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    Gardening While Renting: How My Balcony Garden Is Growing

    June 14, 2022 /

    I’m in love with my balcony garden! It has brought me so much joy this spring as I’ve been watching my plants grow–even though I’ve been making all sorts of gardening mistakes as I attempt to grow over 10 different types of plants. While I haven’t had any big harvests of veggies yet, I wanted to share the progress (and my excitement!) of my little balcony garden with you. 2022 Balcony Garden Planting Update Gardening mistakes are par for the course, and even with all of them, I’ve been having a lot of fun with my variety of plants. It is so satisfying to see the seeds sprout and then…

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    3 Ways to Preserve Fresh and Local Food this Summer

    June 7, 2022 /

    Why Preserve Food? This year Alison and I are hoping to produce more than in past years in our gardens though with the size of our plots, it’s unlikely we’ll need to preserve a lot of our produce. However, to take advantage of the abundant produce in the summer months, I’ve often purchased large quantities of fruit or vegetables in season as this is when produce is freshest (and cheapest) but in doing that it’s essential to have a plan to preserve it! With food prices going up, buying in-season and in large quantities is a great way to manage your budget as we go from the months of abundant…

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    Plastic Free Snacking with Haumana Energy Bars

    May 31, 2022 /

    |PR| We were kindly gifted some Haumana Energy Bars in exchange for an honest review. As always, all thoughts are our own. Please read more on our Privacy Policy and Disclaimers Page. Today we are looking at two of our favourite topics–food and plastic! Plastic packaging is a huge problem in our world and it is overwhelmingly present in our kitchens. But we all have to eat, so exploring plastic-free food options is something we love to do. We recently learned about Haumana Energy Bars and their mission to “create the best energy bars for our planet.” These bars are hand made and plastic free and we’re sharing our thoughts…

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    Plastic Free Tofu: An Honest Red Lentil Tofu Recipe Review

    May 17, 2022 /

    Ever since our first Plastic Free July, I’ve been wanting to find a plastic free tofu option for my life. I still haven’t tried making my own soy tofu from scratch because, honestly, I find it a bit intimidating. This is why I was extra excited when my friend messaged me a recipe for Red Lentil Tofu. It sounded so easy and had so much potential! I rolled up my sleeves to give this 2-ingredient recipe a try and wanted to share an honest review in case you’re thinking of giving it a try. Why the Search for Plastic Free Tofu I’m always looking for ways to reduce my waste.…

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    10 Ways to Get the Most Out of Food Scraps

    April 26, 2022 /

    My kids eat a lot of fruits and veggies and after preparing everything for them, my compost bin is quite full of the food scraps that we take for granted should be discarded. Have you ever thought about how you could use more of the items that we pay for but regularly toss out? 10 Ideas for Using up Food Scraps (and Reducing Food Waste!) We compost our food scraps, and so do get a return on them in the form of a (hopefully) bountiful garden but I was wondering if there was any other uses for these ‘scraps’. With food prices as they currently are, I felt that it…

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    Zero-Waste Small Business Profile: Jarr

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    |AD| We have partnered with Jarr and have been compensated for this post. As always, all thoughts and opinions are our own. Many of you know that Alison and I love our local and package-free groceries! Over the past months we’ve partnered with Fulfill Shoppe, and at that time Alison had created an informative profile to share what we love about them. In a recent exciting development, Fulfill Shoppe has merged with another local package-free grocery company, Jarr! Together they are an even stronger, further reaching zero-waste delivery service.  Jarr offers over 500 products, so Fulfill Shoppe customers now have even more to choose from when ordering package-free! The joint…

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