Coconut Rice Salad

This Coconut Rice Salad is a light, flavorful salad with the perfect balance of rice and vegetables dressed in a peanut style dressing. This salad is a great addition to meals as a side dish or just add chicken, fish or beef : )  There is a lot of room to make this salad your…

Asian Cashew Chop Salad fresh and crispy yet hearty enough for a meal.

Asian Cashew Chopped Salad

Asian Cashew Chopped Salad This asian chopped salad is light and crispy but hearty enough for a meal.  It’s made with crisp Napa cabbage, crunchy vegetables and topped with crispy roasted cashews, but it’s the light and creamy peanut dressing that makes it so good. The dressing has a light and delicious peanut flavour that…

Cilantro-Lime Black Bean Prawn Pilaf

Enjoy this yummy and satisfying pilaf recipe. Seems fancy but surprisingly easy to put together. I love it because it’s easy, low in cost, makes lots and healthy.  This makes it a great dish to have with your family or to serve to your guests. I’ve also done variations with grated carrot, and with salmon…

These plants may help you sleep better

House Plants That Help Us Sleep

  House plants…Who knew there were house plants that could actually help us sleep! So many of my members have difficulty falling asleep. Some have difficulty having a restful sleep and others only sleep for short periods. I think sleep is a weird concept. Think about it, we change our clothes, get into a bed,…

Fat weighs more than muscle? Definitely not! Actually, a pound is a pound regardless of what you are measuring, they just look different in size/volume. Forever Fit, Duncan, BC

Muscle vs. Fat–Which Weighs More?

 So often, I hear people say, “Muscle weighs more than fat.”  Actually, a pound of muscle weighs exactly the same as a pound of fat.A pound is a pound is a pound. It doesn’t matter what you are measuring in weight. If you measure a pound of fat and a pound of muscle, they each…