By: Cayla from Running, Recipes, and ReadingThis morning, after my eyes popped open at six, I hopped out of bed, made myself a cup of coffee, and baked banana bread for my kids' breakfast. While this may seem normal for many of you, it is anything but normal for me. Especially on a … [Read more...]
Get Your Picky Eaters Eating!
Join UrbanMoms as we discuss being active and making healthy choices in the "life is good" blog series sponsored by Nesquik. At a time when most Canadian children may not be getting the calcium and other essential nutrients they need, delicious milk - like chocolate milk made with Nesquik - is just … [Read more...]
A Teacher’s Story: From Special Ed to the Honour Roll
By: Cayla from Running, Recipes, and ReadingI have a new Facebook friend. Her name is Katie. We became friends last week on her 18th birthday, the age I tell my students I can honour their friend request. But Katie isn't just any friend, she is my all-time favourite student.I met … [Read more...]
Martha, For About an Hour
Last week was rough. Brinley had a 48-hour virus and kind of gave up sleeping (like, at all) for a few nights and was extra clingy in the days and the big sisters were running wild, beating on each other and the house was sinking even deeper into a pit of cluttered agony and for the first time I … [Read more...]
Holly Clegg Cookbooks
Holly CleggHolly Clegg, author of the best selling trim&TERRIFIC® cookbook series including a diabetic cookbook with the ADA and Eating Well Through Cancer, has sold almost 1 million copies. Holly has promoted her healthy lifestyle recipes on national shows including Fox & Friends, NBC … [Read more...]
Putting the Joy back into Cooking
I'm a bit of a cookbook junkie. I like books of all kinds but cookbooks are, pardon my expression, particularly delicious. My most recent acquisitions are Jamie Olivers' Cook with Jamie, and the classic, iconic cookbook that's recently been updated, The Joy of Cooking. I'm kind of … [Read more...]
Feeding the Troops.
At about 4 o'clock every afternoon are you wondering what to feed your family for dinner? You go to the fridge only to find a bag of carrots, some yogurt and the weekends left over takeout. Not too many options for a healthy family meal are there? Taking an hour a week to plan your … [Read more...]
A Spoonful of Sugar
We collect Turn Of The Last Century children’s activity books, and some of the activities – taxidermy, anyone? – are a bit questionable now, while some of them – making candy and kites, “nutting parties” – are sadly rather lost. And that’s the way time goes, I guess, sweetness getting left behind … [Read more...]
Everyone Can Cook Midweek Meals, recipes for cooks on the run
ERIC AKIS should be an honorary member of urbanmoms. According to his media release, he is a food writer for the Times Colonist in Victoria, B.C., a freelance food consultant, a former chef and the bestselling author of Everyone Can Cook, Everyone Can Cook Seafood and Everyone Can Cook … [Read more...]
My Favourite Things
So. I was going through my cupboards and fridge (must be a daylight-savings induced spring cleaning) and I got thinking about some favourite recipes that I either make all the time or haven't made in a while. I haven't eaten a lot of "real" food lately, since I've been workin' the Isagenix … [Read more...]
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