“Eat food grandma would recognize” is a tenant that I like to keep in mind when doing my weekly shopping. Trouble is, reading food labels is getting both difficult and disquieting when half the ingredients are unrecognizable and the other half are unpronounceable, especially when it comes to preservatives.
Despite the modern trend for healthy eating, nutritionally deficient white bread still makes up about half of what we consume. Not even our ‘whole wheat’ varieties offer the fiber and nutrition of traditional bread-making techniques.
We’ve put together a short informational video that help us understand the time honored technique that goes into our sourdough breads. Click here to view the video
The Ontario Food Terminal (located at 165 The Queensway) will open its doors on May 25, from 11:00 am – 3:00 pm, for Taste of the Food Terminal, in support of FoodShare Toronto.
We’ve all heard “an apple a day” but can the same be true for the sweet confectionery, chocolate? Chocolate has been found to contain more flavonoids than red wine, black tea and green tea!
Refined sugar contains very little nutritional value, but packs a huge calorie punch. If you have a sweet tooth and want to give up refined sugar, you have a plethora of natural, healthy substitutes to choose from. When looking for sugar substitutes, make sure that you go natural rather than synthetic. While artificial sweeteners may contain fewer calories, they have been linked to cancers and other physical ailments. With these natural sweeteners, you can have your cake, and eat it too!
