BA in Vancouver

Meatless April is over! Now to Meat-filled May, haha! I’m happy to have the option to eat meat again, but I did really enjoy the vegetarian stint. It was tough when I was eating out, but at certain restaurants that embraced vegetarian cuisine, it was heavenly (Chapandaz Restaurant in Port Moody, Nuba). I do want […]

Believe it or not, this is the first salad I’ve made as a part of my Meatless Month! I was a vegetarian over a decade (*sigh*) ago when I was in my last years of high school and into University. I ate so much salad that when I went back to my carnivore ways, I declared […]

As much as I eat at home, I do eat out a lot. I think I’ve definitely exceeded my ‘seafood twice a week’ rule, it just seems impossible to get a decent meatless meal in a restaurant. I’m finding that doing a menu scan of prospective menus certainly plays a big part in my venue […]

Breakfast has to be one of my favourite meals (along with lunch and dinner, hehe) – I could easily eat ‘breakfast foods’ all day, and I have! Sometimes I will genuinely feel like oatmeal for dinner, or eggs for lunch. It’s also a ‘meal type’ that is fairly generous to vegetarians, and even more so […]

One of the things I continue to struggle with is trying to replenish and recover my body after a tough workout at the gym. Apparently it’s suggested that you intake a 4:1 carbohydrate to protein mix, but it’s also proportionate to how much you weigh and how hard you work, so it’s a tricky thing […]

One of my favourite cuisines has to be Mexican food. Let’s be honest, I try to be authentic but I use cheddar cheese which immediately renders it “Tex Mex”. I make these breakfast or lunch burritos that I freeze and keep in neat foil packages, ready for it’s 3.5 minute ride in my microwave. I […]