Good afternoon!
Order #2 done and done for the week!
I have to get this off my chest!
I have been smiling ALL morning after coming across this picture on Eric’s camera:
He made this HEART SHAPED cookie for his guest post and he never told me about it!!!!! It never made the cut on his post either!
How cute is that??? lol. I’m sure he is going to kill me for posting this, but that’s ok. ;) Life is too short to keep these things to myself!!!!
I wonder who ate the heart though? Did he eat his own heart out? lol. The cookie he brought me to the airport wasn’t this heart shaped one. Or perhaps, he has another admirer and she got the heart shaped cookie? Either way, I will just assume it was for me! haha.
What I Have Learned From Food Blogs: Part 1
After reading Sam’s awesome post on what she has learned from food blogs, I knew I had to reflect on it myself! There is so much positivity with food blogs I thought it was such a good idea to point out how beneficial they can be for others!
Now of course, I can’t fit everything into one post, so I decided to do a series of posts where I will talk about the things I have learned!
Today, I am highlighting some of the new foods I have tried since reading food blogs:
1) Coconut Oil
I use one for my body as a moisturizer and another for healthy baking!
The picture below was taken with Eric’s Canon SLR on manual setting (with flash):
The picture below was taken by my Canon SD800 Point and shoot in Macro setting, no flash:
And now with flash:
Notice the difference? I sure do!
2) Raw Almonds (and other raw nuts/seeds. Hemp seeds are a new fav!!)
I used to be SCARED of eating nuts and seeds. So much so, that I wouldn’t eat them because they are high in fat! Food blogs taught me that it is OK to eat healthy fats. Your skin and hair will glow as well as your insides!
With Eric’s Canon SLR:
With my Point and Shoot:
The SLR gives such a more crisp look I find.
3) Egg Replacer (Thank you Susan!)
4) Organic Sucanat Sugar (Thank you Ashley!)
5) Spinach/Kale/etc
Did you know that I NEVER ate spinach until this past winter??? I thought I hated it!!!! Oh how far I have come with greens!
6) TOFU
I thought I hated tofu until I gave it another shot in my green monsters and baked it in the oven with a delicious sauce.
7) Avocados
Again, thought I hated them and my mom was gross for putting them in her salads! haha. Now I eat avocado EVERY DAY. Did you know they are supposed to help reduce cravings??
8) Herbal Teas are FUN (Thanks to Kath!)
I used to only drink green tea and thought I didn’t like herbal teas! Boy was I wrong!
9) Quinoa
I had never heard of this stuff until I read Jenna’s blog! It is super nutritional and a great food for vegetarians (or non-veggies too!).
10) Organic Agave Nectar
This stuff is amazing to bake with! Expensive, but worth every penny.
Even when it leaks…
11) All natural peanut butter or raw Almond butter
Again, I used to be scared of eating these things because of the fat/calories in them. Not anymore!
12) Lentils!
A great protein source and soooo delicious and versatile!
Now for some more fun photography of Sketchie!!
Oh I love this one below.
He is the cleanest cat I have ever seen. We touch his fur and he gets mad and cleans the spot again. LOL!
Eric’s camera is so much FUN! I love my lil Sketchie. Such a great subject isn’t he?? :)
1) Jaime made my On The Glo bars with great success! Check it out here!
2) I have been getting flooded with emails about shipping my Glo Bakery products to the US! I just wanted to let everyone know that I am currently looking into regulations for exporting food to the US. I might have to get a special permit approved by my local food inspection agency. Please stay tuned for updates!!! I would LOVE to fill all of your requests!!! :)
3) Regarding PICTURE WARS that Eric and I are going to do: This is how it will work: Eric and I will pick 3-5 of our favourite pictures from the week. We will pair up the pictures and you will vote on your favs. We will not post our names by each picture so you may not know who took the picture to keep it fair. We might even throw in pictures to trick you (e.g., I take pictures of renos while Eric takes pictures of food). It will be FUN and inspire the photographer in all of us! :)
4) The winning name for the next boot camp challenge is SUMMER GLOW BOOT CAMP with 57% of the votes! Thank you for voting and stay tuned all week for clues about the SGBC!
5) Don’t forget to check out Eric’s new blog: Soup Up My House!!! Give him some bloggie love and add him to your blogroll! :)
Today’s question: What foods have you tried since reading food blogs?
I’m off to bake order #3!
I HAVE to ask where you were able to find egg replacer and agave nectar!! I live in Ontario as well and I always seem to get frustrated with the lack of availability of certain products in Canada (that is without ordering them online). I am excited to see that you have found a couple that I haven’t been able to get my hands on! Please share your secret! :D
Oh man can I relate to your frustration! It is NOT easy to find these products, is it!?
I got the egg replacer and Agave at Loblaws Grocery store in the organic section. Also check Fortinos for agave and likely egg replacer too! Whole Foods in Toronto and Oakville also has them iif you are nearby.
Love the Sketchie photos!! I love taking pics of my cat Lilly.
