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This is where you can find the Eat All the Colors Favorites List - your go-to spot for finding all of the products I use and recommend all the time!

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The goal of the Favorites page is to provide one central place where you can easily find the cookware, kitchen appliances, kitchen tools, tableware, food products, and books that readers ask about the most, the ones I use the most, and the ones that I recommend most enthusiastically.

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Kitchen Appliances

  • Vitamix Blender*: One of my favorite products and one I use every day to make a smoothie, a salad dressing, a soup, or really a million other things. Total game changer. Once you get a high-powered blender from Vitamix, you will never look back.
  • Nutribullet personal blender*: A perfect mini blender for on-the-go smoothies or when you need just a small batch of something. I love that you can just screw on the top, pop the straw in, and you’re good to go!
  • Juicer: I love to make juices of all colors, flavors, and nutrients and this is the juicer I choose. It's the first thing I drink every morning and I look forward to it every. single. time.
  • Air Fryer*: When you need something warmed up fast, with an extra little crunch added for texture, this is your go-to appliance. A cool innovation.
  • Breville Food Processor*: A food processor is a kitchen essential. I make these truffle balls all the time. And a million salads, hummus, gazpacho, just too many dishes to list here. Breville is the best - super simple to use and wash.
  • Breville Hand Mixer*: When you've got limited counter space, and no room for a stand mixer, this superstar appliance is at your service.
  • All Clad Immersion Blender*: Perfect for delivering perfectly pureed soups.

Cookware

  • Sauce Pan*: I've been a fan of All Clad cookware for years and this is the sauce pan I use to steam vegetables, warm-up soups, or make small batches of sauce.
  • Stock Pot*: This is the pot I use to make large batches of soup.
  • Half Sheet Pan*: For baking, this is a must-have item for the kitchen. More than one always comes in handy.
  • Vegetable Steamer Basket*: If you're going to eat vegetables, you need a steamer basket. This one is sturdier than most. Believe me, I've gone through a few.
  • Frying Pan*: This is the pan I use for sauteeing vegetables - so many vegetables.

Kitchen Tools

Knives and Cutting Boards

  • Chef's Knife*: I use two different chef's knives. One is a sturdy German one by Wustoff, the other is a lighter, more agile Japanese knife by Shun. I like them both, but use them differently because, while the German knife can muscle it's way through pretty much anything, the Japanese style knife is more delicate. I use the Japanese knife more often with soft fruit and the German one for harder tasks.
  • Whetstone for Sharpening Your Chef's Knife*: Respect your chef's knife. Sharpen it regularly with this whetstone set.
  • Serrated Knife*: You'll need a serrated knife for cutting through the delicate skins of tomatoes and other delicate fruits to keep slices in tact.
  • Dexas Cutting Board*: If you're going to eat fruits and vegetables, you'll want a reliable cutting board that's easy on your knives, easy to wash, and affordable.

Kitchen Tools to Streamline Prep

  • OXO Mandoline*: For the most beautiful thin slices of fruits and vegetables, you can't beat a mandoline.
  • Microplane Zester*: Citrus zest adds concentrated burst of flavor, capturing the essential oils from the fruit's skin, which delivers a more intense and aromatic citrus taste compared to just using the juice alone.
  • OXO Food Scale*: When you want to get your quantities just right in baked dishes like this Cinnamon Buckwheat Granola.
  • Salad Spinner*: If you're going to eat vegetables and especially salads, you'll want to wash your greens. Vegetables do grow in dirt (most of the time)...proceed accordingly.
  • Lemon Squeezer*: Citrus juice is one of the amazing ingredients that can brighten up almost any dish.
  • Liquid Measuring Cups*: Liquid measuring cups will never go out of style.
  • Dry Measuring Cups*: Measuring dry ingredients in cups vs weighing the ingredients is less exact, but still works with the recipes here.
  • Measuring Spoons*: You might as well have a full set of measuring tools. Keep them all together so don't lose any of them.

Prep and Storage Containers

  • Airtight Glass Bottles*: If you want to store your fresh cold-pressed juices, these bottles will keep them fresh if you fill them to the brim and store immediately.
  • Glass Bowls: These are the glass bowls I use every day. An absolute necessity.
  • Glass Prep Bowls: I use these bowls every day to prep ingredients when I'm making a dish that has several.
  • Hot Air Popcorn Popper*: My sister swears by this popcorn popper and believe me, if anyone knows popcorn, it's her -- from way back.

