Current Favorites: What I’m Eating, Drinking, and Using for My Wellbeing

In this fun and practical “show and tell” episode, Whitney Aronoff shares her go-to health, wellness, and spiritual products that support a high-vibration lifestyle. 

Drawing from her personal routines, trusted brands, and discoveries from around the world, Whitney breaks down simple yet impactful ways to elevate your daily habits, from what you sip in the morning to the snacks and supplements you keep on hand.

In This Episode, Whitney Explores:

• Whitney’s favorite teas, plus how to prepare them for sustained energy and daily ritual
• Go-to supplements that support hair health, vitality, and overall wellness
• Healthy, convenient snacks to keep you nourished on busy, on-the-go days
• Why regenerative farming matters, and how it impacts the quality of your food
• Books, tools, and practices that support deeper spiritual growth and alignment

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Transcript

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Welcome to the High Vibration Living Podcast. I'm your host, Chef Whitney Aronoff, health supportive chef, founder of Starsea Kitchen, and creator of nourishing food rooted in real ingredients, intuition, and intention. This podcast is a space where food, wellness, spirituality, and everyday living meet. We explore how what you eat, how you live, and what you believe all shape your energy, health, and overall sense of well-being. You have a physical body, a mental body, an emotional body, and a spiritual body. And all need to be recognized and nourished so you can feel balanced and truly thrive. Only you know what your body truly needs. Let this be your reminder that you already have the wisdom to tune in to your food, your self-care, and your spiritual practices and choose what supports you best. Through personal insights and conversations with experts across food, wellness, and spirituality, we'll explore how to nourish the physical, emotional, spiritual, and energetic layers of who you are so you can feel your best and live with clarity, vitality, and purpose. Let's get started. Hi friends, and welcome back to the High Vibration Living Podcast. I am doing a solo episode today, which is much overdue. What I'm doing is I'm sharing a lot of the products that I'm loving right now. From food, health, wellness, spirituality, I have a show and tell set up for you guys. I just want to start sharing the products that I've been sourcing for myself. So things that I learn about from podcast guests, from shopping at Erawan, from the Seed Oil Scout email newsletter, from my travels, from conversations that I have with spiritual practitioners, you know, all the little places that I go to find high-quality, unique items that support all the layers of me. And I've tried and I tested it and I enjoy it and it tastes delicious, or the supplements really work for me. I want to pass those benefits on to you. So I'm doing this solo episode to share those items with you. And if you like this, hopefully I'll do more. Because the whole point of the High Vibration Living podcast is to be the extension of my personal chef business as well as my spice blend business. So bringing you what I can bring to my personal chef clients that I just can't do for everyone. You, this is my time with you as if I'm in your personal kitchen. What I'm gonna share with you is part of the conversations that I have with my client. When I sit with my client in their kitchen, in their home, and we're catching up. They're coming in and chatting with me while I'm cooking, and they start asking me, Oh, have you tried this? Ooh, I just picked up this. And, you know, I'm hearing from my friends, from my doctor, from my people that they're loving the results they're getting from this product. Have you tried it? Okay, what are you using for this? Like, it's the coffee talk, right? Like, as especially as women, like we love that. Like, share the scoop of the items you're loving that are working for you. Let me try it on myself and see if it supports me. And let's just keep sharing. So, this is what is working for me right now, what I'm enjoying, what we're sharing and talking about in client kitchens in no particular order. I'm gonna start with one of my favorite beverages. And this is a long time favorite beverage. When I lived in LA in my early 20s, I lived on a street called Oakhurst, and it was just a few blocks from Robertson when Robertson was the thing. That was when Paris Hilton was very popular. Shopping at Kitson was popular, The Hills was on TV, and a really unique Chinese medicine and herbal shop opened on Robertson. And it is called Dragon Herbs, Ron Tea Gardens Dragon Herbs. I started shopping there right when it opened, and it's still where I shop. I