Our Quality Pantry
Stocking your kitchen with health-promoting, quality pantry items makes healthy eating easy. Our Pantry list and healthy tips follow much of the traditional Virginia fare of our forefathers.
Food quality plays a pivotal role in our overall health and well-being. High-quality and nutritious food fuels our bodies, providing the essential nutrients, vitamins, and minerals to function optimally. It strengthens our immune system, supports cognitive function, and promotes better digestion. Making conscious choices about the quality of the food we eat is thus essential for fostering a healthy and fulfilling life.
These rules follow several leading health and diet experts’ ideas using the latest science and common sense. If you want to read more, we recommend reading Dr. Steven Gundry’s Gut Check, Dr. Mark Hyman’s Young Forever, and Dave Asprey’s Bulletproof Diet.
The timing of your meals matters. We try to eat twice a day in six to eight hours, usually at noon and six o’clock in the evening. Once or twice a week, we will “mix it up” and have a third meal or eat in a longer window. We avoid eating two hours before doing work, which requires keen concentration, and three hours before bedtime.
Eating thirty grams of fiber daily is often recommended. What does that look like? Here are some ideas.
1 cup pinto beans, 15 grams (always pressure cook)
1 cup lentils, 15 grams (always pressure cook)
1/4 cup freshly ground flaxseed, 11 grams
1 medium avocado, 10 grams fiber
1 cup raspberries, 8 grams (only in season)
1/2 cup pistachios, 7 grams (limit to 1/2 cup of nuts a day)
1 medium artichoke, 7 grams
1 cup of collard greens, 6 grams
1 cup broccoli, 5 grams
1 cup carrots, 3 grams
Remember, the point of this list is to direct you to healthy foods that are low in mycotoxins and pesticides and to avoid the highly processed foods created by the industrial food complex. Virginia has a long agrarian history. Embrace the foods of our epicurean ancestors like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, relish our history, and enjoy good health.
Our Pantry is our master list of the best foods to eat that we buy regularly in season and their sources. We avoid seed oils, natural and artificial flavoring, and other harmful additives.