Category: Healthy Eating

With September RIGHT around the corner, I’ve been getting a ton of questions, and noticing a lot of parents feeling a bit stressed about packing school lunches. Parents often times struggle with foods coming back uneaten, feeling pressure to produce ‘Pinterest-worthy’ lunches, and generally, just feeling overwhelmed with providing balanced…

Have you ever considered dieting? Or maybe dieted more times than you can count? Have you ever thought to stop and ask yourself – what your TRUE motivations are? When we strip away the desire to lose weight – have you considered what is driving your weight loss goals? And…

With summer being SO busy – having healthy snacks on hand for all your activities can seem impossible. This tends to lead to people eating fast food, or grabbing unhealthy ‘junk foods’ at gas stations or on the road. I have SO many clients that grab these things, not because they…

Does summer time mean dealing with summer bloat? It’s common. Since we have so little time to truly enjoy nice weather in Canada, we hang up our aprons, spend time on patios, picnicking, barbecuing, and all in all, putting nutrition on the back burner. It’s no wonder my gut clients…

Do you have a travelling poop plan? You laugh – you maybe feel a bit uncomfortable even saying it – but how many of you struggle with your bowels while on the road? I know I DO. Which is why I was SO excited when Kirsten Oilund agreed to guest…

Oh my goodness guys, yesterday I had the BEST time on Breakfast Television talking about foods that fight stress! We made a stress busting oatmeal cookie smoothie, which, of course I made low FODMAP for all my IBS’ers with TONS of stress busting ingredients. I…

March is Nutrition Month! My online school, Nutrition Academy has been putting something HUGE together. Many of you are familiar with the event we hosted last year – a virtual summit with dietitian volunteers contributing content – and it was SUCH a big hit, we decided to do it again! PRESENTING:…

I Like Junk Food Better Than Veggies! …and Other Adult Excuses to Not Eat Your Vegetables Welcome to the FINAL post of the Vegetable Excuse series. We’re going to be talking about science taste preferences, and wrap up how to get in 5+ servings of veggies a day. If you missed…

But I Hate Vegetables! …and Other Adult Excuses to Not Eat Your Vegetables Welcome to Part 3 of the Vegetable Excuse series what to do if you ‘hate vegetables’. It tends to be a specific few vegetables I find, and tends to influence your opinions of other veg. If you hate…

Hey all! I’m sure many of you know, but I’m taking part this year in Pulse Canada’s Pulse Pledge! For those of you who DON’T know, it’s the International Year of the Pulses! I’ve had many people ask – Andrea – what are pulses? Well. Let me…