A tradwife famed for her culinary skills and ancestral diet has shared the pantry swaps that every family should make to improve their health.
Gretchen Adler, known as @Gretchy to her half a million followers online, told DailyMail.com that swapping standard flour for einkorn – an ancient grain – is her top tip in the kitchen.
‘The wheat that I use is called einkorn. It’s not our modern wheat varieties. It’s actually the most ancient form of wheat that has the bran. It’s not the white flour that you buy off the shelf,’ she explained.
‘It’s got the entire part of the grain, you know, the bran, the endosperm, the germ. So when you make a cookie with that freshly milled flour, you’re satisfied and it’s got all these other nutrients in it too.’
The mom-of-three, 38, is also against all kinds of artificial sweeteners and most sugars.
Tradwife and influencer Gretchen Adler has shared the pantry hacks and swaps that 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 swap out white sugar and brown sugar and agave and all those types of fake sweeteners for coconut sugar,’ she said.
‘It’s an unrefined sweetener from the coconut so that’s a good one to use.’
Despite recommending them, Adler still warns that sweeteners should be used in limited quantities.
‘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 either, because it is a sugar,’ she said.
Adler also drinks raw milk, which has become a controversial health trend in recent years, and will only indulge in a nut milk if she’s made it herself, so that way she can ensure that the ingredients are clean and don’t contain added preservatives and thickeners.
‘If I were to make a nut milk, which I don’t do often, but if I were to do it, I would do it myself. It’s quite easy.
‘You know, almond milk is just almonds and water, blended together, and then strained,’ she said.
‘I’ll also make coconut milk, and that’s just dried coconut mixed with water, blended together and then strained.’
The California-based mom also said that it’s important to avoid eating out as much as possible due to the seed oils used by most restaurants.
Adler, along with Ballerina Farm’s Neeleman, fashion model Nara Smith, and influencer Estee Williams, are some of the biggest stars in the current tradwife movement.
Gretchen currently shares recipes and offers master classes via her official website.
Adler also drinks raw milk, which has become a controversial health trend in recent years , and will only indulge in a nut milk if she’s made it herself, so that way she can ensure that the ingredients are clean and don’t contain added preservatives and thickeners
‘I don’t have any white sugar, brown sugar, or highly-refined sweeteners in my kitchen at all,’ she said
Adler is famous for her ‘ancestral diet,’ which consists of unprocessed whole foods
‘Tradwife’ is a term used to describe women who are in traditional, family-focused marriages.
Tradwives take care of the home and children while their husband works, and they’re often known for being whizzes in the kitchen who cook everything from scratch.
When it comes to identifying as a tradwife, which has become a controversial label as of late, Adler says that she prefers to be known as a ‘tradwife 2.0.’
‘I understand the criticism that it gets because I think it really needs to have a more modern definition,’ she said.
‘Tradwife really is a blast to the past, a housewife from the 1950s with no feminist rights, so with the tradwife 2.0, I combined the best of the 1950s tradwife along with everything that women were able to get from the feminist movement.
‘So combining the best of both worlds into tradwife 2.0. I think it’s really just educating people on what it means and what it is to be a tradwife.’
