Category: Eating

  • Wally’s Burgers Chuckwagon Burger

    Wally’s Burgers in the New Westminster River Market. Burger and fries. Classic lunch. And yes, they have the classic red relish in their burgers. This lunch cost exactly $10 with fries and a can of Barq’s rootbeer.

  • 100 Foot Diet Update

    Because the kids are out playing in the tent I set up in the backyard, I have a couple more minutes to share a SECOND blog post with you, yes two in one day!! SO here is a pictorial update on our suburban gardening adventures, or, as I call it, our 100 foot diet.     Yes,…

  • Follow-up Visit to the Sub-Urban Fare

    Here are a couple pics of my follow-up visit to the suburban equivalent of the high end grocery store, Urban Fare. This is pretty typical of every visit I have made to this grocery store.             So then you look to the counter where there is usually a young person…

  • Wordless Wednesday Garden Boxes Update

    Update on our 100 Foot diet…                 The potatoes are coming along quite nicely. I will indubitably have to add more lawn cuttings around the base of the potato plants in the coming days…                 And possibly because the weather has been so…

  • Urban Fare Suburban Style – Price Smart Foods

    My dear friend and fellow blogger, Leeanne Ekland was tweeting and Facebooking (is that actually a verb now?) about the new Urban Fare False Creek store that opened in the Olympic Village this week and that got me to thinking about the differences between and urban and a suburban life. You know Urban Fare? The…

  • Guilty Food Pleasures

    Guilty food pleasures…so many…so many…perhaps my all time favourite will always be those flavour packed little gems of potato…tater tots or tater gems, whatever you choose to call them.   These amazing little fellers are just such a guilty pleasure. Tater tots, tater gems, french fries…potatoes…golden fried… What is your guilty food pleasure? Commenting is…

  • Wordless Wednesday; Our Garden

    Our little garden…                

  • A Jump Start for my Garden

    Yesterday I took my little ones to the Vancouver Olympic Village and visited with Lee Anne from the Mom Paradigm. She has been blogging about her community garden adventures and I wanted to see first hand how her garden compared to my efforts. Perhaps the fact that I grew up on an organic vegetable growing…

  • Granville Island on Wordless Wednesday

    Granville Island, another visual tour… and before you wonder why I have included pictures that are blurry or sometimes askew (Google that word, just for fun…you’re welcome) keep in mind that nearly every picture is taken while trying to keep one or two of our twin toddlers from pulling over a display or running off…

  • Wordless Wednesday … Baby Beets

    The beet goes on…