On a recent drive to the cottage my university aged daughter and her friend announced, “Guess what? We are going to try eating vegan!” My daughter's friend has had digestive concerns since she was a little girl and my kid is an adventurous eater who loves animals so, I support their choice. I really do! But let’s face it, it wasn't going to be convenient. At least not that weekend. My plans of tossing a bunch of chicken on the bbq on Friday night and using it creatively throughout the …
Healthy Habits: Food for Studying
The end of the school year is in range and we're all hoping our kids will finish the year strong. The stakes are higher the older they are, and sometimes we (and they) forget about the quality fuel brains require in order to think and write exams and complete dissertations. These are all subjects at the top of priority lists when kids are toddlers, but they're no less important when children are of an age to strap themselves into the car or put on their own socks. There are common …
5 Truths About Health to Keep You Strong
Buckle up! 2016 is shaping up to be a year even more intensely focused on health. January’s news is perennially populated with diet, fit tips, and life hacks that will set you on your way. Of course, there will also be some (a lot) misinformation and hard-to-follow diet rules. To balance that, I have a few tried and true, non-sexy, boring but easy to comprehend food truths to sort fact from fiction as well as a 5 truths about health to keep you strong in …
Five Tips to Avoid Lunch Box Drama
Lunch box confusion is upon us once again. It's a boomerang issue of what to pack that is healthy, that will get eaten, that avoids nuts and other allergens, and that can be packed fast as well as consumed quickly. Five Tips to Avoid Lunch Box Drama I scan the packages and aisles constantly not only for my own recommendations, but so that I can speak eloquently to food clients when they are reformulating products or reprinting packages. I have five common tips to avoid lunch box …
Sugar Gives Way to Other Sweeteners
If I were sugar, now would be the time to take cover and either start looking for a new job or find a safe way to retire. Maybe partnering with newer, better versions of sweetness would be worth investigation because, everywhere I would look, the future would be grim. I would see that my days were numbered as North Americans continue to reduce their consumption of soda pop, and governments crack down on how I am labelled. There is nowhere to go but down and out for sugar. Even …
