Growing your own food continues to gain popularity, but planting and tending vegetables every year certainly requires more effort than the ease of maintaining a backyard full of well-established hardy perennials. From cold-tolerant cultivars of exotic fruit such as the new hardy lemon or yuzu, to surprising varieties of better-known garden staples, like apple trees […]

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In Eat More Plants, registered dietitian Desiree Nielsen shows you a myriad of ways to add the most healthful gluten-free, plant-based foods to every meal. Whether you are vegan, vegetarian, flexitarian, or meat-eater, we can all benefit from eating more plants for vibrant living. Eat More Plants shows you how to transform your diet with powerful anti-inflammatory, nutrient-dense

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If you’ve driven across Canada, either west bound or east, you’ll say the same thing…are we ever going to get out of Ontario??  Having family in North Bay, I always thought that’s as far north as I want to go…until I worked and stayed in the Thunder Bay area a few times. Yes, the winters

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from Northern Ontario Culinary Travel I cook up a special Mediterranean Walleye recipe that is not only “out of this world” in terms of taste, but being part of the famous Mediterranean diet, is healthy and nutritious to boot. And, it’s simple to prepare. 1.5 lb. fresh boneless, skinless, walleye fillets handful of green olives

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Canadians loved to camp! With thousands of federal and provincial campsites, we can enjoy the beautiful landscape of our great country. If you’re like me and hate sleeping on the ground, there’s more options than just tenting these days.  Look at https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/voyage-travel/hebergement-accommodation and see that we can now sleep off the ground in various accommodations

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from The New Trailside Cookbook When you fill soft flour tortillas with a cheese, meat or fish mixture and then fold the tortilla over, it is called a quesadilla.  Include in the filling either cooked or canned fish, meats, vegetables, refried beans or all of the above (except perhaps for the meat if you are

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Food insecurity takes a disproportionate toll on the health of Canada’s Indigenous people. A Land Not Forgotten examines the disruptions in local food practices as a result of colonization and the cultural, educational, and health consequences of those disruptions. This multidisciplinary work demonstrates how some Indigenous communities in northern Ontario are addressing challenges to food security through

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The New Trailside Cookbook is the result of a unique partnership between canoe enthusiast Kevin Callan and food and nutrition consultant Margaret Howard. With Margaret creating delicious, healthy recipes for the camp kitchen and Kevin providing the how-to information, it is a perfect match. Kevin’s wilderness skills and Margaret’s culinary experience combine in this book to

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It’s summertime and who wants to be in the kitchen making food that weighs us down and bloats us?  Not me…and I’ve found the perfect cookbook to address all of this.  Valerie Azinge of My Digital Kitchen wants to inspire you to make quick healthy dishes that everyone around the picnic table will enjoy! https://www.mydigitalkitchen.ca/my-book/ 

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from 30-Minute Low-Carb Dinners This antipasto brings all the things you love about a charcuterie board and incorporates it in a low-carb version of a hearty salad with the addition of crispy bacon. It’s healthy, fresh and so quick to put together. Make it after a long day at work or when you get back

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