Last weekend I started feeling nauseous after I ate my supper on Saturday night. I often feel sick to my stomach because of my migraine headaches, so I didn’t think much about it… except that it didn’t get any better, and after a couple of hours I realized that I was probably going to throw [...]
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sick
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Tagged food poisoning, illness, sick, vomiting
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sea change
I can’t tell you how frustrated I’ve been with my eating recently. I’ve been bingeing daily on chocolate and other junk food for nearly two months, and last week I was starting to feel like I had lost all control of my relationship with food. I have a history of disordered eating, and this was [...]
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Tagged bingeing, diet, eating, eating disorder, habits, Leo Babauta, Sea Change, Zen Habits
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to raw, or not too raw?
This summer I’ve been eating a lot of raw food, simply because it’s been too hot to cook much. I’m not necessarily a huge fan of raw food diets – I’ve been 100% raw for eight months in the past, and in the end I found it too restrictive and not nourishing enough. I like [...]
food as medicine
In the pre-dawn half-light, I prepare my breakfast. I wash my hands with scented vegetable oil soap and warm water. I pull my ingredients out of the fridge, one by one. A base of green leaves – romaine or leaf lettuce, sometimes accented with kale or cabbage. A colourful harmony of vegetables – different every [...]
beauty in the discarded parts
I’ve been photographing food scraps (and other items) in my kitchen sink since the beginning of the year. I love the beautiful colours and patterns that the discarded food makes. Occasionally as a cook, I also appreciate the culinary value of the parts of vegetables that we normally throw out. Lately I’ve been purposefully incorporating [...]
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Tagged cooking, edible, recipes, scraps, vegetables
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the ideal diet
Just for the record, I don’t believe there is such a thing. An ideal diet, that is. But that hasn’t stopped me from trying to find my ideal diet – because I do believe in experimenting and tweaking, in the pursuit of wellness. And it’s been a long and interesting journey. It started when I [...]
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Tagged diet, elimination diet, endometriosis, gluten free, lactose free, low carb, Mark's Daily Apple, migraines, paleo, primal, vegan, vegetarian, wheat free
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how to make perfect hard-boiled eggs
I’m writing this Wednesday night, and I’m exhausted – probably because I’ve been bingeing on sugary things (chocolate and tropical fruit) for the last couple of days. Which is a roundabout way of saying that, even though I’d planned on writing a post about how to make a perfect hard-boiled eggs, and making a beautiful [...]
hunger
Yesterday afternoon I was starving. (And of course I don’t mean I was really starving. I was just hungry in the urgent, demanding way that a child is hungry. I WANTED FOOD NOW.) And all afternoon, the only thing I could think about was getting home and eating something – supper. Big supper. As instantly [...]
pantry
This is a photo of the top shelf of my pantry. I keep cooking oils, vinegars, shampoo, vitamins, filtered water and toothpaste here, among other things. I love pantries. I love the idea of storage. I also love the whimsical idea of hidden surprises. I don’t keep my pantry too spare, too edited – I [...]
