10 Healthy Food Essentials You Can Easily Make at Home—and Never Have to Buy Again

It all starts with your pantry.

One key to making healthy foods at home is having a great pantry—and better yet, a green pantry. It's a simple concept. Switch out the junk food and refined processed items containing unhealthy ingredients—like white sugar and corn syrup—with natural, whole-food staples.

A pantry full of whole grains and flours, nuts and seeds, dried beans and peas, teas and oils, is a critical tool to make healthy cooking super convenient. These foods are also excellent sources of nutrition, providing fiber, complex carbohydrates, essential fatty acids, crucial minerals such as zinc and iron, and more.