Posted in Bread/Baking, Bread/Cracker, Breakfast, Recipe on Jan 27th, 2010
How do you know when a nutritionist came from a career in advertising? When even her flour jars are branded. Here’s another one for you – When is a flour not a flour? When it is made from crazy super high protein and fibre stuff like quinoa and chickpeas. My girlfriend Macy was coming for [...]
Yes! Sardine Fritters. Now, if you go the way of strict vegan, I am sure there is nothing more repulsive to you than the thought of wee little fish all lined up in a row, squeezed into that little tin. I might even concur if I didn’t know how amazingly healthful these little guys are. I am not a massive fish fan. I started eating it again after the voice inside my head (that sounds an awful lot like Josh) thought I might do well with some lean protein. Hello sardines! The reason I don’t eat fish so much is mainly because eating fish is a complicated matter. Do we eat fish that are low risk to our health, but potentially over fished or worse, farmed? Or do we eat fish that are low risk to the environment but carry a high toxic load that will be high risk to our health? See… isn’t a pot of lentils just simpler?
Posted in Breakfast, Disease Prevention, Smart Choices, Vegan, Video on Sep 10th, 2009
On September 15th, we will be kicking off our 5 Days Vegan group challenge. There are already 54 awesomely enthusiastic people registered from four countries and nearly 25 cities. That is pretty cool. For the next week, I will be sharing some of the main benefits of transitioning to a more plant-based diet. If you [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Raw, Recipe, Smart Choices, Veggie Protein on Jun 22nd, 2009
In the winter time, there is nothing more warming and filling to start your day off than hot off the stove cooked oatmeal. Come summer, however, the thought of eating that warm mush just isn’t rocking my world so much. I often go for super powered smoothies, the water and meat of one young coconut [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Health, Smart Choices on May 15th, 2009
I was recently invited to join the kick-off breakfast for a new promotional initiative in support of a fabulous not-for profit called Breakfast For Learning. This is an outstanding program aimed at providing, free of charge, nourishing breakfasts to students in need. By in need, this doesn’t necessarily mean from a financial stand-point but is [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Disease Prevention, Nutrition, Organic, Smart Choices on May 13th, 2009
First- Thank you all so much for your amazing comments on my “I’d Rather Be Chubby Post” from yesterday. I never expected such an outpouring of honesty and support. Really means so much to me and if you haven’t read it yet- here it is. Now on to the Butter Battle. If you don’t have [...]
Last Sunday I began the day with a super powered green smoothie. Because we all need a little balance in our lives, I decided this Sunday I would kick off the new week with my favolicious gluten-free banana teff pancakes. Banana pancakes are an all time favourite from when I was young and my family [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Dessert, Junk Food, Raw, Recipe, Smart Choices, Snack, Treat, Vegan on Apr 7th, 2009
It makes perfect sense that seeds are incredibley healthy. They are the little itty powerhouse that will grow into a whole new plant, or even tree. Seeds represent life and therefore support our healthful life. There are all types of seeds- some that I use for sprouting and others that I eat just as they [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Disease Prevention, Green, Happiness, Health, Organic, Raw, Recipe, Smart Choices, Vegan, Veggie Protein, Video on Apr 2nd, 2009
Tell me- What do you like to put in your smoothie? Smoothies seem to be the go-to healthy meal. It is simple enough- throw some good things in a blender, blend and drink. There is certainly a huge smoothie demand out there given the ridiculous number of smoothie products on the market. Some are good, [...]
Posted in Announcements, Breakfast, Nutrition, Raw, Smart Choices, Vegan, Veggie Protein on Mar 30th, 2009
Here is the Guess The Ingredient List Contest #2 (In case you missed the first contest, the winner and product were announced here.) The first person to guess the correct product (and try to do without google if you can!) will win a bag of my brand new, not yet for sale, only available here- [...]
Posted in Announcements, Breakfast, Happiness, Health, Nutrition, Smart Choices, Snack, Vegan, Veggie Protein on Mar 27th, 2009
Last week I had a Guess The Ingredient List Contest to see who could guess the name of the product that was made up of this ridiculously long and synthetic list of ingredients: ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACINAMIDE, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE [VITAMIN B1], RIBOFLAVIN [VITAMIN B2], FOLIC ACID), SUGAR, DEXTROSE, VEGETABLE OIL (SOYBEAN, PALM, [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Dessert, Nutrition, Recipe, Sauces, Snack, Treat, Vegan, Video on Mar 26th, 2009
Just over a week or so ago, I was caught up by Spring fever and found myself throwing caution to the wind and buying strawberries way out of season and imported from far too far away. The result was a heap of the worst strawberries you ever did taste. I gave a call out for [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Green, Happiness, Health, Nutrition, Organic, Recipe, Smart Choices, Snack on Jan 12th, 2009
I have been in the dating world for some time now, and this little organic lifestyle that I live, often throws the boys off as for what to do on a date. I don’t drink alcohol and I don’t drink coffee. For whatever reason, my not drinking either coffee or alcohol, somehow brings these boys [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Health, Nutrition, Organic, Recipe, Vegan on Dec 26th, 2008
Quinoa porridge photo thanks to vivaciousvegan.wordpress.com Like many foods that now warm my life, Porridge and I have had a torrid past. I hated it! I literally, couldn’t even stand the smell of oatmeal without gagging. I know many people still have a challenge due to the goopy, papier mache like consistency, but this is [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Dessert, Nutrition, Organic, Recipe, Smart Choices, Snack on Dec 24th, 2008
When this photo (not the one above) appeared with a post I had written for The Appetizer, I sent my an email to my editor inquiring about the photo and what the little green bits were (in my nutrition naivete, I thought they were peas). I was informed that in the tradition of Christmas Fruitcake, [...]
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