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So we made this Amazing Pasta

By John | Published: March 2, 2010

Last night we made an amazing pasta for dinner. It’s a recipe for Pasta with Squid Rings, (yes, I know they could have named it better – they were trying to incorporate the word “rings” because of the Olympics), that I saw in the Globe and Mail about a week ago and I’ve been thinking […]

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Ate a bunch of Animal Products

By John | Published: February 25, 2010

Today we had a mini celebration and went to our favourite little diner for brunch, which means I ate a bunch of animal products, (sausage & mushroom omelette), and the best hash browns ever. However, I think that’s the first animal product I’ve eaten since the weekend, and with today being Thursday, my average animal […]

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Always Eating the Same Thing

By John | Published: February 24, 2010

So, it seems that I always eat the same thing: Oatmeal or toast for breakfast, chili, something with a tomato sauce, or soup for dinner. I need to put in some effort and make some more varied meals. Stay tuned.

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Vegetable Lasagna

By John | Published: February 18, 2010

Last week I mentioned that we had seen some dairy-free, meat-free lasagna on the Dr. Oz show that I wanted to try. We finally got around to making it yesterday and it’s pretty good. We discovered that it’s a lot of work, a lot more work than normal lasagna, and there are a couple of […]

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Super-Good Pizza

By John | Published: February 15, 2010

When I posted the weekly roundup earlier I mentioned some amazing Pizza that we’ve been eating this week. It’s really good, and really simple. Since we’re lazy, we haven’t made any pizza dough, we just bought whole-wheat pitas and used them as the crust. Once we had the pita, we added tomato sauce and pesto, […]

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Too Much Pre-Prepared Food

By John | Published: February 11, 2010

It seems that we have taken the pre-preparation of food a bit too far this week. We made a huge pot of chili, (mostly vegetarian, with just a bit of chopped-up steak in there for flavour), and some Bacon-Potato soup, (inspired by soup of the same name at Tim Hortons – I’m still perfecting the […]

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Chicken Not Pie Redux

By John | Published: February 4, 2010

Almost exactly a month ago the first dinner we ate from the book Food Matters was the Chicken Not Pie, (Chicken Pot Pie without the crust), recipe. At the time I thought it was too pea-ish, but promised to try it again. Today is that day. I made a Chicken Not Pie. I cooked the […]

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Meaty Dinner

By John | Published: February 3, 2010

The great thing about the Food Matters style of eating is that while reducing my meat intake and increasing my plant intake, it’s still totally OK to have a meaty meal once in a while. With that in mind, and a little laziness, last night I cooked a tourtière that’s been in our freezer for […]

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Lunch Time!

By John | Published: February 2, 2010

Joanie made lunch today. We don’t have a lot of food ready to eat right now except for the purple soup that I mentioned yesterday, so she chopped up a bunch of vegetables and mixed them with some leftover chick peas from making hummus. I added some leftover vinaigrette, (based on the Thai Beef Salad […]

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Garlic & Citrus

By John | Published: January 29, 2010

Remember that pre-planning I wrote about? It’s paying off. Earlier this week I roasted five heads of garlic, which made for some amazing smells here in the house. All of that sweet, tasty, roast garlic went into a big tub of roast garlic hummus, made with the huge can of chick peas we got a […]

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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.