16 Healthiest Foods to Stock in Your Kitchen Year Around

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If you want to live the healthiest life possible then you know that it’s all about the food. Your overall physical health is a direct reflection of what food you are eating and your lifestyle.

Although those processed foods that are pre-packaged are super convenient, no doubt about that, but when you cook from scratch with fresh, organic, unprocessed ingredients, you are ensuring that you are getting the healthiest nutrition possible. One of the most important ways to stay healthy is avoiding those processed foods as much as possible.

This list of 16 specific food items can help to steer you in the right direction. Keep these items in your kitchen at all times and you will always have healthy, base ingredients for your cooking and for snacking.

1. Yogurt and Kefir

Cultured dairy products that are made from organic, grass fed cow’s milk are super nutritious so you should always keep these things in stock. You can easily make these things yourself when you have a starter culture. Instead of cow’s milk there is also raw goat or sheep milk as another option. Although yogurt and kefir as both cultured milk products, they have very different types of beneficial bacteria, called probiotics.

The transient beneficial bacteria that yogurt has can keep your digestive system clean while providing “food” for the good bacteria that already live in your gut. Kefir helps to colonize your digestive system, something that yogurt cannot do. The active yeast and bacteria in kefir might provide even more nutritive value than yogurt does because it helps to digest the foods you eat and keep your colon clean. It also has minerals, essential amino acids, and vitamins that will assist your body with its own ability to heal itself.

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