20 Aug Pantry & Fridge Staples For Healthy Kids

The easiest way to prepare your family a delicious, simple and nourishing meal is to have a well-stocked pantry.

It’s easy to whip up a nutritious meal without using packet sauces. It’s satisfying and inexpensive to make a salad dressing from scratch or a quick snack when you have the basics on hand. Stocking up on everything all at once can be expensive, so buy 1 or 2 things each week.

Here’s a list of my pantry basics, the top 5 are the ones I recommend you start with.

My Top 5 ingredients

1. Good quality celtic sea salt (greyish in colour) .
2. Raw unfiltered apple cider vinegar
3. Extra virgin cold pressed olive oil
4. Extra virgin organic coconut oil
5. Organic balsamic vinegar

Staples

• ✅ A good quality water filter and remineraliser
• ✅ Unhulled tahini
• ✅ Organic, free range eggs
• ✅ Raw nuts and seeds (cashews, almonds, sesame seeds etc)
• ✅ Red / brown onions
• ✅ Fresh garlic bulbs
• ✅ Organic preservative free shredded coconut
• ✅ Grass fed gelatin powder (gels) and / or collagen powder (doesn’t gel)
• ✅ Preservative / additive free coconut cream

Herbs and spices (organic)

• ✅ Black pepper (whole – for freshness of flavour) in a grinder
• ✅ Turmeric
• ✅ Cinnamon
• ✅ Bay leaves
• ✅ Cardamon pods
• ✅ Cumin powder & seeds
• ✅ Nutmeg powder
• ✅ Oregano
• ✅ Basil
• ✅ Sage

In the Fridge

• ✅ Leafy greens
• ✅ Broccoli, cauliflower
• ✅ Fermented veggies
• ✅ Organic / grass fed meat
• ✅ Organic chicken (or free-range)
• ✅ Organic free-range eggs
• ✅ Kultured Wellness Starter cultures for making coconut yoghurt and water kefir.

In the freezer:

• ✅ Organic berries
• ✅ Organic liver and homemade pate
• ✅ Organic pasture raised meats
• ✅ Wild caught seafood
• ✅ Portions of leftover meals
• ✅ Portions of bone broth (broth ice cubes / cups / 500ml are good size portions).

In the Garden or Pot Plants

• ✅ Your choice of easy to grow fresh herbs such as thyme, rosemary, lemon balm, mint, coriander, basil, oregano, chives, sage, kaffir lime, parlsey, chilli.
• ✅ Easy to grow leafy greens like lemon sorrel and rocket

With pantry basics like that, your day to day life in the kitchen will be a whole heap simpler.  Enjoy!

FIONA STOCK | THE CHILDREN’S NATUROPATH | MELBOURNE NATUROPATH

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