Thai Quinoa Salad
This recipe is made LIGHTENING fast with a little help from meal planning & prep. Ingredients are quick, the chopping is minimal, and if you've already cooked your quinoa and cooled it. BOOM. Done. Here's my quick recipe: 1/4C almond butter 1/4C coconut aminos 1T...
Curried Chickpea Burgers with Mango Avocado Salsa
These were SUPER quick to make and were delicious. I used my potato masher, but you could also make it in the food processor (it would be smoother - can't decide if that would be better or not! the texture is nice this way). #endramble Burgers: -2-540mL cans of chick...
Beet Quinoa Salad
We used to have this delicious little restaurant called the Urban Beet here in Nanaimo. They had an AMAZING quinoa salad with...beets. This is my attempt to re-create it (with a few of my own added touches for flair). 1C quinoa 2-3 cooked beets (I buy "love beets"...
Black Bean Tacos
This is a new SIMPLE & quick fave in our house. Vegan & kid approved! -1 can of black beans, drained & rinsed -1T olive oil -1 onion, minced -2 cloves of garlic, minced -1 zuchini, diced -1 yellow or orange pepper, diced -1/2C grape tomatoes, diced -1/2C...
Learn to Run 5k Schedule
Unfortunately, no matter how “fit” you are, if you haven’t been running it is important for injury prevention (and comfort of your body!) that you follow a slow progression from walking to running. This gives your joints time to adjust to the impact of the sport. This...
Healthy Hummus Burgers
Do you like hummus? Like burgers? You'll LOVE this simple recipe! Start with canned chick peas (1 lg can or 2 small), drained, rinsed & smashed with a potato masher until all the beans are mashed. Then add in: -1t cumin -1t garlic powder -2T ground flax -1T olive...
Design your mindful, healthy holiday
Sometimes health feels like this train you’re on. You get “on” the right track and you fear that if you steer (even slightly) “off-course” that you’ll go completely off the rails and never find your way “back on track.” After years of having a rather tumultuous relationship with health + fitness it’s totally fair to feel this way. In fact you’re not alone, most people I talk to have this same experience! There is so much mystery around motivation and what really works that if you’re like most people you’ve come to fear any minor deviation from what’s currently working. So you don’t adjust course AT ALL. But all this being “on track” is stealing all the joy, so you decide to “cut your losses” and “start fresh in the new year.” And you wouldn’t be wrong to do that….but what if there’s another way?