Day 5-Make Sure You Have These Appliances and Tools

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The Jumpstart to Clean Eating challenge is all about getting ready for your first week of 
clean eating. Throughout this series, you will learn about clean eating, what to cook, 
how to get started and now what you need for your meals.

With a clean diet, the majority of meals and snacks are being prepared at home. While 
many of them don’t require any cooking, you still need certain tools and appliances in 
your kitchen to make the process easier. Here are some recommended items to have in 
your kitchen for your clean eating lifestyle:

Blender – This is a great tool to have in the kitchen so you can make your smoothies. 
You can get a full-size blender or a personal blender if you only want to make one 
smoothie at a time. An immersion blender also comes in handy.

Food processor – If you want to make your own cauliflower rice, salsa, sauces, and 
diced veggies, then you should have a food processor as well. This does a lot of 
specialty cutting jobs that a blender can’t handle, so it is great to have both.

Pots and pans – Of course, you need plenty of pots and pans of high quality to get 
your cooking done. At the very least, have a few different sizes of skillets, a large pot for 
soups and chili, and some different baking pans and dishes for casseroles, baking 
chicken, and roasting veggies in the oven.

Slow cooker – While optional, a slow cooker is highly recommended. This is great if 
you live a busy lifestyle and want your dinner to be cooking while at work, or if you are 
new to cooking and would rather just dump everything in the slow cooker and come 
back when it’s ready to serve. There is a lot you can do with a slow cooker, like making 
soup, chili, turkey or chicken, even making vegetable sides. 

Tools and utensils – You probably already have plenty of utensils for prepping in your 
kitchen, but here are some items you may not have that come in handy:

Apple corer and slicer 
Melon baller 
Zester 
Spiralizer

That’s it for today! Don’t miss tomorrow’s email about avoiding some of the common 
mistakes with clean eating.

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