stop in when I'm in LA. It's this space that you can go to in LA if you want a really good cup of tea, green or herbal, and you just want to sit and get work done. Like you just want to find a quiet place to get on your laptop, get work done, check some emails, do some writing, check social media, have something really delicious in a calm environment. This is the spot and you meet the most interesting people there. Like it's a great networking spot for people that are truly in the health and wellness industry, but it's also a great spot to go to because you can pick up endless types of, you know, food, herbal health products, and tea. Because this is show and tell. I'm showing you guys the physical product on this YouTube video. So if you guys follow me on YouTube, you'll see this episode and you can actually see what everything physically looks like that I'm talking about. But this is my jasmine pearl green tea from Ron Tea Garden from Dragon Herbs. So the brand is Ron Tea Garden Dragon Herbs. If you listen to this podcast, you hear me say one or the other. But this is outstanding jasmine green tea pearls. I truly love this tea. You can buy it online and you can buy it in person. They go out of stock a lot. So if it's out of stock in the store, you can usually get it online and vice versa. I make a batch every morning. Whenever I record a podcast episode, a cup is next to me. I'm taking a sip right now because it's so good. One batch is one tablespoon. So when I make my green tea, and maybe I need to show a video of social media sometime of how I make my green tea, but I have a very specific routine for making the loose green tea. I only drink loose leaf green teas. I won't use tea bags because of the toxins, and I just, it's not the way tea is meant to be consumed. There are times where you need to adjust the amount of tea you're using for flavor or for health benefits. So you really need to learn how to make tea without tea bags, and you're gonna get such better quality. When you buy loose leaf, you're getting such better quality than you're getting from those tea bags. So if you want to step up your tea game, which is it's for your health, um, it's only good things. You know, why not drink tea? Like if you're bored with water. But Dragon Herbs is the website. Jasmine Pearl green tea is my favorite. There's a lot of green teas, there's a lot of jasmins. It has to be jasmine pearl. I use one tablespoon. It's a generous tablespoon. I don't level it off, and it makes two cups of green tea. And it's my absolute favorite. A quick pause to share something I truly use and love. I'm Chef Whitney Aronaff, and as a personal chef, I began sharing my Starseed Kitchen organic spice blends with private clients when I couldn't find high-quality seasonings that met my standards for their meal prep. My clients are people who care deeply about what goes into their food and how it makes them feel, just like you. Every Starseed Kitchen blend is made with the highest quality organic spices with no added sugar, no MSG, no anti-caking agents, and no fillers. Just clean, real ingredients that support your body and elevate your cooking. Two of my most loved blends are 11 Magic Herbs and Spices, a go-to everyday seasoning that works on just about everything, and Starseed Kitchen Adobo, a light, bright, anti-inflammatory blend designed for modern, health-supportive cooking. Every jar is prepared with intention, charged with kundalini mantras, quartzkies of crystals, and blessed by a shaman. Because spices and the food you prepare with them are not just nourishment, they're a transfer of energy. You can find Starseed Kitchen Spices at all Erawan locations or online at starseedkitchen.com. Use code Starseed for 10% off your online order. Now let's get back to the conversation. I usually have one cup of green tea after breakfast because I like it as a digestive aid. And then I usually save the extra glass for after lunch. But I've been going through a phase recently where I've been drinking both cups of green tea before lunch, and then I make another cup of green tea for the afternoon. I've been I've been hitting the caffeine a little hard. My poor adrenals probably need a minute. But that's my favorite green tea. I highly suggest if you're a green tea lover or if you're just an herbal tea lover, um, they have it's not chamomile, but it's a great floral tea for summer that helps cool the body. Next time I'm I'm there, I'll take a photo for you. I need to order some for myself. It's chrysanthemum. It's a white flower. It's chrysanthemum. It's delicious, it's super cooling for the body. It's a great summer tea. And the other one I love a lot is hibiscus. Um, I make a lot of hibiscus sun teas when I cater wellness retreats or wellness dinners. When I did the Simply