Filed under: Awkward Conversations, General, Make Lists of Things, People I Know, Review Things, Things I Do, Things I Read | Tags: Books, reading, recommendations
I love to read.
When I say I love to read, what I really mean is that I love to read. This year has been light on content, but high in quantity. Years past have been the reverse. I don’t discriminate between genres. Very little is too fluffy or too heavy for me to devour. I’ll read just about anything.
This is what makes it particularly hard for me to decide not to finish reading something. (more…)
Filed under: Review Things, Things I Do, Things I Eat | Tags: mixed drinks, Nestea vitao, product review, reviews
The other day, I received three cases of Nestea vitao to try and then review for my blog. Always the skeptic, I wasn’t expecting much as canned iced tea isn’t really my thing — I prefer the real thing. However, I actually really enjoyed two of the three flavours and was impressed that a can of vitao had fewer calories than a can of tonic water.
At 90 calories a can and lacking any artificial sweeteners (which I don’t consume), it met most of my criteria for a prepackaged beverage. What’s pretty cool about this product, though, is that it’s fortified with antioxidants. Each can held 90mg of calcium, 83mg vitamin C, and 1.89mg vitamin E. Sweetened with fruit juice concentrate and good old-fashioned sugar, it still manages to have a lot of flavour without jacking up the sodium content (as seems to happen with a lot of low-cal drinks) — only 80mg sodium per can.
I really disliked the Fuji Apple flavour, but I typically don’t like apple-flavoured items. The other two flavours were great. After a couple cans of them, it occurred to me that they mix well with gin so I gave it a whirl..
Filed under: Contests, Health Stuff, Review Things | Tags: free stuff, contest, giveaway, period, menstrual, Always Infinity
As un-girly as I am in most ways, there is one thing that I can depend on as reliably as the sun rising in the morning and setting again at night:
If you put a bunch of women in a room, we’ll inevitably end up discussing our boobs, our butts and our periods. I think it’s a genetic thing, really. We can’t help it. It’s the one thing that we all have in common, regardless of our differences — we all seem to gravitate towards those TMI conversations!
Filed under: Activism, Diaper Fluff, General, Review Things, Work at Susie's | Tags: cloth diapering, cloth diapers, environment, product review, reviews, soap nuts, soapnuts
Those of you who know me well know that I’m a bit of a cloth diaper nut. I was rather sad when #2 finally toilet-trained, as it meant packing away all that beautiful fluff for an indefinite period of time.
In the few years since then the cloth diaper market has exploded and they’ve become much more accessible to the average consumer. Accompanying this trend, natural laundry washes, soaps and detergents have multiplied on store shelves — increasing consumer options and leaving me feeling, at times, as though I went to university just to be able to read the ingredients labels on cleaning products.
Filed under: Review Things, Things I Eat | Tags: BBQ, Presidents Choice, product review, reviews
This will be a post where, despite my vegetarian leanings, I will fully expose myself once and for all as a person who really enjoys her vegetables in flesh form.
I received a great little basket of President’s Choice goodies to review — just in time for BBQ season — featuring pork from their new “Free From” line, steak from the “Tender & Tasty” line, as well as the ever-reliable “Air-Chilled” chicken (though I should note that we actually had drumsticks). The basket also included one of the PC dish towels — always nice as a reusable giftwrap(!) — one of their salt/pepper grinders, a bottle of Memories Of Dad’s Grill sauce and a bottle of PC Steak Spice Marinade.
I have to qualify this review with a couple things:
1. Almost without exception, we purchase our household beef and pork from a local farmer and only purchase from a store when planning a BBQ or other event.
2. DH beat me to the steak and I didn’t get a taste — greedy bugger! Not only that, but he had to audacity to suggest I don’t like steak just because I don’t want to eat it every day! I love steak — but I like it much more rare than he does, so prefer to cook it myself and consume it infrequently.
3. I’ve not marinaded anything in the marinade yet. 
