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Saving Money & Eating Better at Home

How many times per week do you eat outside food? Not just restaurants, but coffee and and snack runs, forgot-to-pack-a-lunch meals, or picking up prepared foods at the grocery store on your way home? The annual Canada’s Food Price Report by Dalhousie University and the University of Guelph predicts that Canadians will increase their family spending on food by $348 […]

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Plant-Based Protein: What they are and how you can benefit

Plant-Based…have you heard these words a LOT lately? It’s not in your imagination! What does it mean? It means eating most of your food from the plant category vs. animal. Especially plant-based protein. It DOES NOT mean becoming a vegetarian or vegan necessarily; just increasing your plant foods to be the star of your diet! Did you know many Canadians […]

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Children & Food Allergies: Are they getting enough nutrients?

So, your child has been diagnosed with a food allergy, and you’re probably panicking a little bit with what seems like “bad news”. It can seem pretty overwhelming, particularly in cases of severe allergies, to think about how to manage feeding your allergy-baby safe and nourishing foods. Now here’s the good news: you can handle this, and it’s possible for […]

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Have Your Chocolate & Eat It Too

Chocolate!!!! It’s always a hot news topic, and for good reason: who doesn’t want to hear about   a “new study” that suggests they should eat more of it?! It certainly makes you feel better after that grocery store chocolate bar bought at the last minute at the cash register. And good quality chocolate (vs. candy bars) really does have true […]

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Cleanse and Detox Diets: Do They Live Up to the Hype?

Cleanses and Detox diets are everywhere today and it’s an attractive idea, particularly after a holiday season of indulging, to think that one of these special diets will magically fix everything you’ve done before. Especially when Internet personalities and celebrities alike swear by them and post their picture-perfect results for all to see- but the problem is that there isn’t […]

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