Wellness event down in La Jolla, I made them a bunch of hibiscus sun tea. They really loved it. So that's my tea talk for you guys. Highly recommend. Next up, we'll go into supplements. This is the supplement that I take for my hair. And I highly suggest, and it's affordable. I never spend more than $20 on this container. I buy from Divine Medicinals. If you follow Divine Medicinals on Twitter, which you should, because they do a great job of just sharing information about supplements so you become a more informed consumer and you just learn more about all the natural herbs and roots and plants and seeds that can provide you the benefits that you're looking for naturally instead of synthetically. I highly suggest follow Divine Medicinals on Twitter and then follow the founder as well on Twitter. I'm a huge fan of his. And I take three of these every day. I've been kind of thinking about double dosing, but I really like them for hair growth and thickness. I've been taking them now, I want to say a solid two years, and I definitely feel like my hair is healthier and thicker than it's ever been. And it's not as expensive as Neutroph and other products out there. So you have to remember every time you buy a product like Neutraful, you're paying for all those affiliate links. You're paying for all those people that are selling it to you online, you're paying for the packaging, you're paying for all the marketing. And I don't, I don't need all that. And I don't need to take a name brand supplement just to say I'm taking a name brand supplement. So if you're looking for something different and more cost effective, try the Divine Medicinals hair growth formula. I take three of these, just so you can see what you what they look like if you're watching on Twitter. Because I just like to be transparent and you know, if you were my client, this is the conversation that we are having in the kitchen. You know, that's what we're getting back to. So I take three of these a day, usually in the morning between when I have breakfast and lunch. Um, I leave it out on my counter. I pull three out so I make sure I use it, or I pack up three with me in my little pill container to go, which I take to meet with me to work. I'm a huge fan. It really works. Go on Twitter, follow them. You'll get a discount on Twitter for ordering, and it'll make it much more affordable. It brings the price down to like $20, $25 a jar with supplements. I mean, you can order one to make sure it works with your body. And then once you order one and you try it for a month and you make sure that it actually works for you, that it doesn't cause any irritation to your stomach. Then you need to order a minimum of three months because, like with everything, it takes 90 days, three months to see the difference. So always keep that in mind if you're making any shifts with your supplements. Give yourself three months, 90 days to see a shift. Some would even say six months. Remember, the body evolves slower than we think, right? So we love instant gratification, but just because technology and other parts of life have sped up, the way the body reacts has not. So you got to give your body some time. That's what you know, like with facelifts, they always say you have to give yourself a solid year to see the results of a facelift. The body is slow at recovery and evolution and movement and change. So give the body time. With that in mind, the other product I love for my hair is the blends humic and vulvic acid. It's their trace minerals. Sorry, it's not acid, it's the blend humic and vulvic trace minerals and electric lights. Um I did a session with Leslie Rubinoff when she was in LA, I want to say two years ago. I booked an online session with her. I almost canceled because I just wasn't in the mood to drive up to LA. And um, I'm so glad I didn't. And I got to meet her in person and do a one-on-one energy session with her. And when I met her for a session, she is also a medical medium, so she's reading your body. And then you get to try a lot of her supplements while you're there if she thinks that's what your body needs in the moment. And the moment she put this in my water, I knew I needed to add this to my routine. Every morning I do exactly what she shows that she does for herself on social media. In my bathroom, I leave a glass of water like this in this ball jar, probably anywhere from a half a cup to one cup of filtered water. I leave it out in my bathroom before I go to bed, and I leave my trace minerals right next to it. I keep the bottle upstairs in the bathroom. And every morning when I get up, I put a shot or two. It's one whole dropper, is what you put into the water. So I either do one whole dropper or two into my water and drink it first thing every morning. And I I think this has gotten