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Kitchen Tools for Gut Health: Daily Essentials for Women Over 40
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items Kitchen tools for gut health and real food cooking for women over 40. The essentials I use daily as a holistic nutritionist to make gut-friendly meals simple. Registered Holistic Nutritionist in Toronto working with women worldwide. Gut-friendly cook...
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Blending & Power Tools
Coffee & Hot Drinks
Cookware & Workhorse Appliances
Knives, Boards & Daily Hand Tools
Storage, Measuring & Hydration
Blending & Power Tools
The 4 power tools doing the heaviest lifting in my Toronto kitchen every single day. Smoothies, soups, fresh-ground salt and pepper, zested ginger and citrus. If it pulverizes, grinds, or grates fresh, it earned its counter space. Real RHN-curated pi...
My Ninja Professional Plus blender is my ultimate kitchen workhorse, used daily as a Toronto holistic nutritionist. Green smoothies, blended soups, homemade nut butters, salad dressings. Crushes ice, frozen fruit, whole carrots. The Land Rover of ble...
Ninja Professional Plus Kitchen System with Auto-iQ, 1400-Watt ...
My immersion blender lives in my Toronto kitchen for soups I don't want to transfer hot to a regular blender, which is most soups. Roasted tomato basil, pumpkin, butternut squash, lentil, broccoli cheddar. Stick it in the pot, blend, done. Less dishe...
Immersion Blenders: Hand & Stick | Best Buy Canada
Fun fact: My Microplane zester started as a woodworking rasp in Arkansas. The kitchen version is Canadian. In 1994, Lorraine Lee in Ottawa grabbed her husband Leonard's woodworking rasp to zest an orange for her Armenian cake. It worked like magic. L...
Microplane® Kitchen Tools: Graters & Zesters | Williams Sonoma
My electric pink Himalayan salt grinder lives on my Toronto counter. Fresh-ground sea salt on everything: eggs, avocado toast, roasted vegetables, soups, even popcorn. Trace minerals you don't get from bleached iodized table salt, and you taste the d...
Salt and Pepper Shakers & Grinders - Best Buy
Coffee & Hot Drinks
Coffee is non-negotiable. The 4-piece setup that fuels long Toronto workdays without the $7 Starbucks habit. Dairy-free almond lattes with real vanilla, matcha for focus, frothy hot drinks, glass kettle for herbal tea infusions. And yes, I pour it in...
My ultimate daily coffee setup. Big water tank so I'm not constantly refilling, built-in milk frother for dairy-free lattes (oat, almond, soy all work). Skip the $7 Starbucks habit. The coffee maker that fuels long workdays without compromise.
Keurig K-Café Single Serve Coffee Maker - Dark Charcoal - Best Buy
My favourite Toronto hack: I buy disposable coffee cups with lids so my homemade lattes feel like I just grabbed them from a café between meetings. Push lid on, walk around the house, sip while answering client emails. Same ritual, $7 saved per cup, ...
Disposable Tableware | Party Supplies
My electric milk frother turns my morning dairy-free almond milk into a frothy latte that beats any $8 Toronto café order. Splash of pure vanilla extract (not the sugar-loaded syrups cafés pour in), warm almond milk, push the button. Ready in 60 seco...
Nespresso Aeroccino 4 Milk Frother | Best Buy Canada
Cookware & Workhorse Appliances
The 4 cookware pieces and small appliances I cook on, in, and with every week in my Toronto kitchen. Cast iron seasoned over years, a Calphalon pots and pans set that's outlasted three apartments, the rice cooker I call my bestie, and a toaster that ...
My cast iron skillet has been on my Toronto stovetop for years and just keeps getting better. Seared salmon, eggs, roasted vegetables, smashed potatoes, the perfect quick-sear on grass-fed steak. Develops a naturally non-stick patina over time, no Te...
Skillets - Lodge Cast Iron
My Calphalon pots and pans set has been in heavy rotation in my Toronto kitchen for years. Tomato sauce, slow-cooked legumes, sautéed greens, broths, scrambled eggs, weekday dinners. Hard-anodized, even heat distribution, oven-safe to 450°F, dishwash...
Calphalon Premier Hard-Anodized Nonstick 13-Piece Cookware Set | Best Buy Canada
My rice cooker is my Toronto kitchen bestie. Used multiple times a week for jasmine rice, brown rice, quinoa, steel-cut oats, even porridge and hard-boiled eggs. Press one button, walk away, perfect grains every time. RHN-approved time-saver for Cana...
