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5 Tips for Building a Healthy Kitchen

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Healthy eating takes the right environment to cook food in! With these tips you can outfit your kitchen the healthy way and make it the prime place for preparing wholesome meals.

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Healthy eating is certain kind of lifestyle. It takes more than just buying healthy foods or making plans to cook from scratch. You have to physically set up your environment to accomplish your wellness goals.

Just like with with any lifestyle choice, your mind and body need external cues to help guide you in the right direction. Whether it’s sleeping in your gym clothes to get to the gym in the morning or leaving your journal on your nightstand so that you remember to write each night, our environments make a big difference in our actions.

It only makes sense that the set-up of our kitchen could help or hinder our healthy eating habits. Today I’m sharing my 5 go-to tips for building a healthy & happy kitchen in your own home! 🙂

5 Tips for Building a Healthy Kitchen | Healthy Helper @Healthy_Helper Healthy eating takes the right environment to cook food in! With these tips you can outfit your kitchen the healthy way and make it the prime place for preparing wholesome meals.

Pile on the produce

Having fresh fruits and vegetables in your house at all times makes you more likely to reach for those foods as snack and meal ingredients daily! Even if you don’t buy fresh, frozen veggies and canned options (no salt or sugar added) can be convenient and just as nutritious. Try and prep fruits and vegetables on the weekends for easy grab-n-g0 snacks and cooking ingredients all week long.

Organize the pantry

A neat and orderly pantry/fridge, where you can find everything easily and see exactly what you have, sets you up to cook healthy options. Put healthy ingredients front and center and at eye level so you are more likely to choose those foods to prepare. People act on visual cues…you have to SEE what you have in your pantry in order to use it! Better yet, keep unhealthy foods out of your cabinet all together (or for the most part). If you don’t buy junk, you can’t cook with junk! 🙂

Stock up on spices

Skip the pre-made dressings, marinades, and sauces! Stock your kitchen with fresh herbs and dried spices to flavor your food naturally and healthily. Spices and herbs have negligible calories, are full of vitamins and minerals, and add tons of taste to food that may otherwise taste bland on it’s own. Plus, herbs and spices are only made of exactly what they are from the earth! No ‘franken’ ingredients or weird additives in sight. Less salt and butter is needed when you have fresh, flavorful spices on hand!

Appreciate your appliances

Don’t hide your fancy kitchen equipment under the counters or in closets! Keep your juicer, crockpot, and other cooking gadgets where they can be seen and used frequently. You’ll actually MAKE that juice or slow-cooked chicken and veggie meal if you don’t have to dig thru cabinets to get out your appliances.

Cook with CLEAN water

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Did you know that the tap water you’re probably cooking with is not as clean or safe to use as you’d think? That’s why I always use filtered water with the PUR® Advanced Faucet  attachment on my sink nozzle. PUR is the only product certified to reduce over 70 contaminants, including 99 percent of lead, 96 percent of mercury and 92 percent of certain pesticides. Yup, all of that nasty stuff is in your COOKING WATER! I recently got mine and have been loving it. My fruits and veggies are cleaner upon washing, my meals more easily and efficiently (chlorinated water can affect cooking times and food color!), and my food tastes a whole lot better too. My food not only TASTES better but I really have peace of mind that I am not getting as many toxins or contaminants that regular tap water can harbor. I don’t think I could ever go back to cooking with unfiltered water after experiencing the benefits of the PUR® Advanced Faucet Filter. 

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Looking for some more tips on how to build a healthy kitchen? Here are some insights from the best (and most health conscious!) food bloggers from around the web!

Keep it clean and organized! Do dishes as often as you can, and a quick wipe down of the counter and oven each night. I find if I let my kitchen get messy, I (1) don’t want to clean, and (2), don’t want to cook, because it’s double the cleaning. | Priya

If you don’t know what an ingredient is on a box, you shouldn’t be buying it!!! | Katie

Don’t bring any pre-made desserts into the house. If you want a treat like cookies or brownies, make them yourself! They’ll be 10 times better for you using homemade ingredients. | Kaylin

One thing that helped me was taking out all the bad things that I shouldn’t be eating. Processed foods and stuff like that. If they are in your house they will tempt you. You can donate them instead of throwing them away too! | Kelly

Clean/cut any fresh fruits and vegetables at the start of the week and then keep them on the counter or at eye level in the fridge for a quick and easy snack. You’ll naturally eat more fruits and vegetables without even trying when they’re right there ready for you! | Kara

Leave healthy foods, like fruits and veggies out and in plain site. Anything that isn’t healthy, either don’t buy it or keep it where you can’t see it every time you enter the kitchen. | Nicole

Get rid of packaged foods with artificial ingredients. Also, keeping my refrigerator organized with all my fruits and veggies at an easy reach helps to make sure I’m eating those foods first! | Leah 

Keeping things like roasted veggies, cooked quinoa, and canned legumes on hand makes throwing a delicious bowl together super easy! Top with some avocado and you have a healthy and delish meal. | Caroline

Prepping all of my grains and root veggies ahead of time so I can throw them into a warm breakfast bowl, on top of a salad- or make a quick stir fry! | Julie

Build a #Healthy Kitchen with tips from your favorite #healthyliving bloggers!

