What does Food for Life mean

I have been intensively studying all things food for about 40 years. It started with finding yogurt in a little health food store in Calgary. I went to this little shop every day at lunch during High School, and spent $.25 on a container of carrot, walnut and honey yogurt. Remember it was forty years ago and very few people knew what yogurt or health food stores were. I also did yoga at seven every morning with a wonderful TV yoga teacher named Kareen Zebroff. As I moved into my 20's, I became a vegetarian and read Diet for a Small Planet. Then bought Recipes for a Small Planet. I read and cooked, read and cooked. I had a beautiful son, who happens to be the pickiest eater ever put on this planet. Over the years I drifted further and further from my healthy food obsession. The past three years have been a journey back. In the spring of 2011, I suddenly had an overwhelming urge to start an organic vegetable garden. With the help of my husband (and gardener's assistant), I have created a lovely back yard full of veggies. My tropical/orchid greenhouse has been cleaned out and grows veggies as well. I've learned to grow vegetables from seed. You can follow this gardening journey in my blog Organic Gardening in Sidney.

As I started eating my own blissful salads with violas, nasturtiums and colorful vegetables, and foraging for berries for dessert, I started reading a lot about food. And Monsanto, and GMO's and of course pesticides, additives and herbicides on food. I have become an absolute food vigilante. I feel so strongly about it...well I felt the need to start a new blog. My garden blog is not the right venue for this.

So, this blog is to share the information I find. The changes I've made to my cupboards. The healthy substitutes that I find for everyday products. I am doing so much research and conducting my own 'field trials' of alternate products that I am hoping to save you the time, effort and expense. I'll give you my first tip. I have been looking for a coffee cream substitute. I bought Silk Vanilla Coffee Creamer. It is non GMO so I tried it. I stuck with it for a week. My morning coffee consumption dropped from one cup to about a half. I could not finish a single cup. God awful. So I poured out the remainder and made my own creamer.

So, enjoy the blog and maybe we will learn something from each other.