Purchase a box of quart-size canning jars for keeping soup in the fridge for lunches and dinners, and for seeds and grains / oats and nuts. Canning jars are very useful because they seal.
Plastic = bad. Get rid of plastic travel mugs and thermoses.
Non-stick cooking pots and pans = bad. Learn to embrace ironware. Or ceramic-lined pots.
Aluminum pots and pans = bad.
Tap water = bad. Faucet filters = good. This is a tough one. With city water, you are undoubtedly drinking chemicals. If well-water, you should have your water tested for lead, mercury and whatever they test for now. Or Get a high tech filter for your sink! They are easy to purchase on-line. Just research the right modifications for your particular faucet so the filter fits tight.
Healthy foods to eat:
Mushrooms = very good. A super food. Eat lots of mushrooms, any variety. They are very, very good for you and we are just beginning to find out what they do for us. After you buy them in their plastic containers, dump them out on the counter and place a paper towel in the container under them and one over them and place them back in the fridge. They will dry out very slowly but will never slime on you. (If you want [this is cool], after purchasing them, place them on a plate or cookie sheet and expose them to the full sun for 20 minutes. They will absorb Vitamin D!, which our body requires but must come from outside sources, from food, supplements or sunlight.)
When you make soup, include mushrooms, onions, turmeric, pepper and parsley.
Another superfood is raw (best,local) honey. When cooked or heated up, honey loses some of its medicinal properties.
Eat hard cheese. If dairy is in your diet, try to eat raw milk products if possible, for the bacteria. Only 50% of people can digest dairy products without repercussions so notice how it affects your digestion.
Probiotics; A word on probiotics. If you are used to eating processed food and food with lots of salt and sugar, and then you eat some raw food or say, some food with an active culture in it, that is hard on your gut because your system can't digest food that hasn't been sterilized and monkeyed with, and you might experience indigestion, while your friend, who might be in the habit of eating healthier, is fine. If you want to start eating more real, raw or organic food, it might be smart to wean yourself off sugar and starch and slowly introduce healthy food, so your gut can build up a healthier microbiome so that it can handle fermented and raw and unprocessed food.
Fermented foods = very good. Learn to like fermented foods, like fermented sauerkraut, yogurt, kiefer, kimchi, sour-dough bread (which might come across as too dry for you at first, but the lack of fluffiness is more than compensated for by its slightly chewy texture).
Raw, unsalted nuts = good. Any nuts are better than no nuts (seeds too like sunflower and chia), but keep them in sealed cool places or refrigerate.
Roughage: Bam! Roughage is key to a healthy diet and food with roughage can be bought in bulk and lasts a long time. You put roughage in your smoothies: milled flax seeds, chia-seeds, hemp-hearts. We don't eat roughage for its nutritional value, we eat it because our microbiome loves it. It keeps our gut healthy and happy.
Hydrate: Water and some juices (diluted): Stop drinking orange juice. You probably eat way too much sugar as it is and the only OJ that is good for you is fresh, organic OJ which is hard to come by. Drink kombucha. Get some "mother" from someone and learn to make your own or, if you want to buy it, read the labels of the various brands. Some have more sugar than others. But kombucha (fermented tea) is a fermented drink.
Fresh fruit. (Organic.) Apples keep and they can be refrigerated. Boil sliced apples, with skins in pot with some cinnamon, make applesauce. Bananas are great and actually have a lot of roughage and are the kings of smoothies but they don't keep; throw in the freezer as they turn brown and use in smoothies.
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