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- Hey Munchies, welcome to the channel,
if you're new, I'm Alyssia,
and I'm today we are doing a different
kind of video, 'cause I am giving you a fridge tour.
I thought since I'm doing Whole30,
why not show you what my fridge looks like?
A few disclaimers, well, I'm starting the video
with the fridge closed so we don't have
to have it open and wasting the energy as much.
But once I get in there, I'm just gonna ask you
to take what you want and leave what you don't,
this is here to inspire, it's not intended
for you to replicate, it's not intended for you,
you know, to make your fridge look like mine,
or eat what I'm eating.
Everyone's fridge is gonna look different,
everyone's diet's gonna look different,
and everyone's Whole30 is gonna look different.
So whether you're doing Whole30 or not,
take what you want, leave what you don't.
Also, if you want more Whole30 content,
I do have a snacks video that I did in January
to give some inspiration for Whole30 snack ideas,
but I thought today today we would focus
on the fridge, so let's get to it.
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Ta-daaa!
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So let's start with he sides of the fridge.
So, as a note, I'm doing Whole30,
but Christian, who I live with,
is not doing Whole30, so not everything
in the fridge is Whole30.
I try to keep the Whole30 things
on the same shelves, so I know.
So, this fridge is Whole30--
This fridge, this section is Whole30,
but below and above--
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- So, this shelf is Whole30, so I can access
the things here, but above below is not.
So Christian may use these things,
and I may use these things, like,
you know, jams, soy sauce, whatever,
when I'm not doing Whole30,
but all of this is Whole30 approved,
so, let's just go through some of it.
I've got some sesame oil, some squeeze garlic,
I love this stuff as a shortcut,
it's, you know, pre-diced garlic,
just make sure that the ingredients
are Whole30 compliant because
I've seen some brands that aren't.
I've got a bunch of mustards, I love mustard,
and it's totally Whole30 approved
as long as it's not honey mustard,
but it's a great way to add flavor,
so I've got this Colman's Mustard,
which has like a kick to it,
a bunch of different Dijon mustards,
I've got some pitted green and Kalamata olives
for snacking on, I also have a ketchup.
So now, ketchup, regular ketchup, is not Whole30,
but both of these ketchups are.
This is the Primal Kitchen and is unsweetened,
so there's no sugar in it at all.
It has some balsamic vinegar,
which gives it a little bit of sweetness,
and then this one is sweetened with dates,
so it's a little bit sweet.
I think I prefer this one,
but, you know, both, I'm a huge ketchup fan,
and not having ketchup on Whole30 is hard,
so I really love having these on hand.
I also have some of these Primal Kitchen dressings,
I love that they're Whole30.
Not gonna lie, they're not my favorite,
but I'm not huge on salads anyway,
so sometimes I'll, like, put them on meat
or marinade with them, but, I don't know,
they're just not my favorite kind of dressing.
Coconut Amino's is like my number one cooking condiment,
I use it for everything Whole30 and not,
it's a delicious soy sauce substitute made of coconut sap.
So that's pretty much it for condiments,
like I said, these things,
I'll come back to when Whole30's over.
Over here, this is mostly hot sauce,
I don't use much hot sauce so those mostly Christian's,
but this is Whole30, this mixed nut butter
from Trader Joe's, it's delicious,
it's a mix of almonds, cashews, walnuts,
Brazil nuts, hazelnuts, and pecans,
and there's no oil in it either,
so, that's one thing about nut butter is,
is even though you think they're Whole30,
a lot of times they use an oil that's not Whole30 approved,
so using no oil with your nut butter is a win.
And then this, so this is a smoothie,
and smoothies are not technically Whole30,
but this is just coconut meat,
coconut water and coconut meat--
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And so I like to keep it on hand, just for like emergencies,
I kinda think like some people keep Lyra bars,
I have Lyra bars in my pantry as well,
but if I'm really craving a sweet,
I would rather have, like, some of this coconut smoothie
than a Lyra bar, so, I like to keep them,
but it's debatable, some people may tell you
they don't count.
Okay, so let's start with the top shelf.
Cholula is the only hot sauce that I really like
and it's Whole30 approved.
I love Cholula.
I also have some coconut water back there,
which, sometimes I'll have as, like, a drink
if I'm craving something sweet,
but I also like to cook with it.
I have some cashew milk, this is leftover pot roast,
which I shared in a video a few weeks ago,
and it is delicious, it's Dutch oven,
and it's totally Whole30 approved.
Sauerkraut.
I'm obsessed with sauerkraut now.
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- So, sauerkraut.
I thought I didn't like sauerkraut until I started,
like, a few months ago, experimenting it with gut health,
you know, like, digestion stuff.
