Anitra Kerr from Simply Living Smart – Friday Flashbacks – Epi-65
Feb 14, 2025
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Anitra Kerr, founder of Simply Living Smart, shares her insights on healthy eating and self-sufficiency. She discusses the benefits of long-term food storage with whole grains and the nutritional powers of sprouting. Anitra offers practical advice on incorporating healthy ingredients into meals, making cooking enjoyable and accessible. She emphasizes the importance of mindfulness in food preparation, gardening, and a heritage of healthy living, inspiring listeners to embrace a simpler, more rewarding life.
Long-term storage of grains not only ensures food availability during emergencies but also promotes everyday culinary diversity and nutrition.
Building an online presence in niches like food storage enhances community engagement, educating others while sustaining long-term efforts through monetization.
Adopting a diet rich in whole foods and cultivating self-sufficient habits fosters overall health and resilience against future challenges.
Deep dives
The Importance of Food Storage
Food storage is essential for maintaining self-sufficiency, particularly during emergencies. Long-term storage of grains, such as wheat, provides an accessible food supply that can last years when properly stored. Even though grains neutralize diverse culinary uses, they also serve as a preparedness strategy by offering stability and nourishment in times of need. The emphasis is on purchasing grains, understanding their possible uses, and organizing them effectively in your home for daily accessibility rather than relegating them to a forgotten pantry.
Cooking Grains Healthily
When cooking grains, methods that enhance nutrition while maximizing flavor should be prioritized. Instead of relying solely on wheat, alternative grains like quinoa, buckwheat, and amaranth provide richer options that are often easier to digest. Sprouting these grains is beneficial as it alters their chemical composition, enhancing nutrient absorption. A focus on simple preparations, such as using these grains in salads or as replacements for traditional pastas, encourages healthier eating habits.
Monetizing Your Skills
Building an online presence for sharing expertise is increasingly vital, particularly in niches like food storage and cooking. Monetizing content is not only about generating income; it creates an incentive to maintain and grow the platform. As an example, consistent engagement with the audience through newsletters and social media keeps the community involved and informed. Ultimately, monetization can help sustain long-term efforts in educating others about various skills and lifestyles.
Personal Health and Nutrition
Maintaining a diet rich in whole foods positively influences overall health and can alleviate the need for medications. A shift toward home-cooked meals and wholesome ingredients fosters a deeper connection with food and promotes self-reliance. Techniques such as dehydrating fruits and vegetables, and using natural herbs to enhance flavors, encourages healthier eating patterns. Adopting these practices leads to a more empowered and informed approach to personal health and nutrition.
Cultivating a Prepared Mindset
Embracing a mindset of preparedness not only applies to emergency situations but also enhances everyday living. By learning how to utilize food storage effectively and incorporating healthier cooking methods, individuals cultivate resilience against potential future challenges. Engaging with communities focused on preparedness allows for shared knowledge and support. Ultimately, developing self-sufficient habits improves quality of life and instills confidence in one's ability to handle unforeseen circumstances.
In this episode from 2011 I was joined by Anitra Kerr from Simply living smart to discuss creating long term storage with whole grains, herbs, sources of protein for vegetarians, using your preps in everyday life and how simple living can create a more rewarding life Today’s episode of Friday Flashbacks was originally published on 11-8-11 and was originally Episode-780- Anitra Kerr from Simply Living Smart. The show notes for the original episode with all relevant resources can be found here. Welcome to Friday Flashbacks, after 16 years and hundreds of interview shows we decided to run them as flash …Continue reading →
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