Wanna Win A Basket Of Food?

As you may have noticed over on the left there, I have a couple of blogs. On one of those, The Clever Mom, I’m having a contest to win a reusable grocery bin filled with a selection of food items. The prize basket was generously provided by Loblaws who want to spread the word that [...]

Dooce Thinking About Nixing Meat

Dearest Heather Armstrong, that fantastic and inspirational blogger also known as Dooce, has been contemplating making some lifestyle changes and, inspired by Oprah’s recent 21-day fast (which includes abstaining from all meat by/products, amongst other foodstuffs), has challenged herself to living vegan, sugar-free, gluten-free and alcohol-free for 21 days. She has written a very thoughtful [...]

Sick Vegan Kids In The News

Another vegan family has become news after their pre-teen daughter was found to have Rickets and degenerative bone disease. Parentdish, a group blog under the AOL umbrella, has posted their story and it’s getting a lot of knee-jerk comments. Truly this is a horrible story, but I have to think that the sick girl’s problems [...]

Helping Kids Change Their Eating Habits

I know what it is like for a kid to suddenly decide they don’t like eating vegetables or they will not ever eat the crusts on bread. It is pretty universal for parents to have difficulty feeding their kids from time to time. It’s a normal development glitch and it is often related to a [...]

Getting Closer to CSA Season

It is almost April (as in, tomorrow will be April!) and we still haven’t finalized our decision about the CSA. I think we would absolutely join a CSA if we had just a little more money. As it is, the checks are due at the beginning of every month for four months, starting in May. [...]

Is Vegetarian A Useless Word?

A vegetarian doesn’t eat meat. But they still eat meat products like cheese and eggs. In order to eat dairy and eggs, one has to enslave animals and exploit their fertility, most of the time by proxy. Is this any different than eating meat? A vegan would say no. And, taking into account that in [...]

March Break

We’re on our very first March Break this week, so I’ haven’t had much time or energy to post. One thing I have been doing is updating my business website – I’m a doula. Go have a look and let me know what you think! And, if you are a pregnant mama in Hamilton, Ontario [...]

Hummus Adventures

We always at hummus before, but since I learned how ridiculously easy and cheap it is to make at home, we always have fresh hummus in the fridge. My sons and I have it for lunch most afternoons. Of course, familiarity can breed, well, not quite contempt, but maybe boredom. I’ve been thinking of ways [...]

The Challenge of Eating Locally

Parentdish recently wrote about CSAs. CSAs are Community Shared Agriculture such as one or more farms that a person can buy a share of and in return have those farm’s produce returned each week during the growing season. It is a bonafide way of eating locally, support small farms, eating organic and just plain eating [...]

What In The World Is Guar Gum and Where Do I Buy It?

I have a couple of vegan/vegetarian cookbooks and they feature some of the weirdest (to me) ingredients I’ve ever seen. Guar Gum Xanthum Gum Arrowroot Powder Succanat nutritional yeast slippery elm powder lecithin Those are just a handful of the odd ingredients I came across leafing through the books recently. I gotta tell you, reading [...]