Plant Based Kitchen Essentials

Before Shopping 

Take inventory on what’s in your pantry and fridge. Focus on what high nutrient foods you have on hand - focusing on fresh and frozen produce, nuts, jarred foods, and veggie stocks 

Plant Based Pantry Stocking Essentials

• Essential Frozen Veggies & Fruits  - frozen kale & other veggies can be added to lasagna, pasta, soup, and pot pies. Frozen fruit are great in desserts, jellies, and smoothies. You can purchase them already frozen, but it's cheaper to just cut and freeze the vegetables yourself. You can also freeze mushrooms and add them to roasts or soups.
• Essential Dried Beans (or canned) - chickpea, lentils, black, pinto 
• Essential Whole, ancient wheats & grains like farro (spelt), Kamut, gluten-free amaranth, teff, millet & buckwheat, and quinoa are great ways to stretch a meal, so you can feed more people at once, while also providing fortifying minerals and nutrients. Wild rice is also a great choice if you can find or afford, if not black and brown rice are usually much more economical. Quinoa is quick cooking grain & a great alternative to rice if you want to avoid black or brown rice for any reason. Oats are another great ancient grain to have on hand, as well as affordable. You can even mill these grains into your own flours. 
• Basic Flour from any of the ancient wheats, grains, and rices above. I also keep chickpea flour on hand. Flours last longer in the freezer. If you bake a lot, you might want to have an aluminum free baking powder on hand as well. 
• Essential Pasta - another great way to feed a large group in an economical way is through pasta. I love a good Italian pasta made with non-GMO flour, but I do enjoy Kamut pasta as well. Chickpea flour pasta 
• Basic Boxed or Canned Coconut Cream - coconut cream can be great for your soups, desserts, sauces, milks & milkshakes, and so much more. I prefer boxed coconut cream. I have tried other shelf stable milks, but there are hemp and almond milks that are shelf stable. 
• Essential Nuts / Seeds - I keep a variety of nuts and seeds on hand at all times. My favorites are walnuts, Brazil nuts, hemp seeds, chia seeds, sunflower seeds, cashews, and pistachios. I also love a good trail mix blends or nut blends. For longer freshness, you can store your nuts in the freezer, and seeds in the fridge. 
• Essential Seed & Nut Butter - I love having a variety of this healthy fat and protein rich essential on hand. I love tahini, peanut butter, sunflower butter, and almond butter, but you can find a variety of nut and seed butters on the shelf or online
• Basic Cooking oil like olive oil, coconut oil, avocado, or grapeseed oil
• Basic Dried berries and other fruit 
• Essential Canned / Boxed / Jarred Fruit & Vegetable: I personally avoided canned foods, but I do purchase preserved fruits and vegetables in glass jars and keep them in my fridge. 
• Boxed Tomato Paste/Sauce, Boxed soup, Tomato Paste
• Vegetable Stock

 

Specialty & Nice-To-Have Non-Essential Essentials & Ingredients:

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Herbs & Seamoss!

• Seamoss & Bladderwrack Pills
• Vital Vegan Caribbean Seamoss
• Irish Chondrus Crispus (DM him!)
• Hair, skin, and nail herbal supplements
• Mullein (to help heal the lungs)
• Elderberries (anti-viral!)
• Oregano oil (anti-viral!)
• Chaga Mushrooms (anti-viral!)
• HE-RT Heart Health Herbal Supplements by New Body
• 4-PG Daily Multivitamin Herbal Supplement by New Body
• CKLS (Colon, Kidney, Liver, Spleen) Herbal Supplements by New Body

More coming soon! 

Kitchen Tools & Suggested Cookware

  

High Speed Blender

Making Seamoss Gel, Cheeses, Smoothies, Sauces, Dressings, Marinades, & Drinks & more

Food Processor

For making pesto, burgers, salsa, etc. great for shredding, mincing/chopping, etc  

Mini Food Processor

For making pesto, burgers, salsa, etc. great for shredding, mincing/chopping, etc  

Pressure Cooker

High pressure cooking reduces anti-nutrients that cause digestion issues and block nutrient absorption. It also helps you meal prep and cook fast! Quicker quinoa, chickpeas, kamut, wild rice, & more!

Masticating Juicer

Adds pulp back into the juice so the juice is not devoid of fiber which essential for healthy digestion and nutrient absorption  

Toaster Oven

Reheat your food without a microwave! Also good for convection baking, broiling, toasting.  

Crockpot 

Great for soups and stews and slow cooking! Also good for reheating frozen beans or soup or greens etc without a microwave 

Mushroom Grow Kit

Herb Grow Kit

Wooden Cooking Utensils

Alternative to plastic and metal cookware 

Wooden Cooking Utensils

Silicone Cooking Utensils are BPA-free and don't release toxic fumes when using to cook.

Silicone Cooking Utensils

Clay Cookware for roasting & baking

Ancient & indigenous alternative to metal cookware.

Glass Bakeware & Storage Dish

Double duty! Alternativnetal bakeware & plastic storage dishes  

Glass Teakettle

Alternative to metal teakettle 

 

Mortar & Pestle

Make your own fresh sauces and spice blends

  

Manual Spice Grinder

Grind your own spice blends

 

 

 

 

Cast Iron Grill Pan

For some delicious indoor grillmarks

 

Cast Iron Skillet

Good for stove top and in the oven. This comes with lids and silicone holders. Great deal!

 

 

 

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