During the month of June, Jay and I, as well as my sister, Carrie, and brother-in-law, Ryan, committed to eating clean.
At first, it seemed like a definite challenge. The first few days were pretty tough and it felt hard to know what we could and couldn’t have. While the “rules” were easy, it was an adjustment compared to everything we normally eat. Our goal was to eat as natural as possible, and if you did not know what the ingredients were, you did not eat it.
In theory, only eating foods you know should be easy. That does limit your choices though. Eating on the outside of the grocery store makes it very easy to follow this guideline. While some may be able to eat just veggies and meat, we found ourselves getting creative and making different recipes, such as homemade potato chips, cheez-its, tortillas, and croutons. Of course these foods are not healthy or necessary, but they are things that we eat on a normal basis, so making homemade versions of them showed us that we can eat foods that we enjoy without eating preservatives.
I will say that one of the foods I avoided most was bread. Believe it or not, there are a lot of chemicals in bread. Even the bread that is sold in grocery store “bakeries” is not all that fresh.
