Recipes, Salads
With the hot weather in full swing, our body begins to crave foods that are described as “cooling foods”. These foods are fruits and non starchy vegetables. They cleanse our body and help to detoxify us through the summer months. After a winter of cooked food and root vegetables, our body naturally wants to be...
Main Courses, Recipes, Snacks
I always forget about having tacos for dinner. This is the type of meal where it can be a healthy one or a meal that’s really hard on your digestive system. If you stuff them with lots of vegetables, they can be a very healthy meal option. When making a meal that you’re going to...
Recipes, Salads
Once in a while I really crave a sandwich. I had a can of tuna in the cupboard so I experimented with some flavours. I added a little olive oil, red chili peppers, fresh squeezed lime, plain yogurt, fresh coriander (cilantro) and spring onions. Add that to some fresh whole grain bread and it’s delicious! ...
Articles, Mindfulness
It seems to me that the whole world has been experiencing sunny skies for the past few days. I continue to see people posting their daily pictures of beaches, blue skies and sun! I absolutely love this kind of weather and I don’t think I’m the only one. I love to watch around me as everyone slowly comes...
Articles, Nutrition
I remember hearing this quote as far back as I can remember. It’s not until recently that I truly understood it though. Think of the food we eat as fuel. It gives our bodies the energy which they require to function well. You wouldn’t feed your car with the wrong type of gas and expect it to...
Articles, Main Courses, Nutrition, Recipes
Condiments can often pose a lot of trouble for people. Commercial sauces like ketchup, HP, mayonnaise, mustard and hot sauces usually contain sugar and preservatives that are problematic to our systems. Even if we’re consuming healthy meals, we can ruin them by pouring these sugary sauces all over them. Try to change your condiments. Rather...
Articles, Mindfulness
From a very young age, we learn that we must continually strive to achieve things. Good grades, lasting friendships, sports awards which then turn into successful jobs, nice cars, happy relationships and good incomes. We’re often so busy trying to reach for the next goal that we don’t stop to enjoy the ride. Think of something...
Recipes, Salads, Uncategorized
If you read the blog post yesterday, I added a salad dressing recipe with fresh herbs. There’s no use in having a salad dressing if you don’t have a nice salad, so I made a big salad for lunch today. I used millet instead of quinoa which I usually use. It’s also a gluten free grain...
Dressings and Sauces, Recipes
I had a lot of herbs in my kitchen today so decided to make a salad dressing with lots of herbs in it. Fresh herbs are a great way to add flavour and nutrition to your dressings. If you find that your herbs dry out quickly, put them in water and treat them like flowers. ...
Articles, Mindfulness, Nutrition
In the last post, I wrote about emotional eating. Once we recognize that we may be an emotional eater, there are ways to identify eating triggers. It’s this awareness that can help to bring us to a level of understanding. Situations and emotions that trigger us to eat fall into 5 main categories 1) Social – when around others. ...
