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Preserving and Fermenting

Preserving and fermenting foods is the best way to ensure seasonal crop can be enjoyed year-round. Fermenting foods has the added benefit improving our gut flora, and offers a more easily digested food.

Some of my top articles include Fermented Foods Health Benefits and The Low Down on BPA - Health and Environmental Concerns.

5 Tips On How To Improve Gut Health Naturally – Prebiotics Probiotics & Fermented Foods

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My top five tips on how to improve gut health naturally! I’ll break down what we need to know about prebiotics, probiotics and fermented foods and how these can not only improve our gut health but overall health as well! This article was written for Aboriginal Healthy Living Activities run by ISPARC and SportMedBC and I have made special reference to Indigenous foods and healing methods.

Five Ways To Optimal Digestive Health

Why do we need to make sure our guts are happy? Our gut is filled with about 100 trillion bacteria, in fact, we have more bacteria cells in our body than human cells! We are only starting to understand all the functions this community of bacteria has, and how we can support them. In this article, I have included my top five tips on how to improve gut health naturally and the basics and importance of prebiotics, probiotics and fermented foods.
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Fermented Foods Recipes and Health Benefits

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Have you been told to increase your intake of fermented foods but don’t know where to find any fermented food recipes? Likely they are all around you, but you just need to know where to look – and what to look for. Here are some of my favourite recipes using fermented foods, plus some of the top health benefits of eating fermented foods.

Ingredients for zucchini noodle pesto pasta with tomatoes in frying pan

Zucchini Noodles with a Miso Hemp Pesto

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Why Is BPA Bad? Health and Environmental Concerns

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Why is BPA bad for our health? Is BPA bad for the environment? All these questions answered and more, and what we can do to reduce our exposure to this seemingly unnecessarily chemical.

Content last updated February 2014.

Vintage Salmon Cans at North Pacific Cannery, BC
 
The more and more I think and write about food, the more I put my pantry shelves to scrutiny. While the ultimate goal is to reduce any reliance on ‘processed food’, one food product that makes a regular appearance in my kitchen is canned tomatoes. They are essential during the winter months when fresh tomatoes taste like cardboard and can transform winter stews and soups (like my Easy Lentil Soup with Kale).

As much as canned foods are convenient, they come with the consideration of BPA contamination, and we need to ask ourselves how this can impact our health and the health of the environment. But what is BPA? What are the health and environmental concerns?

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