And so I was like, okay, sauerkraut,
if you get the good stuff, which the only ingredients
should pretty much be cabbage and water, maybe salt,
but it shouldn't be vinegar, it shouldn't be sugar,
and it's really high in probiotics.
If you get the real stuff, oh my gosh, it's so good!
And this is the same thing, but it's beat kraut,
so I think there's like, pickled beets,
or it's pickled in beet juice or something,
but both are delicious, both are Whole30,
and it's great just as a condiment.
I put it on, like, anything, roasted vegetables,
sauteed, and it adds so much flavor,
and really, really good for probiotics.
This is my favorite creamer, I use this in my coffee,
so a lot of people struggle with Whole30
with the coffee situation.
Well, I, personally, am not a huge coffee person,
I probably have a cup a day, but I could go without it,
so it's not a huge deal to me,
and I don't like coffee sweet anyway,
so I just like a little bit of a half and half,
and when I'm doing Whole30, actually,
when I'm not doing Whole30 too now, I use this,
it's coconut cream and almond milk
and it's Whole30 compliant, I know that Nut Pods
has a Whole30 approved and compliant creamer as well,
but I personally think this one tastes better.
I also have some applesauce, sometimes I cook with it,
sometimes I eat it as a snack,
sometimes I give it to my dog.
We keep ice coffee in the fridge,
especially over the summer when it's hot,
I like to have ice coffee
with a little bit of this creamer over ice,
and it's just really refreshing and tastes like a treat,
even though it's Whole30 compliant.
I also have broth, I always keep an open thing
of chicken or vegetable broth in the fridge
for cooking, I like cooking vegetables in broth
over the stove, it helps keep them tender and moist,
especially cauliflower rice, I love cooking
with chicken broth, so I always kind of have one open
to just grab on a weeknight when I'm cooking dinner.
And this is Christian's half and half,
so I'm not drinking that right now.
Okay, so, these organic hard-boiled eggs
are from Costco, it's a huge thing
of prepackaged hard-boiled eggs.
I know some of you are gonna hate on me for the plastic,
I'm sorry, I don't, I actually had to started buying these
a lot less because I am trying to do less plastic,
but on Whole30, it's really important that I make it easy,
so I buy things that I don't usually buy
to just make Whole30 sustainable.
So having these organic hard-boiled eggs accessible
makes it easier for me, I'm less likely
to grab something else or something that's not compliant
if I have this available.
So, if you hate that, sorry,
just pretend you didn't see it,
but, you know, to be honest,
I eat them and it makes my life easier, and it makes it
so that Whole30 is sustainable and attainable for me.
I eat a lot of eggs on Whole30,
so I've got two things,
these are both pasture-raised organic,
but I pretty much whatever one's on sale
because pasture-raised organic eggs are expensive,
and usually there's a sale on one of the brands,
so I'm not really partial to a brand.
Always have spinach on hand, throw it in everything,
it sautes down to nothing
and it's a really great way to add more veggies.
This is some homemade mayo,
I'm not huge on regular mayonnaise,
Christian is, but I love homemade mayonnaise.
It's just, you know, egg, oil,
a little bit of mustard and salt.
We showed making it in the old email prep video,
I'll link that below, but it's avocado oil,
so it's a clean mayonnaise,
and it's totally Whole30 approved,
and it's great to cook with.
This is leftover coconut milk from a can,
just full fat coconut milk.
I love this stuff, I love cooking with it,
sometimes I just drink it, it's so good.
But I pretty much always have a can open
leftover in the fridge.
So, we have fresh berries, raspberries,
blackberries, blueberries.
I try to do fruit in moderation on Whole30,
if I'm craving a sweet, definitely better
to have fruit than not, but the problem is,
it's really easy to overdo it on fruit
and it's really easy to turn to fruit
as, like, a sugar substitute, so, part of Whole30,
for me, is really developing that positive
a relationship with food and I wanna make sure
if I'm turning to fruit because I'm trying to fill
some void, that, you know, I just have that mindfulness.
But I do keep some berries on hand
and pretty much eat them every single day.
I also have some guacamole that I love to dip vegetables in.
Now, this is another example of these little mini packs,
this is something I don't usually buy,
but on Whole30, I will, because if I'm on the go,
I wanna make sure I have healthy things accessible
that I can take with me, that are gonna make it easy
for me to be healthy.
If I don't have time to scoop the guacamole
and pack a snack, and I can just take these with me,
and it makes it so that when I'm out,
I'm not gonna like, you know, cave and have something
that isn't compliant, then that works for me.
If it doesn't work for you, totally fine.
