Recipes

We all know that colder weather is coming and with the change in season, we must take extra care to boost our immune health. Here are my top 6 recommendations: 1) Stay away from all refined sugars and eat real food instead. Foods such as soft drinks, fruits juices, cookies, cakes, bagels, croissants and even breads and cereals coming from processed flour and sugar are sure to weaken your immune system. Why? Too much sugar in gut allows the bacteria or viruses to propagate much more because your initial innate immune system cannot function well when there is an overload...

  Every time I hear someone say what a great dad they have, something lights up within me. My ears perk up. I grab my hot beverage. I pull my seat closer. Because good dads are few and far between, they are as rare as camel’s milk. Don’t believe me? Numbers don’t lie, so here we go: In the U.S, nine out of 36 Million fathers don’t live with all of their minor children most or all the time. Several million more see their kids at least once a week. Women head five out of six single-parent households. Half of...

Visitors who touch, harass, or just get too close to animals are a bane of the National Park Service’s existence. Whether they’re imitating animal calls to attract them, climbing into streams full of brown bears, or getting gored by bison, it seems like park rangers have to warn off, cite, or save people who are yearning for an illegally close wildlife encounter on a weekly basis. But when it comes to the Sonoran desert toad, the NPS said in a post on Facebook last week, the agency just wants hikers to keep their tongues to themselves. At up to 7...

A North Saanich road damaged by last year’s flooding is now open once again. Chalet Road near Deep Cove Chalet and Deep Cove Winery re-opened to the public on Nov. 1 after heavy rains had damaged the road and its culvert in mid-November 2021. The municipality said in a release that it approached the reconstruction as an opportunity to improve the fish-bearing environment of Chalet Creek from the culvert downstream to the high tide mark. “The District has installed an open arch culvert that supports the natural stream bed throughout and fish passage in all creek flow conditions,” it reads....

Walmart is the best place to buy this LEGO Fish Tank! Hop on over to Walmart.com where you can snag this LEGO Creator 3-in-1 Fish Tank Set for just $22.50 (regularly $29.99) – lowest price ever! Kids can play in three different ways with this fun set! Build it as a fish tank, an art easel, or a treasure chest. There are 352 pieces that guarantee fun underwater and pirate-themed playtime! This LEGO fish tank set lets you build five vibrant fishes too: a clown fish, regal blue tang, yellow tang, cardinal fish, and anthias fish. There are also accessories like...