Are you hosting or going to a Super Bowl party on Sunday? Here are a couple snack ideas. I always suggest to my clients that they should take food to any party if they want to ensure there is something at a party that they can eat. Make lots – it’s funny how quickly healthy
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I love any opportunity to increase children’s nutritional literacy. Because when you do, you increase it for the whole family. A friend of mine invited me to lunch. She was homeschooling her 5 year old “G” so we decided to make lunch a learning opportunity. We chatted about “eating the rainbow” and by that
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I’m excited about the new year! Today finds me fresh from holidays that began with anxious listening, in the wee hours of the morning, to the moaning and cracking of the 100-year-old oaks in the woodlands that surround our house. The ice storm meant we had to cancel our annual Christmas tea and our get
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Last week, I participated in the 2nd Annual Headwaters Food Summit, presented by the Headwaters Food and Farming Alliance. It was a fabulous day of networking, knowledge-building and sharing. And I was able to purchase Ontario-grown garlic at the Local Food Trade Fair that wrapped up the day. Dr. Ralph Martin, Loblaw Research Chair in
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Last night, I was at Leadership Book Club where we discussed “Lean In – Women, Work and The Will to Lead” by Sheryl Sandberg. Full disclosure – I didn’t read the book, but I didn’t want to miss the fellowship and the food. Besides, I was still able to take part in the lively discussion.
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At the core of my nutrition practice is whole food: high quality, local when possible, and organic (or at least replacing the Dirty Dozen with organic produce) Here’s a link to guide you: http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/ My approach is all about adding versus deprivation. And my most favourite food group to add is more vegetables! I suggest
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This is a great time of year to shop at farmers’ markets. The up side – fresh local produce, meeting the folks that grow your food, and you get to be outdoors. The down side – most of us tend to buy too much. But I have a couple of suggestions. First – if you
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I am feeling particularly creative this week – so I unleashed some of that creativity in the kitchen. It started with the bananas. There were three and they were just on the cusp between being usable and being compost. So just before they reached the tipping point, I put them in a bowl and mashed
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That’s one thing I hate! All the noise, noise, noise, noise!” The Grinch I don’t work in a noisy environment, a fact for which I am very grateful. But for the better part of the past three weeks, I have lived in a noisy construction zone. Some of it was my own doing, as
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For years, I ate the same thing for breakfast, everyday. Two slices of whole-wheat toast with peanut butter, a banana and black coffee. Then I started suffering with excruciating headaches behind my right eye, which went on for months … and then I developed optic neuritis and it affected my vision, in a big way.
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