Poor neglected blog....

Long time, no blogging:( Between morning sickness and going back to work full-time in the Fall, my new blog's been pretty neglected lately. I'm going to try to do better, I promise.

A few things to catch up on....

The Baby...yes, it's true! There's going to be a little Dail running around very soon (well, maybe not running for a while). Our first baby is due in April. Here's some fun belly pictures for your viewing pleasure.

14 weeks


19 weeks



We're now 20 weeks and just had our ultrasound yesterday. I will post pictures when I get them back (takes about 2 weeks).

Since the topic of this blog is "greenness", I'm planning to share over the next few weeks/months how we're hoping to raise a "green" baby. Stay tuned!

Are you a localvore?

This article talks about one of the biggest changes I'm trying to make to the way my family eats. I think it's important to think about where your food is grown and produced and how far it has to travel to get to your table. Food transport requires a great deal of oil, storage space, and sometimes chemical ripening in order for the food to be the proper ripeness when it gets where it's going.

Check it out

Endangered Produce Rescue Operation

I "rescued" some doomed produce from the reject rack at the grocery store last week and spent a day canning tomatoes for the winter.

I dropped them into boiling water first in order to loosen the skins.....

And then into ice water they go. This is a nifty trick...you can then just slip the skins off the tomatoes. Much better than trying to peel them with a vegetable peeler!

Naked tomatoes... :)

The crushing process... These tomatoes will be used in place of canned crushed tomatoes in things like pasta sauce, chili, pizza sauce, etc.

Just boil the crushed tomatoes for about 5 minutes and then into the jars they go. I don't have a picture of filling the jars or the jars in the canner because this part needs to be done quite quickly and it's a little hard to deal with boiling hot tomato goo and snap pictures at the same time (especially when you're trying very hard to avoid dropping the camera in the tomato goo).Finished product ready for the shelves in the basement! I got 9 jars (500mL each) from $6 worth of tomatoes!

Organic=Wrapped in Plastic???

I was shopping for groceries tonight at Sobeys and was looking for produce since I was away for the weekend and wasn't able to get to the Farmer's Market. I try to buy as much organic food as our budget will allow so I checked out the organic produce section. Much to my dismay, I discovered that it's all wrapped in plastic! The organic celery was even nicely cleaned and slices into sticks...in a plastic bag. Now this may sound convenient, but part of the reason that I buy organic is that it's grown in a way that is healthier for the environment. So having my environmentally-friendly produce wrapped in plastic is accomplishing what exactly? Sigh...

New Blog- First Post

Hello blog-readers!
Just a place to put all my greenness/crunchiness on the web. There'll be recipes and stuff. Probably a few rants, and a bit about what I'm doing for the environment and my family's health.