Your Pantry
Let's get straight into our Pantries…
Adding the following foods into our pantry is an amazing foundation to all our meals. I just couldn't live without:
Magic Foods
Unpasteurised brown miso paste (full of all the Vit B's you need)
Umeboshi plums
Kuzu (use as a thickening agent)
Shitake mushrooms (when really stressed & you need to calm down, take before sleeping in hot water)
Kombu, arame & wakame seaweeds (great for your hair, nails & skin)
Whole Grains:
Organic brown rice, millet, barley, whole organic oats.
Grain Products:
Udon & Soba noodles, mochi & sour dough (whole wheat not white flour).
Beans:
Adzuki Beans (the Queen of all beans for Women), lentils, chick peas, black beans, pinto and kidney beans.
Sea Salt:
This should be moist & slightly grey in colour. No bleach or chemicals added. Throw away all other salt it just hardens your arteries.
Vegetables:
What ever is in season.
Fruits:
Small amounts of seasonal fruits.
Seeds:
Sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds.
Nuts:
Small handful of tamari almonds. Cashew nuts make you cranky!
Oils:
Sesame oil, bran oil & olive oil (do not cook with olive oil).
Seasonings:
Tamari (used for cooking with), Shoyu (season after cooking/used as a dipping sauce), mirin, rice cooking wine, umeboshi vinegar.
Sweeteners:
Barley malt & rice malt.
Spreads:
Tahini.
Crisps:
Sea salt crisps / sea salt pop corn.
Crackers:
A variety of rice crackers.
Wraps:
Spinach, spelt & corn wraps.