rid of my gray hairs. I started to get a few gray hairs on my part line like three years ago, and I think this has reverse them, right? Because all gray hair is um when your body isn't moving nutrients and minerals towards your hair because they're having to put it someplace else. So your hair is excess minerals and nutrients. So if your body is being properly nourished, it will move all the excess to your hair. If your body isn't properly being nourished, then it's not gonna go towards your hair. So you're gonna lose coloring, thickness, health, length, it's gonna become brittle, all of that. Michael Canale, my hair colorist, told me years ago. He told me this over 20 years ago because he used to do the hair for lots of the wives of all the sheiks of Arab countries. And he shared with me that they all took spirulina, they all did all the all the algae, and they took mass amounts of supplements of chlorella, spirulina, different algaes, because that excess protein and nutrient density would go towards their hair. Another great one is black sesame seeds, making a tea with black sesame seeds or eating black sesame tahini. That's a great one for hair too. But this has been really supportive for me when it comes to just restoring the color within my hair. And I think ultimately it works hand in hand with the supplements that I'm using. So if you're looking for something like that, buy a bottle, give it a shot. It's expensive, but it lasts a long time. So you're gonna buy this bottle. You'll definitely have it for three months. I now just buy two at a time and you're kind of good to go. You don't think about it. So I hope this is fun for you. I'm sharing the things that I'm really using. Like these are the products that I'm really sharing with my clients and my friends. Um, so give them a shot. This is so I'm really into keeping a meat stick in my purse because I never know when I'm gonna need a snack because I'm usually chefing or I'm usually running around delivering spice, going to podcast interviews, um, going to pod foods. I'm just life is on the go. I need food in my bag, and I think I'm like many people, if I don't have food, I can't mentally operate and function. So I'm always looking for meat sticks, and then I usually have some dried fruit with a nut. So I have those options because I don't like to snack on something if I'm not in the mood for it. So I like to have protein and I like to have a healthy, sweet dried fruit with a protein component like a nut. I want to take a moment to share how Team Starseed Kitchen can support you beyond the podcast. I'm Chef Whitney Aronoff, founder of Team Starseed Kitchen, my personal chef and custom meal prep service. This is for people who want to eat well, feel better, and be supportive with nourishing food without the stress of planning, shopping, or cooking. Through Team Starseed Kitchen, I work with a trusted team of health supportive chefs who prepare fully customized meals based on your needs, preferences, and lifestyle. Whether you're focused on clean eating, hormone balance, digestion, energy, or simply having high-quality food ready for your week, we meet you where you are. All meals are made with real whole ingredients, no seed oils, no refined sugar, and no shortcuts. Just thoughtfully prepared food designed to support your body and make your life easier. This service is deeply personal. It's about having food in your fridge that you can trust. Food that supports your health, saves you time, and helps you feel grounded and cared for. If you're ready for consistent nourishing meals made just for you, you can learn more about our service and apply to work with us on starseedkitchen.com or follow the link in the show notes. We have chefs ready and available across the country, and we so look forward to nourishing you. Now let's return to the episode. So this is the new protein stick I like. It's called Artemis. It's an organic heart and liver beef stick. It's made with 100% grass-fed beef and regeneratively raised beef. So it's from a regenerative organic farm and the flavor's great. I found it on Seed Oil Scout. It's seed oil free. It's fantastic. It's gonna be a little bit more expensive. These were $6. And I ordered it directly from the website with a discount code that I think I got from Seed Oil Scout. Your average beef stick at Mother's Market Whole Foods, it's gonna cost you when they're on sale, $2 a stick. When they aren't on sale, $4 a stick. So this is just $2 more, and I'm getting organic from a regenerative farm and with my organ meats. I think it's a win. Give it a shot. Let me know if you like it. I really, really liked it. I'll be ordering more, but I'm keeping them in my purse right now. The other thing I keep in my purse, like I mentioned to you, the nuts and the dried