Stocking your pantry and refrigerator with clean, quality items makes it easier to prepare healthy meals and snacks. Below is a curated guide to staples, snacks, and cooking essentials with trusted brands that emphasize better ingredients.
Pantry & Refrigerator Staples
- Misfits Market carries many pantry items at discounted rates.
- Thrive Market offers cleaner options, from pantry staples to personal care items.
- Spaghetti sauce: Rao’s, Thrive Market brand.
- Canned fish: Wild Planet Salmon, Wild Planet Sardines, Wild Planet Skipjack Tuna.
- Jerky: Chomps, Roam Sticks, Paleovalley.
- Salad dressings: Primal Kitchen offers a variety made with avocado oil.
- Mayo: Chosen Foods, Sir Kensington’s.
- Ketchup: True Made, Primal Kitchen.
- Parchment paper: If You Care makes PFAS-free versions.
- Nuts/seeds: options from Trader Joe’s and Thrive Market.
Nuts & Nut Butters
Choose dry roasted nuts and simple nut butters without added oils or sugar.
- Trader Joe’s almond butter and seeds.
- Thrive Market nut butters and roasted almonds.
- Wonderful Pistachios, GoodSam, and Nuts.com.
Salsa & Hummus
Crackers, Chips & Cereal
- Simple Mills, Flackers, RW Garcia, Mary’s Gone Crackers, Brad’s Plant Based.
- Jackson’s Sweet Potato Chips.
- Three Wishes, Seven Sundays.
Chocolate
Cooking Fats
Ghee
Oils & Other Fats
- Chosen Foods Avocado Oil
- Epic Tallow and Lard
- Spectrum
- Grain Brain