Delicious Clean Eating Recipes for Beginners

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Looking for simple clean eating recipes for beginners that are easy to follow? Clean eating doesn’t have to be complicated! Focusing on whole, unprocessed foods not only boosts your health but also makes meals tastier.

With these clean eating recipes for beginners, you’ll find easy and simple dishes that require no fancy ingredients—just fresh, wholesome food that anyone can prepare.

The best thing you can do for yourself is find a local supplier and purchase fresh-from-the-garden fruits and vegetables, plus free-range animal products. I listed some simple recipes to kick-start your clean eating that are actually beginner-friendly and don’t call for a bunch of exotic ingredients.

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Ideas for Breakfast

I selected some of my favorite sweet and savory breakfast dishes for you to check out!

Banana Oatmeal Pancakes

I must admit I hate banana pancakes, but I know lots of people adore them. Definitely choose ripe bananas, as the recipe doesn’t call for any additional sweetener – it is just a blend of oats, almond milk, spices, and eggs.

Healthy Banana Oatmeal Pancakes (made in the blender)
Banana oatmeal pancakes made right in the blender! These fluffy healthy pancakes are naturally gluten free & contain no flour or added sugar.
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Veggie-Packed Omelette

When sticking to a clean diet, it is important to choose high-quality ingredients, like free-range eggs. Stuff the omelette with cherry tomatoes, yellow pepper, spinach, and chives to boost the flavors.

Healthy omelette recipe
A quick breakfast, lunch or supper, this satisfying healthy omelette contains two of your daily servings of veggies, plus filling protein from the eggs.
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Clean Green Smoothie Bowl

The key to a smooth and thick smoothie bowl is adding frozen bananas! Add everything green – spinach, avocado, and kiwi to get this fantastic vibrant color. Top it with blueberries, coconut flakes, and sunflower seeds for some texture.

Clean Green Smoothie Bowl
If you need to switch up your morning green smoothie recipe, this clean green smoothie bowl with kiwis and blueberries is a wonderful option.
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Wholegrain Avocado Toast

Avocado toast is the epitome of a healthy breakfast, so it deserves a place on this list. The base is whole-grain bread topped with spicy mashed avocado. You can add poached egg, omelet, or tomato on top!

The Only Avocado Toast Recipe You’ll Ever Need (+ Tips & Variations)
This is the easiest—and the last—avocado toast recipe you’ll ever need to know. Learn how to make it your own with different toppings and seasonings.
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Greek Yogurt Parfait

If you have time – make granola at home! It is way more flavorful, you can choose what to add, and you can use high-quality ingredients – it truly makes the difference! Layer whipped Greek yogurt with honey, granola, and fresh berries, and that’s all!

Greek Yogurt Parfait (Make Ahead Recipe)
Greek Yogurt Parfait with fruit and granola – Easy, quick, and healthy breakfast perfect for meal prep.
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Mediterranean Savory Breakfast Bowl

I am team savory breakfast, so here is one of my favorite options – Mediterranean breakfast bowl. This flawless combination involves eggs, white button mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, baby spinach, and hummus. YUM!

How to Make the Best Breakfast Bowls (15 mins)
This recipe is all you need to make healthy, delicious, and satisfying breakfast bowls with eggs, veggies and loads of Mediterranean flavors. Vegetarian & GF
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Ideas for Lunch

I kept the lunch selection simple to pack and eat on the go. There are some fabulous salads here!

Simple Grilled Chicken Salad

This is my first choice for lunch when I’m super busy or super lazy but still want something highly nutritional, packed with protein, healthy fats, fiber, and micronutrients. Load the bowl with grilled chicken breasts, corn on cobs, avocado, Romaine lettuce, cherry tomatoes, and red onions, and call it a day!

Grilled Chicken Salad Recipe
Grilled Chicken Salad is made with perfect juicy grilled chicken, grilled corn off the cob, tomatoes, lettuce, avocado, and onion. Simple oil and vinegar dressing is the perfect finishing touch to this delicious summer salad!
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Potato Crust Quiche

I LOVE quiche but without that traditional crust! Here, you still have that crunch as the base is grated potatoes stuffed with eggs, spinach, bell peppers, grape tomatoes, and mushrooms. This is a rhapsody of flavors!

