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Simple Tips for Easy Daily Cleansing
The first thing to know is that it is always the right time to take on some active health and lifestyle cleansing. Optimally, we are aiming to make efforts on a daily basis to reduce retoxing (bringing the bad stuff in) and promote detoxing (getting the bad stuff out). The best part about making a…
All the culinary nutrition
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10 Natural Cold and Flu Remedies and Immune Elixir Recipe
Cold and flu season is hard to avoid, no matter what you do to not get sick. There are,…
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Broths and Stocks: A Culinary Nutrition Guide
Broths and stocks are staples in kitchens in many parts of the world because they provide an abundance of…
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Ultimate Guide To One Pot Meals
It seems to be my current theme these days to make dinner simple. Winter is rarely the time for…
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15 Tips and Recipes To Keep You Healthy During The Holidays
The holiday season used to be a concentrated period in the last two weeks of December. Now, as soon…
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Is Plant-Based Milk Healthy: Oatly, NotMilk, Ripple and More
Several weeks ago, I received a text from a friend asking me if I’d heard of a product called…
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Top 17 Healthy Halloween Treats
Like so many other holidays, Halloween is one of those times when it’s easy to throw caution to the…
Inspiration For The Heart + Mind
Curating Your Life’s Algorithm
Here is the question I’ve been pondering lately: How are you curating the algorithm of your life? If you use social media, you know about the loved and…
In Pursuit of Purpose and Rising Together
Do we start big? Dive right on it? Let’s do it. What is your purpose? Do you know? Asked another way – what gets you out of bed…
Forget Resolutions, Time To Set Intentions
This is the year we are entering and we can choose to enter it thinking of the challenges that engaged us in the past, and likely allow ourselves…
Showing Up: This Is Your Time
I can’t recall when it was that I last sat down to write a post of this nature but every week can feel like a lifetime these days.…
Why Are We Afraid To Create?
My son, now four years old, loves drawing people with really long necks, long oval eyes, a dot for a nose, a jagged line for a mouth and…
My 9 Best Strategies To Help You Unwind
Do you ever feel kind of tight and contracted, like the littlest thing can cause you to spring up (or lash out) for no real reason at all?…
Healthy Home
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Natural Bedding and Linens Guide for Truly Sweet Dreams
We spend one-third of our lives sleeping. You know what this means, right? This means we spend more time…
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Natural Bug Repellent Recipe
Spending time in nature has a multitude of benefits, but sometimes the outdoors can have its drawbacks – especially…
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How I Created A Healthy Home
#StayHome was the anthem heard worldwide in 2020. Even as things started to open up again in parts of…
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How to Get Started Growing Your Own Food
For many new gardeners, growing your own food may seem like a daunting (or even impossible) task. When you…
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8 Essential Habits For Healthier Cell Phone Use
Cell phones can be bad for your health, if you let them be. Don’t worry – I am definitely…
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How to Choose A Water Filter
Water is fundamental to our health – but with all of the different kinds, it can be tough to…
Recipes
Vegan Celery Root Apple Soup
Some call it celeriac, I call it celery root (because I’m not that fancy), and no joke this ugly, gnarly root is…
The Best Pumpkin Spice Latte Recipe
Pumpkin recipes abound this time of year. I’ve put up a few myself. So many of them call for pumpkin puree and most of us then hop over to the store and buy a can of pumpkin. But see, pumpkin doesn’t grow in cans. It grows from the ground and grows a-plenty locally and it really isn’t that much trouble to do the right thing by your pumpkin and make your own pumpkin puree from scratch.
Easy Dairy-Free Ice Cream Recipe + 11 Awesome Topping Ideas
If I could use a season to describe myself, summer would definitely be the one. It’s my favourite time of year –…
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The Simplest Homemade Blueberry Jam
Blueberry season is very important for our family. Specifically, wild blueberries. The adventure usually begins in early August when wild blueberries first…
How to Make Sauerkraut
When I began my career in culinary nutrition, homemade sauerkraut was a dying art. Over the years while I was teaching in-person…
Gluten-Free Veggie Quiche
Traditional quiche is made with a pastry crust and is filled with eggs, milk, cheese, meat and vegetables. Over the years, I…
Ecological Care
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Natural Bug Repellent Recipe
Spending time in nature has a multitude of benefits, but sometimes the outdoors can have its drawbacks – especially…
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10 Important Questions to Ask Your Farmer at the Market
What I eat and where my food comes from are very important to me, and I know these are…
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Climate Change Measures Versus True Ecological Care
We’re being told ‘climate change’ is the crisis we need to pay attention to. If this is true, is…
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How to Get Started Growing Your Own Food
For many new gardeners, growing your own food may seem like a daunting (or even impossible) task. When you…
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Best Wild Foods: Guide To Harvesting and Preserving
Though I have long been a fan of farmers’ markets and local awesomeness when it comes to food, it’s…
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Into The Woods: Healing Benefits of Forest Bathing
Forest bathing: it’s good for you. Now I’m not talking about skinny-dipping or luxuriating in your fancy outdoor shower…
Healthwashing: Digging Deep On The Nonsense
Food Packaging Tricks That Fool Us
These days, we need to be amateur detectives in order to figure out the truth behind products and whether they are good for us. Recently my mom told…
Why Goldfish Crackers Don’t Belong In A Lunch Box
Parents spend a lot of time, money, thought and effort packing lunches for their children. The school day, summer or winter break activities, day camps and other non-school…
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What is Natural Flavour? Is It Actually ‘Natural’?
If you’ve ever looked at a food label or read the health claims on the front of the package, you’ve probably seen the term ‘natural flavour’ (or ‘natural flavor’…
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Is The Beyond Meat Burger Healthy?
I tried to avoid writing about the Beyond Meat burgers. I didn’t want to deal with the haters that I got when I shared facts about Arbonne, Soylent,…
Your Clothes Are Made Of Plastic
This topic has been on my mind for a long time. A really long time. I don’t like wearing plastic. I don’t like the way it feels on…
What Does ‘Naturally Raised’ Mean? Deciphering Meat Labels
I’ve been in this business for nearly 15 years now and during that time, I’ve worked to raise awareness about what’s in our food, how to read nutrition…
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