Foods to store at home for a healthier diet
It’s hard to lose weight if you’re still eating mostly processed or junk foods. These often contain extra sugar and fat as hidden calories. Losing weight is much easier if you can adapt to a healthier diet full of fresh foods. Proper healthy meals can provide lots of nutrients without all the calories to give you more energy for exercise. Although you should never change your daily diet overnight most dieters should be slowly changing their eating habits by making sure they have plenty of healthier options available at hand. This means gradually clearing out the cupboards and replacing most of the bad foods with many basic, natural produce.
To make it easier to develop healthy eating we have provided a list of foods and ingredients which should be included in the cupboards at home. We have included a list of flavourings such as herbs and spices to help boost taste and give more versatility in preparing healthy meals.
| Grains | Pulses & Legumes |
| Barley | Black-eyed Beans |
| Brown Rice | Baked Beans |
| Buckwheat Flakes | Borlotti Beans |
| Bulgar Wheat | Butter Beans |
| Couscous | |
| Muesli | Kidney Beans |
| Millet | Lentils |
| Noodles | Other dried Beans |
| Oats | Other dried Peas |
| Rye | |
| Tins & Bottles & Cartons | Herbs & Spices |
| Anchovies | Allspice |
| Cider Vinegar | |
| Honey | Cinnamon Powder |
| Herring Tinned | Coriander |
| Mustard | Cumin |
| Nut Oils | Garlic Paste |
| Olives | Ground Ginger |
| Olive oil | Lo-Salt |
| Pumpkin Seed Oil | Nutmeg |
| Pureed Tomato | Oregano |
| Salmon in Tins | Paprika |
| Sardines in oil | Rosemary |
| Sesame Seed Oil | Sage |
| Tins Tomato | Thyme |
| Tuna in tins | Turmeric |
| Wine Vinegar | Vegetable Stock Powder |
| Yoghurt (plain natural) |
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