Food & Fitness

What’s the Rush?

It seems as though traffic is getting worse with every passing day. People are impatient. We need to get places, and we need to get there now. Never mind that we left the house a little bit late; what's with the traffic holding us up? What kind of stupid driver…

Mmm, burned food!

It was with great excitement that our old dehydrator was re-discovered whilst combing through our storage unit! Visions of beef jerky and banana chips danced in my head and yesterday I tried it out for the first time, using apple ring slices and chopped up celery. I had hopes that…

Make Your Foods Super!

We're a healthy blog over here, so finding healthy recipes is one of my top priorities. Something that I think is fun to do is to find as many different books/websites as I can get my little paws on and find the healthiest recipes among them. Even from "restrictive" diets,…

Links for Body Confidence and Self-Exams

Normally I don't pay all that much attention to the world of celebrities, but yesterday I came across this site, and its now one of my favorites! Healthy Hollywood treats these celebrities like real people and shows how awesome some of them are with their fitness and nutrition regimes. I…

What Do You Choose?

I was recently interviewed by Nutritious Junk as a healthy blogger- check out the interview here and be sure to check out her really great blog while you're there! Food Mmm. Food. It seems that many/most people have a love-hate relationship with food. On the one hand, it tastes great…

The Bike!

Here is the new bike, beside the yellow one that I won (which is now my dads bike): Out for a ride! Birthday celebrations- my parents: Devin and me: Espresso with a sparkler! Tiramisu for dessert: And to finish it all off, a couple cheery flowers to brighten your Monday:)

Welcoming Change and a Weekend Review

I am pleased to announce that after checking out 4 different bike shops on Saturday, I found the Perfect Bicycle! It's black and white and beautiful all over, with a partial step-in frame and a leather seat and handlebars. Nice and cushy! Its a retro-style cruiser bike and it is…

Nutrition Labels

Not too long ago I was explaining to someone how to read nutrition labels, and had to detail how the process works so that they could understand what the % Daily Value and everything means. When I first started becoming interested in nutrition, I mostly had to figure out how…

The Meatrix

My first year university English professor showed my class this film and we all loved it. Up until recently I'd forgotten about it, but as I've been thinking more and more about health it came to mind. I went on the search to re-discover this little gem and have found…