5 Fabulous Ideas to Stock your Vegan Kitchen
Hiya Beauties,
5 Ideas Stock Vegan Kitchen – Experiment with the new way of eating as much as you can as that is the best way to experience new tastes. So are you among those who think that healthy foods are boring with no taste?
Wrong! Healthy foods can be as mouth-watering as crusty pizza, creamy pasta or decadent chocolate cake.
Shopping Experience – 5 ideas stock vegan kitchen
♥ First of all find a health food store in your neighborhood that carries a variety of fresh organic fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes and other superfoods.
♥ Furthermore when shopping for a particular food, ask yourself: “Do I want this food to become my skin, my hair, my eyes, and my whole body?
♥ Finally go for fresh organic fruits and vegetables and choose different colors, textures and shapes.
At Home In Your Kitchen – 5 ideas stock vegan kitchen
♥ Spice things up – 5 ideas stock vegan kitchen
Using herbs and spices can make a dish very tasty. Use fresh herbs such as basil, oregano, cumin, cayenne, turmeric, cinnamon, ginger, fennel, parsley, salt, thyme, sage, and vanilla as much as possible in salads, pates, dips, cakes, pies and casseroles. These herbs and spices have therapeutic benefits and are also wonderful additions to make your food delicious.
♥ Use Fats that Heal
Eating the right amount of good fats and replacing toxic fats with healthy ones is essential for our health. These fats are anti-inflammatory, lubricate the intestines and digestive tract, contribute to joint flexibility and insulate the nerves.
The best plant fats and oils are those found in raw foods such as avocado, nuts, seeds, olives, olive oil, hempseed oil, macadamia nuts, borage oil and coconut oil. The best oils for cooking at higher temperature are coconut oil and olive oil. Many oils are damaged when cooked at high temperature; I suggest sauté vegetables by adding some water first and then some olive oil for flavor.
Prepare your own home-dressing by using olive oil, lemon and Celtic sea salt. You can mix in some tahini (sesame paste) for creamy consistency and black papaya seeds for spiciness. This is much healthier than bottled salad dressing that you buy in grocery store.
I use coconut oil when making my own shakes and raw desserts such as cakes, pies and cookies.
Use oils that are certified organic, cold pressed and stored in dark bottles in the fridge.
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♥ Know How Sweet It Is
Do you have cravings for sweets? Fruit is a great way to end your sweet temptations.
Serve fresh fruits for dessert, or use pureed fresh or dry fruit for pie filling, shakes or cakes.
Use dates, raisins, currants, molasses, rice syrup, barley malt and agave nectar in your recipes to replace white sugar. These natural sweeteners contain more vitamins, minerals and other nutrients than white sugar. Concentrated sugar affects blood sugar levels and overall health.
♥ Experiment with New Way of Eating – 5 ideas stock vegan kitchen
Salads
are a great way to add nutrition to your meal. Prepare your own salads by incorporating different types of greens such as romaine lettuce, green leafy lettuce, radicchio, arugula, spinach, and dandelion. You can add chopped tomatoes, sliced cucumbers, and red radishes. In addition toss some sunflower or pumpkin seeds for added crunch and sprinkle with Dulse and Hemp hearts for extra vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids. Be creative and prepare your own home-made dressing using cold pressed olive oil, freshly squeezed lemon, garlic, Bragg amino acids and fresh basil and oregano. This salad is filling and healthy for you.
Pasta
Use kamut, spelt, wild rice, or brown rice pasta instead of white wheat pasta. Kamut and Spelt pasta are very good for those with allergies and sensitivities to wheat. Their low glycemic index is very good for those with diabetes and hypoglycemia.
You can buy different shapes of pasta such as fettuccini style brown rice pasta, spaghetti, brown rice spirals and wild rice penne pasta in the health food store.
Play with different flavours when making pasta. You can use basil pesto made of fresh basil and sunflower seeds, or red pesto sauce with sun-dried tomatoes, basil and garlic. If you are not vegetarian then I have the perfect pasta recipe for you listed below.
Pizza
Who doesn’t like pizza with a crusty dough right from the oven? It is okay to eat pizza occasionally, but too much will cause blood sugar imbalance and other health problems.
Try to use whole wheat flour when making dough, unless you have allergies and you have to replace wheat flour with kamut, spelt, or almond flour. In addition add some of your favorite toppings. I use my own home-made tomato sauce and some fresh vegetables such as tomatoes, sun-dried tomatoes, red pepper, arugula, broccoli, and onions. Below I have shared my recipe for almond pizza, which contains fiber, vitamins and minerals, good fat and protein. It is sweet and tastes absolutely delicious.
In conclusion these are just a few healthy food replacements that you can incorporate into your everyday endeavours without sacrificing taste.
And remember – become conscious of the nutritional value of the food you are eating. Connect with your food – smell it, touch it and have a relationship with it.
Love and Light
