Three Grain Vegetable Soup

You can also use leftover rice or pasta. Any leftover vegetables you have fresh or cooked. This soup is easy, nutritious and low calorie! Ingredients: 1 tbsp sunflower oil 2 tbsp chili flakes 1 tbsp dried oregano 1 large onion chopped 3 cloves of chopped fresh garlic 6 cups of vegetable broth or vegetable stock cube and water 1 796 …

Day one

Day one was fine. It was the day after daylight savings time change so I slept in, had coffee and went skiing then took my dog for a jog. That made for a pleasant start to the week. I had a substantial dinner the night before to prepare for exercising first thing in the morning. The ski was good, my dog …

Fasting. Just another quick fix?

I have been thinking about this topic for weeks, I have read the positive and the negative scientific reviews (which correspond to my own view) but in the interest of a one woman science experiment. I am going to try it. Only because I said at the beginning of the year that my New Year’s resolution was to follow my …

Carbs boost your immune system

You may have heard the advice about exercising when you are sick?  If your symptoms are from the ears down, don’t exercise. Symptoms from the ears up, you are probably okay to do an easy workout. If you have a fever don’t exercise at all. If you are feeling a little under the weather it may be a good day …

Early Bird or Night Owl?

I always had a feeling that people who go to bed earlier and get up early were healthier. Okay. Okay. I know I go to bed before all the kids in my complex. I have a particular distaste for “spring ahead” because who cares that the sun is now up when I am heading to bed and it is once …

Miso Gravy

I first had Miso Gravy at the Naam, a Vancouver vegetarian institution. Open 24 hours a day and with so many choices, it was one of the first vegetarian restaurants in Vancouver. Now there are many more, but the Naam remains with its amazing Miso Gravy. This is my imitation when I am too far to go pick some up.I …