Foods I have tried since reading your blog (it’s the first food blog I’ve read) are quinoa, kale, almond butter, and larabars. I plan to try natural sweeteners as we can afford them.
hey Angela!
Since reading food blogs I have started drinking Green Monsters and find that I cannot go a day without one. If for some reason I cannot have one for breakfast I have one asap! Thank you for introducing me to these!! That has to be the bigget change I have made from food blogs!
There are SO many foods that I see on the food blogs of Americans and I would love to have those foods here.
-Kate
Thanks to your blog I have discovered the wonderful world of Larabars and Almond Breeze (no way, no how would I have ever tried either on my own – now I’m addicted!!)
Don’t you just love prickly kitty tongues?! Makes me miss my cat and her cleaning/kisses so much.
Must say I love the numerous appearances of sketchie the past few days. He is sooooooo cute. And unique- I have definately never see another cat with markings like his.
&& I wish I could afford a really good camera, but hey, Im off to college. Hello penny pinching!
& I’m glad you are doing the SGBC. I was too umm… lazy to participate last time.lol but i realized it really didnt seem to take up too much out of the day, and since its summer… what else do i have to do?(alot actually,but oh well)
i love those pictures of sketchie!
OMG my boy cat is the same way, as soon as we touch him he starts cleaning himself (we always pretend to be offended that he thinks we are dirty). Love the new Sketchie pix!
I would LOVE It if you could ship to the U.S.
I’ve tried a lot of new foods since I started reading food blogs, the Green Monster being the best of them all. I have one every morning now. Quinoa being another that comes to mind off the top of my head. I also started using almond butter (I was an avid Adam’s Crunchy PB girl before), I love some on a slice of Ezekial cinnamon raisin bread, I have myself convinced it tastes like a cinnamon roll.
woah I can’t believe you just started eating spinach/kale recenetly!! I thought you’ve been consuming those delicious green monsters for…well forever. haha
blogging introduced me to lentils too and now I love them :D
Almond Butter
Green Monsters!!
Humbeque (From http://eatingbender.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/the-lazy-chef-humbecue-tortilla-pizza/)
Frozen Veggie Burgers
Kombucha
Pure Bars
Peanut Butter and Co. Dark Chocolate Dreams Peanut Butter (So addictive!)
Almond Breeze
Amazing Grass (but only once, I’m not a fan of the original grass flavor, haha!)
Agave Nectar
Cocoa Nibs
Between your blog and Jenna’s blog I have been opened to a whole new food world. I would have never tried Almond Breeze, Larabars, and I would have looked cross-eyed at someone if they told me about green monsters! Now I am really open to anything and will try it at least once! I am finding so many things and it’s really fun! Thanks!
Sketchie makes me miss my cats so much! They live with my mom now because I work an 8-5 and they would get lonely. Plus none of my friends can stand cats – what’s that all about?
Since reading food blogs I have discovered:
Green Monsters
Stove Top Oats
Larabars
Quinoa
Almond Butter
Dates (jury’s still out on whether or not I like them)
Butternut squash
Veggie burgers
Sprouted Grains
more I can’t remember I’m sure!
I really love food blogs. People who don’t get it are really missing out!
I have learned about so many awesome foods/products since food blogging..I love it! Great photos of Sketchie. I have the same camera and 2 years later, I am still getting the hang of it.
– agave nectar (The same kind you have :) )
– spinach!!!
– coconut oil
– avocados
– morning oats
ahh so many..can you believe i was ignoring all of these fine foods?
Sooo are you now shipping in ontario..any of your wonderful glow goodies!?!?! :D
I cannot wait for SGBC! I NEED THIS! :)
I’m so in it to win this time.
muhaha.
Your photos of Sketchie are fantastic!!!
Things I’ve learned about through food blogs are:
Green Monsters! :)
Almond Butter
Greek Yogurt
Flax Seed
Oatmeal (actually I ate this before, but didn’t ever really love it, but I do now!)
Amazing Grass Green Superfood
Now I want to try Coconut Oil….
Oh I forgot Larabars and almond breeze!
This is random, but I keep seeing bags of avocados on other people’s blogs – how much do you usually pay for a bag/ how many are in it? I can only find avocados individually and while I love them, they’re pretty pricey (I think I recently saw them for $1.79 for ONE).
I pay $4.29 CAD for a bag of 6. They are smallish though- the large individual ones are $1.50 I think??
greek yogurt, kale, almond butter, and the many many possibilities for oatmeal are some of favorite food blog inspired foods.
i couldn’t even list the amounts of products food blogs have introduced me too – it would take pages! there were so many foods that i was afraid of consuming, just like you. food blogs have taught me that i can eat absolutely anything, which is just unbelievably liberating.
i’m excited for the rest of these posts!
Psst…try Organic Food Bar…and coconut oil is great in a fruit smoothie!
Wait, I can’t lie. I actually eat it out of the jar.
Thanks for the shout out! :) Sharing the bars with some of the local blogger girls tonight at a group Booty Camp. Check out my blog for details.
psssst….spelling my name… Jaime. :)
My apologies! Fixed :)