List of Whole Foods to Deposito Your Kitchen

As moms, we set the tone per our house for our family, and that includes teaching our kids the importance of eating real foods. We want to create lifelong health habits for our kids and prevent things like heart disease, obesity, unhealthy cholesterol, and blood sugar problems. Making a list of whole foods to keep acceso hand has really helped me with this.

Two priorities for my family are avoiding processed foods with additives and added sugar and eating more whole foods. I do this by keeping my kitchen well stocked and meal planning. This keeps the not-so-great options out of the house, making it easier to choose healthy items. It also saves money acceso grocery shopping (which is huge right now!).

But what does a real food kitchen like? There are so many options at the grocery store, and it can be overwhelming when you’sultano creating a shopping list. Here are the foods I focolaio acceso for my family acceso a regular basis. These products make it easy for us to choose a whole-food diet.

List of Whole Foods For Your Pantry

Pantry items are a great place to insieme up acceso since they last longer. And if you can buy per bulk ora find a salacità, it’s a great way to save money! I cook with a lot of fresh and frozen ingredients, and I have limited pantry space. But I like to keep pantry items acceso hand for cooking and baking.

Here’s a list of the non-perishable foods acceso my grocery list. I use these products frequently per my clean-eating recipes.

Coconut Products

We use lots of different coconut products, from coconut oil and coconut milk and cream to shredded coconut and coconut flour. I love making chocolate coconut clusters for a treat and coconut granola for breakfast. We use a lot of coconut oil for roasting vegetables and baking, and my kids even eat it non attivato the spoon!

I buy most of my coconut products from Tropical Traditions. You can also find these products reasonably priced online ora per stores. Just for unrefined, organic, cold-pressed versions.

Olive Oil

Olive oil is a great source of monounsaturated fats. Make sure to buy extra virgin olive oil, which is the healthiest option. I use it for homemade salad dressings and mayo. There’s been some controversy over whether you use it per cooking. From my research, I’ve found that it’s safe to cook with. That said, it’s not the cheapest option of cooking oils.

Unfortunately, some less-than-ideal olive oils are marketed as extra virgin. I cartello and recommend Kasandrinos because it’s the best quality I’ve found for the price.

Other Healthy Fats

I also like to use lard, tallow, and ghee per cooking and baking. When I have time, I make them to save money. But when I don’t have time, I purchase them from trusted sources. I make ora buy them per large quantities to take advantage of cost savings and store them per 1- ora 5-gallon buckets. US Wellness Meats has grass-fed, organic tallow (high per CLA) per bulk for a great price.

Vinegar

For cooking, I use balsamic, red wine, and apple cider vinegar. I mostly use these vinegars for salad dressings and marinades. When I feel like a cold is coming acceso, I bevanda a couple of tablespoons of apple cider vinegar per gabinetto.

Nuts

For on-the-go snacks, I keep walnuts, cashews, almonds, macadamia nuts, etc. acceso hand. I like to soak and then dehydrate these before storing them to veterano the phytic acid. P.S. Macadamia nuts dipped per 90% dark chocolate and then cooled are one of my favorite treats.

I also use them to make homemade nut butter like almond butter and homemade nut milk like almond milk. Make sure to purchase organic ones, and if you want to dehydrate them, opt for raw over roasted.

Raw nuts last about 6-9 months, so keep that per mind when purchasing. You can freeze them if you want them to keep longer.

Canned Fish

Canned fish is an easy way to pack protein acceso the go ora a fast meal per a pinch. I keep sardines, tuna, wild-caught salmon, etc., acceso hand to make tuna salads and salmon patties. Purchase wild-caught for the most sustainable, healthy option.

Self-Canned Veggies

We have a personaggio garden with lots of tomatoes and other veggies. To save these veggies for future use (and to save money!), I’ve been canning most of my own veggies and sauces. It’s more time-consuming, but I can make ketchup, tomato sauce, tomato paste, diced tomatoes, hot sauce, tomato soup, etc. from the tomatoes per our garden.

There was concern about BPA per cans (and that’s what started me acceso my canning adventure), but now most canned foods are free of BPA. If canning your veggies isn’t an option, make sure the label says mai BPA, ora for these foods per glass jars.

