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Learn to love Sea Veggies!

November 21, 2012
Napa Cabbage Salad Natural 7
Become a Sea Veggie Superstar! Sea vegetables are just what they sound like: greens that grow in the sea. These healthy vegetables include nori (what your sushi is wrapped in), wakame (what is in your miso soup), arame (often in your seaweed salad), dulse, kombu, kelp and hijiki. Sea vegetables also include varieties of seaweed ... [Read more]

A Lean and Healthy You!

November 14, 2012
Get Lean and Healthy with Marni!
Have you been misled by corporations marketing their food products? Most of us have. And we now mistakenly rely on food labels for an accurate picture of the nutritional value of the foods that we consume. If you want to achieve an overall healthier lifestyle, say goodbye to the following misleading terms: Carb Free – ... [Read more]

The Six Essential Spices in my Cupboard

November 6, 2012
Cinnamon and other warming spices!
Join us for two delicious spice infused classes: Moroccan Flavours & Indian Inspiration! If you want to add some healthy new flavours to your meals, it’s time to move beyond your salt and pepper shakers. There’s an entire world’s worth of herbs and spices out there for you to try, and they’re full of flavour ... [Read more]

Win a Full Year Membership to FNL!

September 30, 2012
Lady holding cutting board
Have you ever found yourself looking in the mirror in the morning thinking “I just want a fresh start”!? More than that you are just aching to transform your health and your lifestyle, but you just don’t know how? Well the good news is that I have the perfect program to help you get there! ... [Read more]

Tuscan Dreams

July 20, 2012
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I had the privilege to travel to Italy. A long awaited trip that I have been wanting to do for years. This was the destination for our honeymoon, a year after our wedding. Italy just seemed to be the perfect place for so many reasons, Ryan being part Italian, the food being fresh and Italy ... [Read more]

A Table at Tabule, Please!

June 13, 2012
A Tabule Plate - Freshly squeezed mint limeade, mezze- fried eggplant, falafel, cauliflower, tabule, pickles and pita.
When it comes to dining out, it’s becoming tougher and tougher these days to accommodate everyone’s allergies, intolerance’s, and just overall food preferences. I like to dine out – but not very often. Weekly occasions, dinner dates, time with friends and family, or when I just need a break from the kitchen – it’s nice ... [Read more]

Superfoods for a Super You

June 6, 2012
superballs
It seems like more and more lately we keep hearing about superfoods. The question is, do you know what a superfood is and what qualifies it as a superfood? What Are Superfoods? Superfoods are a category of foods found in nature; they are superior sources of essential, super-power nutrients, nutrients we can’t make ourselves.  They ... [Read more]

Sweet, Sticky and Gooey

May 31, 2012
Day 2-Studio 327
These words describe one of the world’s healthiest and most renowned sweeteners, honey. Just the word itself makes people happy – and is used commonly in expressions of endearment and love. Nutritionally, honey loves to do sweet things to make your body just as happy on the inside. It has been around for centuries and ... [Read more]

I love what I do!

May 29, 2012
Thrilled to be teaching what I know best to my students!
I am still just coming down from my high after leading another successful retreat in Collingwood, Ontario. This is now the 4th one I’ve led and each time they just get better and better! I have this pure, positive feeling of satisfaction that I’m making a difference in people’s lives. I know this because my ... [Read more]

10 Energy Boosting Foods

April 18, 2012
What foods get your body moving?
It’s that time of year again when seeing the sun come out from behind the clouds makes me want to be outside. I want to play, and I want to get fit! The question that’s always asked of me though, especially because I’m active and vegan, is how I have enough energy to get through ... [Read more]