healthy slow-cooker recipe of the week: sausage and three-bean stew
Whether this recipe qualifies as healthy depends on whether you think sausage can be part of a healthy diet. I buy sausage that is made from local, organically raised turkey…
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healthy slow-cooker recipe of the week: beef, barley, and mushroom stew
This week’s healthy slow-cooker recipe features barley, a yummy and healthy grain. I especially love the chewy texture. Barley is one of the four oldest grains to be cultivated by…
healthy slow-cooker recipe of the week: vegetarian chili
This has turned out to be one of our favourite slow-cooker meals. It’s delicious, incredibly easy to make, super healthy, and inexpensive. Adapted from nowhere: it’s my own. Canned beans,…
healthy slow cooker recipe of the week: thai peanut chicken
In defiance of current internet rules, I am posting this on my own blog instead of on Pinterest – but please feel free to share this on Pinterest if you…
updates: acupuncture, slow cooker, star trek
I decided to try acupuncture again. In October, I saw my nephew and niece-in-law who practice Traditional Chinese Medicine and other holistic healing methods. They encouraged me to use our…
post your slow-cooker recipes and tips here
I just bought a slow-cooker, the first one I’ve owned. Do you use one? If so, what are your favourite things to make with it? Any tips or suggestions? I…
healthy eating costs more. fact or fiction?
Conventional wisdom has it that healthy foods cost more than junk food, that buying and preparing nutritious food is more expensive than eating processed food. How many people bemoan the…
mcdonalds is not healthy for pit bulls and other living things
In case you missed it, the marketing geniuses at McDonald’s thought it was cute to promote their latest concoction of fat, salt, sugar, and unpronounceable ingredients as being healthier than…
five items in search of a post (a list of sorts)
This has been a strange winter break. I’ve been working at the library, collaborating with Allan on some paid writing work, taking care of the massive number of appointments and…
the f-word: famine is the real obscenity
Signing a petition seems such a paltry, insignificant act when measured against the massive starvation in Somalia. I remind myself of what Gandhi said: Whatever you do will be insignificant,…
war is peace, freedom is slavery, and bp is listening: more tales of corporate propaganda
You all know how I feel about advertising. Usually it's not the ads themselves that drive me nuts, but their massive proliferation: that everything in our field of vision and…
time lapse photography, garden-to-table edition
Corn and tomato salad:tomatoes (our gardenette)corn (Ontario)scallioncilantrolime juiceFriends over for dinner and baseball tonight. The menu is a little slice of summer:- grilled lime-garlic-marinated chicken, local/organic/ethically raised from Beret...
dinner gets easier and our wallets get lighter: whole foods comes to mississauga
Hallelujah! A Whole Foods Market has opened in Mississauga, not five minutes from where I live. My life is complete.Most Canadians don't know Whole Foods; there's one in Toronto, one…
thou shalt be thin: obesity hysteria and the eating disorder epidemic
This ad for Yoplait Light reduced-calorie yogurt, which I saw on TV last Sunday night, was supposedly pulled from circulation. The National Eating Disorder Association petitioned General Mills because the…
the true cost of tomatoes, or slavery and poverty continue to haunt the fast-food industry, and how you can help
I have blogged several times about the horrific conditions endured by the people who pick tomatoes in Immokalee, Florida, working for fast-food giants like Burger King, Taco Bell and McDonald's,…