So, down here, I have foil packets,
so I recently started doing some foil packet dinners,
or foil pockets, I can't ever remember what I call them,
but I showed these in our video a few weeks ago,
meal prep video, I'll link it below.
But pretty much, inside, there's like,
sausage and vegetables, yeah,
I think there's butternut squash and broccoli,
sometimes I do Brussel sprouts,
and it's tossed with, like, the oil and seasonings already,
and this just goes straight into the oven,
like on a pan, and cooks, and it's so easy
for like a quick weeknight dinner,
and I've been keeping a few of those on hand
to just make sure I have something compliant available,
especially because I'm not huge on leftovers,
like, this pot roast is really good,
but typically, I'm not big on leftovers
and I like to have something fresh.
So this makes it so I can have something fresh
that I've prepped in advance.
Okay, this, vegetables.
So this is baby carrots and snap peas,
just prepped for snacking.
I'll dip them in the guacamole,
and I like to have these on hand
for when I really want a snack,
so another thing is, on Whole30, I try not to snack much,
but especially the first few weeks, I'm more inclined.
And I find that, like, the last week,
the last week or two, I don't need the snacks as much,
as my body's kind of adjusted to having three meals a day,
but at the beginning, I like to have these on hand.
Meal-prepped meat!
So this is just some chicken thighs that have been cooked
and prepped ready to go, this is ground turkey,
organic ground turkey ready to go,
and they're both just plain.
I like, this kind of how I meal prep,
I have the basics ready, and then on a weeknight,
I can throw it into a bowl and heat it up
with my vegetables or whatever,
so if I have some fresh elements
and my protein already cooked,
it's quicker, but it doesn't taste like leftovers,
that's what works for me.
I also have some pre-diced onion,
it's a shortcut, but I hate cutting onion,
I cry every single time, so buying this stuff
makes it a lot easier for me.
I also got these fiesta peppers from Trader Joe's,
so one thing that I like to do on Whole30
is buy produce that I don't usually buy or try
because, you know, the point is to try out new things,
and it's kind of an opportunity, an excuse to explore,
so these were so pretty, they're gonna taste the same,
but it makes it more fun.
I also have some micro greens,
I just love to put these on top of everything,
I think making my food look nice,
I mean, I try to do this with regular eating too,
but on Whole30, I just really wanna look at it
and feel like, oh man, that's beautiful,
I'm so excited to eat it, I like, appreciate it more,
and I feel like putting that extra time and attention,
even if I don't really taste it,
I don't know, it just feels more intentional.
This is some leftover bok choy,
gonna cook it later, maybe tonight.
Broccoli rice, this is great for throwing into sautes,
it's fresh, sort of like spinach,
so this doesn't wilt down, but you don't notice it's there,
so you can mix it into anything
and you're gettin' extra broccoli goodness.
And this is my dog's food,
this is a leftover fruit tray,
we had some people over and had some fruit out,
and it's Whole30 compliant, so we kept it
and have been just noshing on it.
The veggie drawer.
So these shaved Brussel sprouts,
I have these all the time, Whole30 or not,
because, you know, Brussel sprouts are such
healthy crucifers, but unless I'm roasting them,
they're kind of irritating to deal with,
so this I can saute up and it's already shaved,
and it's, like, maybe some of you think
it's a stupid shortcut, but for me,
it makes it so I eat more vegetables.
I've got some pre-cut butternut squash, pretty much,
I very rarely buy a whole butternut squash anymore
because almost anywhere, you can buy them cut,
and it's just so much easier.
So, these are from Trader Joe's.
I've got a few packs of that.
Some broccoli fleurettes, so, broccoli is something that,
you know, I've talked before, it's on the Clean 15 list,
so if I can buy it organic, great, but on Whole30,
I'm definitely going to buy my meat and protein organic
over my vegetables if I can't afford both.
Broccoli, since I know there's less a chance
of pesticide residue, this week, I went with the nonorganic,
it just saved me, you know, a buck,
and that's how I make it work for me.
More shaved Brussels sprouts, again,
and these are not organic either.
Okay, I have a lot of avocados,
I pretty much eat at least a whole avocado a day,
I pretty much like a half an avocado
with every single meal on Whole30, so I stock up.
And since they go bad pretty quickly, you know,
when they're on the counter, once they're ready,
I put them in the fridge, and they'll stay ripe
for like a week, so all these are gonna get eaten.
And I also usually keep some kind of fresh herb,
either rosemary or thyme,
either to just finish off dish
or add a little bit more flavor.
Last bit, and this, my fridge, this is--
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All right, last drawer.
So, just so you know, my fridge, as you can tell,
it's not really organized in any way,
I pretty much just put in there
and it all gets moved around, to be honest,
this is much cleaner than it usually looks.
