Healthy Kitchen Tips: 4 Easy Steps

Easy, Simple Kitchen Tips

We’re back with more healthy kitchen tips to help improve your diet and overall health! In Part I, we discussed how you need to be prepared, now this expert breaks down 4 easy kitchen tips to improve your nutrition plan and health!

Kitchen tips to improve your life

Healthy eating habits start in the kitchen and the best way to kickstart a healthy lifestyle is to visually stimulate your appetite to crave healthier foods.

The easiest way to do this is to dedicate time to rearrange your kitchen.

Make it more visually appealing by purchasing appliances that will make cooking fun and easy, investing time in cooking, and utilizing tools that will simplify shopping and help you make healthier choices.

1. Get Creative, Get Cookin’

Kitchen Tips CounterCooking does not need to be complicated in order to be delicious and satisfying. If you happen to be a perfectionist, you can learn to relax by practicing with ingredients you already have in your home.

You can research recipes and learn to get creative by swapping out ingredients, ultimately building your confidence and comfort in the kitchen.

You’ll begin building a healthy habit of knowing what goes into your food and you’ll become more conscious of the food you put in your body.

It takes a small investment of your time to get into a habit of cooking and once you make it a priority, it becomes an easy routine with huge rewards. When you cook for yourself and your family, you put love into the food and love into your body.

You will soon begin to start feeling better, happier, and healthier when you eat at home.

2. Be A Savvy Shopper

When out shopping for groceries, there are a plethora of tools and healthy eating apps that help you make clean food choices, identify preservatives or sugars in packaged foods, and even allergy triggers that can be potentially dangerous.

These apps can also help speed up your grocery store trip, saving time and frustration.

It is also wise to invest in green kitchen cleaning products like those from Seventh Generation and a good fruit and vegetable wash that contains grapefruit oil extract and natural lemon oil. You want to avoid bringing chemicals into your cooking area that could potentially make their way into your food.

Despite what some may think, natural cleaners do kill bacteria and there are other ways to disinfect sponges and kitchen tools without using harsh chemicals.

3. Cook Once, Eat Many More Times

Kitchen Tips PrepareOnce you’ve begun feeling comfortable in the kitchen, it’s smart to make larger batches of your meals to refrigerate and eat for breakfast, lunch, or dinner the next day.

You can make a pot of quinoa to eat with your dinner on day one, then use it the following day as oatmeal for breakfast, add it to soup for lunch, and top it with vegetables for dinner.

4. Show Off The Goods

Having the right appliances on hand and easily visible will make your time in the kitchen run much more smoothly. Invest in a high-quality blender (like the NutriBullet or Vitamix), juicer, slow cooker, steamer, salad spinner, mesh strainer, vegetable scrub brush, and measuring tools to make cooking at home more efficient and enjoyable.

Be sure to store them in an area that is easily visible and accessible, because even small setbacks like having to hunt down the right kitchen tools can hinder the healthy eating crusade.

Another great tip is to create a condiment tray for the table so that guests can personalize every meal. Lazy Susans are perfect for storing different condiments and make it easy to add various spices and flavors from around the world into your meal.

You can even brighten up the tray by swapping out the store packages with glass jars or tin containers.

Wrap-Up

Remember, it takes time to make a full transition to healthy eating and healthy kitchen.

Be gentle and patient with yourself, and most importantly, have fun in the kitchen!

Tara is a currently a Certified Clinical Nutritionist for ContentChecked and assists with fact-checking information on packaged food labels that can often be misleading. Prior to her current role, Tara was a Holistic Health Coach for Evolution Inc. and spent four years as clinical nutritionist with numerous wellness centers. Her approach to wellness is to look at the body as whole including diet, blood analysis, digestion, exercise, stress, hormones, sleep and nutrient deficiencies. Her passion is to inspire others to create happy and healthy lives while reducing stress, increasing energy, promoting organic whole foods and utilizing natural remedies.

Tara received her Master of Science in Nutrition from The University of Bridgeport in Connecticut and is a Certified Nutrition Specialist (C.N.S) and a member of the The Certification Board for Nutrition Specialists (CBNS). She focuses on holistic nutrition.
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