Cleanses, Detoxes or Diets???

I have been hearing this a lot now that the holidays are over. Are you doing one of these? I was listening to the radio yesterday morning and they were talking about it as well. A dietician from the U of C was saying that detoxes and cleanses can sometimes be harmful. She explained that [...]

Cookies

If your anything like me your still doing Christmas baking…okay well maybe not baking in my case! But creating holiday treats, whatever that may look like. I tried a new recipe called Cacao Oat Goji Balls and I have had good reviews from them. The recipe comes from Susan Powers who is a fantastic chef [...]

Diabetes Awareness Day

I wanted to remind everyone that Diabetes Awareness day is Saturday Dec 3, 2011. Below are the details of the event. I hope you can make it! Let me know if you are going and maybe we can meet up. WHO:                         Everyone is invite WHEN:                      Saturday December 3, 2011 8:30 am – [...]

Results from the Craft Sale

Hasn’t this been a fantastic fall! Our current temperature is 11 degrees – amazing!  I wish the weather was this nice on Saturday, it may have helped with the turn out. The craft sale wasn’t quite what I was expecting. I had a good time and it was nice to be with my friends. There [...]

CRAFT SALE

Today…on my day off, I just finished making some Cacao Oat Gogi Balls, they are in the fridge setting. I also made some Onion Crackers which are in the dehydrator and should be done by the time I go to bed. I am going to be busy making raw treats and crackers for the Craft [...]

Reflecting

The days are getting shorter, the mornings have that freshness to it…even frost some mornings! The leaves are slowly dropping off the trees, we know we are into fall. This has got to be one of the nicest falls that we have experienced in Calgary in a long time. We haven’t even had snow yet!! [...]

Finding that Balance

I am finding it difficult to find balance in my foods. Being diagnosed as a diabetic has not been easy. I can see why diabetics find it overwhelming and take as much medication as necessary to keep their blood sugars in check. I have been trying to find that right balance of not taking too [...]

Filled to the top

I just came back from a trip, from Radium on Tuesday. The girls decided to take a trip there oh about a month ago. We were going to go from Sunday to Tuesday. There were four of us and we were all very excited. I was surprised at my reaction when one of the gals [...]

Raw Mushroom Burger

Well as promised the Raw Mushroom Burger…I found this recipe from Susan Powers. I find Susan Powers to be an amazing chef. Check out this burger doesn’t it look delicious!!  It actually could pass off as a beef burger, until you bit into it! I found a recipe for onion bread which I have used [...]

Fall Update

Fall has arrived and I have been trying some new recipes. Tomorrow I will post a recipe for a Raw Mushroom Burger it is a pretty close replica of the Bounty Burger that I had experienced at Bliss during our spring visit to Victoria. See last post (Training) for the details. Training went very well [...]