This week’s theme is Supper! Share your favourite meatless supper recipe with us and be entered to WIN!!! Practice the “perfect plate!” Fill ½ your plate with vegetables, ¼ of your plate with a whole grain and ¼ of your plate with a lean protein! While cooking from scratch is ideal, a “healthier” pre-packaged meal is [...]
By popular request, I’m reposting my recipe for “cookie dough hummus!” A great snack option–packed with chickpea fibre and protein, plus just a touch of sweet! Serve with sliced apples! Yum! Ingredients: - 1.5cups chickpeas, drained (1 can) - Pinch of salt (optional) - 2tsp vanilla - ¼ cup peanut butter (or other nut butters) [...]
Need help with your New Year’s Resolutions?! Looking to turn over a new leaf in 2013? Ready for a sustainable lifestyle approach? You’re in luck! Two of our programs still have space for YOU! Healthy Habits: 8 Weeks to a New and Improved You Mondays @ Canada Games Center (7-8pm) 8 weeks (starts Monday, [...]
Welcome 2013!!! It’s time to plan for a happy & healthy new year ahead! How can we help? Bent Fork Nutrition is offering a few great new programs, in addition to our regular nutrition services available here! Post Holiday Cleanse- 3 Weeks @ the Canada Games Center (Mondays @ 6pm) Over-did it [...]
Typically, I have kept this blog fairly “professional.” In the sense that I generally write about specific nutrition topics, resources, recipes, etc. I’m going to take a slight break from this in the next few posts, as people have been asking how I managed nutrition/exercise throughout my pregnancy! As a disclaimer, please remember that everyone [...]
A quick break from the “baby” updates! Bent Fork is proud to partner up with VIVAI to promote their newest sports nutrition tool! Based on the most recent scientific evidence and backed by the advice of expert sports nutritionists, they have created a personalized, on-line meal plan for endurance athletes. The plan is designed for [...]
Bent Fork Nutrition is proud (and very excited) to be involved in the first ever, Sole Sisters Running event! Sole Sisters is the first, local running event created for women, by women! Participation in the 5km event gets you all kinds of goodies: gorgeous race shirts finishers medal has glitter and spins free workshops at [...]
It’s officially December…and for those of who haven’t started our holiday shopping (*cough*)…the time crunch is upon us! SO many of us make healthy resolutions for the new year, but why wait? Start now and give the gift of health, with some of my favorite Healthy Holiday gifts! Funky lunch bag! How [...]
Ever wanted to eat a ball of raw cookie dough….that also provided some actual nutrition? Look no further!!! These no-bake energy balls are a great source of healthy fats (i.e. omega-3s from ground flax), fiber and protein! Be warned–they are dangerously tasty–portion control beware! No-Bake Snack Balls Ingredients: ½ cup peanut butter ¼ cup honey [...]
Our 8-Week Healthy Habits course is BACK! Just in time to shape up for summer! Healthy Habits is an 8-week group program that focuses on two main areas: nutrition education & weight loss! Weekly 1hr sessions, focus on providing the information & tools needed to be successful long term–label reading, menu planning, restaurant eating, hydration, [...]
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