Fit Fare

A common misconception is that if you’re short on time, your only option is preprepared food -fast food, junk food, processed food. This does not have to be the case.
Imagine, if you will, a typical evening in my household: both my partner and I are exhausted from a long day’s work, and more […]

Despite all the bad news about school lunches, there is actually a great deal of good news throughout the country. Programs have been springing up intent upon improving the state of our children’s lunches and making sure that proper nutrition is available to everyone.
Some programs have begun with smaller gestures, such […]

The bad news about school lunches and children’s nutrition is everywhere but the causes are often more obscure. Different people are pointing fingers in very different directions, putting the blame on one group or another.
The blame is most commonly directed towards four groups:
* The School Officials
* The National School Lunch Program (NSLP)
* […]

The typical American school lunch, the pizza pocket, chili cheese nacho, tater tots, sloppy Joe kind of school lunch, is still served up daily to the vast majority of our nation’s children. In other schools, lunch is actually sold on campus by Burger King or the Kentucky Colonel. Either way, the meals that […]

While the words “School Lunch” seem to be cropping up left and right these days, along with oblique references to childhood obesity and soda bans, very few seem to really know what the issues are or why there is a problem.
In order to understand what is really going on, I decided to start at the […]

Recently, I’ve read quite a few books about challenging and changing our food system, knowing where our food comes from, and how to make the best, most well-informed decisions about eating. Michael Pollan, Marion Nestle, Eric Schlosser… the list goes on and on. Yet Grub is the first one that I’ve read that felt like […]

Eggplants are one of my favourite vegetables (although they’re actually fruit). There is so much about the eggplant that I love: the gorgeous colours from a deep dark purple all the way to white, the rich flavour, the silky texture, even the name (the French and British one) aubergine sounds as enchanting to […]

When I stumbled upon Eat, Drink, & Weigh Less, it was not the title that drew me in. Nor was it the tag line promise: “A Flexible and Delicious Way to Shrink Your Waist Without Going Hungry.” While these two elements may have caught my attention and intrigued me in the past, I’ve […]

Many people start running in order to lose some weight or get in better shape. When I began running five years ago, I would just head out after work for a short jog mainly because I needed some time to think and it seemed to help with that. However, weight loss was […]

All junk and fast food very specifically targets kids and teenagers: with hip catchy names, bright colours, and targeted advertising campaigns, there’s no surprise that even very young children know about and want the latest snack food craze.
With all this sponsored information coming their way from the soda, snack & burger industries, […]