Does it really matter if it’s January or July? You can clean up your diet any time of year, even if it’s just one small change at a time. In fact, we at Optimal Wellness Niagara believe in progress, one step at a time so continually making small changes to your diet will go a long way to increase your overall health. Below is a 12-step program for cleaning up your diet. Take a month to complete each step below. Taking time means your new healthy eating habits will most likely start to become the norm for you, that […]
I Gave Up Sugar and I’m Stickin’ To It!
As a budding nutritionist in school and a veteran food writer with a natural curiosity for all things that come in a glass or on a plate, I experimented with scores supplement routines, alternative therapies, healing modalities and a wealth of different nutrition plans. Some of them were incredibly extreme and complicated to follow, but I’ve always been a person who can follow through with any goal I set for myself – I just do it! So when I was given a blood sugar stabilizing diet of eating 3 meals and 3 snacks a day I threw myself into […]
I’m a Holistic Nutritionist
I’ve been in the food world for a very long time. Some say it consumes me and others claim I’m obsessed with it. I’m not sure where the truth lies; all I know is that I have no memories that don’t somehow relate to food and all of my goals involve food in one way or another. In any case, I think I’ve done pretty well in my delicious little universe. As many of you know in September of 2017 I started full-time school to become a holistic nutritionist. Or perhaps you’ve forgotten. It’s been so intense I haven’t […]
A First for Food Photography
September 15 to October 14, 2017, the St. Marys Station Gallery will host the first of its kind exhibition of the award winning food photography of Jon Ogryzlo. Ogryzlo’s mouth-watering pictures can be found in cookbooks the likes of the Niagara Cooks series and The Ontario Table (both internationally award winning cookbooks). The exhibition will feature large, glistening photographs of dishes who’s recipes can be found in The Ontario Table cookbook, available through the duration of the exhibition enrobed in a silk ribbon to all with a $20 donation to the St Marys Station Gallery. The Ontario Table cookbook […]
A Turning Point
It’s been a while since I’ve been on social media. Not that I have anything against it really, I’ve just been living a life in the big city of Toronto. Where I live I’m 3 city blocks away from Sugar Beach and the park along the water called Chorus Quay. From here I can walk the entire waterfront – and I have, many times. I’m a 6-block walk east along The Esplanade, past fountains and gardens to The Distillery District. To the north I walk 6 blocks to Young Dundas Square and the Eaton Centre and a further 2 […]
Why I Cook
The tradition of Italian cooking is all about the grandmother, about the matriarch of the kitchen and therefore the family. There is no memory on earth more symbolic of love than the sight of someone’s grandmother making a meal for the people she loves. My grandmother didn’t waste time thinking too much about the tomatoes or the sausages. She simply grew the best, bought the best and made the best meal. Her food became symbolic of love and all other words to describe what she did are inadequate. Michael Pollan said, “the shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical […]