12th January, 2009
Canadian Foodies in 2009
Wow! 2009 already!?
Let’s start the new year with a confession… I pretty much neglected the CanadianFoodies blog in 2008 (I’m sorry CF blog! I still love you!)
I didn’t stop eating, or loving food, I didn’t lose my passion to create food, write or share our experiences with you… or anything else like that
What I did do was try and cope with being busier than I ever have been before.
Floods and children, increasing demands at the office, our first major garden and all the while trying to not just survive, but improve life for our kids… you know, that whole life thing…
But it’s a new year, we’re back and this year our focus is once more going to change, or at least shift a bit.
This year, anyone who has stopped by in the past will notice an increased emphasis not just on food, but on healthier, greener, local and organic foods and the ‘greener’ lifestyle that we’ve been attempting to adopt over the past few years.
Mrs. Foodie and I have always eaten well (in a ‘healthy choices’ sense), but like almost everyone else, even we were guilty of the odd quick and easy processed foodstuff for times when time was in short supply (a couple frozen lasagna’s were a definite staple within our deep freezer) But, when we started having kids we began taking a hard look at everything that came into the house.
Foods with transfat were the the first things to go (and Mrs. Foodie felt the pain when our last microwave popcorn was finished).
Then, over the course of a year, we made choices to minimize foods heavy in sodium and saturated fats, we stopped using the microwave, stopped buying grocery store inst-meals and our occasional trips to the local farmers markets became a weekly event. In fact, in the summer months 80 - 90% of our produce comes from a farmers market.
We made a lot of headway that first year (2005) but the next year brought child #2, followed a year later by child #3 (yup, 3 kids in less than 34 months!) and we struggled to maintain our momentum forward.
But heare we are in 2009, the first decade of new millenium is coming to a close and through experience or wisdom the changes that we started 3 year ago have truly become second nature and we’re ready to take our ‘green’ life to the next level.
What exaclty does that mean?
Honestly I’m not 100% sure where the final destination is going to land us, but I do know the direction we’re heading.
The focus of this blog will continue to be food, (we’ll be posting a new recipe/meal of the week column shortly)
and we’ll continue to investigate the back stories and histories of the foods we eat. But now, in 2009, we’ll start to focus on food as part of our environmental impact, our carbon footprint. We’ll look at the choices we want to make and followup with the ones we’re actually able to follow through with.
And that’s just the first step of the journey…
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1st July, 2008
Upgrading my Blog
I am about to upgrade CanadianFoodies.com to Wordpress 2.5.
So please ignore any short term randomness as I disable plugins, upgrade and (hopefully not) troubleshoot. We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled program shortly!
Thanks for your patience.
* Update (15 minutes later) - Upgrade complete. If you notice any further randomness, it is completely my fault!
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24th April, 2008
Canadian Foodies in 2008
Hello everyone!
Thanks for visiting. To any of my old regulars, thanks for checking back.
We’ve been a little quiet around here over the past 6 months or so… what can I say :)
I’ve been hibernating through the long Canadian Winter!
Actually we’ve been really busy with other ventures… a new baby in January (our second daughter!), a flood in February that destroyed our basement, and being generally busy trying to plan out the future of CanadianFoodies.
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