Give your kitchen a facelift: 20 Must-haves for a healthy lifestyle
Are you thinking of revamping your kitchen and prepping it for a healthier way of living? Are you looking for a list of items to include while redoing your kitchen menu? Stock up on these healthy ingredients in your kitchen and watch your dear ones grow healthier, with each passing day.
The essentials: Nailing the staple foods
To start with, pick up your grocery bag and bring home items, which are essential to have a healthy body: 1. Proteins: Meat, rice and beans 2. Carbohydrates: Green vegetables, lentils and whole-grain food items 3. Fats: Olives, nuts and avocados 4. Vitamins: Bread, fruits and dairy items 5. Minerals: Meat and dairy products
The cold-room (Fridge)
1. Soy Milk: Produced by mixing soy beans with water, this milk strengthens the blood vessels, prevents prostrate cancer, keeps osteoporosis away and helps your blood lipid levels, positively. 2. Yoghurt: Mix yoghurt with fresh fruits to create a wonderful dessert for your children. 3. Green vegetables: Make sure you have at least two green leafy vegetables in your fridge, daily. 4. Low fat Cheese: Bring into your fridge different types of low fat cheeses to ensure that you do not shift to those syrupy pancakes in the mornings, by using the absence of a bread-side dish, as an excuse.
The snack-rack
1. Whole-grain biscuits and pasta: Make sure you check the information on the packs and select biscuit brands which have at least two grams of fibre, with no trans-fats. Sneak in pastas which are high on proteins, as well as Omega-3 fatty acids. 2. Oats and brown bread: Pick up and stack these great breakfast items. Prepare a set of sweet and spicy oatmeal recipes which your family will love, while they add to their good health. 3. Brown rice: Shift from white rice to brown rice, which is far more nutritious and has variety of minerals that are lost, when it is refined into white rice. 4. Sweet potatoes: A great company for snack time would be boiled sweet potato with honey. 5. Nuts and seeds: Pitch in walnuts, sunflower seeds and almonds to quench your nutty tooth and to keep a check on your cholesterol too.
The spices-list
1. Turmeric: Full of antioxidants, this spice also has anti-inflammatory qualities. You can make it stronger by adding black pepper to it. 2. Garlic: Well known for its detoxifying characteristics, this spice also diminishes the risk of cardiovascular diseases. 3. Celery seed: This not-so-popular spice, has the great quality of balancing the pH levels of the body. 4. Oregano: Constituting oil which has anti-microbial properties, oregano can be accompanied by garlic to better your health.
The extras on the bench
1. Avocados: This fruit helps to reduce the cholesterol and also reduces the risks of you getting a heart attack. 2. Blueberries: Blueberries have great antioxidant properties, which a series of illnesses like cancer, heart disease, memory loss and blindness. They also keep away Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) by not letting bacteria glue themselves to your bladder walls.
