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Recipe Swap: Slow down and fill up

Slower eating makes you feel full sooner

By Lorraine Stevenson January 22, 2014

Slow down. If you speed while driving, there’s trouble ahead. You’re not doing your body any good rushing through meals either. Obesity experts warn how fast eating shuts off the signal from the gut to the brain that tells us we’ve eaten enough. It takes at least 20 minutes to make the trip. So if

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Recipe Swap: Dial-a-Dietitian

By Lorraine Stevenson January 14, 2014

Many of us try to diet this time of year, and some are successful. The weight drops off, and we develop healthier eating habits. Others go at it all wrong and accomplish nothing. Here’s some advice from a dietitian to be among the former. Before starting any weight loss program, ask lots of questions about

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Recipe Swap: A $5 shopping spree

By Lorraine Stevenson December 16, 2013

I once spent the grand sum of $5 on Christmas presents. That was a lot of money to an eight- or nine-year-old in the 1960s. I remember feeling rich, and heading “uptown” to Hillman’s Hardware and Lawrence’s Solo Store in Newdale, to search for gifts for my family and friends. Five bucks covered it. I

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Recipe Swap: Raising the bar

By Lorraine Stevenson December 5, 2013

It’s been about a year since we told you about Colleen Dyck, the Manitoba farmer launching her GORP energy bar made with the hemp, oats, flax, sunflower seeds and honey and other ingredients grown on her Niverville farm. Colleen was gearing up production after more than seven years creating the recipe and marketing strategy for

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Delicious Salmon Vegetable Chowder

November 6, 2013

I inspected the houseplants the other day and what a sorry, dried-up mess they were. I’m surprised any survived. After all, they were rarely watered, and sat behind blinds keeping out the hot sun much of the summer. Deprived of sunlight and liquids, the rest of us don’t thrive either. Statistics Canada studies have found

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Recipe Swap: Developing world food security through knowledge

By Lorraine Stevenson October 18, 2013

World Food Day is a day set aside by the UN each Oct. 16 to help us understand why the world is hungry. Media stories focus on hunger statistics, who is hungry, and root causes of hunger on a planet producing more food than ever. It’s also a time of year when civil society groups,

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Recipe Swap: What day is this?

By Lorraine Stevenson October 16, 2013

The trouble with a weekly paper is keeping up with breaking news. I am sorry to be late informing you it was National Cinnamon Day last week. By now — Oct. 10 — it’s National Angel Food Cake Day. I was writing this on National Mulled Cider Day. These aren’t holidays, of course. National you-name-it

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Recipe Swap: Get ’em while they’re crunchy

This is the third year schools and daycares are selling fresh vegetables as a fundraiser

By Lorraine Stevenson October 1, 2013

With the kids back in school, club and classroom fundraisers begin again. One is the Farm to School Manitoba Healthy Choice Fundraiser — a way to raise money while sending a message that cookies and candy aren’t the only good things to eat. Now in its third year, the program allows Manitoba schools and daycares

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Recipe Swap: Dinner on the dry Prairies

By Lorraine Stevenson August 28, 2013

My dad seldom spoke of the dust bowl this part of the world became in the 1930s, but his younger brother told stories. That long dry spell finished off the farm as well as the family, Ray would say. He remembers the brothers dispersing, one after another, after the last cow was sold. I’m fascinated

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Recipe Swap: Kids Recipe challenge produces more great school lunch ideas

By Lorraine Stevenson August 23, 2013

Parents stocking up on school supplies are always looking for new ideas for school lunches, too. Kids usually have favourites, but as any parent knows, eventually get tired of the same-old, same-old. And since school lunchtime is more about socializing than eating, any “uncool” stuff won’t get touched. With school just a couple of weeks

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Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: Slow down and fill up

Recipe Swap: Dial-a-Dietitian

Recipe Swap: A $5 shopping spree

Recipe Swap: Raising the bar

Delicious Salmon Vegetable Chowder

Recipe Swap: Developing world food security through knowledge

Recipe Swap: What day is this?

Recipe Swap: Get ’em while they’re crunchy

Recipe Swap: Dinner on the dry Prairies

Recipe Swap: Kids Recipe challenge produces more great school lunch ideas

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