hi guys, its alyssia and today is the verylast day of the no junk food challenge. so if you took the challenge, i want you to letme know how did it go for you, please comment below. i am going to be honest, i struggled,i…i think doing this during my best friend’s wedding was a bad idea especially becausei made the cake. so i tested the cake before i went which means i had to test like physicallyeat and test the cake, it’s not just an excuse i know it sounds like a really goodone. but then i went to the wedding and, which was in new york city, and i was with all myfriends again so i didn’t even hold back. i mean i had fun and i ate food but i gotback and that’s where it really gets bad, as i really had trouble getting back on track.
so it took me a few days, the first week ofthe challenge i was awesome, the second week eeeh, and then the third week i’ve gottenback on track. i am going to make up for that second week though. next week i’m goingto stick with it. one more week because then i go to la next weekend for 10 days and amprobably going to enjoy myself, let’s be real. so i’m going to stick with it onemore week but please let me know how it went for you. were you strong the whole time, didyou struggle, what did you struggle with the most, are you going to keep it up? how doesyour palate feel once you start to incorporate some of those sugars and processed foods againor maybe you don’t want to, which would be awesome.
so today i wanted to do a vlog on, what’sin my fridge because, so it seems to be something people are interested in. so am going to showyou literally everything that is in my fridge and my pantry because, it’s easy to makethe fridge look healthy right, because you put all the healthy produce in there but allthe pantry stuff is where you end up with the bad stuff, so let’s get into it. my number one tip and the way i try to stockmy fridge, i’m not going to lie i did clean this up a little bit for you guys, am notquite that organized with my food, but i thought for the sake of the vlog and the tips wouldmake sense to make it look a little bit neater. so put your fruits and vegetables at eye level.so we want to keep all those healthy things
that we want to grab closest to where we firstsee when we look when we open the fridge, there it all is. i always keep fruit likegrapes open so i can just grab those, cut cantaloupe and melon. this is kind of my mealprep, i told you guys before in my meal prep video, i don’t do a lot of meal prep buti do cut melons and i cut vegetables. so here’s my red and green bell peppers, zucchini, iuse those in my frittatas. also a tip with your cut vegetables, add a little bit of waterbefore you put them in the container and it’ll help keep their crisp freshness throughoutthe week because otherwise they get kind of soggy. i’ve got raspberries, cherry tomatoes, babycarrots i snack on with my hummus, me and
christian love hummus, and i do make my ownhummus sometimes but you know, sometimes you buy it. bean salsa, this was last week’sthirty second thursdays, check it out, this is like my number one meal prep kind of salad.you can eat it plain, you can eat it on a sandwich on eggs, but the great thing is youjust mix it all in the same bowl and then it just goes right into the fridge. so whatelse you got, more fruit, peaches, apples, strawberries, blueberries, plums, lots offruit. i try, i’ve been trying lately the past month or so to eat a lot more fruit becausethere was a while, there was a time when i was one of those people that was afraid toeat fruit and i’m not anymore, it’s…i’m stoked to eat fruit. then we’ve got furtherdown here, i have my dairies. so we’ve got
low fat cottage cheese, i don’t really liketo eat the fat free stuff so i try to keep to low fat or even full fat. here we’vegot a half and half, i go with the full fat half and half. i don’t drink coffee a lotbut if i do, non-fat greek yoghurt, i do go with skimmed milk and i don’t actually drinka lot of milk, when i do i drink usually almond milk or coconut milk. what else we got in here? salmon, becausetonight i’m going to make some salmon. so these are frozen fillets and they’re defrostingbecause lets be real, fish can be kind of expensive and even though it’s great tobuy it fresh when you can, i can’t always so sometimes i eat frozen. i’ve got unsweetenedapple sauce back here. i don’t eat this
that much but i bake with it a lot. and movingon down, we’ve got spinach, okay this is my favorite thing, my new favorite thing,broccoli slaw. so you get regular cole slaw and it’s green cabbage, red cabbage, carrots.broccoli slaw is broccoli, red cabbage and carrots, so it’s a little heartier but it’ssuch a great option if you make aside. i make my fake mayonnaise with greek yoghurt, a littlebit of red wine vinegars, white vinegar, dijon, i’ll put the recipe below. but pretty muchmix this baby up with that yoghurt and let it sit and you’ve got a cole slaw and it’sliterally all veggies. i mean this entire bag is a 100 calories, 20 carbs all good andeven it’s got a little protein. it’s literally just vegetables, nothing added to it. thisstuff can be a little expensive but it goes
