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Fall Harvest Squash, Spinach and Mushroom Salad with Goat Cheese and Balsamic Maple Dressing
This title is quite the mouthful but the salad was a huge hit this past Thanksgiving weekend and the PERFECT way to use up your leftovers after your gobble-icious feast. It didn’t take long at all to put together but the flavour combination is DELISH and looks pretty fancy-shmancy. Using my leftover roasted veggies, it’ll be…
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It’s the end of Malnutrition Week..
..but it’s never too late to advocate for your patient’s nutrition care! Check out my full article (written alongside my fellow Fraser Health colleague) to learn even more about malnutrition in hospitals! http://thebeat.fraserhealth.ca/news/september-2016/food-is-medicine-medicine-heals-protecting-mealt/
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Malnutrition Week: September 26-30th
Are you a health care professional working in the clinical setting? Well, the dietitians in your facility will be nerding out this week since it’s Malnutrition Week! What is malnutrition? In the clinical setting, malnutrition is the inadequate intake of energy, protein and micronutrients. Many of the causes of hospital malnutrition are small that we,…
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Chocolate Squash Cake
After reading the title, most of you will think I’m crazy using squash in my chocolate cake. I was wanting to trial a zucchini chocolate loaf since my mum’s neighbours gave her a HUGE zucchini and she had no use for it. Bringing it home, I realized it was NOT a zucchini but rather some…
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Eat Well, Play Well – Dietitians of Canada
Are you a parent who’s suffering the back to school funk and stuck on what how to manage the food part of the week? Check out Dietitians of Canada’s article! Some fun tips include: Getting the kiddos involved with meal prep. It not only adds extra help in the kitchen (depending on the age of course)…
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3 Ingredient Cauliflower Pizza Crust
I was slow on the cauliflower pizza crust fad but decided to try this out (finally..) after seeing some awesome sales on cauliflower recently! On a previous post, I tried making some zucchini pizza crust technique, which was DELISH but not as fool-able for those veggie-hesitant folks. This recipe surprised my guy when he grabbed a slice…
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Summer Blues
A recurring theme on my blog: time is FLYING by! This month has involved lots of learning and exploring. Only bummer – that summer is almost over.. Continuing to apply to various jobs and interviewing. It’s always a good idea to keep up with interviewing skills. By applying to various jobs, it has given me…
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The “Pee Strip” Diet – What’s it all about?
One of my goals this year is to learn more about all the weirdo diets that people are trying to lose weight and “stay healthy.” One of them was the Alkaline Diet – other names include the Pee Strip Diet, Acid-Base Diet or Paleolithic Diet. As per all faddy diets out there, it’s the cure-all…
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Mustard Maple BBQ Salmon
Here in Vancouver, we’re SPOILED with fresh seafood, fruits, veggies and just all around nomalicious food! Our local Fresh Street Market had a hard-to-resist Salmon Festival where they sold amazingly fresh and good quality sockeye salmon at a very affordable price this past weekend! I walked away with a few large fillets (my mum was…
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Work hard, play hard
The past month or so has flown by and been really busy (more related to personal rather than professional reasons). It’s also been a HUGE learning curve of a past bit of time since I’ve been training in other areas of dietetic practice to broaden my scope and understanding of clinical nutrition and what other…
Whitney Hussain, RD 