Articles

Nutrition

Healthy Habits: Meal Monotony Saves Pounds

By Theresa Albert, nutritionist and founder of www.myfriendinfood.com Once upon a time experts advised people to eat a variety of foods.  Good advice during a time when everyone was eating

Articles

Roundup: Vegetarian Mains

We’re not a site about allergies. Although we believe in creating recipes that all families can enjoy. We’re not a site about being gluten free. Yet we can’t deny more and

Articles

What’s So Great About Pistachios?

The tagline read “Pistachios are the skinny nut” and like a sucker, I was hooked. After all, the conundrum surrounding nuts has always been how to get all the nutty

Articles

What’s So Great/Bad About Roundup

In a week dedicated to bad foods gone good we had to include a roundup of our favourite WSBA/WSGAs. As soon as we started running the columns called What’s So

Articles

Roundup: The Quick Bites Column’s Greatests Hits

Aside from nutritional advice, our adventures cooking alongside our families and the kid’s gadgets we love, Ceri and I also wanted to introduce  SPC readers to writers, bloggers, editors and personalities who are

Products

Food Find: Oikos Yogurt

Just a few weeks ago, Laura wrote a post about a great Greek style yogurt she’d fallen in love with, called Oikos by Stoneyfield. We’ve both been in love with

Articles

Roundup: Speed Dinners

When people used to tell me they couldn’t cook, I thought they meant that they didn’t know how. Maybe there wasn’t a food culture in their family and they didn’t

Nutrition

What’s So Great About Mushrooms?

As a personal trainer (and control freak!) I always assign my clients “homework” for the week, like cardio and weight workouts to get through before I see them next and

Articles

Roundup: Apple Bonanza

Here’s why you want to eat an apple a day. It’s high in vitamin C and, in a nutshell, you want a lot of the vitamin since it protects cells

Articles

Healthy Habits: Five Ways Nutrition Facts Labels Lie

By Theresa Albert, nutritionist and founder of www.myfriendinfood.com But the government regulates the information on the label, right? I mean, they can’t put it on there if it isn’t true!