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It's so sad that Canada lives in the dark. We can't use Spotify. Boo

We're all about comfort and homemade this weekend. Bread pudding for breakfast (indulgent I know) and gnocchi for dinner. On Sunday I run my first half marathon so for dinner I was hoping for something easy and comforting, sloppy joes maybe? On Monday we are having a fakesgiving! (Even though we're Canadian) It was too hard not to get caught up in the excitement, besides my husband and I didn't get to spend our thanksgiving together in October, so now will have to do. Can't wait for it to start!

Oh I love it! This would be a wonderful getaway!

I'm working this weekend, as usual. I made a red pepper and chickpea soup for us today and tomorrow I'm putting a beef and barley stew in the slow cooker. Other than a batch of cookies I think I will not have time for anything else. Happy weekend to everyone with a few days off!

I make Vietnamese coffee every single morning, with only a tsp of sweetened condensed milk. Friends of ours gifted two coffee makers to us when they returned from Vietnam a few months ago, and we've been making them ever since. My favourite way to drink coffee!

Yes it definitely might sway me one way or another. I'm intrigued and eager to see where they place their label. Do you think it will be on products in Canada too? Or just the US.

I avoid artificial sweeteners like the plague. I'm very afraid of these man-made unnatural chemicals and what they do to our bodies. My grandmother has/had a brain tumor that we think we caused by her long term use of aspartame. Of course she doesn't think so (how's that for conspiracy? We're not weird I promise, just skeptical.) You won't find me with sugar free-anything gum, liquids, cookies. I prefer my sweets in a more natural, healthy, and safe manner.

It's hard to imagine not caring where your meat came from. Eating mistreated unhappy meat feels like a weight on my heart and I'm in no way, shape or form a hippy vegetarian. I'm an ethical person with a dilemma in my head. I can't understand how the majority of consumers don't think twice about the life they took buying that meat. How could you not want all animals to be treated with care and respect? Isn't that basic? Don't consumers have a conscience? I understand it's easy not to think about it, to buy meat as far away from it's natural state as possible, that way we aren't reminded of what it took to satisfy our own needs.

If you "don't care" you didn't think. Or your heart needs some fine-tuning because all life deserves respect.

I always make stock with whatever bones are leftover. Fish for sure, turkey around the holidays and chicken anytime we roast a full one. It's a second use of a product we already paid for, why wouldn't we? We get veal bones from my dad, (he raises it) or pay a few dollars at the butcher shop, it's so simple and definitely worth the effort for us.

Definitely making food for Thanksgiving. I'm in charge of well...everything this year, from the turkey to the vanilla ice cream for the pumpkin pie. I can't wait!