Books

  • How Not to Die*: This book describes the top 15 causes of premature death in the U.S. and explains how nutritional and lifestyle interventions may be able to help prevent and reverse these diseases, freeing us to live healthier lives

Gut Health and Your Microbiome

  • The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-term Health*: This book talks about the relationship between our bodies and the trillions of microbes we call the microbiota and how they can determine whether we’re sick or healthy, fit or obese, sunny or moody. Because of changes to diet like ultra-processed foods, antibiotic over-use, and over-sterilization, our gut microbiota is depleted, which may explain the mysterious spike in some modern afflictions, such as food allergies, autism, cancer, and depression. It continues to share how you can change what you eat so It doesn’t have to be this way.
  • Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Your Health, and Optimizing Your Microbiome*: In this book, gastroenterologist Dr. Will Bulsiewics shows how a large set of studies make it clear that gut health is the key to boosting our metabolism, balancing our hormones, and taming the inflammation that causes many of the chronic diseases from which Americans are suffering. And the scientifically proven way to fuel our guts is with dietary fiber from an abundant variety of colorful plants.

How the Food Industry Changed Food

  • The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor*: This book talks about how industrialized food production, focused on profit and not the flavor of the food it grows, has been gradually engineering the taste out of what we grow. As food—all food—becomes increasingly bland, we dress it up with sugar, calories and flavor chemicals to make it delicious again. It's a fascinating read. And real.
  • Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions*: This book was so interesting. It talks about how the processed food industry exploits our evolutionary instincts, the emotions we associate with food, and legal loopholes, in their pursuit of profit over public health.
  • Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit*: In this book, investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry. Fields are sprayed with more than 100 different herbicides and pesticides. Tomatoes are picked hard and green and artificially gassed until their skins acquire a marketable hue. Modern plant breeding has tripled yields, but has also produced fruits with dramatically reduced amounts of calcium, vitamin A, and vitamin C, and tomatoes that have 14 times more sodium than the tomatoes our parents ate.

Longevity

  • Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity*: In this book, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to talk about innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health. It's pretty deep in the science, so you really need to focus, but if you do, you'll learn a lot about actions you can take to increase your performance and overall quality of life.
  • How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthieir as You Get Older*: From the writer of How Not to Die and nutritionfacts.org, a comprehensive online source of evidence-based health facts. In this book, Dr. Michael Greger, dives into the top peer-reviewed anti-aging medical research, to discuss how diet can regulate every one of the most promising strategies for combating the effects of aging.

Habits

  • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones*: In this book, James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you how to create good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. Clear also sends out a weekly newsletter. I've found his advice to be incredibly helpful - for training thought patterns as well as behaviors. A must read.

Gear for Shopping at the Farmer's Market

Carts for Schlepping Your Purchases

  • Cart Option 1: The Transit Folding Cart: *: When I was trying to figure which cart to buy, this is the first one I tried. The challenge with it was that it was too vertical so you have to be strategic about where you place softer fruits like tomatoes and berries. Also, things can get shuffled around a bit. At the end of the day, an economical and reliable choice.
  • Cart Option 2: The CLAX 2-tier Collapsible Cart*: If the goal is to keep your purchases organized, this cart is the one you want. It makes it easy to see which fruits and vegetables you have and provides an option to keep softer items on top and safe from damage.
  • Cart Option 3: The Mac Sports Collapsible Wagon*: When summer rolls around and so many different fruits and vegetables are at peak season, this is the cart you want for hauling melons but also tomatoes...you can see how that could get complicated.

Containers to Ensure Your Softer Fruits Make it Home Safely

  • Lotus Produce Bags: I use these bags instead of plastic bags to shop at the market and to store produce in the refrigerator because it enables fruits and vegetables to breathe. They are, after all, alive, and continue to breathe after they've been picked.
  • Glass containers*: If you're going to shop for cherry tomatoes or berries at the farmer's market, you'll need some containers to put them in to ensure they don't get smashed during your shopping or enroute from the market. If you're going to the trouble of buying the best, treat them like the luxury items they are.

Quality Dry Goods and Ingredients

Nuts and Seeds

Gluten-Free Grains

Ingredients for Vegan Sweets

  • Raw Cacao Powder*: It's amazing how fudgy this cacao powder tastes. It's light as air, but deeply chocolatey.
  • Raw Cacao Butter*: You don't need very much cacao butter in a recipe. It brings a deep richness in just a spoonful.
  • Coconut Nectar*: Coconut nectar is a low glycemic index sweetener that comes from coconut blossoms. Has the consistency of honey, but less sticky, and not as concentrated. My go-to sweetener in recipes.
  • Sunwarrior Collagen Protein Powder*: This is the protein powder I use in my smoothies these days. I like the Tahitian vanilla flavor.

Farms that Ship Their Amazing Produce Nationwide

  • The Date People: I buy all of my dates directly from The Date People. They grow and sell a wide variety of dates in California and every single one I've ordered over the years have been perfect. I learn about new varieties every year, too!
  • Rincon Tropics: I met Nick, the farmer at Rincon Tropics at the farmer's market and was wowed with his dragonfruit, limes, lemon guavas, pomegranates, passion fruit and look forward to other delicacies. He grows the most interesting and delicious kinds of fruit!
  • Sasoun Produce: The tropical fruits are perfect every time. And, they sell some unusual products that are hard to find anywhere else.

If you have questions about any of these products, or have suggestions about others, please put them in the comments.

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