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Granola Recipe

Granola Recipe

I started making our own granola about 5 years ago and it has become a staple in our house. I started off with an awesome recipe from Soulemama which she had posted from one of my now favourite cook books Feeding The Whole Family by Cynthia Lair. Over the years I've tweaked that recipe until it slowly became my own. We eat this granola at least a couple mornings a week and pair it with our homemade yogurt and fruit sauce. Another bonus for our zero waste journey is you can buy most or all of the ingredients in bulk...

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Zero Waste Holiday

Zero Waste Holiday

Last week we boarded a plane to head east to visit family for a week. My challenge for the week was to try to continue our journey towards cutting out plastics and eating non processed foods. To prepare; the day before I made up a big batch of our granola and a couple loaves of bread to have while in Ottawa. So I picked up a large stainless steel container for the granola and used my cotton bags for the bread. I do place the cotton bags of bread into zip locks which I reuse just so they won't dry...

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Dusting off the Blog

Dusting off the Blog

Hello February! It's been a while since I've blogged so I wanted to start this month off with dusting it off. Last year was a crazy year for us with many big life events going on and juggling our little growing business. Going into this year Splat And Co is now my (Jamie) full time job which means a little extra time for things like blogging without trying to juggle a second business ( a home daycare) a little one and a husband working out of town. Thankfully Mike is home now, the daycare is all done and Beans in...

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