An organized pantry: the key to setting up your garden kitchen

One of the quickest, most natural ways to get yourself motivated and stay motivated when preparing your garden kitchen is to have a good idea of ​​the tools and ingredients that you typically work with. With a few simple steps, you can get an idea of ​​the types and frequency of foods you eat at home. This is an essential step in planning your garden as the main goal is to incorporate and use fresh produce from your home garden in your daily meals.

The key areas are, therefore:

• Set up an Excel spreadsheet to enter the ingredients for each meal over two weeks.

• Write down the main elements of your meals every day.

• After these two weeks, review your eating habits and mark fruits and vegetables that keep recurring.

This will give you a good idea of ​​the various food groups such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and sugars that can help you plan a weight loss diet. Alternatively, and probably better, it gives you an idea of ​​how you cook, patterns, favorite foods, flavors that suit your cooking style.

One benefit of all of this is that one of the main reasons for this analysis is to identify the types and abundance of vegetables, fruits, and herbs used by your cooking methods because it's the best starting point for building a garden kitchen that works and is beneficial for your home.

For example, at home, we eat a lot of rice. We usually ate rice two or three times a week. Now rice is great as a staple food, but I'm not going to plant a field of rice cake suddenly. The most important thing I've done is to analyze what vegetables I can use in cooking that will benefit rice. Our favorites are eggplant, spinach, celery, silver beets, and carrots.

From there, I already know the most common vegetables in my kitchen. All I have to do is look in my garden and start planting.

Nyree is a passionate cook who enjoys exploring new and exciting combinations of foods and flavors. Mainly when the dish is made directly from their products grown on-site. I love helping people get the most out of their fridge, pantry, and yard. Other passions in life are cooking, sports, good food and wine, music, and writing.