fruit. These are the nuts that I'm loving. The brand is called Good Sam. They are all nuts from organic regenerative farms or regenerative farms. So I love a regenerative farm because that means that they're farming the way we everyone should be farming. The fact that we're giving it a label isn't what we should be doing. All farms should be regenerative, meaning they aren't using pesticides, herbicides, insecticides. They're rotating crops, they're growing multiple different types of food, nuts, seeds, plants on the property. So it's creating a healthy ecosystem. That's how we should all be eating. Like this is this is the way food's supposed to be. So I've been purchasing all these nuts for my clients, whether I'm making muffins or cookies or salads or a healthy dessert that has nuts in it. I've only been buying nuts from Good Sam. I buy their walnuts, their almonds, their pecans. The flavor is a huge difference. When you eat these, they're gonna taste the way nuts used to taste. I've just found over the past few months, everything I buy from Trader Joe's and Whole Foods brand tastes rancid. They taste awful. This tastes like the way nuts have always tasted. Like this has flavor. They aren't sour, they don't smell bad. I highly, highly recommend this brand for nuts. So I'll make myself a little baggy and I'll the little snack bag or a little container. And I'll put in the nuts. I usually do, it depends on what I'm craving, but it's walnuts, almonds, pecans, or a little bit of all of that. And then I add some dried fruit. So it could be a date or two. It could be some goji berries. My other favorite love is dried mango. Everybody loves dried mango. I've had my friend Jeannie on the podcast. She owns Waters of Life Cleansing. I've also had my friend from culinary school, Marin, who owns a colon hydrotherapy business in uh Boca Overton, Florida. She used to have her business in New Jersey and New York. They have both told me that dried fruit is not great from a colon hydrotherapy perspective because dried fruit can get stuck in the colon and cause constipation. But I just I just love dried fruit sometimes. Like sometimes it's just the treat. So I'm always looking for really good dried mango. Highly suggest go mango. All right. This is delicious. The brand is go mango from International Harvest, non-GMO, organic. It's whole pieces. It's nice large whole pieces. Everything I got was sweet. You know, sometimes when you buy dried mango, you'll get pieces that are sour, rock hard, or completely unedible. This was outstanding. It's a product of Mexico, but all dried mango is from Mexico. Um, most of the mangoes here in Southern California, when you see them at Whole Foods or any grocery store, they all came in from Mexico. So these are outstanding. The company has apparently been around since 1991. Um, I really, really liked these. So I found them at Erewon. You can probably find them online. A real win here and a good combo with um my regenerative organic nuts. Since we're talking about little treats, we'll continue on with that. So pascha chocolate is one of my favorites. The bag I'm holding up is their new 70% cacao sweetened with stevia. It's the green bag. I caught it at Erawan a few days ago. I haven't tried this yet because my obsession is the pascha chocolate 85% chocolate chips. So I love using them when I make healthy baked goods for my clients because when we make healthier baked goods, because we're using date sugar, maple sugar, maple syrup, coconut sugar, we're also using less sugar. Honey, we're using smaller amounts, so it's more of a subtle sweetness. So I like to buy darker chocolate again for that more subtle sweetness for the cleaner desserts that we're making. So I often put the 85% cacao chips in my clients' peanut butter cookies or brownies or um just any little healthy dessert that we're doing, even if we're doing chocolate covered dates. Huge fan of pasta chocolate, but the way I eat it as a chef, right? Because I've been cooking all day. I don't need a fancy healthy treat. I need my treat simplified. And I keep these in the freezer. Like that's the chip. That's the trick. I had a boss when I first got out of college. I worked at a PR firm in Dallas. And my boss was as obsessed as I was in carob-covered raisins. I don't know if you guys remember, like way back in the day when they were health food stores, like real hippie health food stores, when Whole Foods was still a healthy Whole Foods, and they were bins where you could purchase all your loose ingredients. They had carob-covered raisins. And the ones that they have now, there's added ingredients in there, like soy lecithin. You can even see now they have canola oil in some of them. But back in the day, they were much cleaner, simpler ingredients, and they were a great