Any health regime starts with one step, i.e. healthy meals. Since meals require a lot of forethought, most people choose the easy way out with the least healthy food.
Instead of ordering take-outs regularly, which leads to weight gain and poor diet, you can add countertop appliances to your kitchen that can help you make healthy meals without spending too much time making food.
It is the best way to control the portions. For the greater good, you can use the following kitchen tools that save both time and money:
1. Instant Pot
Instant Pot is a kitchen aid that can work as a steamer, pressure cooker, slow cooker, rice cooker. This means that you can make nearly anything in this one-pot wonder. You can even saute veggies in the pot significantly faster than most kitchen tools.
It is technically a seven-in-one cooker that costs less than a hundred dollars and can fit in even the most confined of spaces.
2. ZYLISS Vegetable Spiralizer
Pasta, whether or not gluten-free, is something we all dig in once-in-a-while (or more). Regardless of the alternative flours, it is not healthy enough to be included in regular meals. Thus, no healthy appliances list is complete without this $18 wonder-tool, with which you can spiralize your everyday veggies into spicy beet saute and lip-smacking summer slaws.
3. Vitamix Explorian Blender
A mixer-blender with a powerful motor, you can make anything, from butter and hummus to salad dressings and smoothies, in this Vitamix blender. This means that all the hard work of blending and mixing can be skipped altogether.
You can even make soups in the blender without worrying about burning out the blender. Although they are on the expensive side, user reviews boast about the reliability, power, and utility of this blender.
4. Cuisinart Mini-Prep Plus Food Processor
Need oat or nut flour or nutmeg powder? What if you could make them at home and not spend a dime on factory-produced alternatives? A perfect, dual-mode food processor, Mini-Prep Plus is a space as well as an effort saver. While it can do everything that a normal-sized processor can, it goes another mile and helps with chopping as well. And what is more, it costs less than $38!
5. OXO Good Grips Salad Spinner
We have learned this the hard way – washing, cleaning, and drying the leafy greens are more time consuming than putting together a salad. This is why you should invest in a salad spinner that can rinse and dry off your veggies and save your effort at the same time.
Conclusion!
While appliances cannot ensure good meals, they can ensure easier and effortless ones. From nifty juicers to knives that can with a life-time guarantee, each entry above takes you a step further in turning cooking in the kitchen into a smooth experience. Some of these appliances are on the more expensive side, but the market has an array of tools that can serve as a substitute. Thus, you really won’t have an excuse to regularly order your meals online.