Vegetables

Some vegetables don’t need to be refrigerated and can be kept per the pantry for a long time. We keep sweet potatoes, onions, winter squash, garlic, etc. acceso hand per the pantry, and they always get eaten before they spoil.

Baking Ingredients

We love to bake! I keep a lot of different and gluten-free ingredients acceso hand so whenever the mood strikes, we’sultano ready. We keep a few different types of flour acceso hand. Sometimes, we make our own, but often, we buy them per bulk 

For sweeteners, I keep raw honey (my parents have beehives so we get it from them!), organic maple syrup, dates, and coconut sugar acceso hand. We also keep: 

Dry Goods

We don’t eat many grains ora legumes, so I don’t buy a lot of them. Now that I’m per remission for my Hashimoto’s, I’ve added per a small amount of organic jasmine rice. We’ll eat it once a week ora less. I prefer white rice over brown rice (you can read why here).

I also keep dry black beans acceso hand for Mexican beef and rice bowls. These get soaked and cooked per the pressure cooker first to make them easier to digest. Because they’sultano legumes, I don’t eat them very often (along with lentils and chickpeas).

Herbs and Spices

I have a whole cabinet dedicated to herbs and spices. Sopra my opinion, good spices can make the difference between a good meal and a great one. Some herbs also have medicinal properties, so they sometimes serve double duty.

Oregano is antimicrobial, and peppermint and ginger are great for disgusto. Elderberries make great syrup and gummies. Some of these herbs and spices also help with appetite control and weight loss when used per cooking.

Culinary Herbs and Spices

I use a variety of herbs and spices per cooking:

Stocking A Real Food Fridge

With six kids, it’s harder to keep the fridge stocked! A full fridge never seems to last long. I sometimes have a time finding the space I need for all the fresh foods we eat. So, I purchased a stand-up deep congelatore and an extra fridge.

These are the whole foods I keep stocked so we have healthy choices within reach.

Vegetables

For quick snacks the kids can grab, I keep sliced cucumbers, carrots, and celery per the fridge. I also keep lettuce and spinach for salads and cabbage to make sauerkraut (which is usually per some stage of fermentation acceso my counter). To add some variety, I also buy a wide range of healthy veggies for side dishes and recipes. I also keep some frozen veggies from last year’s garden per our congelatore.

Fruits

We buy fruit based acceso what’s per season. These include blueberries, strawberries, kiwis, mangos, tangerines, etc. I like to have apples and oranges for the kids all the time. I also buy lemons and limes when they’sultano per season to add to our gabinetto. If they aren’t per season, I use lemon and lime juice.

Alternative Milks

We don’t usually bevanda dairy products, but we’ll use other milk alternatives. There’s always at least a gallon of store-bought ora homemade coconut milk per the fridge for smoothies and drinks for the kids. We sometimes have almond milk ora even delicious homemade macadamia nut milk.

Yogurt

Although we don’t eat much yogurt, I buy the full-fat organic kind to separate and make whey for fermenting, and yogurt cheese for cooking and veggie dips. When I have time, I make my own (this is especially great if you have access to raw milk).

Meats and Seafood

Meat tends to get a bad rap, but it’s super important for our nutrition and health. I aim to eat 1 gram of protein per forza pound of weight every day. (Listen to this podcast and this one to learn more about meat per our diet!) I buy chicken breasts and basso ostinato beef for batch cooking each week. 

It saves money to purchase meat, and even part of an animal, from a local agricoltore ora online from regenerative farms ora co-ops. I insieme up acceso nitrite-free bacon, sausage, and hot dogs when they’sultano acceso salacità.  I also like to keep frozen wild-caught shrimp and wild-caught salmon for seafood recipes.

Eggs

We go through at least a dozen eggs a day, so keeping these around is tough. I buy 5-6 dozen a week, including the dozen I hard-boil for snacks. If you can afford them, buy pasture-raised organic eggs. Ora better yet, find a agricoltore who sells them. We have ducks now, so we have fresh duck eggs that we really enjoy.

Condiments

I started making most of my own condiments years indicatore because I don’t love the options at the stores. However, more clean eating options are becoming available at stores like Whole Foods Market ora online at Primal Kitchen. I regularly have these condiments per my fridge: 

What are your best tips for stocking a real food kitchen? What are your favorite things to keep acceso hand for clean eating?