healthy treat. And Fran Wittenberg, she taught me to put them in the freezer and have them as dessert straight from the freezer. And that changed the way I looked at enjoying chocolate. And now I put all my chocolate in the freezer, including the chocolate chips. And I put the little chocolate chips in a bowl after dinner, have that as my little snack with Bravo, and I love it. So highly suggest if you're looking for a simplified sweet treat, try Pasha Chocolate. The 70% or my favorite, the 85%. Put it in the freezer. Chef's kiss. The other thing I like, and you can see that I've consumed it, is the Hugh Kitchen chocolate chips. These are 70% cacao and they're done with coconut sugar. They're definitely different because they're more like little slivers than chips. But again, put them in the freezer, have them as a little snack. They are excellent. And we're winding down, guys. My last snack recommendation things that I've been enjoying recently are these guys. And I'm actually really happy to share this with you because it's another small female brand at Areron, just like Starseed Kitchen. These are Date Smarter. So it was founded by a woman named Grace, and she started it as a healthy snack that she needed when she was working really, really late as a TV news anchor and reporter. And they're outstanding. You can check her out at Date Smarter Snacks on Instagram. I found these at Erawan, but if you visit her Instagram account or her website, I'm sure you'll be able to find all the places that you can order her product from. They're really great. They're chocolate-covered date caramels. So basically, they're a caramel made from dates and then chocolate covered, and they're delish. Simplified ingredients, a little bit of coconut sugar, but if you're looking for something a little different, if you're kind of tired of just having a date with a piece of chocolate or just a plain piece of chocolate, this is a great one for you. That's kind of what I got. That's like the range of things that have been lighting me up that I've been sharing with friends that I've been eating, consuming, taking as supplements recently. If you have any questions or you want to know something that I've been trying, testing, taking, exploring, you're always welcome to send me questions to answer on the podcast. If you follow High Vibration Living Podcast on Instagram, there is a type form link there, and you can submit any question that you want me to answer on the podcast during the solo episode. So I want to let you guys know that that is there. I'm always welcome and open to doing, you know, any sort of episode covering topics that that can support the physical, the emotional, the spiritual, the mental. So just let me know. Um, I will also just let you know one more thing. I just ordered a book from Amazon that is the woman who wrote The Secret. It's her new book. And she was recently on Danica Patrick's podcast. When I saw that she had a new book coming out, she's a woman who spent her life studying with different spiritual masters. I just I just love her perspective. And she truly is so positive but honest and realistic. And I wanted to see what she had to share in her new book. So that is currently on my reading list for the summer. I like to read books that can teach me information that I can apply towards my life. I'm not a fantasy book girl. So I'll let you guys know how that read goes. And that's all I got for now. So hope that is supportive. So grateful uh that you tuned in. And again, please visit the High Vibration Living Podcast Instagram handle. Click the type form link and submit questions that you would like to see me answer in solo episodes because I don't want to gatekeep any of these goodies. I want to share them with you, but I sometimes don't know what to share. So speak up and speak out and let me know what you want to learn. All right? Chat soon. Cheers. Thank you so much for listening to this episode of the High Vibration Living Podcast. If you enjoyed today's conversation, I'd love for you to leave a five-star rating and a written review wherever you're listening. It truly helps this podcast reach more people who are looking for this kind of support. And if something resonated with you, please pay it forward and share this episode with a friend or loved one who could benefit from it. To learn more about Starseed Kitchen in my organic spice blends, you can visit starseedkitchen.com. You can also follow along with me on social media at Whitney Aronoff, where I share recipes, behind the scenes, chef life, and everyday inspiration. You can also follow Starseed Kitchen and Team Starseed Kitchen on Instagram as well. Thanks again for being here, wishing you nourishment, balance, and a vibrant life experience. I'll see you in the next episode. Cheers.