BONUS Episode: 10 Kitchen Essentials with Deliciously Ella

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1:37Deliciously Ella:But what I also started to realise was the mental load for people was so big So it wasn't necessarily that you didn't have 20 minutes to make supper Yes But that when you've been making decisions all day and you're so overwhelmed and depressed The mental load of doing it is so big So I've done eight weeks of meal plans and you've got your shopping list, you've got all your suppers for the week mapped out. So then you get home from work and you're like, right, I'm going to make this super easy supper. I have everything that I need in the fridge. It's going to take me 15 minutes. I'm ready to go.

2:06Deliciously Ella:Because as I said, it's not necessarily that we don't have 20 minutes to do an easy tray bake or something like that. It's just the like mental load at the end of the day. It's like one more decision, which is a bit much.

2:16Davina McCall:Okay, I'm going to tell everybody, we're going to talk about the weather for two minutes while everybody goes to get a pen and a piece of paper. I want you to tell us, well, I mean, firstly, I'm going to say to people, go and get quick wins. Because if you want help with, like, literally, it's you tell them what to do.

2:35Deliciously Ella:Yeah, and this is everything that I cook at home. It's trying to get that perfect balance between deliciousness, nutrition, speed and ease. Yeah. Which I think it's got to come together, right? Otherwise, if it's not delicious, you won't keep coming back to it. If it's not easy, you won't keep it up. And if it's not nutritious, then it's not going to help you in the way that you want it to on a Monday night. And so for me, it's that middling of the Venn diagram that I think is so important.

3:01Davina McCall:So I was going to ask you for 10 ingredients that people could have just in their cupboard, at all times, ready for action.

3:11Deliciously Ella:What will help them? I love that. Okay, definitely have tins of kind of chickpeas, white beans, et cetera, that you can use in stews and curries and soups, et cetera, like a chunky minestrone with nice bread. Best thing you can eat this time of year on a cold day. Then I'd also have tins of tomato, tins of coconut milk. Again. Oh, coconut milk. Yeah, so delicious in a soup. Yeah. Got random bits of veg in your fridge, roast it, blend it up with one of your tins of beans for nutrition and then do coconut milk, some lemon. Oh. Delish. So coconut milk, such an easy win to have in your life. Okay, so we've got tins of beans.

3:52We have got tinned tomatoes, coconut milk.

3:56Deliciously Ella:I'm counting. Okay. We're going to have just basic herbs and spices. Yeah. I feel like you don't need loads and loads, but just have some mixed spices, have some paprika, have some cumin, have some chili flakes. Again, easy ways to add flavor into your life. And they count. They all count. Exactly. Take what you can get. I would then definitely have just nice pasta. Again, you know, we said for bread earlier, being kind of demonized bread. Yes. Don't eat just loads of plain toast because you can add stuff to it. But pasta is the same. And like, especially if you're cooking for families. What about do we have to eat whole wheat?

4:31Davina McCall:Because I've swapped. But I did swap plain pasta for whole wheat.

4:37Deliciously Ella:And my family didn't notice. No. And that's great if that's the case. But if you do, I would just say like the best thing you can do is make a delicious sauce. And again, that's one of the easiest ways to get loads of plants in. Because you can have celery and onion and garlic and tomatoes and carrot and all of the rest of it. Yes. And you can make something absolutely delicious. And then with pasta, probably everyone will eat it. You can have more sauce than pasta Way more sauce Exactly Because I don't like people do Tons of pasta and not much sauce Yeah, no, I would do Go more sauce Yes, pasta Exactly We mentioned earlier Like a pulled aubergine ragout It's one of my favourite meals to make You roast the aubergines Until they're like blistering And falling apart And you scoop out all the inside So is that the pulled bit?

5:18Deliciously Ella:Exactly So you like pull it out And then you do it with lentils And tinned tomatoes And lots of spices A little bit of miso Which I actually had put on our list as well It's an easy way to add flavour And it's a fermented food it's a good feel girl but you know my kids will like like hoover that up with pasta whereas if I was like if I just gave them all the ingredients by themselves they would not okay so we've got pasta just general grains be that whatever you like to eat rice like bulgur wheat quinoa rice brown

5:45Davina McCall:is better than rice there's a big thing I think on the internet about that

5:50Deliciously Ella:yeah there is a big thing on the internet it depends what you eat because again it's a really nice place do you know where I learned that from where your pod yeah exactly it's like what will you eat you know like yes lots of us struggle to get enough fiber as we've said but if when you're then you're doing i've been doing this like look i'm still holding i know still holding marinated cucumbers and things like that yeah do it with white rice you're getting so much goodness in like don't over stress about it okay we've got to rise then i'd move to your freezer i would always have bag of frozen mixed berries yes such a big help frozen peas can go in everything or i wanted to add oats yeah i'll do oats as my last one i mean we could go on we go on this is very very very very helpful yeah but like we were saying about the fancy beans on wins as well exactly and we were saying about the fancy beans on toast like there you've got garlic which you could always have frozen but you you'd get home and you just literally all you need to buy on your way home would be some tomatoes and some garlic and then you're putting in the chili that you've already had yeah the beans you already have etc and you're just using what you've got and again it feels so much more doable when you're like right I need to buy two ingredients as opposed to oh my gosh I've got to go and buy 25 things I've never heard of.

6:58Deliciously Ella:I love that idea of using

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