Dining out with kids can be difficult. Family restaurants often lack the menu selection or vibes that we look for when eating out, but pubs and other nice restaurants aren’t kid-friendly. So I was very excited to hear about the Blenheim, a family-friendly pub in Kitsilano. This German-style eating house has a kids’ play area […]
8 Clever Ways to Make Healthy but Delicious Swaps
Maintaining a healthy diet isn’t always the easiest thing in the world to do. However, it doesn’t have to be difficult or unattainable. Believe it or not, incorporating healthy foods into our daily diets can be surprisingly simple and taste scrumptiously good. I’ve put together some of my favourite ways to make healthy but delicious […]
5 Tips for Maintaining a Healthy Weight with Nutribar
Over the past decade, my weight has fluctuated up and down. I could blame it on pregnancy and babies, but the reality is that I gain just baby weight during my pregnancies and lose it soon after birth. Between babies, I overeat due to stress, busyness, and bad habits, and that’s where the unhealthy weight […]
6 Tips for Building a Healthy Family
In today’s guest post, Wendy shares 6 tips for building a healthy family, from how we eat to how we play together. We all want a healthy family. Yet having a healthy family does not just mean in good health, fit, and strong. Yes, that is part of it, but having a healthy family means […]
14 Family-Friendly Homemade Pizza Recipes (plus Sauce & Crust recipes!)
When I was growing up, we had pizzas every Friday night. It was an easy supper for Mom to make and it let us all get involved in the kitchen. Mom made the dough while my brothers and I grated cheese, chopped toppings, and then put it all together. We didn’t really have a pizza […]
Delicious Smoothie Recipes with Olympic Natural Yogurt
I’ve always been proud to live here in Western Canada. From the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, there is so much natural beauty here to explore. Growing up in a farming family and community, I admire the people who work the land. My grandfather’s dad homesteaded his farm in Alberta. While my dad was […]
Quick & Easy, HEALTHY Dinners with Seeds of Change
As a mom, one of my biggest tasks is getting supper on the table every night. There are days when I enjoy trying new recipes, making lasagnas and quiches from scratch, or putting together a fancy meal. There are more days when I resort to my favourite quick and easy meal ideas. The problem with […]
Sandwiches are Beautiful with Maple Lodge Farms
On Saturday, we joined Maple Lodge Farms, Erica Ehm from Yummy Mummy Club and several other Vancouver mom bloggers at the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts to make sandwiches. That’s what I told the girls we were going to do: make sandwiches. They couldn’t wait to get there. All morning, they asked me when we […]
3 Tips to Begin Meal Planning
This post made me smile, because I can totally identify with Eleanor Bertin’s struggle to find a routine in cooking for a family. I’ve tried various methods of meal planning myself and, while I like the results, I haven’t kept up anything. I love Eleanor’s easy tips to begin meal planning and hope they are […]
Wise Company Delivers Delicious Emergency Meals
Living on the West Coast, we are constantly aware of possible earthquakes and tsunamis. The year Sunshine started kindergarten, her school underwent seismic upgrades and she did several earthquake drills (“Get under a table and hold the legs, Mommy!”). Before we moved to Victoria, my cousins faced a power outage there for one and a half […]
