Adjusting Your Kitchen To Support A Healthier Lifestyle
We’ve often said that the kitchen is the heart of the home. It is one of the most sociable rooms in the home, as well as being the place where we prepare and cook that which nourishes the entire home. Because of the immense focus it holds for the home and family, designing it to suit your nutrition and health needs can go a loooooong way when it comes to improving the overall health and wellbeing of your entire family. After all, healthy habits are a lot easier to keep up when we are properly equipped for them. And when it comes to preparing and consuming healthy food as easily as possible, there are a few kitchen adjustments that can make a big difference.
Increase Storage Space
Increasing storage space is a great way of being able to improve a healthy approach to eating, as it allows us to store more healthy food in our kitchens. Additionally, it can help you when it comes to being able to store or find space for things like blenders, food processors, and other essentials that you need to use for preparing and making healthy and nutritious foods. Being able to store the right kind of equipment, and the kinds of items you might find at oneniftyhome.com is essential, as well as creating additional space to be able to store more food or ingredients in a fridge-freezer. Being able to increase storage space can have a huge impact on the way we are able to eat - not just in overall quality of food, but also helps a ton with reducing costs.
Reorganize The Kitchen According To Use
In most kitchens, it’s pretty clear where things are designed to go. However one of the biggest changes we ever did in our kitchen was to reorganize it according to the arms-length rule. As in, ‘what you can reach in arms-length is what you will most likely use the most.’ When it comes to healthy eating, that means putting the healthier snacks front and center. Turn a shelf in the kitchen into a healthy snack shelf as opposed to keeping them all in the pantry. Keep the fruit on the counter. And keep the sweets in the back of the pantry. This also goes for tools. The kitchen tools you are most likely to use are the ones you won’t have to get out every time you need to use them. Keep your juicer on the counter instead of your mixer and chances are you’ll be having more fresh-pressed juices than cookies, for example. Well, that’s the theory at least. Ha.
Anyone Can Meal Prep. Even You.
Planning meals out in advance is definitely a great trick when it comes to helping us maintain healthy eating more effectively. And contrary to popular opinion, anyone can meal prep. By that, we mean no matter how adept you are in the kitchen - or no matter how much or how little you like to plan ahead, there’s a version of meal prepping that can work for you, your lifestyle, and your family. Even just planning out a few meals for the week and prepping just a few of the ingredients a few days ahead counts. That’s often all you need to improve the way you and your family eat, by taking away some of the decision fatigue and making it easier to avoid less healthy quick- fix options. There are so many things that we need to keep in mind when it comes to planning out our meals, and doing this in advance can help you prepare better. Plus, meal prep is also a great way to save money and time, two other incredibly valuable commodities.
Focus on The Fun
Being able to enjoy a healthy and balanced diet in the New Year is an old goal, but an honorable one. In a world where personal control currently feels incredibly limited, having control over how you nourish yourself and your family can help bring a little bit of that back. Making your kitchen a source of stress-free, healthy nourishment, not to mention a fun place to try new things (like this healthy juice recipe that we love) is a great way to keep yourself accountable while also making it a place of discovery for the whole family.
