Yesterday, on Day 17 of the Vegan Challenge, I ate: - Small bowl of strawberries and grapes, plus two little clementines - Veggie medley parfait: layers of cucumber slices, carrots sticks, strips of asparagus, and chopped cauliflower. I think vegetables taste better when they are arranged nicely. I had these…
Yesterday, on Day 15 of the Vegan Challenge, I ate: - Bowl of puffed wheat mixed with homemade granola and topped with 1/2 banana, a couple strawberries, and some unsweetened vanilla Almond Breeze - 1 apple, a couple mushrooms and carrots with hummus, and 2 tbsp almonds - 3 beanballs…
Yesterday, on Day Six of the Vegan Challenge, I ate: - 1 slice homemade bread with 1 tsp almond butter and 1 small slice blueberry breakfast polenta with maple syrup - 1/2 cantaloupe filled with a few big spoonfuls of granola, 1/2 pluot, and 1/2 banana, plus the other 1/2…
Yesterday, on Day Three of the Vegan Challenge, I ate: - Chocolate banana milkshake (1 frozen banana, 1 cup unsweetened chocolate Almond Breeze, dash of cinnamon, a sprinkle each of wheat germ and flaxseed meal) and 1/2 cherry pie Larabar - Ants on a log! (4 stalks of celery with…
My weekend with my grandparents in their beautiful little beach town in Ontario was wonderful. The last few days, for me, have looked something like this: - got lost while using a GPS. Well, we didn't exactly get lost, but the GPS wanted us to take the scenic route to…
Understanding nutrition labels I'm writing about analyzing the rhetoric behind nutrition labels on food products over at Living Rhetorically in the Real World. Check it out to learn how to decipher labels and to offer your input about your frustrations with the sneaky marketing tricks used in our grocery stores!…
Sego Diet Drink From what I gather, Sego was a diet drink that was popular in the 1960's. I've recently come across some of their ads, and being incredibly intrigued by the visual rhetoric of it all, I knew I just had to share some of these ads with all…
Today marks the one-year anniversary for my blog. A year ago today, I published my first post! (Hopefully both my understanding of health and my skill in writing have improved muchly over that period of time). To celebrate, I baked a batch of these peanut butter cookies last night. They…
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…
It took me 8 years of piano lessons, competitions, and hours of practicing, to figure out that even though I won first or second place fairly often, music just isn't for me. I have zero natural music talent. And after I quit piano lessons, I had no inclination to play…
