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Why I Live and Work (and Play) in Downtown Burlington

I just wanted to take today to share with you all as to how incredible it is to live, work and play in Downtown Burlington. I am so blessed! I wanted to share with you why living this way has become so important to me and to focus on all the good stuff. I sometimes don’t realize how great I have it until we travel to other towns and cities and get a chance to see how others live. We always drive away and say, “Wow, we have it so good back home in Burlington!” With a population of about 187,000 in the City of Burlington overall and a downtown core population of about 6,500, I’m beginning to really be grateful and love and enjoy the more quiet, yet vibrant, hustle & bustle of Burlington over living in Toronto from my previous years. As the years pass, I experience more blissed-out mornings…

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Off To NYC To Ink the Book Deal

I’m off  to NYC! Back Friday….. Just a quick update that I’m off to NYC and to sign the book deal we’ve been waiting for! Erinn and I are so excited. This book will encompass everything we’ve been up to in the plant-based, healthy world and how we arrived to where we are today. Recipes from Lettuce Love Cafe and Kelly’s Bake Shoppe, “How-To’s”, Living your BEST LIFe ever….I can’t wait to share it all all with you. I know Erinn is super excited too. Stay tuned for more love and updates. Love,

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Happy 4th Anniversary Lettuce Love Cafe! xo

What an amazing turnout…..Tuesday, June 3rd was our big celebration and we are loving that we’ve been open FOUR (4) years now and changing lives through eating better. On our last count, we think over 1200 people stopped by to visit. How is that possible??! My gosh, we are just this little family with big ideas. Every day we are so grateful and blown away as to how far of a reach we have on this beautiful planet. Four years ago, we started out with this HUGE dream when we opened Kindfood (the previous name of Lettuce Love Cafe): “To make the world a better place by being kind to the planet, kind to the animals and kind to our bodies (and health)”…. I don’t know if we realized just how enormous our voice could possibly grow to be and now with a second location (Kelly’s Bake Shoppe), so much of our…

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Costa Rica Living #Puravida

We’re still here for another 2 days – Just a quick (kind of quick) update on where we’ve been and what we’ve seen so far here in Costa Rica…so much to share and so little time. We spent our first night in Manuel Antonio (Quepos) and then off to Dominical Costa Rica. Dominical is this sleepy and VERY rustic little surf town in the south part of Costa Rica (Puntarenas Region) just south of Manuel Antonio, near Uvita. We arrived during their Green Season (better known as the rainy season) as May and June are known as the two months with the most rain. It is a very highly sought-after destination for many ex-pats (from U.S. and Canada) who want to live permanently in Costa Rica. It’s lush and simply beautiful. We arrived at our Villa and began the fun task of settling in. It was complete ‘outdoor’ living except for the…

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How Our Diets Affect us

How Our Diets Affect Us Unlike most creatures, humans eat not only to satiate hunger or to replenish lost nutrients; unlike other animals, humans derive pleasure from eating culinary masterpieces. New research even suggests that eating the stuff we love activates certain chemicals in our body, rewarding us for consuming sinful goodies. A well-balanced diet provides the human body with all the nutrients it needs for optimal physical and mental performance, enables the body to regenerate damaged cells and tissues, and even allows it to ward off or fight diseases. The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was definitely on to something when he said “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” It’s my philosophy I live by every day. However, the modern diet is far from this ideal. If you look closely at the food sold at supermarkets and served in most restaurants, you’ll find that they are…

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Meditation – Finding Your Centre Amid the Chaos

Meditation In A Busy World: Finding Your Centre Amid The Chaos Meditation has been around for centuries, but lately it has been experiencing a revival as more and more people are seeing how relevant this ancient Buddhist practice is with today’s modern lifestyles. Studies have proven the many benefits of meditation: It gives you clarity, it relieves stress and anxiety, it feeds your creativity, it drives you toward your goals, it has the capacity to heal your pain – physical, emotional, real or imagined. Some people use it to seek solutions for their specific problems while others need it to make life easier and lighter in general. I find that meditation is perfectly aligned with our life principles on making more responsible, sustainable decisions. Yes, I see the direct connection between food and meditation! Our decision to go vegan is rooted in our commitment to our health and to caring…

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A Time Out

Yesterday was kind of a nesting day for me. I was pretty much done (physical wise) from everything that has been on my plate for the past three weeks. I needed a day to stay at home and just be with me and my Pj’s. Emotionally and personally, I had to deal with some pretty big changes and challenges in my life and am so grateful for my personal energy work, and friends and family to help me through it all and allow me to rise up from the other side. To add to all of the personal challenges and changes, I decided to take on a major construction job and re-do the whole storage area of Kelly’s XO and ordered a custom walk-in freezer (while my husband Ken has been away), I also had Erinn and Mike go to Vegas and I was left looking after Lettuce Love Cafe and…

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Spring Tune-up Juice

Somehow this is the winter that has never ended (today is no exception from 22C yesterday to 2C today) and it has just left so many of us ragged, full of toxins, sallow in colour and in need of a ‘Spring Tune-up’. We all need a new skip our our steps to be energized for this spring and summer and be healthy and vital enough to enjoy it. The same way we clean our homes in the Spring Season. we really need to be cognizant of the fact that our beautiful bodies need to be treated with the same care. With our homes we clean the windows inside and out, we hose down the driveway from dirt and salt and remove all the excess debris from the flower beds that were covered in snow, we clean out the garages and remove the build up of salt and sand that is…

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Kelly’s Bake Shoppe. Dairy-Free, Egg-Free, Peanut-Free, Gluten-Free….Vegan Bakery too

So proud to be who we are and grateful we are loved by so many. Kelly’s Bake Shoppe is the healthiest bakery out there and to also be known as the front-runner of allergy-friendly establishments too is so rewarding. Kelly’s Bake Shoppe located in Burlington, ON and creates all of our products to be optimized in “happiness-makers” and “deliciousness” with all of the products we offer. As of April 18th, we will have our vegan, dairy-free, egg-free and nut-free ice cream back too! Talk about a FUN SUMMER!  Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Egg-Free, Peanut-Free, Artificial-Colour-Free, Vegan too. Brownies (Award-Winning) Cupcakes (voted Best in Burlington) Cookies (We can never bake enough) Muffins (a morning ritual for so many people now) ….And on Weekends! Scones and Donuts and other surprises click here to see our Easter Menu click here to see our Daily Bakery Menu ICE CREAM (100% NUT-Free too!) –  Starts April 18th on Easter Weekend. …

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WARM Comfort Food….My best friend “Alfredo”

All joking aside, in this cooler climate, I love to hibernate. Did I say I LOVE to hibernate. Winter is not for me….I’m chilled to the bone most of the time and the only way to fix me up is a delicious, comfort food dinner with some yummy Californian Pinot Noir or Zinfandel, savouring it all in front of the fireplace and then followed by a warm sea salt bath….simple pleasures. Honestly, this is the only way to avoid me wearing woolly socks to bed (I know, this might be too much information!). I’m going to share with you a very quick and easy favourite dish of mine (and my hubby, Ken and daughter, Erinn and her boyfriend, Mike too).  The good news is you probably have all the ingredients in your home already! It’s my “Fettucine Alfredo”, done blender style!!! This sauce is so divine and you may even find other uses for it.…

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