on sale like every other week, its two forone or something like that so stock up then. i’ve also like i said, almond milk, coconutmilk. here’s my infusing water, so a lot of people buy those fancy infusers and that’sfine, it’s totally cool but a pitcher works just fine. i just cut up my lemons and limes,throw them in there, if you really want that extra kick, add a little apple cider vinegarbecause you can’t really taste it with the lemon and lime and it’s tons of health benefitsin that. back here right now i’ve got apple and pineap…sorry orange and pineapple juice,because i used them in some halloween e-book recipes, but i don’t usually drink a lotof juice, i usually just drink water. or actually one new thing i’ve been drinking, carrotjuice, and this stuff is actually just carrots,
there’s nothing else in here and its prettysweet and its, there’s 24 and a half carrots in this whole bottle. i mean i obviously don’tdrink the whole bottle, there’s four servings in this, but a lot of these juices are deceivingbecause they still have a lot of calories and carbohydrates from the sugar. it’s,you know it’s concentrated, like usually i recommend eat a piece of fruit rather thandrink the juice because you just get way more sugar than you need at a time. but when youare trying to get more veggies in and we all know i struggle with that, this carrot juicehas been helping me and i actually do like the way it tastes. we’ve got turkey pepperoni, i like to snackon it, i use it on pizzas. uncured bacon,
sometimes i get turkey bacon and this is regular.usually aim for bacon that doesn’t have nitrates, can be debatable, a lot of peoplethink it can cause cancer but then there’s, you know everyone there’s always the otherside of the story, a lot of people think oh even if you buy the nitrate free, it’s stillgoing to have all these preservatives blah, blah, blah, i don’t know. buy whatever baconyou want. parmesan, i use this a lot in cooking and i always buy the block so i can grateit fresh. same with mozzarella, i always buy the part skimmed ball and i just shred it.i shred it myself. neufchatel cheese, good ol aldi brand right here. i’ve told youbefore that neufchatels like pretty much low fat cream cheese, i cook with this, bake withit, i don’t really eat bread that much but
its good on a bagel. cheese, this is christianscheese for his sandwiches, i try to not eat that much cheese at home because when i goout i do like to eat cheese, so i’ve been cutting back on the cheese lately. i alsolove to snack on like deli chicken and turkey. if you can buy the organic, that’s greatbut this was on sale, the organic is like kind of rarely on sale and its freaking expensive,so i can’t always get that. here we got chives, thyme, carrots, this ismy vegetable crisper, another cauliflower head, celery, which i don’t precut becausei hate to eat it. i never eat celery raw, i just cook with it. tomatoes, mushrooms,lots of good stuff in here, all different vegetables that i, i only, i cut those upwhen i’m cooking with them since i don’t
eat them all the time. alright what have wegot over here. we got a lot of avocadoes, we eat a lot of avocados in this house. welove avocado. salsa, really, really great option, i mean you can totally make your ownbut its, most salsas only like 10 calories per serving. jam, i don’t eat a lot of andi prefer to make my own but we got it. mustard, mustard is like the most awesome condiment,i got yellow, honey, dijon, spicy, grainy, any kind of mustard, i love it. eggs, garlic, butter, we don’t use thismuch, that’s why it’s here but i have a lot from when i was making the cake. andegg whites and yellow, so i bake with these i make fritatas with them. i’ve told youguys in my other videos, when i make like
a fried egg, i obviously want to enjoy thatyolky goodness. but when i’m just looking for a protein packed meal and i don’t alwayswant the yolk or i want a lot of it, like i want to have like the equivalent of fouror five eggs but i don’t want to eat four or five full eggs, i will use the whites orthe yellows. and these are actually the exact same stats, the yellows are just colored yellow,they are still egg whites. that is my fridge, lets…lets go take a look at the…at thefreezer briefly. cramped quarters in here, i’m making somecantaloupe sorbet for the e-book. we’ve got some bread in here, my ezekiel bread,ezekiel english muffins. what else, shrimp, ground turkey extra lean, i love to cook withthis stuff. we got ground turkey breast and
we’ve got the vodka that we’ve had inthe freezer for probably three years now, we don’t do much drinking in this house.i think we bought that for a mind over munch episode actually and it’s just still there. pantry time. so, sorry about the setup, it’skind of squeezed because we are right against the wall but let’s do our best here. uptop, now i used to keep this box down low but i realized it was better to keep it uptop. this box has all of the crap that i don’t want to eat. so any kind of candy i accumulate,like processed snacks, stuff that like maybe once in a while i want to pull it out buti don’t want to have it all the time. i don’t want to reach for that instead ofthe fruit, i keep it up here because i can’t
