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What a Simple Virus Like HPV Can Do

October 21, 2016 By Food Retro

When my doctor’s office called me back a couple weeks following a routine physical, I had a sick feeling of dread. “Irregular pap,” the doctor’s assistant said. Cervical cancer!? My mind panicked. But my mouth, fortunately, knew what to say. “What happens now?”

Filed Under: I Can't Make this Stuff Up, Science Gives Me A Hadron, Tech-Talk Stop, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: Health & Home, how-to, parenting, sponsored

25 Ways To NOT Display Christmas Cards

December 17, 2015 By Food Retro

My morning muse for this morning is Jennifer of YouPinspireMe, who was recently crowing about how you know it’s Christmas time when your post about 25 Ways to Display Christmas Cards suddenly gets a ridiculous amount of organic search hits (no I won’t tell you how many, but I had to go cry over a…

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Filed Under: Crafty Things, Frugal & Eco Things, SLIDER, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: Cards, Christmas, crafting, DDIY, Health & Home, humor

Help the Old Gifts Keep Giving

December 1, 2015 By Food Retro

I only bought a couple small gifts for my son this year, but he’s the only little one on both sides of the family. In spite of restrictions my husband and I placed on gift numbers, some years we ended up driving home for an hour with a carload of stuff jammed between our legs and…

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Filed Under: Frugal & Eco Things, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: Health & Home, Reusing/Recycling/Repurposing

Give Your Bakers Happy Holidays with Lee Valley Tools

November 20, 2015 By Food Retro

I was a happy baker slacker over the summer with the excuse that it was mostly too hot too heat up the house, but winter, it’s a-comin’. When the house feels chilly, baking is one of my favourite past-times, cause it gives me an excuse to linger in a nice warm kitchen with a cup of…

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Filed Under: Beauty(ful) Things, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: Health & Home, Kitchen Chemistry, sponsored, t

No Rennet Goat Cheese (Chèvre)

September 25, 2015 By Food Retro

I love spreadable herbed goat cheese… the kind that comes in the tiny little cylinder at the deli counter that costs you an arm and a leg. So expensive, but so yummy. It’s great on pesto pizzas with chicken and arugula. Perfectly delicious on its own spread on a sliced baguette. And… it’s stupid simple to…

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Filed Under: Cheese, Kitchen Chemistry Tagged With: egg free, Health & Home, Kitchen Chemistry, no refined sugar, nut free, peanut free, soy free, The Urban Homestead, vegetarian

How to have an Allergy-Friendly (and Healthier!) Easter Egg Hunt

March 26, 2015 By Food Retro

Not only is Easter an annual sugar-bender for kids, it can be a real challenge to moms of children with food allergies–especially if the child is allergic to milk–and food allergies are becoming an ever-increasing problem. It’s tough to strike a balance between fun and healthy eating habits. So here’s some tips on being allergy-friendly,…

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Filed Under: Frugal & Eco Things, Life With Food Allergies, SLIDER, The Answer is 42, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: dairy free, egg free, Health & Home, kid friendly, Life With Food Allergies

St. Patrick’s Day Hat – Guest Author @Youpinspireme

March 9, 2015 By Food Retro

I’ll be honest with you: I’m not Irish. Not even a little bit. I’m 1st generation Canadian and both my parents and all of my grandparents were born in Holland. But you know what we Dutch immigrant families eat a LOT of? Meat & potatoes, not unlike the Irish. And, let’s face it, both the…

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Filed Under: Crafty Things, SLIDER, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: crafting, Health & Home, kid friendly

Tips to Stay Warm Outside (When You Don’t Have a Car)

February 4, 2015 By Food Retro

We’re in the coldest part of the year here in Southern Ontario, and I’ve been feeling the chill lately. I’m without a vehicle, and kidlet’s bus stop is about a kilometer away. The school transportation system says it’s their policy that a six year old should walk up to a mile to reach their bus…

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Filed Under: SLIDER, The Answer is 42, The Places We'll Go Tagged With: Health & Home, The Urban Homestead

Pickle-Brined Fried Chicken (Or, How to Eat Chick-Fil-A in Canada + with Food Allergies)

February 2, 2015 By Food Retro

To reiterate the story about how this post came to be, during our last trip to the grocery store on Saturday, my son was upset because I wouldn’t buy the one brand of flavourless frozen slabs of “chicken fingers” that’s safe for him to eat (I get that they’re “all natural,” with clearly readable ingredients,…

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Filed Under: Kitchen Chemistry, Meals, SLIDER Tagged With: chicken, dairy free, egg free, gluten free, Health & Home, Life With Food Allergies, main course, nut free, soy free

A Fresh Attitude About Lunch On-The-Go

January 29, 2015 By Food Retro

The reason salad and I almost never get along is that I like hot food. It’s true. The only time I don’t prefer hot food is that short three week period of the summer here in Ontario where temperatures hit around 40C. Those are the times of year that I’d rather listen to the Hamster Dance…

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Filed Under: SLIDER, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: Health & Home, sponsored, vegetarian

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