Chicken Stock

Part of being a Minimalist Nutritionist means that I hate wasting food! If I ever roast a chicken or buy a cooked chicken from the grocery store, I will throw the carcass in the freezer to make chicken stock at a later date. I also constantly have a bag of vegetable scraps in the freezer for carrot peels and the leaves/middle pieces of celery hearts (I can never seem to get through a whole celery Read more…

Mediterranean Lentil Soup

This soup is a go-to recipe of mine. I typically have almost all of the ingredients on hand (minus a zucchini and some feta), the leftovers freeze great, it tastes delicious and it is full of filling fibre between the lentils and veggies. Make it vegetarian or vegan by choosing veggie stock (and either omitting the feta or choosing vegan feta for the vegans out there!). If you make it with no salt added broth Read more…

The Minimalist Pantry

In my 9-5 job, I am a big advocate for the Canadian Public Health Association’s Basic Shelf cookbook. Straight from their website: “This is a very special cookbook because all the recipes can be made from one list of low-cost, nutritious ingredients that make up what we call “the basic shelf”. Most of these ingredients can be kept for a long time in your cupboard without refrigeration.”   I follow a similar premise in my Read more…

Nutritionist vs Dietitian…

As a dietitian whose work title (and blog) includes not the word dietitian but nutritionist – I’m often asked the difference between these two terms. To give the quick answer, in Alberta where I work, these two terms are interchangeable and signal a registered health professional. If you are interested in the longer answer or don’t live in Alberta, read on!  In Alberta: Dietitian = Nutritionist To start with the term dietitian, this is a Read more…

9 Words to Eat By

If I had to boil down all my nutrition knowledge into under 10 words, I would borrow 7 of them from Michael Pollan’s book In Defense of Food.  “Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants.” And then I would add 2 more Drink Water.  I highly recommend In Defense of Food for anyone – no matter your level of food and nutrition knowledge. If we could all follow Michael Pollan’s seven words of advice most Read more…