reach it even really, i have to have christianget it down and so i’m too lazy to go get the step stool, i know i’m not going toeat it. so it stays up here. we’ve got second shelf, flours that aren’topen. i’ve got coconut flour, garbanzo flour, almond meal, my sugars, or a coconut palmsugar, this is like my new favorite thing. although beware, it’s like a huge healthfad right now and everyone thinks that it’s like healthier than normal sugar, and its…it’slike raw, it’s from, it’s directly from the coconut there’s nothing added to it.but it still has just as much, i mean it doesn’t have just as much fructose, but it’s sucrosewhich is 50 percent fructose so it does have fructose in it. alright i’ve got some truviabaking blend for blaking, um baking. the brown
sugar but i told you i’m not nuts aboutit. and then this is like an erythritol, it’s like a sugar, alcohol, also for baking. we’vegot some real brown sugar, some dark chocolate chips which i bake with. and then we’vegot like vinegar, red wine vinegar, balsamic, all that. down here we’ve got bunch of canned foodsi always stay stocked on. cans of beans, beans are great for baking, for cooking, for eating,whatever. they’re just awesome and they’re packed with protein and good carbs. pumpkin,canned pumpkin, i have year round. tomato basil pasta sauce, so i used to buy the classicalbrand but then i discovered aldi has this organic one that they sell that’s cheaperand it’s the exact same one. the reason
i go for that is because it has way less sugarthan regular pasta sauce. so if you don’t know about the pasta sauce issues with thesugar, i’ve talked about before, check out my pizza rolls episode, we will link it becausei tell you all i show you exactly how to pick your pastas. although i do prefer to makemy own but who has time to do that all the time right, i make it sometimes, sometimesi don’t. we’ve got a bunch of dates. these are mynew favorite thing especially on the no junk food challenge, i use these in my smoothie.and raw cashews, i’ve been cooking with these, raw pistachios, peanuts. i’m goingto just make my own, i mean i…i make my own peanut butter sometimes, usually i makeit for my…my friend francesco as a gift
because he’s obsessed with it. during theno junk food challenge i started eating the old fashioned smooth, which is just peanuts,so that it’s not sweetened and i use it in my smoothie and it is awesome. it’s mybanana, peanut butter, dates, a little bit of almond milk and greek yoghurt and ice andi’ll put the exact recipe below. but anyways, it’s so good, i don’t miss the sweetnessat all and i’m totally just going to make my own plain peanut butter now. so i usedto think like i need to have sweet peanut butter, but i really, i love it anyways. oats,lots of oats, we’ve got rolled oats, old fashioned oats, oat bran. this stuff is, imade the soy bean kind the other night but i’ve also made this the black bean spaghettiliterally. the only ingredients are black
beans and water. i mean it, it’s good enoughfor me as pasta for some, some people might be like no, but i think it’s great. it totallyfills me in, this stuffs really good. i’ve got quinoa, i don’t really have past…wedon’t eat a lot of pasta even though i love it but that’s what i like to eat when igo out. so we just keep grains here, butternut, squash, these are in season now so i’m stoked.some bread, i don’t eat bread, i eat the ezekiel bread. christian eats the like normalwhole wheat or whatever is on sale. and then this is pumpernickel, i’m going to use thisin a thanks giving recipe, so i just bought some. and down to the snack, the snacks shelf. okaythese are kind of my go to snacks here. these
two are freeze dried vegetables. so theseare from target, simply balanced, these are freeze dried peas, freeze dried corn, oh mygod the corn is so good, i mean the peas are pretty good but the corn is like freakingdelicious. but i feel like, i don’t feel guilty eating either, but i feel like morebeneficial eating these because they’re green peas right. and i don’t even reallylike peas but these, it’s just like a crunchy snack i mean, i want to just show you thecrunch right now. they just look like little frozen peas but they’re dried. get as closeto the mic as possible. anyways, they are really crunchy, corn and peas, these are likemy favorite freeze dried things. i don’t eat the dried fruit that much because it hasa lot of added sugar but the freeze dried
stuff’s good but i would rather just eatreal fruit. when it comes to vegetables though, i don’t really like to eat them so thisis really good option for me. i don’t use this as a substitute for my vegetables eventhough it says, one vegetable serving per whatever. but i use them as like my snackwhen i need to crunch. edamame. so they’ve got crunchy coded premiumblack, this one’s almost gone because it’s my favorite. this one is spicy wasabi andlightly salted and these are just little edamame seeds dry roasted and they’re really, reallygood. we’ve got popcorn, i do not buy the bags of popcorn anymore because you’ve gotthe chemicals, you’ve got usually added butter and salt and seasonings and preservativesand whatever. and so this i just literally
