by Diana | Jan 19, 2025 | Nutrition, Small Steps
When it comes to eating a nutrient-dense diet, one of the simplest and most impactful changes you can make is switching the oils you use for cooking and food preparation. Most people unknowingly rely on refined vegetable oils like canola, soybean, and sunflower oil....
by Diana | Jan 13, 2025 | Enzymes, Health, Nutrition, Small Steps
When it comes to making small, impactful changes to your diet, switching to full-fat dairy products is one of the simplest and most nourishing steps you can take. For years, we’ve been told that low-fat or skim dairy is the healthier choice. But a growing body of...
by Diana | Nov 23, 2022 | Nutrition, Small Steps
Another small step that will improve your nutrition without making major changes that may cause stress in the family. Organic Another one of the small steps that you can fairly easily do without having a whole family revolt is changing the quality of the products you...
by Diana | Nov 23, 2022 | Labels & ingedients, Small Steps
When going fully organic is too expensive for your family, there is a middle ground to be found. When we were on a very tight budget I used the Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen lists. Tight budget When you are on a tight budget you’ll want to make sure you do the...
by Diana | Nov 23, 2022 | Cooking, Labels & ingedients, Small Steps
There are all kinds of colourful very nice tasting salts. They all contain many more minerals than the white table salt in the supermarket. Salt All salts have a high content of sodium chloride. This is just the way it is. This is not necessarily bad for you as long...
by Diana | Nov 23, 2022 | Labels & ingedients, Nutrition, Small Steps
Butter is much better than margarine. Margarine / spread is made from unhealthy oils, which are hydrogenated and with that become trans fats. We all know trans fats aren’t good for us. So why would you eat margarine / spreads? Butter versus Margarine There are...
