Essential Pantry Items for a Whole Food Plant Based Diet - Monkey and Me Kitchen Adventures (2024)

We love the Whole Food Plant Based lifestyle. It suits us perfectly. When we first started our Whole Food Plant Based journey we did a ton of reading. It was overwhelming at first just trying to prepare for our first steps in to the WFPB world. We have created an Essential Pantry Items List that will help you along the way 🙂

At first, you would think just fruits and veggies and you should be good to go. While fruits and vegetables are typically the star of the show that isn’t always the case. Especially when creating meals, no one can really exists entirely on all fresh fruits and vegetables without adding any extra ingredients. You need spices, grains, vinegars, the list goes on and on. Then you need to make sure that all of these items are WFPB compliant.

We have made a list of the basicessential WFPB pantry items to help get you started. We hope you find it helpful.

First off, fruits and vegetables are whole foods. Select beautiful, glorious fruits and vegetables based upon your meal planning. In other words, if we know we are going to make a soup that has cauliflower, then obviously, we would select a cauliflower at the grocery store. This blog post is about the pantry and items that are helpful to have on hand outside of fruits and vegetables.

• Sea Salt
• Pepper
• Cinnamon
• Garlic Powder
• Onion Powder
• Chili powder
• Chipotle seasoning
• Parsley
• Paprika
• Smoked Paprika
• Ground cumin
• Oregano
• Rosemary
• Bay leaves
• Thyme
• Crushed red pepper
• Cayenne pepper
• Nutritional Yeast
• Apple Cider Vinegar
• Balsamic Vinegar
• Red Wine Vinegar
• 100% pure organic maple syrup

• Whole grain flour (or gluten free flour)
• Baking Soda
• Baking Powder

• Long-grain brown rice
• Old fashioned oats
• Quinoa
• Whole grain pasta (gluten free pastas)
• Chickpeas
• Kidney beans
• Black beans
• Lentils
• Great Northern beans
• Cannellini
• Navy beans
• Pinto beans
• Cashews
• Organic, natural unsweetened peanut butter
• Organic, natural unsweetened almond butter
• Corn tortillas

• Organic vegetable broth
• Tomatoes
• Tomato sauce
• Tomato paste
• Tahini
• Beans: Cannellini, navy, chickpeas, black, etc.
• Corn
• Peas
• Spinach
• Green Beans
• Salsa

• Plant milk (almond, cashew, soy, etc.)
• Plant yogurt(almond, cashew, soy, etc.)
• Corn tortillas (might also be found here as well)

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