Ray of Sunshine

I was in Vancouver a week or so ago and one of my boys told me he had just eaten blackened waffles. Then I saw black ice cream cones at one of the coffee shops we visited. My boys informed me that this was the new “trend”, adding charcoal to make food look “black” and be "healthy". For me it did not look one bit appetizing. It has been touted as the newest form of “detoxing”. I know about “Activated Charcoal” from my health food days but had never seen it added to food. I

This might seem like a totally random blog but bear with me until the end: I cooked up 3 fresh pumpkins yesterday, which turned into 3 fresh pumpkin pies, and a batch of pumpkin energy bites and a whole bunch of bags to go into the freezer for the winter. The 2 smaller pumpkins I cooked were the "pie pumpkins", these are sweeter than the regular larger ones. To cook a pumpkin: put a couple of knife slices (like poking a baked potato) into the sides of the whole pumpkin, a re

Back in what I thought was cold and flu season I wrote an article on Probiotics (Oct 2017) turns out cold and flu season is still with us, kind of like our snow right now, lingering. There is a horrible stomach flu and a chest cold going around and this is just after we had a horrible throat and chest cold last month. Is the flu season getting longer? Or are our immune systems just not fighting like they used to? I am not really sure, but like in my October blog on Probioti