When a client says “I am concerned about including soy products in my plant-based diet,” this is the information I can provide them. No, you should not avoid eating soy for fear of increasing your cancer risk. In the past, many health professionals were concerned about the potential of the…

Surviving picky eaters (and helping them thrive). From the day my daughter started eating solids, she had a wonderfully diverse palate. She particularly appreciated curried dishes and did not shy away from any vegetable. I was pretty proud about it… but I shouldn’t have bragged, ’cause I jinxed it. At…

Cooking up a storm with other people will boost your life in so many ways. What is a batch cooking club? A batch cooking club is a group of people who get together for the purpose of cooking up a bunch of dishes. If they are lucky enough to get together in person, they can each…

Give your plant-based cooking a solid foundation so you don’t have to rely on recipes for everyday meals. When I started cooking every day for my family, as opposed to just throwing together a quick meal for myself, I spent a lot of time wondering what would be for dinner…

Stop looking for them — and do this instead. I operate a plant-based meal planning service, which means that I get to decide what’s for dinner for other people. Regularly, I get emails from new clients or curious onlookers asking me whether I post the nutritional breakdown of my recipes…

I decided to draw for 10 minutes every day for a year. Here’s how I plan on following through. For my whole life, I have told myself things like “I am not a visual person,” “I suck at drawing,” and “I’m just better with words.” So today I am committing…

Focusmate changed my life. It might change yours, too. 8:43 a.m.: I walk into our home, my arms loaded with the random missing groceries I bought on the way home after dropping the kids off at school. I put them away and wash the remaining breakfast dishes. 8:47 a.m.: I…

This gratitude ritual has the power to transform our meals. My Catholic roots run deep, as I was raised on the rural side of the French-speaking province of Québec by Baby Boomers whose very existence was the direct result of religion’s pervasive presence in culture. My father was 13th of…

Let’s make every (publishing) decision as if we were in a climate emergency — because we are. One billion people on Earth live in one of the 2,071 jurisdictions that have declared a climate emergency. The signatories have acknowledged that humans’ industrial activity disrupts the relative stability of the planet’s…