For a long time, “healthy eating” was synonymous with clean eating, and that meant perfection, all the time.But lately, healthy eating doesn’t look quite as perfect anymore, and for a lot of people, that’s actually what’s making it (finally!) work.Email Me the Recipe! Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Email Address *OptionsSave to my free Well Plated recipe boxHidden Username Field Title Username Recipe Go From time to time, we'll send you Well Plated emails.

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If you’ve been a long-time reader, you probably remember the days when Well Plated was solely a healthy food blog.  I still like to think about it that way, but my definition of healthy has changed.It went from every recipe swapping Greek yogurt for heavy cream and ground turkey for ground beef to more of a balanced approach.Sometimes we have beef! And sometimes we have ground turkey! There was a stretch of time when I thought eating “healthy” meant doing everything just right, all the time.

But let’s be real: that’s a lot of pressure! It felt very all-or-nothing, and when I’d enjoy something that wasn’t “clean,” I’d feel like I’d failed for the day.Over time, my perspective started to change because I realized that taking a more flexible approach not only made healthy eating feel more doable, it also all

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