Sure, store-bought food offers convenience, but all the processing and sugar can make them unhealthy. That’s why you should consider making some staples at home. Not only will they taste all the better, but you can avoid consuming foods full of preservatives.
In addition, some easy-to-make foods are ridiculously overpriced in the market. Thus, you can enjoy saving a considerable amount, all the while boasting your prowess in the kitchen.
Why Cook Food At Home Instead Of Buying Them?
Finding the time and energy to craft home-cooked meals can seem impossible with your busy day-to-day schedule. However, convenience store’s pre-made food and processed meals can severely affect your mood and health.
Here I discuss in-depth the benefits of cooking foods at home rather than buying them from online stores and grocery shops:
Convenience Food Contains Harmful Substances
The convenience food store contains high amounts of chemical additives, salt, sugar, calories, unhealthy fat, and hormones.
All these components can harm your brain and overall health. As a result, people often feel tired, irritable, bloated, and show stress, depression, and anxiety symptoms.
Better Control Over The Ingredients Added
When you cook for yourself and prepare your meals, you have more control over what kinds of ingredients you add.
This way, you can ensure that you and your loved ones enjoy fresh, tasty, and wholesome meals. Ultimately, this helps you become and feel healthier. You even get an energy boost, improve the quality of your sleep, improve resilience to stress, and stabilize your mood.
Reduce Food Wastage
According to in-depth research by EPA, it’s likely that 68% of the food we’ve wasted, i.e., more than 42.8 million tons of food, will end up in combustion facilities and landfills.
By cooking your meals at home, you have better control over the portions cooked and distributed. Restaurants often serve portions that are double the recommended guidelines. It leads to wastage of food when consumers fail to finish a dish.
Moreover, by having better control over the portions cooked, you can enjoy saving money and reduce your carbon footprint.
Remember that eating the food is vital to keep you healthy and robust, whereas the wrong food choices can ruin your health and decrease the quality of your life. Here I’ve compiled a list of foods you should never purchase, significantly since some of these can harm your body:
Granola Bars
Granola bars are one of the most loved go-to snacks. These crunchy, chewy food items cost $0.72 on average at a convenience store. On the flip side, homemade granola bars cost about $0.48.
Save money and your health by avoiding buying granola bars from a company that adds difficult-to-pronounce and understand ingredients. Simply use oats, nuts, berries, and honey stars to make your very own granola bars.
This way, you can cut back on costs and enjoy wrapping your granola bars in wax paper and secure them with a little tape.
Whipped Cream
Making whipped cream at home saves you from all the unhealthy and gross ingredients that pressurized cans boast.
Not to mention, making your own whipped cream is super easy! All you have to do is add cream, powdered sugar, and a dash of vanilla extract. Next, beat these ingredients together to get your hands
When it comes to storing your whipped cream, the process is easy. Make sure you keep it at the back of the refrigerator where the temperature is cooler. By storing it under other chilled items, you can preserve its peaks, as well as texture.
Yogurt
Did you know that yogurt costs $1.00 when bought from a grocery shop but only $0.43 when made at home?
By following easy-to-understand steps, you can create yogurt with the help of ½ cup of yogurt and milk. Once you make yogurt, use an airtight container to preserve your yogurt. You may leave it in a pot, given that the lid is tight and secure over it.
Make your yogurt last for at least two weeks by keeping it at the back of your fridge where it is cooler. DIY yogurt helps you save money and provides you with a fresher, much tastier end product.
Almond Milk
Almond milk tastes arguably better and a whole lot healthier when you make it at home. The fact is that store-bought almond milk often contains additives, including sugar. As a result, your healthy milk ends up becoming overloaded with calories.
Plus, to make almond milk, you need two budget-friendly ingredients; water and raw almonds. Once you strain the almond milk, you should store it in an airtight container. Typically, you should finish this within 3 to 4 days.