Potato Crust Quiche
Potato Crust Quiche is the most delicious breakfast! A crispy potato crust packed with veggies and protein-easy to make and great for brunch!
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Whole Wheat Turkey Wraps with Avocado

This is a fabulous lunch to pack for work or school – easy to whip up and eat, plus it will stay fresh! Just load a whole-grain tortilla with anything you fancy; this recipe calls for avocado, tomatoes, Romaine lettuce, and all-natural turkey breasts.

Whole Wheat Turkey Wraps with Avocado
Packed with protein, fiber, and healthy fats, these whole wheat turkey wraps with avocado are healthy and seriously addicting lunch.
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Avocado Tuna Salad

You can never go wrong with this classic – tuna salad! The ingredients are super simple: only tuna, avocado, cucumber, celery, onion, and cilantro. Make olive oil and lemon juice-based dressing, and that’s it!

Avocado Tuna Salad
Tuna salad made naturally creamy with the addition of avocado. This super easy to make salad is healthy, light and refreshing and is great for a keto or low-carb diet. If you love tuna and you love avocado
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Mediterranean Chickpea Salad

If you’re looking for a delish salad that will stay fresh and crispy for longer – you’ve found it. This is one of my go-to lunches that always hits the spot – it screams Mediterranean with chickpeas, Kalamata olives, feta cheese, and avocado.

15-Minute Mediterranean Chickpea Salad (Easy & Healthy) |Clean & Delicious
Easy and healthy Mediterranean chickpea salad is made with garbanzo beans, olives, bell peppers, red onion, avocado, and Greek salad dressing!
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The Ultimate Clean Eating Sandwich

To be honest, I fancy a sandwich for lunch! This creator named it The Ultimate Clean Eating Sandwich, and I definitely agree! Stuff your favorite wholegrain bread with egg, avocado, tomato, and low-sodium prosciutto.

The Ultimate Clean Eating Sandwich
Who doesn’t love a good sandwich? My 3 year old is crazy about them. During the summer we visited a quaint little shopping village and had lunch at the gorgeous tea room there.
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Ideas for Dinner 

I love my dinners warm, homey, and relaxing, so that is why I picked out the following recipes!

Roasted Sweet Potato Black Bean Bowl

Roasted sweet potatoes are spiced up to perfection, but the creamy chipotle sauce makes the most significant difference. Load the bowl with black beans, brown rice, avocado, pickled red onions, and kale.

Roasted Sweet Potato Black Bean Bowls
These Roasted Sweet Potato Black Bean Bowls with Cream Chipotle Sauce are a delicious plant based meal, also great for vegetarian meal prep.
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Whole Wheat Pasta with Lemon Kale Chicken

When transferring to clean eating, find good whole-wheat pasta you really like! This is a flawless combination of flavors, with chicken, curly kale, parmesan cheese, and lemon that definitely skyrockets the taste!

Whole Wheat Pasta With Lemon Kale Chicken Recipe by Tasty
Looking for a healthy and delicious pasta dish? Try this Whole Wheat Pasta with Lemon Kale Chicken recipe! The pasta is mixed with flavorful lemon and garlic sautéed kale and tender chicken making it a satisfying and savory dinner.
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Sweet Potato Lentil Soup

I love having hearty, homey, but light soups for dinner. Lentils and sweet potato in full-fat coconut milk mean only one – a silky, creamy bite that is loaded with flavors. I love the spice selection, as well!

Clean eating sweet potato lentil soup recipe
Clean eating sweet potato lentil soup recipe made to make you feel good inside out. Wholesome ingredients, dairy free, gluten free and delicious.
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Herby Fish with Wilted Greens and Mushrooms

Healthy dishes don’t have to be complicated at all! This is just a simple cod fillet coated in Mediterranean herbs and served on the bed of sauteéd veggies – cremini mushrooms, tomatoes, onion, and kale.

Herby Fish with Wilted Greens & Mushrooms
This healthy fish recipe makes a tasty and easy weeknight meal that’s low in calories. Serve with wild rice or roasted potatoes.
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Winter Rainbow Buddha Bowl

This is a Buddha bowl of warm flavors due to cumin, turmeric, ginger, and cayenne in the recipe. I love the addition of orange, as it freshens up the taste impeccably, plus it pairs with toasted walnuts the best. Check it out!

