alkaline : Miranda Malisani – Nutrition Expert

Spring Cleansing Smoothie & VEGA Giveaway!

It’s easy to get in a smoothie rut during the winter months as our body doesn’t crave cold and water-dense ingredients. We’d rather be eating heavier, warming foods when the temperatures are below zero. Now that we are in April we are awaiting May flowers, listening to birds sing and ditching the snow tires. Fresh, colourful, and light are some of the words that come to mind when I think about Spring. It’s the time we reconnect with nature and our bodies. It’s important that we help our bodies to “spring clean” and eliminate lingering toxins and other elements that…

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Steamed “Pickled” Organic Kale

Steamed greens are an immediate ewwwww for most kids. So, how do you get your child to eat this leafy powerhouse? You have to make it relatable in some comfortable and known way. Replicate a texture, flavour or appearance of something that your child likes. Like many kids, my son loves pickles, so I took the flavour element sour and used lemon and apple cider vinegar to give him the pucker-sour taste he loves. He describes all sour foods as tasting like pickles so when I introduced kale to him I said it tastes kind of like pickles. He also…

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