As summer peaks, tomatoes are ripening on their vines and anyone lucky enough to have a green house (or a really green thumb!) might be finding that their pepper plants are getting nice and juicy right about now. Combine the two in this rich red soup for optimal health benefits and a delicious summer flavour. [...]
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Growing and drying your own herbs is great for frugal cooking. So many people I know grow herbs and don’t use them for much more than garden filler. Herb gardens are beautiful and smell fantastic, but it’s great to actually use your herbs, fresh or dried. Today is another Pennywise Platter Carnival over at The [...]
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B..B..b..b.. What begins with B? Barber, baby, bubbles and a bumblebee! ~ Dr. Suess B..B..b..b.. What begins with B? Beth breastfeeds baby Bob in bed B..b..B! ~ Melodie The following post was inspired by Adventures in [Crunchy] Parenthood’s ABC’s of the blogosphere. Only I realized most of the breastfeeding words out there start with “B” so [...]
Bosom Buddies. Breast Friends. There’s a funny little cult of breastfeeding moms out there, and I have to admit I belong, only I usually choose not to use a colloquialism. It creates too weird of a visual for me. (Shaking head). I have many breastfeeding friends. I have breastfeeding friends at home, most of whom I’ve [...]
I’m going camping! While many of you are away at BlogHer, I’ll be camping with the family and a caravan of friends in the wilderness of Strathcona Provincial Park. Since we’ll be out in the boonies, communing with Mother Nature I’m pretty sure there won’t be any way to connect with the internet. In fact, I’m not [...]
A few months ago there was a piece in our local paper about how the Canadian Human Rights Commission (HRC) shouldn’t be used to protect the rights of breastfeeding moms to nurse in public. The slightly right-of-center male youth who writes a political opinion piece each week was specifically referring to two women (Manuela Valle [...]
I just found out this weekend that a friend of mine cussed out some guy who made a negative remark to her about her breastfeeding her 3 month old. I was like, “Woo hoo! One for breastfeeding!” But really, it wasn’t. It was just a tie. Sometimes I feel like an accepting breastfeeding culture is [...]