Winter Rainbow Buddha Bowl (Vegan)
Enjoy this colorful rainbow Buddha bowl as a healthy and delicious vegan dinner! Made with chickpeas, sweet potatoes and quinoa, it’s so hearty and nutritious.
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Eggplant with Buttermilk Sauce

When you’re not hungry A LOT, this is such a satisfying but light dinner option. It is just roasted eggplant with spices and buttermilk, Greek yogurt, and garlic cream on top. Pomegranate seeds give a touch of tang and texture!

Eggplant With Buttermilk Sauce
I can’t think of a more rustically elegant (is that a contradiction in terms?) starter. Serve with some robust white bread or pita and you are, literally, in food heaven. In the recipe you’ll find Sami Tamimi’s technique for getting the seeds out of the pomegranate, which I am afraid is now a very well-known secret.
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Ideas for Snacks

These snacks will fuel your body with all the micro and macronutrients you need throughout the day!

Natural Popsicles

To make all-natural, super tasty popsicles you need a few ingredients only – milk, sweetener, and lemon juice, plus any fruit you fancy! This is an ultimate combo, that gives the best childhood vibes with strawberries, apricots, pineapple, and mint.

Healthy 100% Natural Rainbow Popsicles
These healthy rainbow popsicles are made from wholesome, plant-based ingredients. They are gluten and dairy free, as well as vegan and paleo.
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Fruit Salad

This is an obvious, simple choice for snack, but still the best one! Definitely adjust the quantity to your preferencise, as this recipe has 10 servings. Mix together strawberries, mandarin, blackberries, kiwis, and pineapple for a tropical touch!

Simple Fruit Salad Recipe
A Simple Fruit Salad Recipe anyone can make. Easy to make with only 7 ingredients, this fresh fruit salad is refreshing and delicious!
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Vegetable Sticks and Hummus

Another classic, vegetable sticks and hummus are probably the healthiest snack option out there. You will get all the energy your body needs till the next meal with proteins, fiber, and loads of micronutrients.

Vegetable Sticks and Hummus Recipe
Snacking on vegetable sticks and hummus can help you get your 5 serves of vegetables per day and provides a fibre boost to keep you feeling fuller for longer.
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Greek Yogurt Bowls with Warm Berry Sauce

I think there is no simpler snack recipe in the world, it literally takes 3 minutes to whip up! It is just what the title says, greek yogurt with warmed up mixed berries. You get the micronutrients and protein in this hot and cold duo.

Greek Yogurt Bowls with Warm Berry Sauce
Are you looking for healthy breakfast ideas that are high in protein and are egg-free? Look no further, this greek yogurt bowl with warm berry sauce is the perfect quick and easy breakfast to keep you feeling full all morning.
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Healthy Homemade Trail Mix

Making trail mix at home is the best idea – it is cheaper, and you can add anything you love to snack on! Here, you have three flawless combinations to inspire you: tropical, chocolate raspberry, and ginger apricot trail mix. Which one is your fav?

Healthy Homemade Trail Mix | Walder Wellness, Dietitian (RD)
Make your own healthy homemade trail mix with these 3 simple recipe ideas. A nutritious, portable snack that’s ready in just 10 minutes!
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Cottage Cheese with Pineapple

If you’re a fan of cottage cheese, here is a fancy looking snack with just two base ingredients – cottage cheese and fresh pineapple. If you want a creamy consistency, try blending the cheese with some honey or syrup!

Cottage Cheese with Pineapple
Cottage cheese with pineapple is an easy breakfast option that packs a good amount of protein, it is quick to make and delicious to eat
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Clean Eating Energy Balls

I would rather say energy bombs than balls, as they are loaded with all the good stuff. This is a dessert-like snack that stores perfectly, so you can make it in bulk and always have on hand. Definitely way better than store-bought energy bars! 

No-Bake Energy Balls
No-Bake Energy Balls We LOVE these types of energy bites at our house! They’re incredibly simple to make (even the kids can learn to easily throw them together, and add THEIR own favorite things)!
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Dear creators, thank you for these healthy, simple, and delish recipes!

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