Category Archives: Eating

Dark Granola

By John | Published: March 21, 2010

Joanie has been looking for some sort of granola to put on her yoghurt in the mornings. I guess she was putting something else on there before, (some sort of granola-ish thing, but I’m not sure what), and she’s found that she doesn’t stay full as long now that she doesn’t have whatever she was […]

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Rapini Pasta

By John | Published: March 20, 2010

Last Thursday I wrote about our first experience eating rapini. I liked it, Joanie didn’t like it so much. We still had some rapini left over in the bottom of our fridge that wasn’t rotten yet and needed to be eaten, and today was the day. I had been thinking about putting it into a […]

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Home-Made Croutons

By John | Published: March 18, 2010

On Tuesday we had a chicken caesar salad for dinner, a really huge one. It was very refreshing, and I want to talk about the croutons. We made our own croutons. I had never done this before and didn’t really know how to go about it, but they turned out great. We even used the […]

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Breakfast Burritos

By John | Published: March 15, 2010

Ever since I visited California last june and had the best breakfast burrito ever, (sooo much better than McDonalds), I’ve enjoyed making them at home. Now, they’re not the exact same as I had down south, but that’s half the fun. Since we had fajitas last night, we had leftover fajita veggies and tortillas, (sold […]

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Bread

By John | Published: March 15, 2010

For the past three months I’ve been either going without bread when I wanted it, or eating bread made with refined grains, (white bread, or pretty close to it), that I bought from a store. It’s very difficult to buy real whole-grain bread at the supermarket. It’s almost possible, but I can’t say for certain […]

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No Food in the Community Garden?

By John | Published: March 14, 2010

We both recently read No Impact Man by Colin Beavan, and yesterday watched the documentary film of the same story.  Something that wasn’t in the book but was in the film and struck me as really odd was how Colin, (the author of the book, and, along with his family, subject of the documentary), came […]

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I need to reboot my system

By John | Published: March 13, 2010

So, I’m sitting here eating my, (admittedly late), breakfast of French Toast. It’s made with store-bought whole-wheat bread, which means that it’s pretty much white bread in a different bag. Speaking fo bags, it comes in a bag within a bag, but that’s another whole post. Back to the breakfast, it’s definitely not a Food […]

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Ate an Artichoke

By John | Published: March 11, 2010

We had never tried artichoke before, so Joanie bought a couple the other day, (at the same time we bought the chayote, actually), and we finally got around to eating them just now. It’s kind of fun, but a lot of work for not very much food, (that can be a good thing or bad […]

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Diet Diversity: Rapini & Chayote

By John | Published: March 11, 2010

A couple of weeks ago I lamented that we didn’t have enough variety in our diet. I talked to Joanie and she agreed, so we did something about it. Chayote: Looks like a Pear with a Bum We bought a chayote to try. We saw it in IGA and thought “how bad can it be?” […]

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The Most Amazing Quinoa Salad

By John | Published: March 3, 2010

Yesterday Joanie made the most amazing quinoa salad ever. I’m not talking about a green salad with lots of leaves and stuff. This salad was a lot more like a bean salad, but instead of using beans as its main ingredient it used quinoa. We don’t have an exact recipe for the salad, it was […]

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  • What is Choices That Matter?

    I'm a guy named John, and I do most of the writing around here. I went from a really active lifestyle to a really inactive lifestyle very quickly and my body is noticing. On top of that I'm worried about what's happening to our planet, so, I'm trying to do something about it.

    For Christmas I received the book Food Matters, which I found very interesting and inspired me to start changing. Check out my first post for the beginning of the story.