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Cindy Silver, Registered Dietitian, LLC

Cooking at Home with Mediterranean Ingredients

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Cooking and consuming better nutrition starts with a home kitchen full of great ingredients, Mediterranean style.

 

cooking Mediterranean foodThe easiest way to shift to high quality, Mediterranean nutrition is to transition your home kitchen’s ingredients. This begins with a focused effort to replenish your dry pantry, fridge, and freezer.

A Dry Pantry with Better Nutrition

The dry foods in your kitchen are important to every meal. To improve their quality, Mediterranean style, try a few changes at a time.

Here are 3 steps to take:

  1. Add more canned or dried beans, lentils, and nuts
  2. Expand your spices and dried herbs, and replace the ones that are >1 year old
  3. Replace your sugary breakfast cereals with less sugary ones, <5 grams added sugars per serving on the Nutrition Facts label

A Fridge with Better Nutrition

The foods in your fridge are basic to fresh flavors. To improve their quality, Mediterranean style, there are changes to take little-by-little.

Here are 3 steps to guide you:

  1. Add a fresh herb – parsley, cilantro, basil, mint – to your fridge for your salad, soup, or sandwich
  2. Expand your variety of fruits and vegetables with something new like a pear, kiwi, mushrooms, or leeks
  3. Replace your processed American cheese slices in plastic with un-processed cheese slices of Swiss or Mozzarella cheese

A Freezer with Better Nutrition

The foods in your freezer are convenient and cook quickly.

To improve their quality, Mediterranean style, try these 3 steps:

  1. Stock up on one-ingredient choices like frozen green beans or frozen mixed veggies
  2. Open your mind to a vegetarian frozen pizza instead of one topped with meat
  3. Plan a meal with frozen fish or frozen scallops, defrosted and cooked in extra virgin olive oil and fresh lemon juice in a skillet

Cooking at Home with Mediterranean Ingredients will Inspire You

A step-by-step approach to improving your dry pantry, fridge, and freezer ingredients is a practical way to get positive changes to happen. By making positive changes happen, you will inspire yourself and others to come on-board with better nutrition. My free Mediterranean Menus will guide your new direction to healthier foods and your example to family and friends will keep the awesome energy going.

Will you begin shifting to better nutrition for cooking at home with a re-do of your dry pantry, fridge, or freezer, and why?

 

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