I like tidied it up for you guys,
but we do usually have, like,
a meat drawer and a veggie drawer, crisper, whatever.
Okay, so in here, I have some Whole30 compliant sausage,
this chicken apple sausage by Applegate is my favorite,
I have never had this one from Whole Foods,
but it is Whole30 compliant,
I don't know if it's good yet, but I'll let you know.
I also have some wild caught salmon,
I love putting this in eggs in the morning,
or just mixing it in with vegetables.
The only ingredients are sockeye salmon,
salt, and applewood smoke.
I also usually have wild caught salmon from Trader Joe's
in my fridge, but I'm out right now.
This is wild caught shrimp.
One thing about Whole30 is choosing proteins
that are easy to cook, so shrimp is super easy to cook,
it cooks up in, you know, just a few minutes
on the stove or in the oven.
I also often buy scallops on Whole30
even though they're more expensive,
they're so easy and it's kind of like a treat,
and I look at Whole30 as treating my body,
so sometimes I'll splurge a little bit extra
for things I wouldn't normally get, like scallops.
I also have these party wings
that are organic from Whole Foods.
So, chicken wings are one of the cheapest cuts of meat,
and they're really cheap organic,
this whole thing was four and a half dollars,
and they're a pre-cut party wing,
so you don't have to prepare them,
you pretty much can, like, toss them with your seasonings
and go straight into the oven really easy.
And last, bacon!
It wouldn't be Whole30 without bacon.
Actually, it would, unless you get Whole30 approved bacon.
Typically, you don't want bacon, you don't want to eat
a bunch of processed meats, but this,
what's this brand?
Nature's Rancher makes a no sugar added,
and it's actually Whole 30 compliant and approved,
like, by the Whole 30 brand, and it's really, really good.
The only thing I'll say about this bacon
is it's very salty, so when I cook, like,
eggs or something else, I typically don't need
to add any more salt, I just cook it up in the bacon fat,
but it's good, and it's nice to feel
like I can eat something delicious.
Okay, so we're gonna go down to my freezer,
sorry, it's not ideal for filming down here.
So, pretty much the only Whole30 compliant stuff
is on the top, there is some, like,
frozen fruit down here, but I only really use
frozen fruit in smoothies and I don't do smoothies
on Whole30, so I don't really need it this month.
So, up here, I've got some bone broth,
I've got beef and chicken bone broth.
I love this brand, it's the only brand
that I've found that really actually gels
when it sits in the fridge, which means, like,
it's just a good sign that the collagen is there.
And I pretty much just will have this as a snack,
and I will say that this one is much less salty
than most bone broths I've tried,
so I will add a pinch of salt,
but it's really, really good quality.
I'll also keep, oh, oh!
I didn't know it did that.
I didn't know it did that, okay!
I also have this organic rainbow cauliflower
from Trader Joe's, it's the only ingredient,
is green cauliflower, orange cauliflower,
purple cauliflower, and white cauliflower.
There's no oil or seasonings or anything,
so some frozen vegetables are good for emergencies.
Same with cauliflower rice, I actually almost always
buy frozen cauliflower rice instead of fresh
because that way I don't have to worry about it going bad,
and the one from Trader Joe's is organic
and it's easy to cook.
And last, I have some chili lime chicken burgers
and ground buffalo burgers from Trader Joe's,
I actually haven't tried these yet,
but I just got them for emergencies,
and they're both Whole30 compliant,
really simple ingredients, so I think just planning ahead
and making sure that if you can't cook something fresh,
if you're gonna have to be on the go, whatever,
you have accessible things that work for your lifestyle.
Oh, the cauliflower gnocchi.
So, this, unfortunately, this is Whole30 compliant,
technically, the ingredients are compliant,
but from the research I've done, it's, what's it called?
SWIPO, sex with your pants on, which means no for Whole30.
Oh, but it's so good, but, you know,
it's like, people who are filling a void with pasta,
this is definitely doing that.
It's no for this one.
So that was my Whole30 Fridge Tour.
I hope you took something from it,
were able to get some ideas or inspiration,
remember, take what you want, leave what you don't,
and I know this was a little more intentional.
If you guys are interested in, like,
a nosy fridge tour of what my fridge looks like
when I'm not doing Whole30, let me know.
Or if you want any other kind of tour,
a pantry tour, remember, I have that Whole30 snacks video,
if you want more Whole30 ideas, and yeah,
if you guys wanna see any other
kind of more casual video like this on the channel,
let me know your ideas in the comments below.
Thanks so much for being here,
I will see you next week with a brand new video,
and remember, it's all a matter of Mind over Munch.