark chicken meat, poultry skinhigh fat & dairy foods (whole milk, butter, cheese, sour cream, ice cream) plus tropical oils (coconut oil, palm oil, cocoa butter)
Sugar
Salt
Highly refined foods
E.g. all Net Carb products which are artificially made
So, looking at this, will make it complicated to eat clean while being on a Keto Diet. But let me twist that around for you, by doing the following:
Go Diary free
Go off Sugar
Reduce your Salt intake to a maximum
Go off refined foods
Go for healthy fats
Go Organic & non GMO
Okay, that sounds like a lot and makes you think that you can not eat anything anymore. No worries here is my list of products allowed (go always for the organic, non GMO version when possible). To be fair, I have twisted some things, just to make it more enjoyable and to make it also easy to eat on a day to day base, so you will be on a 95% base instead of 100%, but that is for me more then acceptable:
Fats
Olive & Avocado Oil
Nut Butter
Coconut Butter (eat in moderation)
Dairy
Coconut, Cashew or any other Nut Milk
Beef Protein
Almond Cheese
Flour
100% nut flours
Animal Proteins
Free-range Chicken breast & thigh
Sirloin & lean ground beef
Sea-food
Free-range Eggs
Fruit
Avocado
Tomato (in moderation)
Raspberries
Blackberries
Strawberries
Blueberries
Lemon
Plump (in moderation)
Veggies
Broccoli
Zucchini
Spinach
Asparagus
Kale
Brussels sprouts
Cauliflower
Green lectures
Cucumbers
Celery
Bell Pepper (in moderation)
Sugar & Salt
100% natural chocolate & cocoa
Stevia
Sea Salt
Even this is a clean eating plan you still need to follow your macros & calories per day. But I will cover this in another post the next week. So good luck giving it a try, but you will like it. It will take some adaption at the beginning, but it will have a great impact on your health and you also will lose more, promise!