When I was 20 I had my first real travel experience. Yes, I’d been to Disneyland and different areas in Canada before then, but I had never travelled overseas. This first big trip changed me forever. I backpacked through Thailand. Not only did it give me the travel bug and begin series of backpacking trips
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Massaged Red Kale & Lox Nicoise Salad
Today we are off to Hawaii!! I can’t wait to get my toes in the sand! The hubby and I have some fun things planned for our trip that I’m excited to share with you along the way! I’ll be doing travel posts intermittently for the next couple weeks and there will be lots of
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Appetizers
Avo-Chicken Salad Bell Pepper Boats
What do you do when you have only 5 minutes to make lunch and have leftover chicken breast in the fridge?? You make Bell Pepper Boats stuffed with Avocado Chicken Salad! Or… Avo Chicken Salad Bell Pepper Boats! I was rushing out the door the other day to get to work for my first client and
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Appetizers
Sesame Chia Crusted Tuna Poke
You know when you spend an hour writing a wonderful post to go along with a delicious and awesome recipe and then you accidentally press something and it disappears and to much of your clicking, panicking, and dismay – it just doesn’t come back? Yeah, that just happened. Drat. (a nice version of the actual
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Creamy Tahini Kale Salad with Pomegranate
Today we have one of my fave bloggers Deryn, from Running on Real Food here to share a delicious, vegan recipe! Tahini, Kale, Pomegranate… ummm… yes, yes, yes please! Take it away Deryn! “I’m so happy to be here today on one of my favourite blogs, Nutritionist in the Kitch! Christal is such an inspiration
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Strawberry & Kale Slaw Chicken Salad with Poppyseed Dressing (GF)
Just when I thought Spring was here to stay… POW, snow. 🙁 Oh well… I can’t be that sad… I’m leaving to LA with the hubby on Sunday!! Wooo hoo! This salad screams summer to me, and that’s totally where my head has been these days – in the clouds, thinking about summer! It’s these
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Grilled Beet & Tomato Caprese Stacks
I’m going to (try my best to) keep this post simple and to the point, just like this recipe… simple and to the point! As you may already know, I like simple recipes…not too intricate, minimal ingredients, and limited effort required. Sometimes I wish I had a little more ambition to make all those complicated
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Asian Chicken & Satsuma Salad (GF option!)
Ok, so I already know the first question on many of your minds… What’s a SATSUMA?? Yep, that’s what I was thinking too when I saw the little bag of them at the grocery store and read the label – Satsumas are also known as tangerines… and are part of the mandarin orange family! So…
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DIY Salad Dressing in 5 Easy Steps
This post is long overdue! I’ve been meaning to do it for a long time! Back in November of last year I had the opportunity to go to an event called Christmas In November at the Jasper Park Lodge. Talk about a magical weekend. You can read all about it here. I got to
