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Lazy (wo)mans Cabbage Roll Casserole
I’m totally with the angel on this one. I’m exhausted. But I don’t have a nice fluffy cloud to nap on. Just 2 more days until Christmas and although tired, I’m pretty pumped about it. I had leftover ribbon from the blondie jars and a bunch of toilet paper rolls in recycling so I decided…
Chocolate Cups
Today marked my last day at the office until the New Year and the completion of our blondies in a jar Christmas gift project. I got to the office at 6am and hustled to get everything done so I could leave with a clear mind at the end of the day. I topped the day…
Celebrating The Holidays
The holiday season is often believed to be a dangerous time for individuals on diets or those consumed by living a healthier lifestyle. Many of us get apprehensive about the foods we’ll be surrounded by. Before events we get our guard up and practice self talk like “this food is fatty, there’s too much sugar,…
Gluten Free Holiday Feast
What a busy week! I’ve successfully shared all of my favourite Christmas meal ideas with you. I’ve enjoyed recreating a lot of my families recipes by adapting them to fit a gluten free/dairy free plate and I’d like to think I did pretty well! Since I’ve already done all the leg work I’ve decided to…
Coconut Snow Cookies
This was my kitchen at 4pm today after making coconut snow cookies, more carrot bites (because I ate all the ones I’d made for Christmas Day), and leftover turkey and yak stew. If you look far off in the distance you can see the kitchen table where Kevin was laying out our Christmas decorations and…
Fruit Crumbles
Nothing pleased me more than to find Enjoy Life granola about 6 months into my gluten free diet. “The things I could do with this!” I thought on the first day it caught my eye. Enjoy Life products are gluten-free, dairy-free, peanut-free, tree-nut free, soy free, egg free and casein-free. They’ve really tried to eliminate…
My First Turkey…And Gravy
Any time a member of our family cooked a turkey; or bird as we like to call it, it was always draped in a paper bag drenched in butter. The same story would be shared time and time again “When we were kids our grandma, your great-grandmother, would use a paper bag around her bird…
Cranberry Sauce
In preparation for the holidays, many of us decide to pick up a can of Ocean Spray cranberry sauce to save on time in the kitchen. Believe me the thought crossed my mind, it was a fleeting thought though because: that cranberry sauce is absolutely nutritionally void. Evidence: Ingredients: Cranberries, glucose-fructose, glucose, water. Nutritional content…
Carrot Bites
Boy does December get ridiculous! In the last 48 hours I’ve been to 3 Christmas parties at colleagues’ houses, 1 nutrition seminar about seasonal eating, and 1 CAHN-Pro Christmas potluck. In the next 48 hours I’ll have been to 2 more potlucks, 1 kids birthday party, 1 colleague Christmas party and will be absolutely ready…
Going Nuts Over Artisana
Lucky for you and me (yipee!) one of my favourite nut butter companies Premier Organics, creators of Artisana, sent me a box of their raw organic nut butters and asked me to take them for an official test drive. Read about the health benefits of the ingredients in these butters here. Where it all began…The…