My contract with Fruit Share is almost up (just about a week left!), and I'd like to take some of the skills I've learned through Fruit Share and apply them to everyday life. Specifically, preserving and canning fruits and vegetables at home. I had never canned anything before I started…
After my blog post about the iron content in spinach on Monday, fd asked about where to find iron in plant-based sources. I'm currently putting together lists of foods containing various vitamins and minerals for my clients, so this was a good research opportunity! Bearing in mind that adult men…
The other day, I posted on my Facebook page that spinach is not a good source of calcium. Even though it has a high calcium content, we can't absorb the calcium because the calcium is bound with oxalates. We actually only absorb about 5% of the calcium in spinach! Then…
It seems years and years ago when I first met Nicole and we had our nutrition consults. She was my nutritionist. Then she became my friend. And then we started The Food Label Movement together. Thanks to Nicole, I found out how I could take courses and get my own…
Health guru after health guru will tell you to opt for canola oil over margarine and butter since it's so much lower in saturated fat. Even one of my nutrition text books recommends canola oil for its higher content of omega-3 fatty acids. But I'm going to refute all of…
My trip last week was awesome. It was great to see the sistertraveller and my grandparents again, and it was so much fun to have a whole weekend to spend with the sistertraveller, mother dear and godmother dear! My grandparents live in a lovely little beach town just a couple…
Freelancing is tough work - mostly because you never know where your next paycheque will come from. I've been very lucky this past year to have two long-term contracts (one was a year long and the other was four months), with a nice peppering of smaller two-day types of jobs…
Today I'm leaving for Toronto! It's going to be a busy five days: Today I fly out to Toronto, meet up with the sistertraveller (she's doing her Masters there in political theory), and then we're driving to the town our grandparents live in. Thursday we spend the day with our…
This year for Thanksgiving, I managed to convince the mother dear to purchase a local, organic, free-range turkey for the annual meal. It cost about a dollar more per pound, but it was worth every penny to switch to an ethically-raised turkey from our usual Butterball. The Stats: Turkeys on…
