Hey guys!
This is Heather from HealthyEatingStartsHere.com.
So today what I have for you is my healthy food list.
It’s a list of all the foods that I buy and eat on a regular basis.
It’s basically a list of everything that it’s in my kitchen.
I put them all together as I wanted to stock your kitchen with healthy foods.
It can make a huge difference when you’re trying to either start out on or get back
on to a healthy eating track if you stock your kitchen properly.
Just think if you have a cupboard full of junk your probably gonna eat it whereas if
you clear all that stuff out and stock your kitchen with healthy foods, you are going
to be one step closer to and your gonna make it so much easier on yourself to eat a healthy
diet.
Now, I follow a vegan diet so my list does not include any meat, dairy, eggs or honey.
You don’t need to follow my list exactly and you obviously don’t need to buy everything
on the list every single week become something will last longer than others.
For example, apple cider vinegar will last maybe a month whereas a bunch of fresh parsley
will last me about a week.
You don’t need to buy all the varieties of each individual vegetable fruit, grain,
bean, whatever, every week.
But if you have a variety on hand or if you get a variety from week to week then you will
be in a really good place.
And what I’ve done for the list is I broken it into categories that I think about when
I go to the store.
So for vegetables, I have broken it down into leafy green, starchy vegetables, the onions,
the non starchy or green vegetables, and fresh herbs.
So what I’ll do is when I’m walking in the store I’ll think of ok so leafy green
I’m gonna get a couple of things so I’m gonna get a bunch of lettuce and maybe another
green like kale or chard or cabbage.
And then I’m gonna move on to the onions and I’ll get maybe a sweet onion and some
green onions.
Others might be leeks or chives or something like that.
And then for starchy vegetables, I’ll pick a squash, a couple of sweet potatoes, a few
beets, some carrots.
So you can see that if you think about the groups of vegetables and just getting a few
from each one you can make it a lot easier on yourself when you go shopping.
And then you have a variety of different things in your fridge so that you can always come
up with a healthy meal.
Even if you don’t have specifically what a recipe calls for you can usually get way
by substituting for another thing in the recipe.
And then moving on from produce, when I look at the grains, the beans, the nut seed and
such, I just keep a variety on hand on my kitchen so I’ll have both short and long
grain brown rice, some millet, some quinoa, some rolled oats, some still cut oats and
when I ran out of one of those I just go and refill it.
Beans same thing, I’ll keep probably four types of beans on hand and when I ran out
I’ll get maybe a different kind, maybe the same kind but if you keep getting a variety
you will keep learning new things about new food.
Then the bottom half of my list are things that I don’t get as often.
Things like oils, vinegars, salt, stuff like that.
So, take a look at the list.
It’s posted on the site at HealthyEatingStartsHere.com.
I’ve also put together a principal PDF version of the list so that you can print it off.
Put it on your fridge or take it with you to the store so you can keep it straight in
your head and make sure that your kitchen is stock up with all the healthy goodness.
So, I wanna hear from you guys, what is on your healthy food list?
If it is something that I may have miss or is there something that is more to your taste,
let me know.
Leave me a comment below and I will see you guys next time.