Stocking a heart-healthy kitchen
Key takeaways
- Stocking heart-healthy ingredients supports healthier meals without breaking the budget.
- Canned, frozen, and bulk foods are budget-friendly options.
- Choose options that work for your taste, budget, and what’s available near you.
- With basic staples on hand, making heart-healthy meals is more achievable.
How to build a heart-healthy kitchen
Building a heart-healthy kitchen doesn’t need to be expensive or complicated. Stocking versatile, budget-friendly staples like canned and frozen fruits and vegetables, wholegrains, and proteins can make it easier to put together simple, affordable, and heart-healthy meals.
Ready to build your heart-healthy kitchen?
Start small by adding a few heart-healthy staples to your shopping list or swapping some everyday ingredients for budget-friendly alternatives.
With a mix of budget-friendly staples in your fridge, freezer, and pantry, you’re one step closer to creating heart-healthy meals. Making small, sustainable changes can make a big difference over time.
What’s next?
Take the next step by learning how to plan simple and balanced meals. Check out our Heart-healthy meal planning for tips and resources to make heart-healthy eating even easier.
More healthy eating tools and resources
- We have plenty of resources to help you follow a heart-healthy eating pattern.
- Build your skills and confidence in the kitchen with our tips and tools for planning, shopping, and cooking healthy meals.
- Explore our full range of recipes for delicious, budget-friendly and easy to prepare heart-healthy meals you can make at home.
- Discover our collection of free recipe e-books, from ‘Family recipes on a budget’ to '5 Ingredient Recipes' plus many more.
- Get four weeks of easy-to-follow dinner recipes, shopping lists, tips and other helpful information to make healthy eating easy with our free Heart-Healthy Dinner Plans.
- Looking for more information? Explore our resources on healthy eating and recent articles.