In this video we're going to talk about equipment needed and not needed on this diet. So let's start with kitchen tools. On a healthy alkaline lifestyle there are some essential tools that you will need in your kitchen aside from standard items like an oven or knives, chopping board, etc. So this is the stuff that I would say is pretty non negotiable is essential to follow an alkaline plant based diet to you know, it's a really get the most the most out of it, and to really get the most benefits and for the most convenient and delicious way of eating, then I would say you need to have these tools. There are so many that you don't need though. Hence this video is essential and non essential tools because it's easy, especially in the kind of raw vegan community people will well when I went vegan for a while put it this way.

I was kind of convinced by reading lots of blogs and forums and things that I needed all these a whole host of expensive tools and superfoods and things. So when I bought them all and it just confused me. Yeah, I didn't stay on that for long and I've gone Yeah, that was years ago. Now I've gone right back to basics. So please learn from my experience. And yeah, these are the tools that you need and don't need.

You don't have to spend a lot of money which is the good thing. So here are the essential tools. Most are inexpensive, they will make your life much easier and they will open up a world of easy delicious and healthy recipes to you. So number one is a blender or a smoothie maker. This is really top of the list because fresh fruit smoothies and green smoothies with the addition of highly alkaline green vegetables, such as kale, spinach, lettuce, celery, cucumber cetera are such a great way to get in a lot of nutrients in an easy, delicious and transportable format. They can range from around $30 or 20 pounds to up to $600 or 400 pounds for top of the range high speed blenders something like a Vitamix or Blendtec.

These have massive power and durability. So there's real benefits of those but you don't have to start out with a whiz bang Blender you can start off with a $30 one. I have both and you can certainly manage with a cheap Blender for a while. A high speed blender is an investment in the long run I would say just really makes things very, very smooth. That heavy duty I use my blender all the time and you know a Vitamix is comes with a seven year warranty and it just yet last is built to last and it's very high powered high speed and new trouble is a really good middle ground compromise. Because it's not got the massive expense the Vitamix has got, but it's got much more power and it comes with lots of different travel marks and it's Yeah, it's a very good quality blender.

So better than a you know $30 one so $100 70 odd pounds, then yeah, that is pretty good Really, it's pretty good or neutral but so number two is seal tight tubs. These are to store and take salads, fruit salads, puddings, rice dishes, brownies and treats etc with you when you're at work on the go or to store them. It saves you money buying foods out so I like to prepare if I know I'm going to be working out of my home office for the day or just out and about. I like to prepare my food in the morning. You know, most of my food for the day if not all of it or the night before and then take it with me in seal tight tubs ensures that you're eating enough and eating healthfully because, you know you can write down your calories write down what you're eating, monitor what you're eating, and you Know that what's going into those foods you're not getting any kind of unknown nasties when you buy things out and about you know you're eating healthfully it gives you a food and longer life obviously in an airtight container as well.

So the next thing is and it's not exactly equipment but it's a grains and staples cupboard in your kitchen so I'm saying it's good to have a whole cupboard or part or pantry dedicated to storing your grains so things like rice, keen one millet, buckwheat, bulgur, wheat, potatoes, flour, chickpeas, etc. It allows you to buy in bulk so you can buy online for example, I buy like five or six kilograms of rice in one go. A couple kilograms of keen wine of polenta of buckwheat. So yeah, you want somewhere to store this and it's going to save you money. And it means that you always have the food you need at hand. Number four is a food processor.

So if you have a high Blender then you can get away with not having a food processor. But they are very useful especially for creating things like dips and sources and burger mixes. My falafel burgers are making in a food processor, cakes coleslaw, things as really good for shredding cabbage and carrots and so a few presses is a really good thing to have. If you do have a high speed blender Okay, you might be able to get away with it. But fruit processes can be pretty cheap. They can vary from around $60 or 40 pounds to again up to about $600 400 pounds margin mix etc is on the higher price end of the scale.

Number five is a mandolin or a spiralizer note not the musical instrument. a mandolin is a slicer. It's for finally slicing vegetables and fruits. So you can make more spaghetti or lasagna from quartet using a mandolin or a spiralizer A spiralizer makes long kind of noodley spaghetti out of raw caught out raw sweet potato or carrots. Yeah, not really kind of nasty bit of equipment. It's a great alternative to a food processor as well and cheaper.

Number six is electric scales. It's good to have precise measurements, you can have just, you know, old school style scales, but sometimes if I want to measure 100 grams or something, I can't tell whether I'm measuring 110 or 90 grams. So I like to have electric scales for precision, especially when you're starting this diet and you're trying to work out your calories, you know the difference of 20 grams of past or whatever is, you know, 100 or 200 calories. So, you want to make sure that you're getting things right so you're not under eating or overeating. Number seven is stainless steel pans. This is really important because stainless steel is best for safe cooking our minion pans are linked to our our menu itself is linked outside this disease so I would not really like to use our minion pans.

Nonstick Teflon frying pans or source pans are also linked to ill health and disease. Do bit of research online and you'll see I personally don't want to chance it stainless steel is either not when when heated and yet it's not going to produce any harmful chemicals or or fumes or anything coming off of the stainless steel onto your food. Get a range of sizes for soups, rice dishes, casseroles and things like that. I've got a all different sizes I think I've got five pounds that ranging from massive casserole soup dish down to a small little saucepan just for one kind of serving of something. So here are the things that are optional or definitely not needed. So, you know, it's okay to have these you can buy them if you want to, if you've got the money if you've got the room in your kitchen, if you've got the desire to but they're most certainly not, not needed, they're not necessary a dehydrator.

So instead of a dehydrator which dries out thing you know, you can produce dried fruit and vegetables, but it's not classes cook distill classes wrong because it dries up very, very slowly and low heat. I would say use an iPhone, yes. Okay, it's cooking the food but it's much more convenient. I had a dehydrator for a while and it was a bit of a faff to be completely honest. juicer very useful. I do use my juicer but it's not essential.

If you've got a smoothie maker or a blender, then most of the time that's going to be fine. A juicer is great for potent greens and beetroot and carrot beets and carrots you can really blend very successfully in potent greens. I remember once I made a smoothie with kale Cabbage sprouts, wheat grass and nettles, I think. And you don't want to be drinking a thick smoothie of those things whereas a juice Yes, you can drink out an apple apple juice and yeah, it's actually very nice that juice or not so good in a smoothie. So a juicer yeah is really useful as optional though. And then the next thing kind of linked to the fat so a juicer is a masticating juicer.

So this is a more expensive kind of pulverizing crushing juicer, and this is specifically for greens like wheatgrass which has got a lot of cellulose in which you can use a spinning centrifugal juicer for so yeah, again a masticating juicer for wheat grass is optional. If you want to do sure on wheat grass, brilliant, excellent. I've done it for years. It's it's great, but you can buy wheat grass in powder form if you want in that's fine. a rice cooker. A source pen is fine, I would say