Salad Dressing
Research shows that store-bought salad dressing is often rich in titanium dioxide. Usually found in paint, sunscreen, plastics, and other industrial products, exposure to even a tiny amount of titanium dioxide can make your food turn white.
Unfortunately, titanium dioxide is known to harm your intestinal mucosa, heart, brain, and other internal organs. Avoid damaging your health, and create a batch of salad dressing in your blender.
If you’re not sure how to start, you can search an easy-to-follow on the internet. To store your salad dressing, simply use a container with an airtight lid. Make sure you keep your salad dressing on the shelves of your fridge. Typically your homemade salad dressing lasts two weeks!
To Sum it Up
It’s tempting to purchase all your food online or from your local grocery store. However, these various amounts of beans, bags of rice, and so on can harm your health; apart from the fact that some of these costly, other people are picking and packing them can lead to potential safety issues.
At the same time, pre-made items and fast-food meals are best enjoyed at restaurants to avoid receiving low-quality food. It is best to visit stores to compare prices, ingredients, and other vital information.
It is because online stores often lack an exhaustive list of products included in the food items. Improve your health today by enjoying making food in your home.
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Hello!
Can you please verify your article? Making yogurt requires yogurt and milk? Umm…it just seems weird as I thought I was making the yogurt, but to do so I need to already have yogurt.
Thank you.
-Timothy
Timothy: You can make your own Yogurt without bought-yogurt — it’s called Rejuvelac. Here’s how you make it:
Rejuvelac
Yield: 2 quarts
1/4 cup soft wheat berries
1/4 cup rye berries
Purified water
1. Soak the grains overnight in purified water in a glass gallon jar.
2. The next morning, drain and rinse the grains.
3. Sprout the grains for 2 days, rinsing and draining twice a day, and doing at least the last rinse
with purified water. Fill the jar with purified water and allow the grains to ferment for 36 to 48
hours, or until the desired tartness is achieved. Pour the Rejuvelac into a container and store it
in the refrigerator.
4. To make a second harvest of Rejuvelac, fill the jar of sprouted grains with water again, ferment
for 24 hours, and pour off the Rejuvelac.
5. To make a third harvest of Rejuvelac, fill the jar with water one last time, ferment for 24 hours,
and pour off the Rejuvelac. Discard the grains.
6. Store in a sealed glass jar in the refrigerator for up to two days.
Taste the result. It should be somewhat tart, and perhaps slightly fizzy, but should taste kind of good.
Then, if you can make your own actual Yogurt, then you can make yogurt from this.
Here’s what I do:
Get a picnic-type cooler. Get 2 or more half-gallon Ball Jars, and 6-8 1/2 pint (or more) Ball/Mason jars. (As many as will fit in your picnic cooler. Fill the 1/2-gallon jars with hot-tap-water. Then put some room-temperature Almond Milk (Your home-made Almond Milk WILL taste better) into the 1/2-pint jars — but not to the top! Now add about 1 Tablespoon of Rejuvelac into each jar, then put the lid on — there should be air-space in these jars. Stir/shake if you want to. Now put the hot-water-filled jars into the cooler, and add the almond-milk-infused jars. Close the cooler, and let it sit overnight, or longer. Open the cooler, remove one of the half-pint jars, and shake it lightly. If it’s solid, your Home-made yogurt is complete! If not, quickly put the ‘test’ jar back in, for a longer time. Enjoy!
To make good healthy yogurt one uses a “starter” of good bacteria. Many oversugared commercial yogurts fall far short in live, beneficial prebiotics and will not make good “starter”
This article would have been better if it had actually talked about the items in the photo. (jelly, rotisserie chicken, cheese, stocks and broths, canned veggies). This also suffers (along with the rest of this website from a tremendous lack of proof-reading. Need some help – let me know. 🙂
and I should have proofed my own comment for the closing of the parenthesis. 🙂
Proofread yeh, try this, from your article on whipped cream: “….Next, beat these ingredients together to get your hands…” and then it drops off…then what????