Confession: I’ve been a little naughty lately! Naughty in the “spending money unnecessarily” category, to be exact. Honestly, I don’t think my spending habits have any particular pattern to them, other than AT TIMES I can get a little excessive, and spend more than I probably should. Maybe it’s seasonal? Maybe it happens in waves? I have no idea. But the same can be said about making my meals for the week vs. buying lunches. Some weeks I’m really good and beyond diligent... having my meal ...
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Sunrise Citrus Drink Recipe | Perfect for Get-Togethers
Well, here we are friends, the first week of June. JUNE! Time really does just fly by! I feel like I say that around this time every year. Once after winter and those colder months of spring are behind us, and again in the fall when summer literally just flashes by us with the blink of an eye. Anywho... This time of year, particularly the last week of May, is when my heartmate and I pretty much round everything up around the house, give it a thorough spring cleaning, and get the backyard ...
Local Freshness Delivered | Toronto Online Grocery Shopping
When my heartmate and I first moved to Toronto five years ago, everyone told us we wouldn’t need a car as we would be living in the core of the city, and as such, would be able to walk anywhere we needed to go. So the time came where packed up all our belongings in Montreal, we sold our car, hired movers... and 2 plane tickets later we were living in a new city, (the big city), in our condo waiting for our belongings to arrive. ...
The Value of Having In-Home Medical Services
Last month I booked an appointment for a certified yoga instructor to come to my home and guide me through a new method of yoga. If you follow my journey over on Instagram @inspiredbynick, then you may already know that the yoga studio I’ve subscribed to here in Toronto follows the Bikram method. It’s not my preferred approach to yoga if I’m being perfectly honest, but it is effective. It provides the challenging workout I’m looking for, while also leaving me feeling more enlightened, more ...
Three Holiday Entertaining Ideas for the Health Conscious Friends This Season
On the side of one of our kitchen cabinets is a sort of makeshift “chalkboard wall” if you will, that my heartmate and I built when we moved into our home earlier this year. We jot down some important information like “don’t forget to pay this bill by that date” or “organics disposals on Wednesday”. And, every so often with four tiny cuts of scotch tape, we hang up printable monthly calendars for the next upcoming months. This time, November & December. Oh boy. Holiday season is here, ...
Professional Teeth Whitening At-Home | How To Do-It-Yourself
You may have seen in a recent post, I shared my full teeth-straightening experience with Invisalign. In there I talked about the full process, and whether or not I think Invisalign is worth it. Throughout the treatment, it’s really important to keep things super clean with a brushing and flossing session after every meal. Yes, EVERY meal. But in the end, after the one year process was all wrapped up, I was happy. And it was important for me to have my teeth properly whitened. [ See ...
Golden Mylk Turmeric Lattes | How to Make Them + Health Benefits
One thousand percent, I used to think making turmeric lattes was just about adding a tsp of turmeric to warm, unsweetened almond milk. No wonder I used to not like them. But made correctly.... oh boy. Am I in for trouble this winter. My relationship with turmeric is a funny thing. I can’t tolerate the taste of it alone, yet, I have a teaspoon of it every day with a litre of water. The flavour of it in recipes is completely different, especially in stir ...
Iced Maple Matcha Lattes | Easy Vegan Summer Drink Recipe
This week I was visiting family in Montreal, and if you’ve visited before, you know that Montreal summers can be scorchers! My mom had never tried matcha before, so on a day where even our eyelids were sweating from from the summer burn, I made us some iced matcha lattes to stay cool! While I’m a huuuuuge almond milk lover, Mom’s always been pretty finicky with it. The taste, the texture… something about it just never quite jived with her. So she was a little reluctant to try these iced ...
DIY All Natural + Chemical-Free Surface Cleaner
Here’s a small note from a genuine place in my heart, to yours. For a long time, I didn’t feel healthy. I thought I needed coffee to wake me up in the mornings, a drink (or two, or three) on Fridays as a reward for getting through the week... A time where I thought chips “made with avocado oil” had to be healthier. I mean, right? Where checking my phone and answering emails were my first priority in the mornings. I felt sluggish in the afternoons, my sleep cycles were off balance, and as a ...