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Mind your portions this winter

Try this warm and hearty Vegetable Soup recipe to curb your appetite

By Julie Garden-Robinson February 6, 2015

Did you know your breed has a tendency to become overweight?” I asked our dachshunds. If they had replied verbally, I might have fainted. Instead, they looked at me with pleading eyes, and then they turned their attention to the plates I was carrying. Their sharp noses could detect the traces of food on the

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The cure and comfort of soup

Recipe Swap: Hearty Chicken Soup, and Easy Chicken Noodle Soup

By Lorraine Stevenson January 30, 2015

Cough, cough, cough! That’s the sound of January. Sit through any meeting, classroom or other public gathering and you’ll hear it. Maybe we’re the one coughing. We should stay home, say health authorities, because it’s when we insist on, cough, trying, sneeze, to go about our regular routines, cough, that we spread our germs around.

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Half your plate for healthy eating

Recipe Swap: The Ultimate Veggie Pizza, and Corn and Kale Chowder

By Lorraine Stevenson January 23, 2015

A food diary is how you tell yourself how well or poorly you eat. I’ve kept one and, believe me, it’s an eye-opener. Too much of one thing and not enough of another, especially fruits and veggies. But I’m typical. Canadians are anything but vegetarian. The Food Guide says men should eat eight to 10

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Complaining won’t shorten winter

Recipe Swap: Chicken Chili with Corn and Black Beans, Tortilla Pie, and Spicy Cornbread

By Lorraine Stevenson January 16, 2015

Two emails popped into my box almost simultaneously this week. One came from someone whining about not being able to afford to fly somewhere warm, and how she couldn’t wait for winter to be over. The other was from a friend describing how much she enjoys this time of year, and how she keeps healthy

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Drop those extra pounds – sensibly

Recipe Swap: Tried and True Minestrone, and Lentil Calzones

By Lorraine Stevenson January 9, 2015

January is when we start to follow the ‘10 tips’ and ‘20 ways’ and ‘quickest ways’ to lose weight, and they all work miracles in no time, right? Wrong. For starters, we generally don’t stick with any plan, especially if it’s overly ambitious. As the saying goes, resolutions ‘go in one year and out the

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Let’s waste less food in 2015

By Lorraine Stevenson January 5, 2015

Food bloggers and various groups love talking about what’s ‘in’ on the food scene as a new year begins. For 2015, we’re told to expect sustained interest in local food and how food production impacts the environment, eating healthier, a fondness for ‘mini’ food, more meatless Mondays, demand for more intense flavours and so on.

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Recipe Swap: Smaller meat cuts for smaller families

A stuffed turkey breast is a way to enjoy a Christmas food tradition if a whole bird is too much for your smaller brood

By Lorraine Stevenson December 29, 2014

If you have a big extended family squeezed around the dining table next week, you’re blessed. The large, blood-relative family event seems to be going the way of the grandfather clock. Many extended families don’t gather as they once did at Christmas. Part of the reason is family members live farther apart nowadays. They can

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Recipe Swap: Smaller meat cuts for smaller families

A stuffed turkey breast is a way to enjoy a Christmas food  tradition if a whole bird is too much for your smaller brood 

By Lorraine Stevenson December 19, 2014

If you have a big extended family squeezed around the dining table next week, you’re blessed. The large, blood-relative family event seems to be going the way of the grandfather clock. Many extended families don’t gather as they once did at Christmas. Part of the reason is family members live farther apart nowadays. They can

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Tiny sweets make great holiday treats

Recipe Swap: Drops, squares, bars and dainties are perfect small-portion desserts

By Lorraine Stevenson December 12, 2014

Keep your eye on portion sizes, because it’s often not what, but how much we eat that makes the difference. That’s such sensible advice and so hard to heed, especially over Christmas, with so many opportunities to overindulge. But there is one holiday treat guaranteed to pack a wallop of pleasure without excessive calories. It

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New book ‘The Stop,’ about empowerment, transformation of food banks

Recipe Swap: Oatmeal Risotto with Cherry Tomatoes and Basil, and Parsnip, Sage, Rosemary  in no-time Risotto

By Lorraine Stevenson December 8, 2014

As we head toward Christmas, many of us give generously to charitable causes. Food banks are one of them and they definitely need our help. Goodness knows what would happen if we suddenly closed our wallets on them. Over 60,000 Manitobans turned to one in the month of March, according to the Hunger Count 2014

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Mind your portions this winter

The cure and comfort of soup

Half your plate for healthy eating

Complaining won’t shorten winter

Drop those extra pounds – sensibly

Let’s waste less food in 2015

Recipe Swap: Smaller meat cuts for smaller families

Recipe Swap: Smaller meat cuts for smaller families

Tiny sweets make great holiday treats

New book ‘The Stop,’ about empowerment, transformation of food banks

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