A traditional woman famous for her culinary skills and ancestral diet has shared the stock swap every family should make to improve their health.
Gretchen Adler, known to her half a million followers online as @Gretchy, told DailyMail.com that swapping standard flour for einkorn – an ancient grain – is her top tip in the kitchen.
‘The wheat I use is called einkorn. They are not our modern wheat varieties. It is actually the oldest form of bran wheat. It’s not the white flour you buy from the store,” she explained.
“It contains the whole part of the grain, you know, the bran, the endosperm, the germ. So if you make a cookie with that freshly ground flour, you are satisfied and it also contains all those other nutrients.’
The mother of three, 38, is also against all kinds of artificial sweeteners and most sugars.
Tradwife and influencer Gretchen Adler has shared the stock hacks and swaps every family should follow to improve their health
Gretchen said her top tip for the kitchen is to swap traditional flour for einkorn flour
“I don’t have any white sugar, brown sugar or highly refined sweeteners in my kitchen at all,” she said.
Instead, she recommends using coconut sugar to sweeten your dishes, or pure honey and maple syrup.
“So I would definitely replace white sugar, brown sugar and agave and all those kind of fake sweeteners with coconut sugar,” she said.
‘It is an unrefined sweetener from the coconut, so it is good to use.’
Despite recommending them, Adler still warns that sweeteners should be used in limited amounts.
‘I always try to use sweeteners, even if they are natural, in limited quantities. So it’s not something that we can just load up on because it’s a sugar,” she said.
Adler also drinks raw milk, which has become a controversial health trend in recent years, and will only enjoy nut milk if she has made it herself so she can be sure the ingredients are clean and have no added preservatives. thickeners.
“If I were to make nut milk, which I don’t often do, but if I did, I would do it myself. It’s quite simple.
“You know, almond milk is just almonds and water mixed together and then strained,” she said.
“I’m also going to make coconut milk, which is just dried coconut mixed with water, blended and then strained.”
The California-based mom also said it’s important to eat out as much as possible because of the seed oils used by most restaurants.
Adler, together with Neeleman of Ballerina Farm, fashion model Nara Smith and influencer Estee Williams, are among the biggest stars in the current tradwife movement.
Gretchen currently shares recipes and offers masterclasses through her official website.
Adler also drinks raw milk, which has become a controversial health trend in recent years, and will only enjoy nut milk if she has made it herself so she can be sure the ingredients are clean and have no added preservatives. thickeners
“I don’t have any white sugar, brown sugar or highly refined sweeteners in my kitchen at all,” she said
Adler is known for her “ancestral diet,” which consists of unprocessed, whole foods
‘Tradwife’ is a term used to describe women who have a traditional, family-oriented marriage.
Tradwives take care of the house and the kids while their husbands work, and they are often known as superpowers in the kitchen who cook everything from scratch.
When it comes to identifying as a tradwife, which has become a controversial label lately, Adler says she prefers to be known as “tradwife 2.0.”
“I understand the criticism it’s getting because I think it really needs a more modern definition,” she said.
‘Tradwife is really a nod to the past, a housewife from the 1950s without feminist rights, so with the tradwife 2.0 I combined the best of the tradwife from the 1950s with everything women could get from the feminist movement.
‘So combining the best of both worlds in tradwife 2.0. I think it’s really just to educate people about what it means and what it is to be a trad woman.”