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Hey guys! This is Heather from HealthyEatingStartsHere.com. Today I wanted to look at some kitchen tools
that I think are well worth the money.
There are certain tools that in your kitchen can make the preparation of healthy foods
so much easier that it allows you to eat more healthy foods than you probably otherwise
would. So to me I think that’s worthwhile.
Now I am quite a minimalist especially after having moved a lot of times. I definitely
want the things in my kitchen to be useful to me and to have an actual purpose as to
why I have them.
And so for me nutrition is the key so anything that’s gonna make my food healthier or that’s
going to make me eat more of the healthy foods I think is worth the investments.
So, number one on my list are some good knives and that’s one of the first things that
Phil and I got for our kitchen and Phil was very interesting getting a good quality set
of knives which I’m really thankful for now because I can totally tell the difference
when I’m travelling and I don’t have a good knife or if I’m using one that’s
dull.
Totally makes a difference in how enjoyable it is to prepare your food and also how much
control and how fast you can do it.
So good quality knives, very worth the investment! If you don’t have a lot of cash then just
get one or two and this is a paring knife and this is the one I use most often and then
a chef’s nice would be good as well that’s the big one and it’s good for bigger vegetables
especially sweet potatoes and squash. Those can be pretty tough to cut with the paring
knife.
Ok! Next on my list is a Sprouter. Phil and I used mason jars for quite awhile and they
work fine but we also had one of these which is an easy sprouter and it has drainage at
the bottom and the airflow can get in because you can set this up at like that.
So we started noticing that the sprouts that came out of the sprouter were much better
quality than the ones in the mason jars because of drainage and airflow and whatever but they
just look better, they smell better, they don’t go bad as quickly and also it was
a lot easier when we we’re going to rinse them and when you’re doing that two-three
times a day, a couple of minutes here and there can add up and just means that you actually
get that done more often.
And so there’s this type, there are other types of sprouters that you can find. These
ones are fifteen bucks so they’re really affordable especially when you think about
how much you can spend when you buy sprouts in the grocery store.
So Phil and I now have three of those that we keep so that we can have a constant supply
of fresh sprouts going otherwise you have to wait a couple of days while the sprouts
soak and then sprout and then get green and why not. So I think those are well worth the
price.
Alright, number three on my list is my blender, the main thing I do in there is are my daily
green smoothies and what I do there is I get a little bit of fruit going and then packed
in a whole ton of sprouts as well as other greens usually so the benefits there is you
can put a lot more greens into smoothies that you probably would eat in a salad.
And when you mix it up with fruits it taste yummy, that’s our afternoon snack and a
really great way to do it. So blender can increase the amount of greens that you eat
in a day.
It can also be used for making bean dips or other types of dips. I use my food processor
more often now but if you don’t have a food processor, blender will work just fine you
just might have to make it a little bit thinner.
And then the other thing you can do with the blender is if you put a mason jar onto the
base and put some nuts or seeds in there you can grind them up so you can do that with
flax seeds or with sunflower seeds or almonds or whatever you like. You can just grind them
up really easily.
So those are my top three picks for kitchen tools that are worth the money and I love
all of those, I have lot of tools in my kitchen that are really useful but I think those are
the most valuable.
So, what do you guys think? What are your favorite kitchen tools? Let me know. Leavem
e a comment and I shall see you guys next time.