Posts filed under 'Random Swellness'
Where’s the sizzle?
Bacon (along with other processed meats) are linked to a higher risk of heart disease and diabetes, according to a review conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health.
To help lay off my favourite strip of meat, do you think this Sizzling Bacon candle from Aunt Sadie’s will be satisfying enough to help me cut back on my consumption?
Probably not. But a bacon-scented candle? Totally awesome.
6 comments May 31, 2010
Flower power
“Sparkle is a state of mind,” is what accessories designer Tarina Tarantino told me a few weeks ago when I met her at Sephora (she was in town to launch her new cosmetics line).
Her goal for the line? “To make women feel inspired, adventurous and happy.” Get started by pinning this pretty bloom from the new collection in your hair, on your clothing or wherever you chic ladies please — there’s no need to wait until May for April showers to bring flowers. Sparkle on, girls, sparkle on.
Add comment April 8, 2010
Take note
When a girlfriend recently pulled a red Moleskine journal out of her handbag, I was practically salivating — so classic, chic and crisp. (Is it wrong to be so turned on by a notebook?)
“I gotta get me one of those,” I thought to myself.
I still need to get one, but what I have been using is Moleskine’s Wellness Journal from their new Passions collection ($21 each). There are six editions in all (besides Wellness, there’s Recipes, Wine, Books, Films and Music) with stickers, icons, ribbon place markers and the like, to keep you super organized.
Tabbed sections in Wellness includes Personal Goals, Exercise Log, Diet, General Health (track your herbs and supplements here, along with your body therapy appointments), Games/Sport and Inspirations. Games/Sport, (where you log in the date, event, participants and score) is less useful for me — but I figure I can use it as a running log when the Exercise section gets filled up.
And I love that if you need extra pages, you can print off free page templates to paste in or tuck into the notebook pocket. (also a way for you to test out the page formats before investing in a Passions notebook yourself).
1 comment March 12, 2010
Spilled Milk is swell, too
Finally tuned into the new free podcast Spilled Milk, which is hosted by Molly Wizenberg (of Orangette blog fame) and Matthew Amster-Burton (author of Hungry Monkey: A Food-Loving Father’s Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater) and if you love food and eating (and, OK, cooking – for me, the cooking is just a means to get to the eating) as much as I do, you’ll love this podcast, too.
Each podcast they focus on a particular food or cooking method, and the hosts have great rapport. And Spilled Milk has already opened my eyes to a good many things:
(1) to showcase a food, fry it (I like how Matthew thinks).
(2) I’ve never had a chocolate malt milkshake — add that to my to-eat list. I’ve had a date milkshake in Palm Springs, but not a chocolate malt milkshake.
(3) our hands feel gnarly when chopping a butternut squash because of a resin that causes dermatitis reaction.
Tune in (but not if you’ve skipped breakfast, as I had, or you might be on the subway at 8 a.m. seriously considering consuming an entire pack of gum as your first meal of the day).
Add comment March 11, 2010
Swell site
Just discovered the website Someone Once Told Me — my friend Maryam was featured on it this week (that’s her here) — and I’m loving it, the idea that “we are all shaped by the things someone once told us,” as illustrated by black and white photographs submitted by people around the world featuring their SOTM message.
Add comment March 11, 2010
One girl’s Master Cleanse
I think the Master Cleanse is a very bad thing to put your body through, but I get its appeal: it’s straightforward and people who’ve done it swear by it. Anyhow, I just came across this blog, The Dirty 30 Project, and Sara’s experience trying the Cleanse gave me a giggle so I thought I’d share.
P.S. I’ve never tried the Master Cleanse myself but having done World Vision’s 30-hour Famine back in high school, I think I’d outlast Dirty 30′s Sara short stint with the fad diet.
P.P.S. I wish I could say it was raising money to help feed hungry people in the world that was the main motivator for doing the 30-hour Famine back in Grade 10, but it may have had more to do with Jason Priestley starring in the tv promos for the fundraiser (he did, didn’t he — or am I remembering wrong?)
Add comment March 3, 2010
Sweet and salty is a match made in heaven
I grew up eating bowls of Parlour ice cream (Heavenly Hash was my fave) followed by potato chips (usually sour cream and onion) and loving the combo of sweet and salty has stuck with me. And so I’m not sure why it took me so long to try salted caramels, but having now tasted Purdy’s Himalayan Pink Salt Caramels, I find myself asking its pretty little box, “Where have you been all my life?”
I did a little fact checking with the company, and the pink salt is indeed from the Himalayan Mountain range, harvested from an ancient sea salt deposit that was crystallized during the Jurassic Era over 200 million years ago.
With only two precious caramels left in my supply, I’ll be ordering up a fresh new box pronto from the Vancouver-based chocolatier.
5 comments March 3, 2010
Cute (& free!) calendar
I met Jess Bennett at the Natural Defense lunch last week and have been reading her fun food blog Sift, Dust & Toss ever since. And I’m loving the free downloadable Cottage Industrialist calendar she wrote a post about, which highlights what produce is in season each month. Fits perfectly into my newly painted home office and hopefully will encourage me to eat more veggies! Download the calender for yourself here.
Add comment February 8, 2010
