Surprising Non-Vegan Food

The thing that I was the most worried about when I made the final switch from vegetarian to vegan was becoming a label reader.  I never wanted to be someone who stands in the aisle at the supermarket, helplessly reading labels left and right to make sure I could feel okay about what I was …

Eat Less Meat ….. Please?

Everyone, at some point in their life, eats meat.  It’s the natural thing to do.  The average American eats a little over a third of a pound of meat per day, which totals to about 2.5 pounds per week.   Now lets compare this to the average amount we should be eating, recommended by the FDA, which is …

Compost Your Life Away

As I spoke about in my last post, there is a lot of negatives associated with throwing your organic waste into a landfill.  It takes forever (like over forty years) to decompose and is a waste of the nutrients that are in the plant matter.  Composting holds the answer to all of these problems, and …

The J stands for Julia

....But I really like Louise.  It seems to fit me better - I've always been more of a grandma with technology and the like, and I really prefer classic styles.  Hence the name change. My middle name came to me passed down from my great grandmother on my mum's side, and I started using in …