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My 2-slice toaster has been a Toronto kitchen staple for years. Gluten-free bread, sprouted grain, English muffins, frozen waffles for slower mornings. Adjustable shade settings to hit the perfect crispness without burning. Compact, easy to wipe down...
KitchenAid Toaster - 2-Slice - Stainless Steel - Only at Best Buy
My glass electric kettle with the LED light lives on my Toronto counter. Watch the water swirl and light up while it boils, hot in under 3 minutes for matcha, dandelion tea, fresh ginger infusions, French press coffee, hot lemon water in the morning....
Chefman 1.8L Glass Electric Kettle, Fast Boiling W/ LED Light, Auto ...
Knives, Boards & Daily Hand Tools
The 5 unglamorous hand tools that actually run my Toronto kitchen. The Calphalon knife set I've had for years and won't replace, the cutting board that lives on my counter, bamboo utensils that won't melt or leach plastic, the whisk for everything fr...
My Calphalon self-sharpening knife block has been on my Toronto counter for years. Chef's knife, paring knife, bread knife, Santoku, utility knife, kitchen shears, plus 8 steak knives. Self-sharpening every time you pull a knife out of the block, no ...
Calphalon Classic Self-Sharpening 15-Piece Cutlery Knife Block Set | Best Buy Canada
My wood cutting board lives on my Toronto counter permanently because it gets that much use. Vegetables for roasted dinners, herbs for fresh garnishes, citrus for vinaigrettes, raw protein (cleaned thoroughly between uses, obviously). Wood is natural...
Cutting Boards for Kitchen Prep | Best Buy Canada
My bamboo kitchen utensils replaced every plastic spatula and spoon I owned years ago. Spatula for sautéing eggs, slotted spoon for fishing roasted potatoes out of soup, large spoon for stirring tomato sauce. Bamboo won't melt, won't leach plastic in...
Chef Pomodoro Wooden Cooking Utensils 3-Piece Set, Bamboo
My stainless steel balloon whisk is the most-used tool in my Toronto kitchen drawer. Whisking eggs for scrambles and omelettes, homemade vinaigrettes, salad dressings, gravy without lumps, almond flour pancake batter, even smoothies in a hurry. Wire-...
Pyrex Balloon Whisk | 1122857 | Best Buy Canada
My stainless steel mesh strainer lives in my Toronto kitchen drawer for double duty. Rinsing quinoa, lentils, beans before cooking. Straining homemade vegetable broth, bone broth, herbal tea infusions. Sifting almond flour and coconut flour for panca...
Colanders, Strainers, Salad Spinners & More | Best Buy Canada
Storage, Measuring & Hydration
The 4 glass and stainless workhorses keeping me organized and hydrated all day. Mason jars for overnight oats, soaked seeds, and meal prep. Glass storage containers because plastic Tupperware leaches into your food and I'm done with that. Glass measu...
Bernardin is the Canadian mason jar brand my nonna trusted and so do I. I keep a stack of 1L jars in my Toronto kitchen for overnight oats with chia and berries, soaked almonds and pumpkin seeds, homemade chicken bone broth in the fridge, salads-in-a...
Bernardin Regular Mason Jars 1 L – Best Buy Canada
Pyrex Snapware is the glass storage set that finally got me to throw out every plastic Tupperware in my Toronto kitchen. Glass means no BPA, no microplastics, no mystery chemicals leaching into my food when I reheat leftovers. I use these for meal-pr...
Snapware Total Solution Pyrex Glass Food Storage 8-Piece Set | Best Buy Canada
Borosilicate glass measuring cups have been on my Toronto counter for years. I use the 1-cup for smoothie liquids and homemade salad dressings, the 2-cup for melting coconut oil and measuring almond milk for overnight oats, and the 4-cup for vegetabl...
3 Pcs High Borosilicate Glass Measuring Cup with Customized Decal Scale – 250ml, 500ml, and 1000ml
My jumbo Contigo Streeterville goes everywhere with me. 40 oz means I actually hit my hydration goal in two refills instead of forgetting to drink all day. I fill it with filtered water and lemon every morning, refill at lunch, sip through clients an...
Contigo Streeterville Tumbler, 40 oz (1.18 L), Insulated Stainless ...