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Celebrate Earth Day and Make a Difference: 50 Easy Eco-Actions
Earth Day is this week and it’s the perfect time to be thinking about what you can be doing for the earth and environment. If you don’t know where to start, we’re sharing 50 easy eco-actions to get you started and keep you going. But first, let’s take a quick look at what Earth Day is all about! What is Earth Day? Earth day is a global movement and day for environmental awareness and action. Slowly this day has expanded to cover multiple days and April is often referred to as “Earth Month.” This year, Earth Day 2021 is on Thursday April 22nd with live events happening from April 20…
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Winter Garden 2020: Last Update
As always, things didn’t go entirely as planned with our winter garden plants. However, we were able to harvest a few things through the winter. Read along below to find out what worked, what didn’t, and what we’ll grow again! Biggest Success The best result was probably our brussels sprouts. In fact, we gave some away as we had too many! I used five or six stalks for soup through the winter and could tell that their flavour improved after the weather turned cold. I actually thought they made a beautiful feature in my garden through the cold months and hadn’t wanted to cut them all, so there are still…
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10 Ways to Cook With Chickpeas and Lower Your Food Budget
On December 8, 2020 Global News reported that “the average Canadian family will pay up to an extra $695 for food [in 2021], as the pandemic, wildfires and changing consumer habits drive up grocery bills to the highest increase ever predicted by an annual food price report. Rising bread, meat and vegetable prices are expected to lead the overall food price increase of three to five per cent, according to Canada’s Food Price Report 2021”.* I’ve been noticing my grocery bill trending higher and so have been looking at a few options to make my dollar stretch further! Chickpeas, also known as Garbanzo beans, are an inexpensive, filling, and nutritious…
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Flashfood: Freezer Meals
Freezer Meals I had a wonderful, simple-sounding idea to make a 5-10 bagged uncooked freezer meals in an afternoon (with some reasonably priced components purchased through Flashfood) that I could pop into the slow cooker to make dinner preparation time in the late afternoon less of a bottleneck in our house. I was finding that the little people (and sometimes big people!) were often tired and hungry at the end of the day and I was finding it difficult to spend a lot of time preparing dinner in the kitchen. But my well-intentioned bulk food preparation day just wasn’t happening! I tried to make a couple of meals and ended…
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Eat Local in Every Season: Butternut Squash
I was given some local BC butternut squash that was on the verge of spoiling and needed to be saved from going to waste. I was excited for the squash because I’d never actually cooked butternut squash before! Inspired by Krista’s desire to eat local in every season, I was motivated to get the most out of these four butternut squash. I found three recipes that I tried as well as a few more I’m saving for later. [Related: Eat Local in Every Season: Brussels Sprouts] Butternut Squash Recipes These are three recipes I tried and loved. 1. Roasted Butternut Squash This is incredibly easy! – Peel and remove seeds–…
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Eat Local in Every Season: Pumpkin
Though summer and it’s abundance of produce is at an end I’ve decided, between my garden and our local producers, to attempt to continue using local vegetables as a mainstay of our diet throughout the fall and winter. This is new to me and so I’m documenting the foods and recipes I try in hopes that you’ll join me in attempting to eat local and seasonal produce year-round! Selecting a Pumpkin I had actually wanted to write this post a couple of weeks ago but my pumpkin had gone bad. It turned in a much shorter time period than I thought possible, so going forward all my pumpkins and other…