buy plain kernels and pop them myself, checkout the thirty second thursday if you don’t know how. we’ve got nuts, sunflower seedsand dried figs. these are like my favorite sweet treat. they do have a lot of sugar butit’s natural so i don’t really feel bad, i just try to only eat one or two. these arewhat i eat before i teach fitness class, i like to pop one or two of these instead ofa sugar packet to give me energy. perky jerky, i love perky jerky. oh my god,this is turkey perky jerky. i love the turkey perky jerky and the teriyaki, this is originali haven’t tried the spicy one but they are all natural, no preservatives, no nitrates.but mostly the stats are awesome, they are lower calorie, more protein and they tastereally good. like beef jerky or even regular
turkey jerky, the regular brands, they gethard pretty quickly and these like stay really soft and yummy and i don’t know. and thenof course the quest bars which i don’t have the right flavors in here, this is kind ofa mix, i just keep them in the box. but anyways, these are also, i don’t use them as snacksbecause they are kind of expensive but you know, post workout, pre workout, whatever.that is the pantry. the spice cabinet, now i’m not even goingto lie, i did not reorganize this for you so it’s a mess but don’t judge me, orjudge me i don’t care. so here is all my spices and baking craps, we’ve got coconut,my open flours and all my spices. now here is one of my number one health tips is seasonyour food, get creative with spices because
people tend to depend on fat for flavor somuch and i know it tastes delicious but it’s not the only way to get good flavor. so youknow get…get comfortable and get friendly with your spices in your spice cabinet, youknow use a little bit of salt and pepper, i mean you don’t want to like overdo thesalt but a little bit of salt is okay. i have like hundreds of spices in here, i’m noteven going to try and pull them out because it’s a huge mess. and then up here we’vegot baking stuff, honey, chia seeds, syrup, maple syrup, yeah i mean this is pretty muchit. we got flax seeds up there, cooking spray. that’s my, that’s my goods so, oh andwe have a fruit bowl. fruit bowl where we just keep the fruit where we have nowhereto put it. but we got a lot, we eat a lot
of bananas in this house. sweet potatoes andapples, so this is mostly for baking except the bananas are for smoothieing. so that is my fridge, pantry, spice cabinet.my ultimate tips would be, shop the sales, if you shop sales and you stock up while thingsare on sale, it is so much easier to get things affordably. get your staple foods all thetime right, they’re staple. so keep, you know they’re going to be different for everyone,but for me you know greek yoghurt, cottage cheese, apple sauce, canned foods, those kindsof things, almond milk, that you bake and cook with. keep them around all the time toencourage you to use them. if you don’t have them then it’s really easy to makethe excuse to eat something less healthy right.
keep those things there. the last tip i have is to not make excuses.so it’s so easy for us to say, oh well i want to keep some of this around for if ihave a guest or my kids want to eat this so it’s for them, it’s not for me. you knowa lot of those things while they may be true, you may really actually want to keep it forwhen you have guests but if you don’t have the will power to deny it when your cravinghits which i usually do not, i am, i…that’s why i just mostly try to not buy it. thoseare my ultimate tips. thank you for watching the what’s in my fridge vlog. this got methinking into wanting to do a new e-book, i have a few other e-books actually coming,but one that i really want to do is a meal
prep e-book because you guys gave me suchawesome feedback on the meal prep video and i’m really excited to see your feedbackon this video. so if you would like a meal prep e-book, please comment below and letme know what kinds of things you would like included. i am sure you know recipes, butalso what kind of tips or cooking tricks, suggestions, advice, instructions or a specificguide on what foods to get and how to cut them and what to do, you know let me knowexactly what you would want out of this and i will get that going for you. also one last note, well two last notes, onelike this video give it a…give it a thumbs up if you liked it. two, we are making somesmall changes again to the channel. the thirty
second thursdays have not been doing as hotas we hoped, but that’s okay. so we’re going to switch the regular episodes fromtuesday to thursday, they’re back on thursdays and the vlogs will still be sundays. so sundaysand thursdays we’re posting and we are going to leave tuesdays open for kind of when wehave extra goodies to post. but regular episodes thursdays, sundays, i promise we won’t makeany changes again any time soon. thank you guys for all of your support, please let meknow what you thought and let me know any other vlog ideas you have. and i will be inla the next few weeks but i will vlog for you for sure. alright i love you guys, seeyou next time.