What are the best ingredients to always have in your kitchen?

You can’t cook well and make great meals if you do not have these ingredients at home; they are very cheap and can make your dishes taste amazingly well.

Here is a list of the ingredients I’m going to always have in the kitchen:

Spices.

Spices are nature’s wonders in terms of nutrition and taste.

I can’t imagine spending one single hour in y kitchen preparing food if I don’t have cinnamon, nutmeg, cumin seeds, black and weight pepper, ginger and cloves.

These are the most essential spices.

Always, when going out to buy food, think of checking your spices, if you see that the reserve of cinnamon are dwindling, buy it as soon as possible.

The problem people have with spices is that they do not use them.

In the past, I used to have a huge amount of spices in my kitchen; however, I didn’t use them at all.

All the food we bought was frozen ones and the spices at home served as a decoration for the kitchen.

Don’t make my mistake and get the habit of always throwing a little bit in your foods.

The second ingredient to always have in your kitchen is greens.

Dark green leafy vegetables are very essential to our bodies, just a quick example, one leaf of collard green can contain up to half the amount of the vitamin A you are going to require for the whole day.

Imagine this, just one leaf of collard greens.

When I speak about dark green leafy vegetables, I’m not advising you to buy lettuce!

Lettuce is very poor and contains in my opinion no nutrition at all.

When shopping for dark green leafy vegetables, always buy these: broccoli, spinach and collard greens, they are the most important ones.

The third ingredient to always have is iodized salt.

Don’t buy sea salt, it contains a tiny amount of iodine and it’s not good for your health.

In the past, we used to get all of our iodine from the foods we ate, but iodine is not very available nowadays and you need to supplement it.

Use iodized salt, just one tea spoon a day will be enough for nearly your whole family in term of iodine.

The fourth ingredient to always have in your kitchen is green tea.

You can use green tea for a lot of uses, but the most unusual one is using green tea for your drinks.

Here is what I’ll be doing personally when making my smoothies: I’ll throw in about a tea spoon of great tea.

This will make my smoothies taste great and have a lot of antioxidants too.