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67 responses to “5 Tips for Building a Healthy Kitchen”

  2. These are all great tips! I buy lots of fruits and veggies, but I need to work on prepping them as soon as I get home from the store. My kids eat so much healthier when there are cut fruits and veggies in the refrigerator for snacking.

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  3. We actually have a well which has been such a blessing, and we do have a whole house water filter! This looks like a really efficient beautiful filter. 🙂 Also, I LOVE to keep stocked with lots of different veggies and fruits. 🙂 And nut butters. 😀

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  4. I have been using a brita filter but would love to try one that hooks onto the faucet. It would make washing my vegetables so much easier!

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  5. I love all of these tips! I actually just did a much needed pantry reorganization. My flours/grains shelf was a complete jumbled mess (of bob’s red mill bags mostly ha) but now it’s all stacked and sorted 🙂 And i totally agree on the appliance thing, I use the ones in sight the most of all!

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  6. crazy how basically all our water sources have pesticides in them; pollution is definitely a HUGE problem and clean drinking water is limited! This is a great way to make sure your water at home is safe to drink!

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  8. Wow, this was so interesting and enlightening. I never knew what well our water came from or how our water is treated. Now I do and can be more proactive on how our water is processed.

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  10. I have recently done a lot of changes to how and what I cook for our family…all for the better and healthier. Getting the kitchen organized was such a help. When I first started out it was such a pain to dig what I needed out of the cabinets. Now I know more of what I use often and have them accessible. It has made a HUGE difference in how fast I can cook and get out of the kitchen to spend more time with my family…who is why I started on this healthier eating trend for anyway. Thanks for sharing. (I would try for the giveaway, but we have fresh spring water and don’t need the filter. Good luck to everyone though.)

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  14. That’s a neat website. I learned – Chemicals used to clean water can actually create by-products that can become potentially harmful contaminants.

    Thanks for the tips!

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  15. Kaila, my kitchen looks like an appliance showroom! 😀 Much as I might like the *look* of clear countertops, my kitchen is not a showroom, it’s a working kitchen! So, yes, get those appliances out where you can and *will* use them; they’re not doing anybody any good tucked away and forgotten.

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  17. Thank you for sharing your delicious recipe at the #RecipeSharingParty. I look forward to what you will share next week! We hope you’ll come back again next Thursday when we open our doors at 9:00 AM EST. Pinned, Yummed, Tweeted!

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  19. Thanks for sharing great advice. I like the tip about not buying pre-made treats and just making them yourself – that’s what I usually do because then I can adjust the level of sweetness.
    We have a reverse osmosis filter with a separate faucet in our kitchen for drinking but oddly I’ve used tap water for cooking. I guess I should be using the filtered water!

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  21. Great tips! I’ve made changes over the years slowly and now make almost everything from scratch. It actually surprises me when I’m at someone else’s house and they have store-bought salad dressing. I forget it even exists. Homemade is much healthier and it really tastes better too!

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  26. Kaila, we love shopping at Aldi’s, they carry food with no GMOs and so I feel good about stocking up on the fresh foods, fruits and veggies. I have looked at other water purifiers but never dove in. I will definitely be looking at Pur. Thanks for the opportunity to win one!

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  31. We always love giveaways 🙂 and I think every step we can make toward building a healthy kitchen is so important! Thank you for sharing this with the Homestead Blog Hop. We’d love for you to add us to your blog hop list so we can feature you in the future.

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  33. These are great tips! It’s so much easier for me to get my kids to eat healthy when I’ve got fresh fruits/veggies prepared and ready to grab and go. Thanks for sharing on Homestead Blog Hop!

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  34. I agree that keeping a good supply of spices is essential but I’d throw in there a good supply of vinegars and healthy oils. I use vinegar all the time to add flavour to my dishes and my favourite at the moment is to add a splash of balsamic when sautéeing kale. It caramelises it just a bit and makes it delicious.

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  36. Thank you so much for this amazing tips that you have shared with us, indeed these tips are amazing and will surely help me in setting a healthy kitchen, will also share it with my friends and family as well for their reference.

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