Category Archives: Thoughts

I need to reboot my system

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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Always Eating the Same Thing

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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Too Much Pre-Prepared Food

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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Eating like Food Matters while Under Pressure

It’s been six days since I wrote anything here, and that’s because I’ve been working like crazy. We’re starting a bit of a media blitz with one of the companies I work for, so I’ve been trying to make sure that everything’s as ready as possible for both reviewers and the public that we hope […]

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Early Challenges to Eating like Food Matters

I thought I would share some of the challenges that we have faced so far in trying to, as Mark says, “eat like food matters.” So far we’ve run into problems buying good meat, I anticipate problems getting good bread, and I’ve struggled with not feeling as full, or at least as satisfied, as I […]

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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.