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I don’t know about you, but it seems to me like the simple act of eating – what to eat, how much to eat, and when to eat – just keeps getting more and more complicated.
Is organic worth the extra price tag?
Is it dangerous to skip breakfast?
Are gluten-free products just marketing hype?
Is an egg a day going to cause (or cure) heart disease?
These are just a few of the questions my clients want answers to as they attempt to make the best food choices possible. [Read more…]
If I could snap my fingers and make one dream come true, it would be for people to give eating real food an honest try so they could experience its many benefits.
Back in January I led a 2-Week Real Food Challenge with my Facebook community where we did just that. 130 courageous people ditched sugar, wheat, and high-refined vegetable oils for vegetables, fruit, lean protein, healthy fat and dark chocolate. And in 14-days (or less!) here’s what people reported: [Read more…]
Can you believe it’s almost that time of year again?
Summer has flown by once again and kids will be returning to school in just a few short days — which means that parents across the country are thinking about what will go in their lunches. For real food parents, that means no sandwiches. And since most schools are nut-free, that means no nuts either. You may be wondering what else remains?
Have you ever had the desire to remove refined sugar from your diet only to be consumed by fear about life without dessert?
Fear not … it’s slow cooker blueberry crumble to the rescue! It not only tastes delicious, it takes just 3 minutes to prepare. No joke.
In last week’s video recipe blog, I mentioned that it was our final breakfast in Belleville, Ontario where we lived for almost 12 years. Today we’re travelling across Saskatchewan and Alberta on route to our new home in Courtenay, British Columbia on Vancouver Island. That’s almost 5,000 kilometers over 10 days in a mid-sized vehicle with two adults, two children, and nothing but our essentials.
Driving across Canada is proving to be the ultimate test of just how committed a health enthusiast I am. [Read more…]
