Having trouble convincing your kids that broccoli and spinach are more exciting than pizza and chips? Check out my top six tips for getting veggies into your kids.
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6 tips for getting veggies into your kids!
Black bean soup recipe (vegan, gluten-free)
Try out one of our new favourite suppers - vegan, gluten-free black bean soup. It's a great source of iron, fiber and healthy fats, and the kids love it too!
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6 Things To Know About Boosting Your Iron Levels
Iron-deficiency is something I see often as a student clinician at the Boucher Naturopathic Clinic in New Westminster, in both my pregnant and post-partum patients, and in women generally struggling with fatigue. Check out my top six tips to optimize your iron levels.
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Miso gravy recipe (vegan, gluten-free)
Check out this fabulous vegan, gluten-free miso gravy recipe - our favourite sauce by far these days - enjoy!
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Super Sleep Tips
Not getting the restful sleep that you need? Is it leading to fatigue, depression, weight gain, hormonal dysregulation or digestive problems? Addressing sleep issues is a key piece of the wellness puzzle. Here’s some tips that I often share with my patients at the...
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Borscht recipe (vegan, gluten-free)
Recently all I’ve wanted to eat is soups, so we’ve been experimenting with nourishing vegetable soups of all kinds. This (vegan, gluten-free) borscht recipe is my favourite so far – the kids love the colour of it, and the beets and purple cabbage are...
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The down-low on managing your sugar cravings
As any tired mom will attest to, when you're sleep-deprived anything sugary seems like a godsend, even though it will make you even more tired in the long-run... Here's the naturopathic scoop on how to manage sugar cravings and get on track towards a...
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3 reasons you should pay attention to sugar and glycemic load
With so much nutrition information and diet fads out there, it can be hard to know what to focus on when choosing what to eat every day. This week’s post focuses on why sugar (and by association, glycemic index and load) should be a...
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Coconut-chia muffin recipe (vegan, gluten-free)
This recipe is the current favourite breakfast muffin, and was inspired by mixing together a few recipes in Dreena Burton’s excellent cookbook “Let Them Eat Vegan”. The coconut makes the muffins nice and chewy, and with the bananas and chia you’ll never guess that...
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Flax-almond muffin recipe (grain-free)
These gluten-free muffins are a great source of protein, good fats and fiber, as and have the added bonus of being grain-free (and so also gluten-free)! These muffins were a big hit, and are great for a quick breakfast, or to accompany a soup
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