Food & Fitness

Eat Your Veggies!

Eating lots of vegetables isn't a big problem for me in the summer months. There's so much variety that munching on them raw or having gloriously huge salads is a delight. But come winter? Forget about the veggies, I'm all about the grains. Between oatmeal, popcorn, and grilled sandwiches, I…

Book Review: “The World Is Fat” by Barry Popkin

I was excited to recently receive a package of books from Penguin Group to review, among them Barry Popkin's The World Is Fat: The fads, trends, policies, and products that are fattening the human race. The subject of the book is one which I personally find incredibly intriguing, as it…

Ba(rac)king an Obama Cake!

I wish I could take the credit for coining that term, but "Ba(rac)king" is all Bag Lady! Cammy was lamenting that I had no cake recipe when I was guest chef. So I figured that the inauguration was the perfect time to try out one of the recipes from my…

Managing Time

I'm currently taking an evening class on Monday's called Issues in Health. While it's an interesting class, after working all morning and then being in class all afternoon, it's exhausting to have that three hour class at the end of the day! It's also difficult to plan and fit everything…

Life Lessons: Skating and Sugar

Skater's High It really warmed up considerably this past weekend, which led to me participating in one of my favorite winter activities: ice skating! Here in Winnipeg we've become "famous" for our exceptionally long skating trail on the river, and I'm fortunate enough to live right on the river. There's…

Food Trends

Because we can't just live and eat these days- nope, everything has to be trendy. It's cropping up everywhere now. The "new fad diet" is to not diet! It's to eat local and real and whole foods. While I'm super happy that this is coming to the foreground and there's…

Documenting Eating Disorders

Last night I watched the first part of the film Thin, a documentary following several women struggling with anorexia. They are all being treated for it but each of them has varying degrees of wanting to get better. As someone who has never been anorexic nor had such an extreme…

Recipe: Sagan’s Fantastic Frittata

Along with my pedometer, I also got a few other goodies last weekend... an oil mister and an elephant teapot! This is my first ever teapot. Isn't it the cutest? The oil mister is basically a spray bottle contraption. Pour the oil (I like olive oil) into the bottle, pump…

Life Lessons: Perfectionism

Subscription Stuff FeedBurner is beyond me. After much clicking around and struggling to understand/figure out what to do, I've decided to just start up a new feed for this website. So! If you were subscribed to my blog at Blogger and still want to be subscribed to my blog now…