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Green Living

Top 4 Reasons to Buy Local Food

 

  Locally grown food tastes better, plain and simple. There’s nothing like a locally grown carrot to remind you of why buying local is so great, and tasty. Carrots pulled from Fullerton’s gardens on the Kingston Peninsula are sweet and loaded with flavor, nothing like the bland carrots I’ll eat […]

Cookies

Healthy Whole Wheat Trail Mix Cookies

 

  Cookies have the potential to be the perfect snack food. You can tuck all sorts of healthy stuff into them for a nutritious snack and sweet treat all in one. My kids used to eat any kind of cookie I put in front of them. In fact, they’d eat way too […]

Lentils, Soups

Mom’s Lentil Sausage Soup from Ina Garten

 

  Lentil sausage soup is a hearty meal with great flavour and texture. The no-sausage vegetarian version is delicious too. We always joked that my dad was the reluctant vegetarian. Lentils were not his preferred food, although he could eat canned peas so go figure. One time mom was away […]

Chicken & Turkey

Turkey Meatloaf with Feta and Dill

 

  A healthy meatloaf that’s studded with feta cheese and generously flavoured with dill. Kids can be great problem solvers when there’s yard work to be done. I grew up in a house with a big yard which was great for playing but it meant for a lot of work, […]

Cookies

Aunt Marcia’s Soft Molasses Thumbprint Cookies

 

  The beauty of a soft molasses cookie like this is that they’re a not-too-sweet treat and are as good with a slice of cheese or dab of peanut butter as they are on their own. The cookies are soft, but not in a cake-like way so travel well too. […]