BONUS Episode: 10 Kitchen Essentials with Deliciously Ella
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What are quick wins for healthy eating?
I'm just going to quickly talk about this.
Yes, quick wins.
Because it came out last year. And this is full of really brilliant, very simple recipes. That's the thing about it.
But what I also started to realise was the mental load for people was so big. So it wasn't necessarily that you didn't have 20 minutes to make supper.
Yes.
But when you've been making decisions all day and you're so overwhelmed and stressed, the mental load of doing it is so big. So I've done eight weeks of meal plans and you've got your shopping list, you've got all your suppers for the week mapped out. So then you get home from work and you're like, right, I'm going to make this super easy supper. I have everything that I need in the fridge. It's going to take me 15 minutes. I'm ready to go.
How can meal planning reduce kitchen overwhelm?
Because as I said, it's not necessarily that we don't have 20 minutes to do an easy tray bake or something like that. It's just the mental load at the end of the day. It's like one more decision. Which is a bit much.
Okay, I'm going to tell everybody. We're going to talk about the weather for two minutes while everybody goes to get a pen and a piece of paper. I want you to tell us. Well, I mean, firstly, I'm going to say to people, go and get quick wins. Because if you want help with, like, literally, it's you tell them what to do.
Yeah. And look, this is everything that I cook at home. It's trying to get that perfect balance between deliciousness, nutrition, speed and ease. Which I think it's got to come together, right? Otherwise, if it's not delicious, you won't keep coming back to it. If it's not easy, you won't keep it up. And if it's not nutritious, then it's not going to help you in the way that you want it to on a Monday night. And so for me, it's that balance. middling of the Venn diagram that I think is so important.
So I was going to ask you for 10 ingredients that people could have just in their cupboard at all times ready for action.
What will help them? I love that. Okay. Definitely have tins of kind of chickpeas, white beans, etc. that you can use in stews and curries and soups, etc. Like a chunky minestrone with nice bread. Best thing you can eat this time of year on a cold day.
Yeah.
Then I'd also have tins of tomato, tins of coconut milk. Again... Oh, coconut milk. Yeah, so delicious in a soup. Yeah. Got random bits of veg in your fridge, roast it, blend it up with one of your tins of beans for nutrition, and then do coconut milk, some lemon. Ah! Delish. So coconut milk, such an easy win to have in your life. Okay, so we've got tins of beans. We have got... Tinned tomatoes, coconut milk. I'm counting.
Okay.
We're going to have just basic herbs and spices. Yeah. I feel like you don't need loads and loads, but just have some mixed spices, have some paprika, have some cumin, have some chili flakes. Again, easy ways to add flavor into your life. And they count.
What are the top pantry staples for easy cooking?
They all count. Exactly. Take what you can get. I would then definitely have just nice pasta. Again, you know we said for bread earlier, being like people kind of deem nice bread. Yes. don't eat just loads of plain toast because you can add stuff to it but pasta's the same and like especially if you're cooking for families what about how do we have to eat whole wheat because i i've swapped but i did swap yeah plain pasta for whole wheat and my family didn't notice no and that's great if that's the case but if you do i would just say like the best thing you can do is make a delicious sauce and again that's one of the easiest ways to get loads of plants in because you can have celery and onion and garlic and tomatoes and carrot and all of the rest of it.
Yes. And you can make something absolutely delicious. And then with pasta, probably everyone will eat it. You can have more sauce than pasta. Way more sauce. Exactly. People do tons of pasta and not much sauce. Yeah, no, I would do. Go more sauce. Exactly. Exactly. Like we mentioned earlier, like a pulled aubergine ragout. It's one of my favourite meals to make. You roast the aubergines till they're like blistering and falling apart.
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