Bridget's Green Kitchen

Wholesome & Healthy Blueberry Bran Muffins Recipe

March 11, 2018

A healthy muffin recipe for breakfast or snacking. Light textured and high in fibre. Not too sweet. Some of my favourite family vacation memories are from the tail end of our family holidays. We spent many March Break vacations at Sugarloaf, Maine, and we would finish the week with […]

Green Living

5 Ways to Reduce Your Exposure to Obesogens (Environmental Toxins That Can Make You Fat)

March 10, 2018

Environmental toxins may play a role in the obesity epidemic. This week I bought a Brita water filter. I was in search of a simple system that could filter out some environmental toxins that I was reading about. The toxins are referred to as obesogens and according to Health […]

Breads

The Best Buckwheat Pancakes Recipe Ever

February 24, 2018

You’ll believe me when I say this is the best buckwheat pancake recipe on earth. But first…I had heard stories about this sort of thing happening…The mother of all annoyances that can grate on you like a tap dripping through the night: teens standing in front of a full […]

Green Living

How to Reduce Your Household Energy Use: Start With an Energy Monitor

February 21, 2018

To reduce your household energy consumption, start with an energy monitor. If you have been following the news lately you’ll know that the arrival of January power bills has led to a lot of unhappy surprises. Although we don’t heat our home with electricity, I know the stress of […]

Green Living

Why Tiny Microplastics are a Huge Problem & How You Can Help

February 19, 2018

One of the greatest environmental problems in the world is very tiny, microscopically tiny. The problem is microplastics – bits of plastic that are less than five millimetres in size and are often invisible to the naked eye. These tiny fibres, fragments and beads of plastic have worked their […]