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April 16, 2020
Celebrate Earth Day 365 Days A Year With These Tips
Earth Day has always been important as it raises awareness about how our actions can be modified to positively impact the earth. A day, of course, is not enough. Our efforts and insights on how our actions affect the planet...
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April 9, 2020
12 Ways To Cut Down On Your Food Waste
How many of you would take your paycheque and throw 40% of it in the garbage?
Anyone? Bueller? Well, that’s what Canadians are doing with the food they buy and don't eat - and it’s estimated that $27 billion dollars worth ends up in landfills each year. In Toronto alone, we blithely toss out a staggering 210 million kilograms of food annually, while people in our city and around the world are starving. Food waste is an enormous problem that costs us money, drives up food prices, depletes environmental resources like water and land, and is just downright unnecessary. But there is hope, my friends. There are tons of ways that you can reduce food waste in the kitchen that will save you time, money and your appetite.
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April 6, 2020
Why This All Matters Right Now
Today was the date that many of us, at least here in Ontario, had locked in our minds that all would return to business as usual. I think most of us knew, however, that this wouldn’t really be the case....
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March 30, 2020
Healthify Your Passover and Skip The Constipation
Passover is a Jewish holiday that extends for eight days, requiring observers to avoid leavened bread. That’s the basic rule. No problem. I don’t remember the last time I ate leavened bread. If that was all that is required for...
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March 23, 2020
15 Cooking Projects You Can Do At Home
World events right now are unprecedented and it’s a challenging and anxiety-ridden time for many of us. Every day, my husband Josh and I look at each other and talk about how it feels as though we are in a...
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March 16, 2020
Why We Decided To Start Our Health Podcast
With everything going on the world, Josh and I took some time to reconsider whether it made sense to come out with the second season of the Today Is The Day podcast right now. Is there relevance to what we’re...
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March 9, 2020
Working From Home? Here’s How To Keep It Healthy
There are those who thrive from working at home and there are those who need to be out of their own space in a different work environment, whether a coffee shop, office, work-share space, or library. As my entire team...
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March 2, 2020
When I Couldn’t Stop Thinking About Garbage, This Happened
That photo above is me and my garbage. Specifically, this is three months worth of waste made from my at-work lunches. One small bin of food scraps. I should also mention that I’ve been keeping it in the freezer and...
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February 24, 2020
Plastic Packaging and The Inconvenient Truths Of Recycling
I grew up in the 80s and 90s learning about the importance of recycling. Blue boxes were introduced everywhere – schools, homes, malls, parks, and other public spaces all encouraging us to reduce, reuse and recycle. The mantra reduce, reuse,...
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February 17, 2020
Grain-Free Raw Coconut Cookies and Tackling The Toddler & Child Snack Game
They are sneaky those little ones! They live for snacks. They can finish a giant meal, refusing to eat one more bite and then you drop the word ‘snack’ and they are ready for more. Or they insist they aren’t...
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